Sentences with phrase «which goes to the jury»

Not exact matches

If that jury fails to come back with a conviction (which I think is possible), one Albany insider explained that the government is going to try to get him again.

SilentHunter, Some of the differences are that a newspaper is publishing an account and a dossier; that this is going to an independent complaints commission which the police do not control; that both supporters as well as opponents of the government will ask questions about this - in parliament, on blogs, and in many other places - no doubt pushing for an inquest with a jury, and be pushing for broader changes in policing to ensure its consistency with the human rights legislation we now have (such as those being advocated by Stuart White here on Next Left).

The two alternatives now are to 1) appoint a new jury and conduct a mini-trial before it goes to decide on the penalty (which could take months); or 2) the judge could get the prosecutors to agree to forgo the death penalty; and the judge could unilaterally impose life w / o parole or life, with parole after 25 yrs.

The result was the 2010 documentary film Gasland, which went on to earn many accolades including the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, a Best Documentary Directing Emmy and a Best Documentary Oscar nomination.

Prosecutors said they have witnesses and are ready to go to trial, which could be either a jury or non-jury.

To me, the cluster of issues that we have focused on are just basic — whether it be bail reform, raise the age of criminal responsibility, reform the institution of the grand jury, which goes back to the time of Magna Carta, wrongful convictions, ensure that not one single person is convicted of a crime that they're innocent oTo me, the cluster of issues that we have focused on are just basic — whether it be bail reform, raise the age of criminal responsibility, reform the institution of the grand jury, which goes back to the time of Magna Carta, wrongful convictions, ensure that not one single person is convicted of a crime that they're innocent oto the time of Magna Carta, wrongful convictions, ensure that not one single person is convicted of a crime that they're innocent of.

The Jury Award for best documentary went to Wish Me Away (d. Bobbie Birleffi and Beverly Kopf), which chronicles the coming out journey of country music star Chely Wright.

The festival's Grand Jury Prize for Documentary went to this portrait of a couple, both on the autistic spectrum, from the directors Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles (who made the excellent Mala Mala, which looked at Puerto Rico's trans community).

Polisse by French actress, writer and director, Maïwenn Le Besco, which snagged the Jury Prize while best screenplay went to Israeli filmmaker, Joseph Cedar, for Footnote.

Visser said she was proud that women filmmakers won several of this year's juried awards, including the IDFA Award for Best Feature - Length Documentary, which went to Mila Turajlic for The Other Side of Everything.

The Critic's Week sidebar, which runs separately but concurrently to the main festival, features films from China, Vietnam, Iran, Palestine, France, Italy, Germany, and Serbia, with nine films in total being judged by festival - goers, rather than a jury.

Of the documentaries (in recent years, Searching for Sugar Man and Twenty Feet From Stardom began their journeys at the festival before going on to Oscar glory), the frontrunner out of the new batch is Weiner, winner of the US documentary grand jury prize, which tracks Anthony Weiner's disastrous mayoral bid in 2014, followed closely by Life, Animated, an incredibly moving film that explores how films helped an autistic person communicate with the outside world.

Nine years ago, autodidact filmmaker Shane Carruth burst onto the indie scene with the abstruse and complex sci - fi thriller «Primer,» which made him a Sundance darling in 2004 when it won the Grand Jury Prize and went on to become a cult hit.

Things didn't improve with the Jury Grand Prize, which went to Tanović's film, and to make it perfectly clear why they liked it so much, the jury also gave Nazif Mujić the Best Actor Award — for essentially playing himsJury Grand Prize, which went to Tanović's film, and to make it perfectly clear why they liked it so much, the jury also gave Nazif Mujić the Best Actor Award — for essentially playing himsjury also gave Nazif Mujić the Best Actor Award — for essentially playing himself.

That trio of successes, however, are all linked by first having won the festival's Grand Jury Prize — which this year went to «Like Crazy,» a romantic drama that also took an acting award for British ingenue Felicity Jones.

After «Persepolis,» which won a Cannes Special Jury Prize, Satrapi went on to direct «Chicken With Plums» and «The Voices.»

Awards voted on by juries included The International Critic's Prize — Discovery, which went to «Call Girl,» while the International Critic's Prize — Special Presentations was awarded to «In the House.»

That movie, which won the festival's jury prize and went on to earn an Oscar nomination for its screenplay, was a surreal and haunting satire of monogamous love — governed by a rigid speculative premise but also open, in its way, to the rich and startlingly funny possibilities of human experience.

Often touted as an heir to Tarkovsky, Russian cinema's other famously austere Andrey, Zvyagintsev previously competed at Cannes with «Leviathan» (2014), which won the jury's screenwriting award and went on to score an Oscar nomination for foreign - language film.

In 2009 Ben lensed the Sundance Special Jury Prize winning Humpday which went on to win the John Cassavetes Award at the 2010 Independent Spirit Awards.

