Sentences with phrase «tried by a jury»

Zimmerman was arrested and tried by a jury of his peers.

On Saturday, let us be grateful for our freedom — to worship, to protest, to report, to be tried by jury, to vote, and to benefit from a free market.

The lawsuit was filed 15 June and Salazar has requested that the case is tried by a jury and points out in the complaint that she registered the image for copyright.

The 1910 amendment, by its terms, did not eliminate those substantive standards but altered the procedures of judicial review:» [N] 0 fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any court of this state, unless the court can affirmatively say there is no evidence to support the verdict» (emphasis added).

A recent article by The Wall Street Journal referred to «the pin - drop silence» in federal courthouses, saying that fewer than 1 percent of civil cases are tried by jury.

Assuming you are being tried by a jury, for the most part it depends on whether the jurors believe the statement.

You are entitled to be tried by jury inless the alleged offence is a minor one or one that is being tried in the Special Criminal Court.

However, Code Section 2 - 1111 vests a court with discretion to direct any issue (s) involved in an equitable proceeding to be tried by a jury.

«Trial by jury is a cold comfort when you're told that you will be tried by a jury of your peers and no one on that jury looks like a peer.

(see INDICTABLE OFFENCE, SUMMARY OFFENCE) An offence for which the accused may elect the case to be dealt with either summarily by the magistrates or by committal to the Crown Court to be tried by jury

If the case is tried by a jury, the decision is called a verdict.

It seems in Japan, all those charged with murder are tried by jury, and 99 % are found guilty.

Not exact matches

The Village Voice would have been equally offensive to a jury in Tampa [where the case was tried] 40 years ago, but it would not have been read by people on a Tampa jury.

Defense attorneys are focusing their efforts not on proving Tsarnaev's innocence but on trying to spare his life by persuading the jury that Tamerlan bore the brunt of the blame.

Manafort has said he's cooperating with investigators, but the search warrant obtained by the FBI prior to July's raid suggests that Mueller managed to convince a federal judge that Manafort would try to conceal or destroy documents subpoenaed by a grand jury.

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.

Get a taster of the cookbook by trying out recipes for Baked Tofu with Tomato Rice, Lasagna with Wild Mushroom Sauce and Pizza with Lemon and Brussels Sprouts, shared on the Meat Free Monday website courtesy of Jean - Christian Jury and Phaidon.

Last month an inquest jury found a man named Jimmy Mubenga was unlawfully killed by G4S staff as they tried to deport him from Britain.

In just 14 lines of type, the indictment signed by U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue alleges that Walker tried to thwart a grand jury investigation in August, and then lied when he was questioned by the FBI in November.

«While this case has been highlighted in the press, the public is served by allowing this matter to be tried and decided by a jury,» Pulver wrote.

Among other things, according to people who have been interviewed by investigators, the grand jury probe is trying to determine whether Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's re-election effort benefited improperly from money in the federal fund.

The move comes in the wake of the decision by a Staten Island grand jury to not indict a white police officer in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man, Eric Garner whom police were trying to arrest for allegedly selling loose cigarettes.

Taylor was the first parliamentarian to be tried and found guilty by a jury over the expenses scandal.

On Friday, Perry was indicted by a grand jury on two felony counts related to his efforts to try and force a Democratic district attorney to resign after a DWI.

And they tried to convince the judge that pre-indictment publicity by former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara prejudiced the grand jury that considered the cases.

Mr. Bruno was tried twice before being cleared by a jury last May.

This uneasiness with parties» experts is heightened by the fact that the adversarial system, relying as it does on critical cross-examination to expose weaknesses in a witness» testimony, is often ill suited to educating the trier of fact, whether it be judge or jury.

Other films from Cannes making their US debut at Telluride include the Russian «Loveless,» directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev, about an unhappy couple searching for their son, and winner of Cannes» Jury Prize; «A Man of Integrity,» by Mohammad Rasoulof, set in corrupt Iranian society, which won the Grand Prize of the Un Certain Regard section; «The Rider,» by Chloe Zhao, about a badly injured young South Dakotan rodeo rider, which won the top prize, the Art Cinema Award, of the Director's Fortnight; «Tesnota (Closeness),» about a Jewish family forced to try to ransom their son and his new bride, also in Un Certain Regard, by Kantemir Balagov; and Barbet Schroeder's documentary about a Buddhist monk, «Le venerable W.»

