Some of the juries were entirely white, while other juries were more diverse in their racial makeup.
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Oregon, which said the Constitution required federal juries to render unanimous verdicts, but allowed divided juries in state courts.
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Prosecutors believe that all-white juries are more likely to convict and harshly sentence black defendants than racially diverse juries.
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In a review of the research, Sommers found that white juries tend to be harder on black defendants than diverse juries.
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Tufts University psychologist Samuel Sommers even found racially diverse juries raise more case facts and made fewer factual errors than all-white juries.
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Tufts University psychologist Samuel Sommers even found racially diverse juries raise more case facts and made fewer factual errors than all white juries.
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As for the claim that non-unanimous juries help avoid the extra cost and time of mistrials, other states get along fine with unanimous juries.
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Despite the advice they got from their lawyers, they "all went into grand juries, they testified in grand juries, they testified before Congress," he said.
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Juries who saw the slow-motion video were nearly four times more likely to return a unanimous first-degree murder verdict than juries who saw the regular-speed version.
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The court's decision also is expected to decide the future of split juries in Oregon, and perhaps the fate of people already convicted with divided juries like Mr. Worley.
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In thousands of trials, whites of every ilk and preponderance of guilt have walked away and still walk away, freed by an institutional conspiracy of prosecutors, grand juries, judges and juries.
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Juries and the processes they use to reach verdicts are parameterized, but a trial is nonetheless all about convincing those juries of something that is inexact and subjective at its core.
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In mock trials, the Tufts University researcher Samuel Sommers has found, racially diverse juries appraise evidence more accurately than all-white juries, which translates to more lenient treatment of minority defendants.
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Chatman may seem like a merely procedural case about juries.
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Grand juries typically fulfill both an investigative and charging function.
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Juries would decide whether the content was removed fast enough.
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Judges are more likely than juries to decide on death.
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Prosecutors also can take steps to keep them off juries.
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Typically, juries are just very likely to side with police.
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I know juries get it right 99.9% of the time.
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Even when juries rejected death sentences, judges often overrode them.
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Two earlier trials against other defendants ended in hung juries.
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Again, there is no one-to-one association; predominantly black juries convict black defendants and acquit white defendants all the time, and predominantly white juries acquit black defendants and convict white defendants as well.
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There seemed little doubt that the justices would have found the question fairly easy absent a confusing 18983 decision that said the Constitution required federal juries to render unanimous verdicts but allowed divided state juries.
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The authors find that juries were particularly reluctant to convict women.
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Two juries gave Rhoades the death penalty in 1999 and 2007.
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A grand juries, there is a process, Meghan, to do that.
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The highly publicized trial ended with a pair of deadlocked juries.
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Alabama's capital juries give only advisory recommendations in death penalty sentencing.
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Almost all were convicted by all white judges, juries and prosecutors.
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But a growing number of juries disagree with the EPA's position.
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Five other juries have failed to reach verdicts, resulting in mistrials.
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In total, juries have handed out $724.5 million in separate decisions.
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Mr. Killen was among three whose cases ended with hung juries.
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Their shows "are beginning to resemble grand juries," Mr. Baldwin wrote.
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Courts and juries do, in theory, act as checks on prosecutors.
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Juries in felony cases must agree unanimously in order to convict.
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Grand juries don't allow defense attorneys in the room during proceedings.
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" Mr. Stein said Judge Sand told him: "Juries get it right.
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He has frustrated prosecutors, challenged judges and softened grim-faced juries.
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Secret juries are primarily used in terrorism and organized crime cases.
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Sidebar WASHINGTON — What happens before grand juries is ordinarily secret, forever.
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Courts and juries do, in theory, act as checks on prosecutors.
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I don't have records from the two St. Louis cases where juries have penalized Johnson & Johnson with megamillion-dollar awards to the plaintiffs, but I'd expect those juries saw similar evidence to what Berg presented in 2013.
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"Juries generally do not like the media," he said after the verdict.
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Juries, he says, might not understand the technical intricacies of genetic evidence.
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Federal juries have cleared the companies of liability in three previous trials.
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Judges and juries weigh the facts and pronounce on guilt and innocence.
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The fourth and fifth trials ended in hung juries, with no verdict.
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Moral judgments are the bailiwick of judges and juries – not FBI agents.
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Government witnesses meet with prosecutors and testify before grand juries in secret.
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Schweitzer says that juries intially don't know what to make of it.
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While grand juries can issue indictments, some disband without ever doing so.
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Some juries have sided with the plaintiffs, awarding large amounts of damages.
