Sentences with phrase «sitting on our jury»

As one who sat on a jury in a murder case in a state that is not shy about executions, I am aware of how important it is to make sure the right person is convicted.

So anyone who sits on jury and condemns someone to death, the judge that imposes the sentence, the guards working in the jail and anyone else who is involved in executing prisoners is going to hell?

Reading First Things may disqualify you from sitting on a jury, at least if a lawyer decides that such reading shows that you are too involved in the practice of your religion.

And Phillips - who once said she would knife Jeremy Corbyn «in the front, not the back» if necessary - is set to sit on the jury.

Ben Keenan In Ireland today, women can order a pint in a pub, sit on a jury, keep a government job if she gets married, buy contraceptives and demand equal pay — none of which was legally permitted by the...

In 1958, Marcel Duchamp and Vincent Price sat on the jury of award.

In 1958, Marcel Duchamp and Vincent Price sat on the jury for the award.

Benno Tempel, director of the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, said that he felt it was acceptable for museum directors to sit on juries and boards, but «if there's money involved, that money should go to the institution.»

When Kingsolver was born, women couldn't sit on juries in some places, and blacks couldn't use the same public bathrooms as whites.

It is like being asked to sit on a jury when you have a deep interest in the outcome.

Old enough to have sat on a jury that passed a death sentence.

If you're a felon, and haven't had your rights restored, many courts won't even let you sit on a jury.

Technically anyone can sit on a jury.

I sat on a jury that heard a criminal trial twenty - five or more years ago.

But who am I to argue with his results: he did avoid having to sit on a jury.

And apparently, other jurors spend time online, blogging about their experience sitting on a jury or griping about being called for jury duty.

In the UK, the jury can not directly ask questions (to the witness, to either side's legal team) but can ask the clerk of the court to pass a note to the Judge (indeed, when I sat on a jury a couple of year ago, we were positively encouraged to do this).

News reporters / bloggers just can't sit on a jury at the same time.»

He will also want to know if they have ever previously sat on a jury and if so, what verdict did they render.

If you were sitting on a jury involving an ICBC injury claim, and the plaintiff's lawyer told you that the Defendant fell asleep at the wheel and «must pay for breaching the rules of the road» would your judgment be compromised?

An anecdote rather than an answer, but when my Grandfather got called for Jury Duty in FL, the first thing they did was send everyone home who had a college education — they didn't want anyone with a college degree sitting on any jury.

So I have to wonder if being an Engineer is what has prevented me from sitting on a jury.

For instance, a juror who reveals during voir dire that she is the sister of the plaintiff in a personal injury case may be struck «for cause» if the law or court rules prohibit blood relatives of the parties from sitting on juries that hear their cases.

COMMENT Theoretically, the door has not been completely closed on CPS employees sitting as jurors, but for all practical purposes one would not now expect to see prosecution lawyers sitting on juries, save where the prosecuting authority is another organisation, and even then we can expect further challenge.

R v Abdroikof; R v Green; R v Williamson [2007] UKHL 37, [2007] All ER (D) 226 (Oct) was concerned with when it might be appropriate (or not) for prosecutors and police officers to sit on a jury.

Or the government could take steps to ensure that fewer women sit on juries!

jury pool: A group of people from lists of registered voters, licensed drivers, state and local taxpayers, people receiving public assistance or unemployment benefits who can then be picked to sit on a jury.

Once a person is sworn in as a juror, they receive $ 25.00 for each day they sit on the jury.

In 1991, the Manitoba Aboriginal Justice Inquiry report detailed how Indigenous people were historically denied the right to sit on juries since names were drawn from voting lists.

Not exact matches

To me, it means that while the death penalty as one of God's ordinances was / is still to be issued, it was / is not to be carried out... which is why I can not sit on a capital jury.

Kane acted after Superior Court Judge Eugene Kelly, who has been sitting and will continue to sit in Hartford as a special one - man grand jury, heard testimony on widespread corruption in the sport.

Now they want banks to sit as judge and jury on the case and bar individuals from using debit cards to subscribe to overseas porn.

An Albany County grand jury indicted two Republican state senators — one sitting (Rob Ortt) and one retired (George Maziarz)-- on felony election law violations, as part of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's probe of election law fraud in Niagara County.

The P.B.A., frustrated by a lack of progress on labor talks and a perceived lack of support from City Hall when protests broke out following a grand jury's decision not to indict any police officers for the death of Eric Garner, lashed out at the mayor in December after two officers were shot and killed while sitting in their patrol car.

Mr. Espada sat expressionless, hands resting on the table in front of him, as the jury forewoman read the verdict in United States District Court in Brooklyn.

A new study from Texas A&M suggests that using a standing desk could increase workplace productivity by 46 percent, but the jury's still out on standing vs. sitting in terms of health benefits.

Defendant Louie Boffano has a hired gun, a.k.a. the «teacher» (Alec Baldwin), who scans the jury box for a vulnerable juror, and there sits Annie with an implied «me» written on her forehead.

She recently sat on the 2007 FIPRESCI Jury at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Two passengers sitting across the aisle from each other on a flight — one a catwalk model, the other a music critic — start idly chatting, and a coincidence emerges: The critic, while serving on a conservatory jury, had ruined the musical career of the model's ex-boyfriend, a man named Gabriel Pasternak.

Our members have sat on critics» juries in Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Toronto, Miami, Palm Springs, Chicago, Pusan, Moscow, Amsterdam, London and Vienna, among others.

It has been announced that James McAvoy will sit on the main jury at this year's BFI London Film Festival, and that his latest film The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, will also been screening as part of its UK premiere:

She has been a jury member for the B.C. Book Prize, and sat on committees for the Canadian Children's Book Centre's Best Books for Kids and the American Library Association's Odyssey Award.

The author won a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing and has sat on the Pulitzer jury, so I have to believe that she knows what good writing is.

- Press: Artist Chris Smith Talking Shop, by ChicagoArts - MartinJon Garcia, Published on March 21, 2013 - Juror: Governors State University -2012 Illinois Community College Juried Exhibition, January 27 - March 2012 - Review: Chris D. Smith's «Unspoken Language», Review by Zachary Johnson on The Chicago Arts Archive - Sixty Inches From Center - Interview: Sitting Down With Chris Smith, Zachary Johnson, Sixty Inches From Center, Mar 31, 2011 - Lecturer for Paul Klein, KLEIN ARTIST WORKS at Linda Warren Gallery, November 22, 2010 - Lecturer for Loretta Bourque from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago at Linda Warren Gallery, 2009

Curtis said that the jury had been drawn to the way the works sit on the «threshold of the traditional and the non-traditional».

She has written widely on contemporary architecture and design, has been invited to sit on a number of international juries, and is a regular speaker at events, symposia, and conferences.

Worsdale is sitting on the 2011 jury with Katrina Brown (Director at The Common Guild, Glasgow), Vasif Kortun (Platform Garanti, Istanbul), Nadia Schneider (Freelance Curator) and Penelope Curtis (Director at Tate Britain), creating one of the most international juries in the history of the prize.

There is an instinctive... people selected to sit on Turner Prize juries, although the...

The Contemporary's chief curator Heather Pesanti, who sat on the prize jury and organized the show, says the honorific is «really about providing artists with unfettered space for their ideas.»

Then the witnesses will start backpedalling and adding qualifications as soon as the jurors start asking them questions (there is no attorney present to object, though the witness can take a time out to consult counsel outside the hearing of the jurors); there will be 18 - 24 of them: independent businessmen, committed church - goers, accountants, etc — the federal grand jury that I sat on had a member of the technical staff of an international pharmaceutical corporation.