Sentences with phrase «specific jury instruction»

Earlier today the New Hampshire House approved on a 170 - 160 vote HB 133 which would require judges in criminal cases give a specific jury instruction (discussed here).

Earlier this week the New Hampshire Senate Judiciary Committee voted 5 - 0 to reject HB 133 which would require judges in criminal cases give a specific jury instruction (discussed here).

If the court were to allow the issue of punitive damages to go forward to the jury, the jury would receive specific jury instructions regarding the elements necessary to award punitive damages.

Not exact matches

They ruled that the jury instructions should have been more specific about the «official acts» that led to the bribery conviction.

The court presents the jury with specific instructions and outlines the types of things that may be considered for general or specific damages, and the jury decides the exact amount based on the negligence of the parties.

I mentioned earlier this week about efforts to impeach New Hampshire judges who declined to issue specific jury nullification instructions to juries.

In all criminal proceedings, the court shall permit the defendant to inform the jury of its right to judge the facts and the application of the law in relation to the facts by providing a specific nullification instruction to the jury.

The years - long legislative efforts to compel New Hampshire judges to issue specific jury nullification instructions continues now with the threat of impeachment added should the trial judges obey a recent state supreme court opinion on the subject.

However, these instructions are organized around categories of sexual offences (sexual interference, incest, sexual assault, etc) and do not contain any specific directions cautioning juries about the operation of myths and stereotypes in trials of sexual offences.

The New Hampshire House yesterday approved on a 184 - 145 vote a bill to require judges give specific jury nullification instructions to jurors in criminal cases

The bill is just the latest in a 20 - year effort by the state's legislature to force judges to give jury nullification instructions and do to so with specific verbiage.

A similar bill without specifying what words were to be used was enacted in 2012 only to have the state's supreme court rule that the law did not require a specific jury nullification instruction.

Furthermore, the Defendant was unable to offer any specific evidence it would or would not have presented to the jury if the negligence instruction had been given.

Nearly 95 per cent of respondents from jurisdictions containing a jury system thought that, in addition to routine instructions, jurors should receive specific instructions limiting their online communications and use of online social networking sites.