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Lawyers are rarely so overt about their efforts to racially engineer juries.
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Meanwhile, blacks continue to be struck from juries more often than whites.
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First, juries are better able to represent the community than judges are.
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Giving juries the final decision takes this source of pressure off judges.
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After all, thousands do so every day when they serve on juries.
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On the other hand, juries represent a wider range of American society.
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Laws in 1924 and 1927 largely excluded women from sitting on juries.
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Those who "turn" are not always looked on as "reliable" by juries.
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Time and time again, courts dismissed the challenges, or juries rejected them.
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It used to be much more common to sequester juries during deliberations.
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Juries are not informed what penalties are available before they render judgment.
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Manafort's trials before juries are set to begin in July and September.
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North, the un-enslaved were restricted from voting, serving on juries, and
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Even when seemingly damning video evidence existed, grand juries refused to indict.
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As the saying goes, most grand juries will indict a ham sandwich.
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The men were not indicted by two all-white, male grand juries.
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"Juries across America are not waiting for Congress to act," he said.
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Coble says that the goal is community education—including lawyers, judges and juries.
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That inquiry included the closed-door reviews by civil and criminal grand juries.
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That first trial ended with hung juries for both brothers in January 1994.
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And basically grand juries just mimic what the prosecutor tells them to do.
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There are other juries too, which pick films to receive other specialized awards.
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In many cases, it can lead to hung juries, mistrials and even acquittal.
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Civilian buyers need police permits too, while juries screen applicants at shooting clubs.
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The company said it looked forward to presenting the scientific evidence to juries.
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The police, prosecutors and juries may also question why they waited so long.
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They've convened at least two grand juries (in Washington, DC, and Alexandria, Virginia).
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Two grand juries decided not to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo in Garner's death.
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Whereas, outside of London, I'd have to address juries in a different way.
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Unlike court, arbitration forums don't have formal rules of evidence, judges, or juries.
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Prosecutors can also ask grand juries investigating a crime to issue a subpoena.
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In Arizona city courts, those misdemeanor accusations are handled by judges, not juries.
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There isn't much data on how non-unanimous juries actually work in Louisiana.
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Two separate juries had sentenced Mr. Wilson to death for the 2003 killings.
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The suspension of grand juries also raises serious legal issues, the experts said.
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Juries in four additional mesothelioma trials could not reach verdicts, resulting in mistrials.
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Hundreds of individuals have been interviewed and dozens have testified before grand juries.
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Here's how judges explain the concept of direct versus indirect evidence to juries.
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While judges usually determine sentences for defendants, Texas allows juries to do so.
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A second mistrial was declared in 2017 after juries deadlocked over a verdict.
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Evidence might be tampered with; juries might be biased; eyewitnesses' memories may fail.
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J&J won three other cases and another five ended in hung juries.
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AMERICAN JURIES are well known for the generosity of their awards in civil cases.
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" He imitated the president, joking, "So beautiful, not like one of those dump juries.
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Our justice system is built around juries, which are collections of third-party punishers.
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She has served on juries at the Berlin and Venice film festivals, among others.
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Confessions are powerfully convincing evidence for juries — but false confessions are also relatively common.
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But throughout history, prosecutors used these strikes to remove black potential jurors from juries.
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Juries frequently give great deference to police officers for actions carried out under pressure.
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But Missouri is also known for juries that often hit companies with huge damages.
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American juries and judges have struggled in recent years to make corruption charges stick.
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Grand juries typically last for 85033 to 18 months but can last for years.
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Of the 24 death sentences Angela Corey has won, three came from unanimous juries.
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Juries in Georgia have delivered only four death sentences in the last six years.
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The closer and harder questions are those that our system designs juries to answer.
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Judges and juries frequently hold it against employees who are afraid to speak out.
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In rape cases, the police, prosecutors and juries notoriously discount the testimony of women.
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By almost every important metric, the racially mixed juries performed better at their task.
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Grand juries are members of the public who meet in secret to hear evidence.
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"In this country, it's the unpopular people that need juries the most," she said.
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But justice in a courtroom -- with white judges and all-white juries -- proved elusive.
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"Juries don't like fact patterns where children are abused by trusted leaders," Pfau said.
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Federal grand juries are initially appointed for finite periods of up to 18 months.
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Alabama is also the only state that accepts death sentences from non-unanimous juries.
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First, it is important to remember what grand juries are and what they do.
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Grand juries can issue subpoenas for documents and can compel individuals to give testimony.
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Grand juries can issue subpoenas for documents and for witnesses to testify under oath.
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Some juries have sided with J&J and others have been unable to reach verdicts.
