Sentences with phrase «with jury trials»

For what should be obvious reasons the case law concerning opening statements is concerned almost exclusively with jury trials.

He focused on prosecution, and gained experience with jury trials, bench trials, negotiating plea agreements, and arguing motions in criminal cases.

Contrast with jury trials.

With a jury trial imminent, the Boulder District Attorney dismissed all charges against a Boulder man charged with second degree assault.

Often insurance companies make a fair offer when faced with a jury trial and the evidence we proved after filing the lawsuit.

While we will certainly work with the adjuster assigned to your case, if we can not negotiate a favorable resolution on your behalf, we can file a formal lawsuit to protect your best interest, and if necessary, proceed with a jury trial.

Depending on the specific facts of your case, your attorney should be able to map out an option which would be most advantageous for you, i.e., talk with the prosecutor about possibly dropping the charges against you, work out a plea bargain agreement, or proceed with a jury trial.

Not exact matches

On June 6, 2017, lawyers presented opening statements in the trial, with Carter having waived her right to a trial by jury.

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?

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is pleased with the $ 100 million settlement with its drivers in California and Massachusetts to avoid a jury trial.

I am sure that if anyone were charged with a crime, or is on trial, I am sure that if any of those lines were used in the presence of a police officer, judge, jury, etc., that person would be ticking off that person and hurting his own case.

In this culture / country we have a set of principles that empowers duly authorized agents to apprehend, present the alleged perpetrator for fair and speedy trial, with representation and a verdict rendered by a jury of peers.

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.

Jury deliberations are expected to begin Wednesday in the trial of one of four men charged with plotting to bomb a synagogue and a Jewish community center.

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.

CNN: No verdict in Philadelphia priest sex abuse trial, source says A Philadelphia jury was unable to reach a verdict Wednesday on four of five charges in a landmark priest sex abuse case, according to a source familiar with the proceeding.

That democracy can be made to work, that by the scientific method we can gain mastery over the latent resources of the universe, that trial by jury is practicable, that torture is a foolish method of seeking evidence in the courts, that chattel slavery is a failure — such things we take for granted, not because we individually are wiser than our forebears, who disbelieved them all, but because we share in a social tradition which we did not even help to create, but which has shaped and conformed our thinking with irresistible power.

A person charged with assault can have a jury trial too.

but that's still a good reason for bifurcating trials into a determination of guilt and a determination of the sentence, with a separate jury doing each phase.

PLEASE NOTE: With additional trials upcoming, please focus your comments, tweets your posts around the specific NBCSports issue as to safeguard the positions of any potential jury.

Excluded from the jury trial was testimony regarding the home birth midwife's deviations from standard of care and gross negligence, along with the fact that her license had been suspended and she had no collaberating physician.

«With her reputation for fearless campaigning and frank parliamentary interventions, we have no doubt that Jess Phillips will be an exciting and articulate member of the Jury at Hamlet's Trial,» Shakespeare Schools Festival chief executive Ruth Brock told Total Politics.

Jury deliberations in the corruption trial of former top Cuomo aide Joe Percoco appeared to have run aground on their fourth day, as three jurors issued notes asking to be excused from the case, with one expressing concern about the storm expected to slam the New York City metro area; and another saying that she has sick children.

COIB's announcement of the fines, and Stringer's scrutiny of Department of Correction spending, comes the same day that a jury is reportedly deadlocked in the corruption trial of former correction union president Norman Seabrook, who is accused of making a deal with a hedge fund to pocket $ 60,000 in exchange for agreeing to steer union money into the fund, which has since been revealed as one of the largest Ponzi schemes in recent memory.

ALBANY — State government is bracing for a parade of corruption trials in 2018, with five cases involving powerful players going before juries at the same time that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and all 213 legislative seats are up for election.

The judges wrote that most people would view those scenarios with «distaste,» but they ruled that the instructions that the trial judge gave to the Silver jury were incorrect.

The trial is expected to last four to six weeks, and with jury selection already largely completed, prosecutors say when they kick off their case this week their third witness will be Taub — the one - time Columbia University researcher who was pivotal to one of the alleged schemes.

Newsday reporter takes you inside corruption trial The corruption trial for former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, his wife, Linda, and former Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto began on Monday, March 12, 2018, with jury selection.

Prosecutors and defense lawyers proposed a cornucopia of possible solutions, ranging from finishing the trial with just 11 jurors to replacing a current juror with an alternate — a move that would require the newly constituted 12 - member jury to restart deliberations entirely.

(CNN)- Jury selection was set to start on Monday in the corruption trial of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, who is charged along with his wife of improperly accepting gifts from a businessman while in office in exchange for promoting his company.

Jury deliberations have begun with plenty of drama in the trial of ex-New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

The trial of the former state Senate majority leader and his son, Adam Skelos (pictured), begins with jury selection on Monday in Manhattan Federal Court.

The trial of the former state Senate majority leader and his son, Adam Skelos, begins with jury selection on Monday in Manhattan Federal Court.

It could be difficult for ex-Assembly S peaker Sheldon Silver to find an unbiased jury for his corruption trial, with prospective jurors saying Silver had «dirty dealings throughout his career» and...

After Silver's lawyers complained to the judge that Bharara was contaminating the grand jury and potential trial jurors with his comments, Caproni criticized the prosecutor, saying he went too far.

They had faced difficulties with the case after the jury in the first trial failed to reach unity on their guilt.

It was clear early on in the jury's deliberations in the federal corruption trial of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver that things were not going well, with one juror asking to be excused because she felt physically unwell due feeling «pressured.»

The trial of the former state Senate majority leader and his son, Adam Skelos, begins with jury selection tomorrow in Manhattan Federal Court.

The federal corruption trial of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, starts today with jury selection.

With jury selection completed, opening statements were given in former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's corruption trial in Manhattan.

A former city councilman on trial for corruption hopes to win jury points with his next witness — himself.

In the trial, prosecutors persuaded the jury that Mr. Skelos and his son had used the father's official position to pressure a Manhattan developer, an environmental technology company and a medical malpractice insurer to provide Adam Skelos with roughly $ 300,000 via consulting work, a no - show job and a direct payment of $ 20,000.

While Hugin Led Celgene, Its PAC Donated Heavily to Menendez Likely Republican U.S. Senate nominee Bob Hugin says he's «embarrassed» by Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez, whose corruption trial ended late last year with a hung jury.

The state capitol is bracing for a parade of corruption trials this year that began Monday with jury selection in the case against former top aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo, Joe Percoco.

Federal prosecutors have until Nov. 23 to persuade a grand jury that Joe Percoco, an aide Cuomo once likened to a brother, as well as former SUNY Polytechnic Institute president Alain Kaloyeros should stand trial for extortion and bid - rigging with executives at upstate development firms.

The federal jury came back with the guilty verdict after a three - week trial.

The trial began March 12 at the Alfonse D'Amato U.S. Courthouse in Central Islip with jury selection.

There's a jury with a trial underway.

«The question in these difficult cases is not whether a local prosecutor, including one with understandably close ties to his or her fellow local law enforcement officers, is capable of setting aside any personal biases in deciding whether to, or how vigorously, to pursue the case,» Schneiderman wrote, adding, «the question is whether there is public confidence that justice has been served, especially in cases where homicide or other serious charges against the accused officer are not pursued or are dismissed prior to a trial by jury.»