Erratic or random would seem the more appropriate description when we get to this year's second prize, or the Grand Prix du Jury, which went to the youngest candidate, 27 - year old Quebecois, Xavier Dolan (pictured below), with a French opus adapted from a theatre piece called It's Only the End of the World.

The Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize went to Israeli director Samuel Maoz's «Foxtrot», which will also play at Toronto.

The other awards in the international competition went to Michel Franco's Mexican - French entry, «After Lucia,» a wounding indictment of high - school bullying that took the Special Jury Prize, and to Merzak Allouache's «The Repentant» (Algeria / France), which won a Silver Hugo Special Mention.

Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist — cited as «one of the most important artists working today» by the jury — will receive this year's $ 50,000 Zürich Festival Prize, becoming the first - ever visual artist to win the award, which for the previous seven years has gone to musicians and composers.

The press release, which oddly neglects to name the winners, promoting instead the already world - renowned jury, goes to great lengths to underscore the importance of a new type of curator: a globe - trotting creative «maverick» who works side - by - side with and holds a comparable position to the contemporary artist.

Unfortunately for Sylvester, the first juror polled said she did not agree with the verdict, which required the jury to go back into deliberations.

«If a generation is going to arrive in the jury box that is totally unused to sitting and listening but is using technology to gain the information it needs to form a judgment, that changes the whole orality tradition with which we are familiar.»

What he didn't tell the jury is that the prosecutors had encouraged him to reject the immunity, which was a way to clearly communicate to Mr. Locke that he was not going to be prosecuted.

Miller goes on to add some other activities which, in his view, constitute criminal contempt: obstructing persons officially connected with the court or its process, interference with persons under the special protective jurisdiction of the court, breach of duty by persons officially connected with the court or its process, forging, altering or abusing the process of the court, divulging the confidences of the jury room, preventing access by the public to courts of law, service of process in the precinct of the court, and disclosing the identity of witnesses.

Our experience, willingness to go to trial, and jury verdicts are well known, which leads to better results for our clients.

That means being honest with the judge, opposing counsel, oftentimes the insurance company representative (which I have found is always the person behind the scenes controlling the money decisions and is the reason the case is going to trial; the powerful decision - maker who the judge and jury never meet or even get to know about), and most importantly, the jury.

Besides accepting all items on which Oracle and Google had reached agreement in their joint memorandum, the judge granted Oracle its most important wish: the final decision on the number of asserted patent claims to go to jury trial will not be taken now but instead at the final pre-trial conference.

As I reported in the article last week, this was a case so complicated that the judge begged the parties to settle before it went to a verdict (calling it a «coin toss») and was also a case in which the jury instructions took two hours to explain and included a 109 page document.

The Chadbourne court approved the trial court's instruction to the jury, which was that an owner «allows» an animal to «go at large» if he» (a) intentionally permits the animal to go at large, or (b) fails to exercise due care to keep that animal from going at large.

Having first decided that they were bound to consider the sufficiency of the plea to the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court, and having decided that this plea showed that the Circuit Court had not jurisdiction, and consequently that this is a case to which the judicial power of the United States does not extend, they have gone on to examine the merits of the case as they appeared on the trial before the court and jury on the issues joined on the pleas in bar, and so have reached the question of the power of Congress to pass the act of 1820.

We use a formula which is deceptively simple: we go to the Virginia Model Jury Instructions and review each item for which compensation can be awarded.

The case will not now go to a jury trial which was due in November after four years of litigation.

And 14 years after two Hispanic youths were killed by an NYPD fusillade of 28 bullets — most of which entered their backs and sides and exited into floor boards — their families settle the case for $ 1.1 M as the matter was about to go to the jury.

Here, despite the broad evidence admitted on marketing, which plaintiff contended showed intent to justify punitive damages, the trial court did not let punitives go to the jury.

The appellants argue such opinion evidence went beyond the area in which Green was qualified to testify and, as well, amounted to impermissible opinions on the ultimate issue the jury was required to decide.

We went to trial which lasted from Thanksgiving to Christmas and ultimately the jury returned a verdict of not guilty on all charges in a matter of hours.

C.A., July 26, 2011)(34444) June 7, 2013 Any defence with an air of reality should go to the jury, and meets that test if there is (1) evidence (2) upon which a properly instructed jury acting reasonably could acquit if it believed the evidence to be true.

Moreover, the purpose of the requirement that the act be of such a kind that it outraged public decency went to setting a standard which the jury had to judge by reference to contemporary standards; it did not require that someone saw the act and was outraged.

Other situations in which insurance will cover you and reimburse your non-refundable costs include: severe weather that cancels flights or causes damage at your travel destination; you losing your job or being required to work during the time your trip was scheduled; if you are called to jury duty and can't get out of it; if your travel provider goes bankrupt.

Unless the case goes to jury trial, Section 153.009 requires the court to interview a child in judge's chambers to determine which parent's residence would be best for rearing the child.