Sentences with phrase «unanimous verdict»

In 2012, she made her first appearance before the Supreme Court of Canada which resulted in unanimous verdict in her client's favour.

He compounds all this by explaining the virtually unanimous verdict of the scientific community, including such bodies as the US National Academy of Sciences, Royal Society of the UK, Australian Academy of Sciences and so on as the product either of a crude conspiracy to scare up grant money or a quasi-religious cult.

The all female jury of six returned unanimous verdicts in favour of Rebel.

School reformers have managed to turn back some of those policies, most notably last month in the Indiana Supreme Court's unanimous verdict upholding the Hoosier State's school voucher program.

Ausdrill managing director Ron Sayers has been discharged from the Supreme Court today after the jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict on tax evasion charges against him and former Barminco boss, Peter Bartlett, for the second time.

Ausdrill managing director Ron Sayers has been discharged from the Supreme Court today after the jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict on tax evasion charges against himself and former Barminco boss Peter Bartlett — for the second time.

It then appeared that the jury had only reached a unanimous verdict on count three for taking illegal campaign contributions from Bunny Mellon, Tapper reported.

It's challenging as a plaintiff to get a unanimous verdict in your favour on these cases, it's not impossible, but it is challenging.

«Juries can be very unpredictable, and they're looking for a unanimous verdict here.

One member of the panel reported that she overheard members of a media camera crew saying they had heard that some holdouts were blocking a unanimous verdict.

«When Elane Photography refused to photograph a same - sex commitment ceremony, it violated the [New Mexico Human Rights Act, or NMHRA] in the same way as if it had refused to photograph a wedding between people of different races,» the court said in a unanimous verdict.

Yet the unanimous verdict from experts has given Chicago an F (or worse) draft - day grade.

And the unanimous verdict is Mesut is sh*t and Cesc great based on one game.

They are only entitled to a trial by a Judge, instead of 12 people having to come to a unanimous verdict before you can be found guilty, one person a Judge can find you guilty and pronounce sentence on you.

The full inquest on the death of Savita Halappanavar opened on 8 April 2013 and concluded on 17 April, with the jury returning a unanimous verdict of medical misadventure.

Throughout the day, Booras had indicated he was unsure whether the jurors could reach a unanimous verdict on all the charges and believed the length of the deliberations were taking their toll.

Rebekah Brooks, the former editor of the News Of The World tabloid, was cleared of the phone - hacking charge in a unanimous verdict by jurors.

The Borgarting Court of Appeal announced its unanimous verdict on 26 November confirming reasonable grounds to suspect the 40 - year - old of fraud, as part of organized criminal activity subject to Norway's mafia activities paragraph.

«I am innocent of the crimes I was charged with and I feel vindicated by the unanimous verdicts,» the former editor of the Sun and the News of the World said to cameras and a press pack outside her home in central London.

«After considering the facts and the evidence with open minds, and using your instructions as a roadmap, We remain unable to reach a unanimous verdict,» read the note, which was sent at 9:35 a.m., 20 minutes after jurors arrived in Manhattan Federal Court.

An emotional Rebekah Brooks has given her first statement since she was acquitted of all phone - hacking charges, declaring she was «vindicated» by the unanimous verdicts of the jury.

The judge gave the jurors instructions to re-examine their opinions and attempt to reach a unanimous verdict if possible.

A jury of four women and two men reached a unanimous verdict in Thompson's favor on Thursday, her lawyers from the Michael Lamonsoff firm said.

The unanimous verdict upheld last year's ruling by Superior Court Judge Howard Manning who ordered that every eligible child be served.

Their unanimous verdict on the styling was not to change the car presented last September in Paris.

«To have three of them doubt their unanimous verdict and then after 20 years, that's almost unheard of.

Unanimous verdict!

A unanimous verdict is required in federal court, but in Idaho courts a verdict must be agreed to by 3 / 4ths of the jurors.

If a unanimous verdict of liability or non-liability can not be reached, the jury may be hung (i.e., split decision).

After the second trial, the jury returned a unanimous verdict in favor of our client.

On the other hand, should crown offices feel emboldened by the unanimous verdict of the SCC to expand the number of plea bargains that are repudiated upon senior review, the effects of such behaviour are likely to be far - reaching and severe.

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That means that jurors couldn't agree to a unanimous verdict.

Each brother's trial resulted in a hung jury (i.e., no unanimous verdict was reached) because jurors would not abandon their opposing positions.

A Galveston County, Texas jury returned a unanimous verdict on December 11, 2014 for Dowd Bennett client Valero Texas Refining.

Handlarski, principal of RH Criminal Defence, spoke to the broadcaster's flagship news program after a judge declared a mistrial in Cosby's sexual assault case because a deadlocked jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict.

The jury returned the unanimous verdict in favor of the client, assessing damages for medical care and expenses, loss of earning capacity, pain and suffering, mental anguish, loss of enjoyment of life, and permanent injury.

A unanimous verdict is required in federal court, whereas many state courts, including those in California, require only 9 of 12 juror votes for a verdict.

Then, you will often get a «hold out» juror, and since the U.S. requires a unanimous verdict, the hold out hangs the jury.

After deliberating for about seven hours, the jury returned an unanimous verdict in favor of Lincoln.

At the conclusion of phase II, the jury returned a unanimous verdict in favor of the defense.

In a unanimous verdict, a nine - judge bench headed by Chief Justice Y.K. Sabharwal held that all laws included in the Ninth Schedule after the evolution of the basic - structure doctrine of the constitution — through the 1973 verdict of the Keshavananda Bharti case — are open to judicial review.

That I think flows from the public awareness that 12 members of the community have worked together to reach a unanimous verdict.

No person shall be convicted of any crime but by the unanimous verdict of a jury in open court, except that a person accused of any criminal offense for which the State is not seeking a sentence of death in superior court may, in writing or on the record in the court and with the consent of the trial judge, waive jury trial, subject to procedures prescribed by the General Assembly.

The applicant was convicted by a unanimous verdict.