Sentences with phrase «state court jury»

A Maryland state court jury found that the defendant's advertising practices constituted racial discrimination under the Fair Housing Act, and awarded over $ 2 million in compensatory and punitive damages.

According to the Virginian - Pilot, the major newspaper serving Norfolk and Virginia Beach, Virginia, the October, 2000 60 million dollar jury verdict was then the largest personal injury verdict for an individual in the history of the commonwealth of Virginia, and the verdict was returned in Manassas, Virginia by a state court jury.

Equally comfortable arguing a specific point of law to a federal court judge as he is explaining the big picture to a state court jury, Ian uses every aspect of his experience to get the best possible result for his clients.

Green v. Moon On November 17, 2011, a Gwinnett County State Court Jury awarded $ 9.85 Million to surviving parents Kemi...

Represented public works contractor claiming unpaid retention, change order work, and fraud against school district and individual defendant, and defended contractor against breach of contract and false claims by district in three - week California state court jury trial.

However, the court last month overturned $ 4.2 million in punitive damages awarded in 1990 by a state court jury in Independent School District No. 622 v. Keene Corporation.

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Florida's state Supreme Court ruled that a defendant in a capital case doesn't have the right to have a jury determine that.

The accord came ahead of a jury trial that was set to begin on Monday in state court in Woburn, Massachusetts.

Bob is very highly regarded by those in the boardroom and those in the courtroom, having advised senior executives in challenging situations and successfully tried through verdict numerous jury and nonjury trials in the federal and state courts.

Since those motions were denied, the case is set to be argued before a jury in state court later this summer.

The Supreme Court recently decided in Oil States Energy Services v. Greene's Energy Group for the latter view and upheld the constitutionality of an administrative review process that opponents say violates the right to a trial by jury.

The citizens of the USA judge every day as noted by the US Supreme Court, State Supreme courts and analogous judicial / jury venues across this great land.

Pell appeared for an administrative first hearing in the Victoria state County Court where he will be tried after a magistrate on Tuesday decided he should face a jury but dismissed around half the charges the cleric had faced during a preliminary hearing in a lower cCourt where he will be tried after a magistrate on Tuesday decided he should face a jury but dismissed around half the charges the cleric had faced during a preliminary hearing in a lower courtcourt.

Prior Court of Appeals rulings maintain that all schools in the state need to prepare youngsters to be effective citizens with the ability to vote and serve on a jury.

Dean Skelos, son Adam arrive at court Republican State Sen. Dean Skelos, his son Adam, and their lawyers arrive at a federal courthouse in Manhattan on Nov. 17, 2015, the second day of jury selection in their corruption trial on charges of conspiracy, bribery and extortion.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday threw out the 2015 conviction of former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on honest services fraud because the charge to the jury did not comport with the Supreme Court's 2016 decision in the case of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, which narrowed the definition of an «official act.»

From the indictment by the grand jury of the County Court of Erie County for first - degree murder in State of New York v. Leon Czolgosz, September 16, 1901.

STATEN ISLAND — The New York Civil Liberties Union filed an appeal Tuesday to the state's highest court to release testimony from the Eric Garner grand jury.

The judge in the case noted that Silver took a «number of official acts — most obviously passing legislation and approving state grants and tax - exempt financing — as part of a quid pro quo, but there remained a «substantial question» on whether the court's jury instructions were valid in light of the McDonnell ruling.

The trial of the former state Senate majority leader and his son, Adam Skelos (pictured), begins with jury selection on Monday in Manhattan Federal Court.

Former state Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada was beaming outside court yesterday as contentious jury deliberations in his Brooklyn federal corruption trial plodded along.

The trial of the former state Senate majority leader and his son, Adam Skelos, begins with jury selection on Monday in Manhattan Federal Court.

STATEN ISLAND — The state's highest court agreed Monday to expedite the appeals process to release the grand jury testimony in the Eric Garner case.

The case against state Senate aide Robert Nickol was sent to an Albany County grand jury during an appearance in Albany City Court on Thursday.

The former New York State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver is in federal court in Manhattan Monday where prosecutors will try to convince a second jury that he traded favors for kickbacks.

A state appeals court has granted a request by NYC Public Advocate Tish James and others to reconsider whether the grand jury proceedings in the case of Eric Garner should be made public.

The state Court of Appeals in a ruling Thursday found judges will now be required to instruct juries that witness identifications of suspects of a different race is less reliable than when people make IDs from their own race.

