Sentences with phrase «several jury cases»

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For the last several years, Mr. Denton has been the target of a lawsuit brought by the wrestler Hulk Hogan in the now - infamous defamation case over Gawker's publication of a sex tape — an editorial choice that recently resulted in a $ 140 million jury award to Mr. Hogan.

After several days considering the case, the jury informed the judge they would not even be able to reach a majority verdict.

Several officials, including the head of the NYPD's biggest union, former mayor Rudy Giuliani, for whom Bratton served as police chief in the 1990s, and former Gov. George Pataki have criticized the mayor in the wake of the officers» deaths and ongoing protests against grand jury decisions not to indict police in the Garner and Brown cases.

A special grand jury has voted to indict several people in connection with the Nassau County district attorney's monthslong investigation into corruption in the Town of Oyster Bay, according to sources with knowledge of the case.

In July, after James joined several petitioners who sued the Staten Island district attorney for the release of grand jury records in the case of Eric Garner, New York Supreme Court's Appellate Division Second Department ruled that her office lacked the power to sue.

Last week, Staten Island District Attorney Dan Donovan announced he would bring the case to a grand jury, but several speakers called on the U.S. Department of Justice to take over the investigation instead.

The jury was deadlocked several times, but finally concluded its business after U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni called upon jurors, who have been hearing the case since late January 2018, to come back after last week's nor» easter and resume deliberations.

At least one protester had walked from the Staten Island courthouse where the grand jury deliberated on the Garner case to the memorial several blocks away.

But it was clear late on Thursday, with the parties and the judge seated around a conference table and the jury not present, that Mr. McDonald and Mr. Kry had critical roles as legal specialists in the case — «the law guys,» as several experts put it — a role the public rarely hears about.

SFL notes that lawyers who bluster that they are eager to try their complex case before a jury are actually saying that «they will be asking the guy in a tank top at Target to decide a complex question of securities law involving several hundred million dollars.»

The group has extensive jury trial experience, having tried numerous cases to verdict in both state and federal court, including several cases recognized by the Daily Journal as top defense verdicts in California.

As reported in The Recorder, the proposed rule was prompted by a jury - selection episode in June, when an entire panel of 600 jurors had to be excused after it was discovered that several had conducted their own online research into the case.

App., July 9, 2010), the Court held that where the injured person had walked across the allegedly hazardous curb several times prior to falling, typically a fatal «prior traverse», they were still able to take their case to the jury.

In addition to the instructions regarding the burden of proof the patient has in proving all aspects of the case by a preponderance of the evidence, the jury in a medical malpractice case is usually instructed with several other general statements of the law.

She has tried three cases to jury verdict, and obtained several dismissals through her motions work.

Having tried several dozens of jury trials, hundreds of bench trials and several appellate cases ranging from murder to simple juvenile matters, we genuinely understand all sides of a criminal case.

Over the course of his career, Paul has tried more than three - dozen cases to jury verdict, several with seven - figure exposure.

In addition to the instructions regarding the burden of proof the plaintiff has in proving all aspects of the case by a preponderance of the evidence, the jury in an automobile accident case is usually instructed with several other general statements of the law.

As an Assistant U.S. Attorney, he prosecuted several health care fraud cases and tried the first criminal anti-kickback health care case to a jury verdict in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

The law in Canada is that jury deliberations are to remain confidential but in this case, there were some allegations of jury misconduct and several jury members were asked by the trial judge to explain what was happening in the jury room during breaks.

[11] In addition, there were several pre ‑ trial applications, most of which were of ordinary difficulty, but one involved the plaintiff's successful motion to strike the defendants» jury notice on the basis that the case had become complex and would be too lengthy for a jury to retain the evidence.

Several of these cases were published in the New York Jury Verdict Reporter and two cases were reported on the front page of the New York Law Journal.

There has been a lot of talk in the past several months about abolishing the jury system for civil cases; and if not for all civil cases, at least for motor vehicle crash cases.

The trial in New Haven had several factors that can aggravate jurors» stress: multiple victims including children, sexual assault, graphic evidence and — as a capital case — the responsibility of deciding whether a defendant should live or die, jury scholar Valerie Hans said.