Sentences with phrase «trial jury found»

After a one day trial the jury found him not guilty.

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The jury spent a total of just 14 hours in the penalty phase of the trial after finding Tsarnaev guilty on all 30 criminal counts, but an automatic appeal means his case will drag on.

While there were dissenters, the Supreme Court found that Skilling's negative publicity didn't prevent him from receiving a fair trial — especially because Houston was the fourth - most - populous city in the country, allowing for a large jury pool.

It appears none of Shkreli's hedge fund investors actually lost money in the end, but he was so widely reviled by the time of his trial that it was difficult to find an unbiased jury to hear the case.

After being found guilty in a 2012 jury trial on theft and mail fraud charges, Lanham was sentenced to three years in prison.

In criminal trials, the burden of proof lies on the prosecution, meaning the jury will have to find Hernandez guilty «beyond a reasonable doubt.»

After a highly publicized five - week jury trial that was the most closely watched of a wave of corporate fraud trials, Stewart was found guilty in March 2004 of conspiracy, obstruction of an agency proceeding, and making false statements to federal investigators, and was sentenced in July 2004 to serve a five - month term in a federal correctional facility and a two - year period of supervised release (to include five months of electronic monitoring).

Ross Ulbricht, 30, was found guilty by a Manhattan federal jury on all seven counts he faced after a closely watched four - week trial spilling out of U.S. investigations of the use of the bitcoin digital currency for drug trafficking and other crimes.

On March 20, he held a mock trial of the Muslim Holy Book, and the jury — consisting of twelve people from his congregation — found the book guilty of five «crimes against humanity,» including the promotion of terrorist acts and «the death, rape and torture of people worldwide whose only crime is not being of the Islamic faith.»

«We must never cease», Churchill said, «to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English - speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law, find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence».

Following his 11 - day trial in Queens Criminal Court, the jury found Wills guilty of one count of a scheme to defraud, two counts of grand larceny and two counts of filing a false instrument.

To the growing annals of New York corruption trial history, enter Tuesday, March 13: the day a long - deliberating jury found Joseph Percoco guilty of conspiracy to commit honest services fraud and solicitation of bribes (he was also found not guilty of other charges).

«Although finding that the Supreme Court's McDonnell decision issued after Silver's conviction required a different legal instruction to the jury, the Second Circuit also held that the evidence presented at the trial was sufficient to prove all the crimes charged against Silver, even under the new legal standard.»

A jury found Queens City Councilman Ruben Wills guilty on five of six counts against him in his corruption trial, and he automatically lost his seat as a result.

«Although finding that the Supreme Court's McDonnell decision issued after Silver's conviction required a different legal instruction to the jury, the Second Circuit also held that the evidence presented at the trial was sufficient to prove all the crimes charged against Silver, even under the new legal standard,» Kim's statement reads, in part.

Former State Senate Leader Dean Skelos was stone - faced and silent as he left a federal courthouse where a jury found him and his son Adam guilty of public corruption charges today, after a four - week trial and just about eight hours of deliberations — but attorneys for both men said they would pursue legal challenges to the verdict.

Finally, after a two - week trial in May 2014, a second jury found Bruno not guilty of all charges.

In reversing McDonnell's conviction, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court found that instructions to the trial jury about what defines a public official's «official acts» were so broad that they could include almost any action an official might take while in office.

A jury found Silver guilty on all seven charges against him in a federal corruption trial that lasted five - weeks.

Ethel Shelton wept as the jury in her public corruption trial found her guilty Monday in Hammond's federal court.

The appeals court found that the trial judge's jury instructions should have included that definition.

Bridget Kelly and Bill Baroni, former aides of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, were found guilty on all counts by a jury in the Bridgegate trial.

A U.S. District Court jury in Manhattan found the former aide, Joseph Percoco, guilty of three felonies on Tuesday, culminating a seven - week public corruption trial.

It could be difficult for ex-Assembly S peaker Sheldon Silver to find an unbiased jury for his corruption trial, with prospective jurors saying Silver had «dirty dealings throughout his career» and...

Whether a second jury would find enough to convict will be unknown until another trial is conducted.