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Conversely, juries may simply believe genetic predispositions are irrelevant in determining someone's guilt or punishment.
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All citizens are entitled to serve on juries just as all are entitled to vote.
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Three juries have found him guilty of shooting Troy Wicker to death as he slept.
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The juries listened to almost three weeks of testimony, and Doty's deliberated for several hours.
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Studies show that juries are often more swayed by compelling narratives than by hard evidence.
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He was convicted twice by juries and those convictions were overturned both times on technicalities.
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Juries don't like to convict celebrities unless there is overwhelming evidence that they are guilty.
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The computational accuracy of DNA evidence is something juries can easily wrap their heads around.
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In 91 percent of these cases, judges have imposed death sentences when juries recommended life.
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During Mr. Holmes's 21-year tenure, which ended in 2000, juries in Harris County, Tex.
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New York law allows local district attorneys to convene grand juries to investigate potential crimes.
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Don't tell me that 6900 percent of those convicted by judges or juries were guilty.
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As a result, black people, recently freed from slavery, were allowed to serve on juries.
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It's true that grand juries no longer have or exercise the power they once did.
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When I look at these Brooklyn juries, I see the people I grew up around.
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"By making juries anonymous, we're telling jurors that the defendant is really dangerous," he said.
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But experts said juries are changing faster than prosecutors or police give them credit for.
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Unlike lower courts, the appellate courts, which review other courts' decisions, do not have juries.
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In the first three cases, juries have awarded tens of millions of dollars in damages.
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"It is a matter of time before juries begin holding them to account," he said.
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Because juries must unanimously recommend death sentences in Florida, a single juror could prevent execution.
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Then two more trials ended in hung juries, with the jury divided along racial lines.
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Three juries have found J&J liable, awarding a total of $172 million in damages.
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Juries in those cases have hit the company with verdicts as high as $4.69 billion.
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Others have allowed juries to decide whether the officers involved intended to suppress protected speech.
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In the first three trials, Mr. Flowers was found guilty by nearly all-white juries.
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Does the pressure of being confined away from home push juries toward a rushed consensus?
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Juries have been generally reluctant to sentence federal defendants to death in New York State.
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That's going to be interesting to see how magistrates and juries look at fraternities now.
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Arizona, ruled that juries, not judges, must make the factual findings to support death sentences.
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The defendants, Dwright Doty and Corey Morgan, are being tried together but before separate juries.
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Mueller was using one of those general grand juries in Virginia for the Flynn investigation.
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And all-white juries, like in the case of Emmett Till, have historically been problematic.
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When we again used our results to simulate jury-selection outcomes, juries of participants who saw both versions were still about 50 percent more likely to be unanimous in a first-degree murder verdict than juries of participants who saw only the regular speed version.
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Prosecutors have the power to decide whether to bring charges against police officers, and are also given enormous power over grand juries to get an indictment (hence the saying that prosecutors can get grand juries to "indict a ham sandwich") and in the courtroom generally.
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Grand juries in Georgia have rarely returned indictments against police officers who were involved in shootings.
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In each case, probable cause was found, meaning their cases will be sent before grand juries.
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They are cheap, and, like juries, they involve the community in passing sentence on its peers.
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Juries and viewers from every country will now separately award up to 12 points to songs.
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Family courts lack juries, so such decisions are delivered from the pen of a sole person.
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The other 50 percent is decided by a series of five-person juries in each nation.
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Today's grand juries do not safeguard such fundamental rights, and they are easily subject to abuse.
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Women and men on prize juries often genuinely believe they are choosing the objectively best book.
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The state now has a law that elevates the power of juries in such decisions. 4.
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Grand juries are secret and Flynn told the White House that the FBI had cleared him.
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Juries in judicial override states take less time reviewing and discussing the evidence relevant to sentencing.
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In sum, juries, not judges, should determine who is to receive our nation's most severe penalty.
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These rules exist to promote candor in grand juries and between the president and his advisers.
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"I do think it's absolutely true that it's easier for juries to get retaliation," she said.
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Juries convicted Mr. Aleynikov of some charges in those cases, but the convictions were subsequently overturned.
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It would also affect the judgment of juries about whether to convict if charges are filed.
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A criminal inquiry gives him the power to subpoena witnesses, empanel grand juries and bring indictments.
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Three juries have rejected claims that Baby Powder was tainted with asbestos or caused plaintiffs' mesothelioma.
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The anger over those deaths stung anew when grand juries declined to indict either officer involved.
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Trials have been delayed; grand juries have been put on hold; and sentencings have been postponed.