Several of our jury members were immediately struck by the Miyazaki - like visuals when we first tried the game at IndieCade 2010.

According to a report by the Associated Press, Activision tried to have the case dismissed; Superior Court Judge Ramona See stated that there seems to be a genuine dispute that a jury should consider.

For the second and final round of the jury, the Visual Chair with the help of the Visual Coordinator charges a three - person outside jury, which changes each year, to review digital work submitted by the finalists as well as digital work submitted by current or former Fellows trying for a second - year term.

This is like Anne Boleyn being tried for witchcraft etc. by a jury of her peers who all agreed on what Henry wanted.

According to an affidavit filed by one of the jurors after the trial, the jury unanimously agreed that the plaintiff, Martha Sienkowski, should be awarded $ 336,300 but «we had trouble trying to figure out the verdict form, and sent a note through the bailiff to that effect seeking further instructions.»

Subject to limited exceptions, all parties litigating in Superior Court have the right to have the issues of fact tried, or the damages assessed, or both, by a jury.

A report in The Boston Globe discusses the case scheduled to be argued today before the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that centers on a plan by U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner to try to get more African - Americans on the jury that will decide the federal death penalty case against two black men from Boston.

Beginning in the 1800s, however, courts began to try to curb the practice of juror nullification by eliminating instructions that explained it and instead telling juries they had to apply the law to the facts no matter whether they personally liked the law or not.

A Massachusetts jury heard about this and yesterday, they expressed their outrage by hitting Lorillard with a $ 71 million verdict on behalf of the estate and son of a woman who was one of these children, who got these samples at least 50 times starting at age 9 and was addicted by age 13, tried unsuccessfully to quit 50 times and who eventually died of lung cancer.

The group has extensive jury trial experience, having tried numerous cases to verdict in both state and federal court, including several cases recognized by the Daily Journal as top defense verdicts in California.

He was tried by a judge and jury.

Theft is an «either - way» offence (i.e. it can be tried summarily or by a jury), and in the latter case carries a maximum penalty of seven years in prison (s7 TA 1968).

2009 Canadian Maverick: The Life and Times of Ivan C. Rand by William Kaplan A Trying Question: The Jury in Nineteenth Centre Canada by R. Blake Brown Canadian State Trials, Vol.

That's the question, as reported by New Hampshire's Laconia Citizen, which says that the defense attorney representing a convicted rapist is trying to convince the court that his client's right to a fair trial was compromised by comments made by a jury member on a personal blog.

A report in The Boston Globe discusses the case scheduled to be argued today before the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that centers on a plan by U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner to try to get more African - Americans on the jury that will decide the federal death penalty case against two black men from -LSB-...]

Like many of you in the past, I got called for jury duty in Fulton County today and even though I am an Injury Lawyer, and wrote this is large bold Allcaps on the form, I still got to hang around until 6 p.m. waiting to be cut by the lawyers trying the case.

Nothing in the Constitution requires that assessment of fault in a civil case tried in a state court be made by a jury, nor is there any prohibition against such a finding being made in the first instance by an appellate, rather than a trial, court.

The responding party — here the slip and fall victim — then gets a chance to argue that their case should proceed because they have met their burden and that there are disputed facts that must be decided by the trier of fact; meaning, the jury.

The peremptory challenge is one tool by which the accused can feel that he or she has some minimal control over the make up of the jury and can eliminate persons for whatever reason, no matter how illogical or irrational, he or she does not wish to try the case.

However, the appellant, like all who elect to be tried by judge and jury, had the right to a properly instructed jury

In a pioneering new series blending documentary and drama, a fictional murder case is tried in a real court, by eminent legal professionals and a jury comprised of 12 randomly selected members of the public.

In the first case, which was handled by a public defender, he was sentenced to death and in the two which I tried, he received life sentences without the jury knowing about the first case.