The appellate judges in Silver's case found that, under the Supreme Court's ruling, the instructions given to the jury at Silver's trial were improper and prejudicial.

At the trial, the jury, after only 21 minutes of deliberation, found Ali guilty.

The SC is not a trial court but an appellate one and should never constitute itself into a prosecutor, judge and jury and sit in its own cause as if it is the Chief's Palace where the accused is hauled before the Chief and his elders, tried, found guilty and ordered to present seventy - two rams and seventy - two bottles of schnapps to pacify the gods and ancestors in a constitutional democracy.

A jury Thursday has found Queens City Councilman Ruben Wills guilty on five of six counts against him in his corruption trial.

QUEENS — Democratic voters in Jamaica will decide Tuesday who should advance to the November general election in the race to succeed former City Councilman Ruben Wills, who was expelled from office after a jury found him guilty in his corruption trial in July.

A jury found the ex-councilman guilty of five of the six counts against him in his corruption trial, after hearing the Democrat spent the stolen loot on himself and loved ones — including to purchase of a $ 750 Louis Vuitton bag, a Wii console and a three - pack of underwear.

«Although finding that the Supreme Court's McDonnell decision issued after Silver's conviction required a different legal instruction to the jury, the Second Circuit also held that the evidence presented at the trial was sufficient to prove all the crimes charged against Silver, even under the new legal standard,» Kim's statement said.

A jury on March 13 found Percoco guilty of three of six charges he faced in the eight - week corruption trial.

A Manhattan federal jury found Ahmad Khan Rahimi, 29, guilty as charged on eight counts following a two - week trial over the twin blasts in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood and in Seaside Park, N.J,.

The court found that the instructions given to the jury by the judge at Silver's trial were wrong, considering the new definition established by the McDonnell case.

After a trial which might best be described as a rush to judgment, Hunt was found guilty by an all - white jury which took the word of a couple of shady characters over that of an innocent African - American kid with a solid alibi.

The police also abused multiple other guests, who testified at their trial, where they were found not guilty by an all - white jury.

Noa P. Singleton speaks not a word in her own defense throughout a brief trial that ends with a jury finding her guilty of first - degree murder.

In its post-trial motion seeking a judgment of acquittal or a new trial, defendant Trans Union, LLC («Trans Union») challenges the jury verdict finding that it had negligently and willfully violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1681i («FCRA»), when it failed to remove an erroneous collection account from -LSB-...]

The suit was sent right back to where it started: with Judge Alsup in San Francisco, for a second jury trial, and on May 26th, 2016, a jury found fair use in favor of Google.

When Oracle v. Google went to trial the first time, in 2012, the jury found in favor of Google on every patent claim.

Also, the judge is within his rights to punish the potential juror if he determines that the potential juror is actually lying about his ability to be impartial in an effort to evade jury service rather than because he sincerely believes that he can't be fair, and judges have wide authority to determine the credibility and truthfulness of statements made to him in open court (i.e. if the trial judge finds that you are lying, this determination will almost always be honored by an appellate court considering the judge's actions).

The trial court found that Thomas» requested jury instruction based on the statute was not warranted because he retreated to his vehicle after firing a weapon on someone else's property.

«More often than not, the court of appeal and the trial courts say that they can correct what the Crown has done wrong by instructing the jury, and I must say I find that unsatisfactory in most cases,» Lockyer says.

A Superior Court judge in the U.S. Virgin Islands, D'Eramo, 49, was found hanging in his St. Croix condominium Monday morning, just minutes before he was to begin jury selection and trial in a high - profile murder case in which one defendant is a former police sergeant.

- also not that if you also want the jury to assess the fine if they find you guilty then you NEED to ask the judge to tell them to do that PRIOR to the start of the trial.

This is partly evidenced by the fact once the option is selected, a piece of paper is produced that claims that you've appeared, pleaded no - contest and waived your right to a judge or a jury trial, at which point you're found guilty, with a deferred judgment, and with the option of case dismissal should certain conditions be satisfied.

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But, in most cases of serious criminal charges like this one, either a grand jury probable cause finding, or a preliminary hearing probable cause finding, both made well prior to a trial, will conclusively preclude a malicious prosecution or civil rights lawsuit.

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