Sentences with phrase «striking as juror»

Lee J. Cobb is particularly striking as Juror # 3, in the role of his career.

Not exact matches

Although a federal agent told jurors he had been investigating Karpeles, U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest later struck much of that testimony as improper.

Liberal 9th Circuit Judge Stephen Reinhardt, who struck down California's Proposition 8 as well as gay marriage bans in Nevada and Idaho, and wrote a ruling that barred jurors from being removed because of sexual orientation, has died at 87.

Marco Bellocchio's «Vincere» has its admirers, particularly in the European critical community, as does Andrea Arnold's «Fish Tank» — though the former's biographic sweep and the latter's grim British social realism may strike the jurors as a little too familiar.

The exhibition on display at EFA presents a selection of several dozen of the most striking submissions as selected by two juror's reviews in 2008 and 2009 as well as more recent projects that have been uploaded to the site.

That jurors don't know that strikes me as just more evidence that citizens called to do their civil duty aren't respected.

But something about the witness struck him as familiar, the lawyer told the jurors.

We were able to get a few jurors struck for cause in each case as they admitted that they could not award money damages for injury cases.

A juror may be struck «for cause,» because a law or court rule prevents that person from serving as a juror, or a party may use a «peremptory strike,» in which the party may dismiss a certain juror without saying why.

Richard George Kopf, who blogs about life as a federal trial judge over at Hercules and the Umpire, did an interesting thought experiment in relation to this case where he wondered if it was appropriate to use a peremptory strike of a juror if that juror is ugly and your client doesn't want ugly people on the jury or the case is somehow related to physical beauty.

The flip side, of course, isn't much more attractive, as your only option is to say that absolutely jurors should be struck for being gay, or seeming gay, which requires what many will perceive as some un-delightfully retrograde thinking.