The state's top court ruled that judges will now be required — when asked — to instruct juries that witness identifications of suspects from a different race is less reliable than when people make IDs from their own race.

The jury in the political corruption case against Dean Skelos, the former State Senate majority leader, and his son, Adam, began its deliberations yesterday, after a nearly four - week trial in Federal District Court in Manhattan.

A state court has upheld a law that affirms the right to empanel an anonymous jury, which has been used in trials for Mafia figures, terrorism and gangs.

The trial of the former state Senate majority leader and his son, Adam Skelos, begins with jury selection tomorrow in Manhattan Federal Court.

Gary Gordon, who is not related to Jim Gordon, was in state Supreme Court Friday when the grand jury indictments were handed up to Supreme Court Justice Raymond Elliott, and his lawyer told the judge he was ready to turn himself in.

Five months after a jury convicted the former State Senate powerbroker (and Four Amigos alumnus) on four counts of theft, Pedro Espada Jr. stood in Brooklyn federal court yesterday and pled guilty to one charge of tax evasion.

Grand jury proceedings are secret in New York state in order to protect witnesses and the integrity of the process, information can be revealed through court order in compelling circumstances.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Manhattan concluded, in light of the Supreme Court's narrower definition, that the jury instructions given by the judge in Mr. Silver's trial were erroneous and that a properly instructed jury might not have convicted him.

Former Republican state Senate leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, leave federal court in Foley Square in Manhattan after a jury found them both guilty of corruption on Dec. 11, 2015.

The case against state Senate aide Robert Nickol was sent to an Albany County grand jury during an appearance in Albany City Court today.

Buffalo developer Louis Ciminelli, head of one of the state's largest construction contractors, and two other company executives charged in state contracts bid - rigging case could find themselves facing a grand jury indictment before their next court appearance on Oct. 24.

Steve Pigeon, the WNY political operative indicted by a special grand jury on nine counts of bribery and extortion, is answering the charges with a 1 1/2 - inch - thick sheaf of pre-trial motions filed by his defense attorneys this week in State Supreme Court.

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Death Sentence Aggravating Factor Expansion — Vote Passed (271 - 143, 16 Not Voting) Passage of the bill that would require courts and juries to consider if a defendant killed or attempted to kill a state law enforcement officer, local law enforcement officer or first responder as an aggravating factor when determining whether to impose the death sentence on a defendant.

Once selected, the jury moved from a smaller fourth - floor courtroom in the Thurgood Marshall United States Court House in Lower Manhattan to a more stately room on the first floor.

The jury in the political corruption case against Dean G. Skelos, the former State Senate majority leader, and his son began its deliberations on Thursday, after a nearly four - week trial in Federal District Court in Manhattan.

A federal appeals court on Thursday overturned the 2015 corruption conviction of Sheldon Silver, once the powerful speaker of the New York State Assembly, saying the judge's jury instructions were in error in light of a United States Supreme Court decision that has since narrowed the legal definition of corrupcourt on Thursday overturned the 2015 corruption conviction of Sheldon Silver, once the powerful speaker of the New York State Assembly, saying the judge's jury instructions were in error in light of a United States Supreme Court decision that has since narrowed the legal definition of corrupCourt decision that has since narrowed the legal definition of corruption.

The state senator accused of slashing his girlfriend's face with a broken glass during an argument waived his right to a jury trial in Queens Supreme Court Monday.

Ciminelli, head of one of the state's largest construction contractors, and two other company executives charged in the case could find themselves facing a grand jury indictment before their next court appearance on Oct. 24.

In Bruno's case, the appeals court allowed for a retrial, but Bruno was ultimately acquitted by a jury in 2014, and subsequently won a reimbursement of $ 1.8 million in legal fees from the state.

New York City Public Advocate Letitia James will file a brief today with the New York State Supreme Court seeking expedited appeal hearings against the denied petitions to release grand jury transcripts and evidence in the Eric Garner case.

After hundreds of hours of testimony — sometimes explosive, sometimes plodding — about whether Joseph Percoco, a former aide to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, sold his influence in state government, the case in Federal District Court in Manhattan has gone to the jury.

The three - judge panel pointed to a 2016 United States Supreme Court ruling on Republican governor of Virginia Bob McDonnell that used a more narrow definition of what constitutes an «official act» under the public corruption statute, ruling that a jury instructed on that definition may not have found Silver guilty.