Sentences with phrase «verdict as trial judges»

It seems like every day there's a new breakthrough in A.I., whether it's a system that consistently renders the same verdict as trial judges or a computer capable of winning millions of dollars from the world's best poker players.

Not exact matches

Chief Deputy Public Defender Matt Gonzalez, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate and Judge Samuel Feng listen as a court clerk reads the verdict in Zarate's murder trial on November 30, 2017.

In Thursday's ruling, the appellate court ruled the judge's erroneous instruction to the jury at Silver's trial «was not harmless because it is not clear beyond a reasonable doubt that a rational jury would have reached the same conclusion if properly instructed, as is required by law for the verdict to stand.»

The appellate court judges are required to presume the jury's decisions at trial were correct — as long as the record on appeal contains evidence to support the jury's verdict.

Only three days after Judge Kaplan's spectacular ruling in the Chevron / Ecuador case, notes Paul Barrett at Business Week, «a state appellate court in California upheld a trial judge's finding that what had been billed as a watershed liability verdict against Dole Food over pesticide use in Nicaragua was actually the product of a corrupt conspiracy by plaintiffs» lawyers.&rJudge Kaplan's spectacular ruling in the Chevron / Ecuador case, notes Paul Barrett at Business Week, «a state appellate court in California upheld a trial judge's finding that what had been billed as a watershed liability verdict against Dole Food over pesticide use in Nicaragua was actually the product of a corrupt conspiracy by plaintiffs» lawyers.&rjudge's finding that what had been billed as a watershed liability verdict against Dole Food over pesticide use in Nicaragua was actually the product of a corrupt conspiracy by plaintiffs» lawyers.»

In post-trial submissions, the trial judge rejected the defense as waived and entered judgment on the jury's verdict.

Because of how the principle of judicial independence is interpreted by courts, the original trial judge in this case could not be asked why it had taken 9 months to reach a verdict, and could not be questioned whether the delay was due to the complexity of the case, the judge's workload, or other personal reasons, such as illness.

In Colorado, U.S. District Senior Judge Richard P. Matsch was so infuriated by the trial conduct of counsel for Medtronic Navigation Inc. that he had already overturned a jury's $ 51 million verdict in its favor, as The Denver Post reports.

Again, judges and juries were in general agreement as to the appropriate verdict, and complexity of the trial did not differentiate between judges» and juries» preferred outcomes.

While attending law school, she first - chaired felony jury trials to verdict as a Rule 16 Trial Attorney for the State's Attorney's Office of Prince George's County, Maryland and was a Judicial Intern for both the Honorable Wendell P. Gardner, Jr., Associate Judge for the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, and the Honorable Kiyo A. Matsumoto, United States District Court Judge for the Eastern District of New York.

If the trial judge upholds the verdict, payment to the family, with interest, could be as high as $ 109 million.

Where a trial judge is mistaken as to the substance of material parts of the evidence and those errors play an essential part in the reasoning process resulting in a conviction then, in my view, the accused's conviction is not based exclusively on the evidence and is not a «true» verdict.

The trial judge had not provided the jury on this occasion with sufficient, or any, directions on the issue of capacity and voluntary drunkenness and the verdict reached could not be regarded as safe.

At the Lord Mayor's annual dinner for the judges in the City of London, Lord Philips also defended British judges from some of the often harsh criticism they have run into recently over criminal trial verdicts various politicians as well as the populist British tabloids felt were too lenient.

This will only happen on or after May 29 as the judge had already indicated that the trial would take a break until then if the jury had not come down with a verdict by the close of yesterday's deliberations.