Sentences with phrase «with jury decisions»

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The series of hearings will determine whether he faces life in prison or the death penalty, a decision to be made after family and friends testify to judge and jury about their interactions with the mystery man.

A settlement means that we're going to not chance it to the jury to make a decision, we agree to disagree on whether anyone did anything wrong but we're making a practical business decision, we're going to pay this much to be done with this case and not test the waters.

There's a whole process that's set up to ensure that the jury that finally gets impaneled is an objective group of people with no connection with anything going on in the case that might persuade them to cast a decision that's inconsistent with the evidence that's presented at the trial.

It's probably not going to be possible to have a jury of people that have never heard of the bands, that have never heard the music, but the real question is, even with that understanding, can they only focus on the evidence that's being presented by the parties at trial and only use that evidence and nothing from their own life experience outside of the courtroom to make that decision?

In a highly controversial decision, a jury found St. Anthony, Minnesota officer Jeronimo Yanez not guilty of murder for opening fire on Castile with a 4 - year - old in the back seat of the car at a traffic stop.

Another congregant, who said she chose not to read any news coverage of the trial, struggled with her own internal conflict, saying she trusted that the jury had made the right decision while holding out hope that Sandusky did not really abuse the boys who testified against him.

In the courtroom, Scout watches Jem grip the rail in front of him, his hands tensing with every «Guilty» decision read out from the jury at the conclusion of the trial of Tom Robinson.

Mediation is a non-adversarial alternative to divorce litigation wherein the parties work together, with the help of a neutral third party «mediator,» to determine their own outcome, rather than leaving these important decisions to judge or jury.

Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino last night accused NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio of making an already bad situation «worse» with his «rhetoric» in an ongoing war of words with the NYC police unions following the Eric Garner grand jury decision.

Civil liberties lawyers urged a state judge to reverse Staten Island DA Dan Donovan's attempt to keep secret the grand jury testimony concerning the police chokehold death of Eric Garner, saying the public needs to reconcile a widely watched video of the arrest with the decision not to indict the officer involved.

Gotham Mayor Bill de Blasio spoke Monday Morning at the NYPD graduation ceremony at Madison Square Garden, an oration rife with tension, as it follows protests over the Eric Garner grand jury decision and the ambush - style murder of two NYPD officers.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that there was sufficient evidence to convict the veteran legislator in two corruption schemes, but jury instructions didn't comply with a new Supreme Court decision narrowing the type of acts required of public officials in a quid - pro-quo bribery scheme to formal exercises of government power.

«I completely concur with the grand jury's decision that what she did was justified under New York law.»

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday threw out the 2015 conviction of former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on honest services fraud because the charge to the jury did not comport with the Supreme Court's 2016 decision in the case of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, which narrowed the definition of an «official act.»

«I welcome the grand jury's decision to re-indict Robert Wiesner on a felony charge stemming from the joint investigation my office conducted with Comptroller DiNapoli into allegations of bid rigging in Monroe County.

City Hall's relationship with police, as well as the unions representing them, became strained following a grand jury's decision not to indict an officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner.

Wojtaszek was offered a plea deal to testify before the grand jury, with no decision yet made on the attorney general's offer, according to a source familiar with the situation.

QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz stated the following in response to the grand jury's decision today in the death of Eric Garner: «My heart and prayers are with the family of Eric Garner, especially with his surviving six children.

The NYCLU — along with Public Advocate Letitia James, the Legal Aid Society, the NAACP and the New York Post — filed the appeal in the appellate division of New York Supreme Court to overturn a judge's decision not to release testimony from the grand jury.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio will meet with members of the Justice League NYC, which has been organization protests following the Eric Garner grand jury decision.

When the appeals court overturned Silver's corruption conviction, it said that many people would view the facts that came out in the case «with distaste,» but the instructions to the jury did not track with the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in 2016 in a corruption case against former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.

«We are planning accordingly in anticipation that the grand jury will probably come back with a decision at some time this week,» Bratton said at a Tuesday press conference.»

On Monday, the top cop was splattered with red paint by Diego Ibañez, who was demonstrating against the grand - jury decision in the Michael Brown case.

