Sentences with phrase «sentencing trial phase»

Dylann Roof represented himself at his federal capital sentencing trial phase.

Not exact matches

During the sentencing phase of Tsarnaev's trial in federal court in Boston, his lawyers have been trying to paint him as a mostly normal American kid who fell under the spell of his now - deceased older brother, ultimately joining him in the 2013 bombing of the Boston Marathon.

The trial so far has fixated on the events around the bombings themselves, but the sentencing phase will broaden its scope significantly.

Defense attorneys pointed to Tamerlan's relationship with his wife to demonstrate his ability to influence his younger brother Dzhokhar, as they began their case Monday in the sentencing phase of Dzhokhar's trial.

According to background information from LifeNews, Gosnell could face the death penalty, which prosecutors are pursuing when a second jury is impaneled «to determine sentencing under the penalty phase of the trial.»

but that's still a good reason for bifurcating trials into a determination of guilt and a determination of the sentence, with a separate jury doing each phase.

Televising the sentencing phase of some trials seems, initially, the most likely opening, with perhaps greater access over time.

«The number of cases in which people try to introduce neurotechnological evidence in the trial or sentencing phase has gone up by leaps and bounds,» says Joshua Sanes, director of the Center for Brain Science at Harvard University.

fMRI brain scans have been introduced previously in the sentencing phase of a murder trial (to indicate that the defendant had a brain disorder and should be spared the death penalty).

For what may be the first time, fMRI scans of brain activity have been used as evidence in the sentencing phase of a murder trial.

Mitigating factors are also highly relevant during the sentencing phase of a criminal trial should the offender be convicted.

In the sentencing phase of the trial, 156 victims made statements to the court about the impact of his acts on their lives.

She has represented numerous individuals in both the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York in both criminal and civil matters and has experience in all phases of the litigation process in white collar and federal criminal matters, as well as government and internal investigations, including pre-indictment advocacy, grand jury investigations, complex bail proceedings, pretrial motions, motions in limine, jury selection, trials, sentencing, restitution, forfeiture, and other post-conviction proceedings.

[e] ven when a capital defendant and his family members have suggested that no mitigating evidence is available, his lawyer is bound to make reasonable efforts to obtain and review material that counsel knows the prosecution will probably rely on as evidence of aggravation at the trial's sentencing phase.

Contact a Robbery Lawyer San Francisco CA Clients Recommend The sentencing phase of a theft trial is usually very complicated.

He put forth no effort to prevent a death sentence, which helps explain how the jury quickly reached a death sentence verdict (within three hours of deliberation) at the sentencing phase The trial judge...

He put forth no effort to prevent a death sentence, which helps explain how the jury quickly reached a death sentence verdict (within three hours of deliberation) at the sentencing phase The trial judge quickly followed up by the next day with eighteen death sentences and fifteen life sentences.

These questions spring from the big legal news of the last week (besides the little fact that our representatives in Congress seem to think the president is above the law)-- the prosecutorial misconduct in the sentencing phase of the Moussaui trial.