Sentences with phrase «witnesses as another juror»

On Monday, the defense was light on witnesses as another juror is replaced.

Not exact matches

«To the wider public who come into contact with it — as witnesses, defendants or jurors, but most crucially, as victims - this is a system that often does not deliver the level of service they expect, want or deserve,» he is expected to say later.

The government's final witness was FBI special agent Deanna Pennetta, a certified public accountant who prepared a number of spreadsheets and diagrams based on business records, phone calls and other documents related to Silver that the jurors will be able to review as evidence.

In Assemblyman Sheldon Silver's corruption case, in which no witness testified directly to knowledge of an illegal quid pro quo, how Judge Valerie Caproni tells jurors to interpret the evidence as it relates to the law could sway deliberations.

As a Principle Court Attorney he has worked with the ADA liaison for the courthouse to assure that reasonable accommodations were extended to all persons in the courtroom, including litigants, jurors and witnesses.

She is particularly knowledgeable about access issues in the courts and sensitive to reasonable accommodation of PWDs who would appear before her as attorneys, witnesses and jurors.

As you might recall, Abbruzzese was a key witness in the Bruno trial, telling jurors he paid the Majority Leader $ 20,000 a month for his connections.

The list of witnesses was revealed by Silver defense attorneys in motions laying out what questions they want asked to weed out biased jurors, such as, «Do you have any opinions about politicians, elected officials, or anyone that works in politics — positive or negative?»

Last month, Avella appeared as a prosecution witness against Skelos, a Long Island Republican, and his son, Adam, telling jurors that he scheduled the hearing upon learning that there was «no activity in the committee.»

At one point, he also walked over to the witness stand, telling jurors that after their testimony, Mei, Singh and Genova would walk away from the courtroom as free men.

In a case in which no witness testified directly to knowledge of an illegal quid pro quo, how Judge Valerie E. Caproni tells jurors to interpret the evidence as it relates to the law could sway deliberations — a fact certainly not lost on the government or the defense.

It did not take long for jurors to send a note to the judge — after 40 minutes, the forewoman asked for the testimony of nine witnesses, as well as various pieces of evidence, transcripts of testimony, tapes, and even a white board.

Brilliant, brash and charming, Dr. Bull is the ultimate puppet master as he combines psychology, human intuition and high - tech data to learn what makes jurors, attorneys, witnesses and the accused tick.

For two hundred pages, Sanders has been surreptitiously empaneling readers as jurors for the coming trial, who by then, can't beg to be excused from bearing witness to the final act in the courtroom: «In a building filled with horrors enacted by one human upon another, this courtroom was about to go well beyond the norm, beyond what most people are brave enough to imagine, let alone recount.»

Then the witnesses will start backpedalling and adding qualifications as soon as the jurors start asking them questions (there is no attorney present to object, though the witness can take a time out to consult counsel outside the hearing of the jurors); there will be 18 - 24 of them: independent businessmen, committed church - goers, accountants, etc — the federal grand jury that I sat on had a member of the technical staff of an international pharmaceutical corporation.

From his perspective, the ability to understand and communicate with various witnesses and jurors, as well as an array of clients, requires an ability to listen carefully and speak clearly.

That knowledge is often the key to accessing and engaging effectively with the justice system; whether as citizens, litigants, witnesses, or jurors.

The experts also reported a series of alarming incidents including having to resuscitate a claimant in court, jurors falling asleep during evidence, and being (mistakenly) accused of using the same prostitute as the witness.

In Green the juror worked in the same borough and had once worked at the same station as the witness although not at the same time (apparent bias); in Bakish Khan the juror had known the witness for 10 years and had worked with him on three operations, although they had not worked at the same station (no apparent bias).

Court costs include certain costs of trying the case such as the jurors» daily fees, the costs of subpoenaing witnesses to testify and the expense of depositions which may be used at trial, as well as a limited number of other items.

Walters was accustomed to cloying encounters — a brown - nosing attorney, a relieved former victim, irrepressible trial witness, juror, or, as here, a grateful defendant who had been given what amounted to a second chance, so perhaps it should have ratified something in him that he had made the right decision, that this boy was now venturing on a different path.

But something about the witness struck him as familiar, the lawyer told the jurors.

With procedural matters (such as «may jurors ask questions of witnesses»), it can potentially differ from court to court.

Given that as an advocate I want to get the vote of each juror, the last thing I want to do is risk any juror's misunderstanding a graphic or, worse, being mad that he (and incidence of color deficiency is greater among men) can not understand or process the chart placed before him and about which I or the witness is yammering.»

Factors that are beyond our control — such as an opponent's unique motivations, the performance of witnesses at trial, and a particular set of jurors — have a greater role in how a particular case will ultimately play out.

And on Monday, prosecutor Mark Diebolt is to ask Judge Stephen Villarreal for permission to tell jurors that a witness in a murder case picked Vladimir Soza as the bad guy after looking at a photo posted on MySpace.

A study conducted by Pennington and Hastie (1988) found that jurors were more prone to decide in favor of the side that used a story format, as opposed to requiring jurors to construct their own story from those told by witnesses presented in a random fashion.

By contrast, as Anesa discusses, judicial humour which is delivered in colloquial or everyday language is more likely to engage litigants, criminal defendants, jurors or witnesses.

4 The following persons are excluded from serving as jurors: (a) members of the Privy Council, the Senate and the House of Commons of Canada; (b) members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and the Executive Council; (c) members of the council of a municipality or members of a board of trustees of a school district or school division; (d) judges of the Provincial Court, justices of the Court of Appeal and Court of Queen's Bench and justices of the peace, whether retired or not; (e) barristers and solicitors, whether or not they are practising, and students ‑ at ‑ law; (f) medical examiners under the Fatality Inquiries Act; (g) officers and employees of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta; (h) persons who (i) have been convicted of a criminal offence for which a pardon has not been granted, or (ii) are currently charged with a criminal offence; (i) witnesses summoned to attend before the Legislative Assembly or a committee of the Legislative Assembly during the period that their attendance is required; (j) persons confined in an institution; (k) persons engaged in the administration of justice, including (i) members and employees of any police service, (ii) probation officers, (iii) employees of the Department of Justice, and (iv) employees of the Department of Justice of Canada or the Department of the Solicitor General of Canada.

Having served as a juror or been a witness on any trial between the same parties for the same cause of action, or being then a witness in the cause.

As a matter of practice, explain in understandable language what is about to go on to litigants, witnesses, and jurors.

Leading British barrister Helena Kennedy Q.C. regards cameras in court as a threat to justice, evolving out of base commercial imperatives that are not concerned about justice or the potential impact on witnesses, jurors and even lawyers and judges.

HELD Mr Justice Nelson ruled (at paras 35 and 36) that the police officer juror should have been asked to stand down at the outset, as should normally occur where any potential juror knows witnesses who are to be called to give oral evidence, unless it can be said with certainty that the evidence of the witnesses who are known will play no contested part in the determination of the matter.

The charters — developed following consultation with stakeholders and court users — set a consistent standard across all crown, county and magistrates» courts, the Probate Service and the Royal Courts of Justice of what people can expect when attending as a claimant, juror, victim, witness, defendant or member of the public.