Sentences with phrase «think of jury trial»

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That democracy can be made to work, that by the scientific method we can gain mastery over the latent resources of the universe, that trial by jury is practicable, that torture is a foolish method of seeking evidence in the courts, that chattel slavery is a failure — such things we take for granted, not because we individually are wiser than our forebears, who disbelieved them all, but because we share in a social tradition which we did not even help to create, but which has shaped and conformed our thinking with irresistible power.

I thought of that exchange when I read that jury selection is underway in Atlanta for an unusual trial.

So it's hard not to also think of this as a sort of plea, not just for your mercy, but also for that of a theoretical jury, should we go to trial.

Four climate activists currently awaiting trial in Minnesota for shutting off a tar sands pipeline think so — and on Monday, the Minnesota Court of Appeals agreed that they should be allowed to make that argument before a jury when their case goes to trial.

Given that there is only a limited amount of work left to do in order to adjudicate the withdrawn patents, I think there's a pretty good chance that these patents will go to trial, be it a bench trial or a jury trial, in 2013.

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The RIAA's only jury - trial win, the case against Minnesota mother Jammie Thomas, is expected to be declared a mistrial any day now due to the judge's second thoughts on whether copyright law requires proof of an actual transfer of files, as opposed to simply making them available.

In 1999, Hans and colleagues reported that judges had quite favorable views of juries» performance in 153 civil trials, and once again judges did not think that complexity adversely affected jury performance.

Our Kansas and Missouri experience accident lawyers invest extra time and money into trial and settlement preparation via the use of mock trials and mock juries to help us test out certain lines of arguments that we are thinking about using as part of your accident claim.

The quote from the jury: «Many of the jurors said after the trial they thought the case was a waste of court time and public resources.»

We are very capable of moving a case very quickly, however there are some instances — if we are talking about a severe injury — where the insurance company is not going to be fair with the injured person unless they are looking at a trial date and a jury and are starting to think, «Boy, this isn't up to us (the insurance company) anymore.

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«I think the jury was struck by that,» Brody says of the audiotapes that were played during trial.

Nor do we think that this historic trial practice, which long has served the selection of an impartial jury, should be abolished because of an apprehension that prosecutors and trial judges will not perform conscientiously their respective duties under the Constitution.

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.