Sentences with phrase «weeks of jury deliberations»

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The trial took more than a month and jury deliberations stretched out over the course of this week.

During two weeks of jury selection, Judge Samuel Feng repeatedly told prospective jurors that immigration, sanctuary cities, gun control and their political views should not enter into their deliberations.

A juror in the Joe Percoco corruption case was called for service on a second jury as deliberations stretch into the seventh week of trial.

U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni, openly frustrated by the pace of the trial's proceedings, said she plans on telling the jury first thing Thursday it's likely they won't begin deliberations in the trial until the week of March 5.

Last week the first of those cases went to the jury for deliberations and in the second case, a trial was averted when a former legislator pleaded guilty.

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.

Hanging over state business are both the federal corruption trial of Governor Andrew Cuomo's former top aide, Joe Percoco, which is now in jury deliberations after closing arguments last week and this year's state - level elections, including the race for governor.

November 24, 2015 After weeks of listening to people talk about Albany politics, jurors may have turned to the dark side and started treating each other not so nicely — and less than two hours after jury deliberations for the Silver trial began on Tuesday.

The verdict came on the jury's third day of deliberations, after a five - week trial in Federal District Court in Manhattan.

A federal jury voted Tuesday to convict Joe Percoco, former senior aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, on three out of six charges of bribery and honest services fraud, but found two executives accused of bribing him not guilty of most of the charges, and remain deadlocked over the guilt of a third executive, after more than a week of deliberation.

In a moment of courtroom levity, Caproni announced at the conclusion of Thursday's deliberations that a juror had sent a note informing the court that she had been summoned to serve jury duty in another courthouse on Thursday, even as she served her seventh week on the Percoco trial jury.

The jury nearly forced a mistrial after reaching a breaking point following nearly two weeks of deliberations.

At the end of a two - week trial, it took the jury just one day of deliberations to reach a guilty verdict on Friday.

Greensboro, North Carolina (CNN)- The jury in former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards» corruption trial ended a second day of deliberations without a verdict Monday after asking to review a batch of exhibits from the four - week case.

After suggesting it was hopelessly deadlocked, the jury considering the fate of Joseph Percoco seems to have moved past its stalemate, as deliberations enter their second full week on Monday.

Three weeks later, in the Sumner, Mississippi Courthouse, an all - white jury acquitted his two killers after little more than an hour of deliberation.

After a two - week trial and less than an hour of deliberations, the jury returned a complete defense verdict for our client, finding no conspiracy.