Skelos, who was kicked out of the state legislature when the jury announced its decision, was charged with using his political power to help his son, who was not at work to make friends — or do work — keep various high - paying jobs.

In the wake of unrest over a grand jury's decision not to bring an indictment in the Eric Garner case and the murder of two police officers, Mario Cuomo, who had governed during the days of strife in Benonshurst and Howard Beach, had become concerned with division in the city along racial and class lines, Mr. Cuomo said.

Fifty percent said they agree — somewhat or strongly — with the grand jury's decision not to indict the NYPD officer in Garner's death.

Among the 202 voters who agree with the grand jury's decision and had heard about both candidates, Donovan leads 74 - 14 percent.

The 2nd Circuit said the instructions given to the Silver jury by the trial judge were consistent with precedential rulings in other cases prior to the Supreme Court decision in the McDonnell case.

At a press conference addressing his tax troubles and the pending grand jury decisions in the Michael Brown case in Ferguson, Missouri and the Eric Garner case in Staten Island, the Rev. Al Sharpton was asked whether Rachel Noerdlinger, who worked for Sharpton before becoming chief of staff to Chirlane McCray, is welcome to return to working with Sharpton.

The mayor he has met with protesters privately to discuss their concerns and given them wide latitude to block traffic after the grand jury's decision in the Eric Garner case.

«He defended it with — they have a First Amendment right, she's not his puppet, and that she felt very strongly about a grand jury decision,» Mullins said on the AM970 show «The Answer.»

During a closed - door meeting with Mayor Bill de Blasio, the unions asked the mayor to «denounce» Mark - Viverito and the Council for their protests in the wake of a grand jury's decision not to indict a police officer in the death of Eric Garner on Staten Island.

The Gurley shooting, along with the Staten Island grand jury's decision, drove tens of thousands of protesters into New York streets and highways throughout December.

In recent weeks, Donovan has drawn the ire of some who are unhappy with a grand jury's decision not to indict a police officer in connection with the death of Eric Garner.

The timing of Gurley's death comes at a particularly sensitive time for the department, which is bracing for possible demonstrations and protests in response to a decision from a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, about whether to proceed with a criminal case against a white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed teenager.

Thousands of activists — a number of them affiliated with liberal healthcare workers union 1199 SEIU — swarmed into Midtown tonight to protest a Staten Island grand jury's decision not to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner.

«When the second grand jury was presented with all of the evidence and was issued the proper instructions in deciding the case, they courageously came to the right and proper decision,» he said in a statement.

Igoe's on - duty shooting of Alvarez ended with an Albany County grand jury determining the deputy's decision to shoot the unarmed man was justified.

And, indeed, most years the festival world's supreme accolade is bestowed upon a worthy recipient — this in spite of the haphazard nature of the decision - making process, with the competition's fate held in the hands of a nine - person jury whose members are plucked from various branches of the cinema tree.

The opinion means the Court disagreed with all six arguments submitted by Bell and upheld the guilty decision made by the jury.

Initially submitted through CUUSOO, a platform where LEGO fans can share their ideas for new sets with the company, Minecraft LEGO was sent to the LEGO review, where «a LEGO jury evaluates the idea's feasibility as a product and makes a decision.»

Connecting the dots between key facts opens up avenues of questioning with the accused and allows you to lead the jury and gallery to whatever decision you choose.

The final decision was voted by the jury together with a live audience.

I worked hard to make sure that every decision the jury made was one I was happy with — especially the winner, Richard Wright.

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Groups such as juries that are charged with reaching consequential decisions often polarize (Sunstein 2002), whereas Fishkin's «juries» (deliberative polls), in which the participants are not asked to reach a collective decision at all, are less likely to do so (Fishkin & Luskin 2005, p. 293).

If you're prepared to presume, absent something relevant to the contrary, the validity of what amounts to an unexplained jury decision so long as the relevant evidence is capable of supporting that decision, what's the basis for your problem with what the trial judge did here (assuming you have a problem)?

Once the jury has reached a decision, they convene in court again with all parties assembled so the verdict of the case can be read.