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A new study from North Carolina confirms some long-held folk wisdom about race and juries.
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Juries acquitted three of the officers and failed to reach a verdict in the fourth case.
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A series of incidents in which videos appeared to contradict police accounts has eroded juries' trust.
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Eyewitness testimony is dangerously persuasive to juries, yet it remains admissible in courts almost without caveat.
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The measure prevailed over the warnings of opponents that a woman's "seductive" ways would sway juries.
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Those 13 go on to find that juries often find victims culpable in their own assaults.
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At the time he was convicted, only Louisiana and Oregon allowed for convictions by split juries.
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We've seen two grand juries impaneled to investigate the most senior members of the Trump administration.
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Attorney General Barr says that is his intention absent restrictions about grand juries and national security.
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For complicated cases such as this one, investigative grand juries are routinely used to assist prosecutors.
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There are reports Camille will eventually be in court, but first impressions matter ... especially with juries.
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The experiment concluded that simulated 12-person juries, where all the members were shown the slow-motion footage, were four times more likely to start deliberations ready to reach a guilty verdict than those juries made up of members who had seen the images at regular speed.
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That result can be explained in part by the fact that juries rarely convict police officers, period.
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Federal prosecutors work with grand juries to collect evidence to determine whether a crime has been committed.
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California juries have sentenced nearly 2531 people to death since 240, but only 22006 have been executed.
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Juries — in Brooklyn and everywhere else — find "snitches" to be distasteful and it's a particularly dangerous occupation.
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And yet, time and again, they put him on the stand and told juries to believe him.
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Manafort has pleaded not guilty to the indictments returned by federal grand juries in Washington and Virginia.
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Arizona, which held that only juries may make the factual findings that expose a person to execution.
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Before the trial starts, a federal judge determines what evidence can and cannot be presented to juries.
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Strangely, when I would relay even the most horrific details, the reaction by juries was always tempered.
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Even in murder trials, it can lead juries to impose life sentences rather than the death penalty.
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Juries will decide whether companies have complied with the timetable, heightening the risk of high-profile convictions.
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Grand juries permit prosecutors to subpoena witnesses and documents, as well as pursue indictments against anyone involved.
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It found that Florida had given judges powers that juries should wield in determining eligibility for execution.
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Justice apparently depends on keeping juries as ignorant as possible, at least with respect to their power.
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The successful trial against Insys suggests that courts and juries are ready to punish the companies involved.
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"Juries don't like to convict celebrities unless there is overwhelming evidence that they are guilty," Pate wrote.
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And juries sentenced just three new Texas defendants to death for the second year in a row.
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Administrative proceedings also afford clients less protections, such as limited discovery and no juries, defense lawyers say.
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While their charges were pending there, federal grand juries also indicted them, based on the same transactions.
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The department's tactics and prosecutors' pursuit of such cases have drawn criticism from defense lawyers and juries.
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As defense attorney, I heard prosecutors tell juries over and over that accused's lie to protect themselves.
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American juries sent 266 people to death row in 286, when public enthusiasm was at its strongest.
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He feared that those with serious records would be serving on juries and running for office next.
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Mr. Giuca and Mr. Russo were tried together, but with separate juries to decide their separate fates.
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Corporations, politicians, presidential candidates and academics increasingly cave to a few self-appointed judges, juries and executioners.
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Suing in clusters also maximizes the emotional effect of the women's stories on juries, Mr. Lanier said.
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Ms. Mello suggested studying a system in which administrative courts, instead of juries, determined liability and damages.
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For months, prosecutors have used multiple grand juries to issue subpoenas for documents related to Mr. Flynn.
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Jeffrey L. Fisher, a lawyer for Mr. Ramos, urged the court to protect dissenting voices on juries.
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Under Australian law, all details of the trial were suppressed in case they could prejudice future juries.
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For one, Russian juries produced an unusually high number of acquittals (about 40 percent in all cases).
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Starting in 22014, grand juries began handing down indictments to police who killed, but for lesser charges.
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I knew they didn't pick murder juries at the civil courthouse, but I still felt slighted somehow.
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The Supreme Court has never ruled on the constitutionality of anonymous juries and extreme courtroom security measures.
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But Aliza B. Kaplan, director of the Criminal Justice Reform Clinic Oregon at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, who has studied the history of nonunanimous juries, said the impact of the law in an overwhelmingly white state is that racial minorities rarely have juries of their peers.
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So if grand juries really were independent decision-makers of the kind contemplated by the Bill of Rights — if they truly served as a protection for defendants against overaggressive prosecutors — then it would make no sense for a special counsel to bifurcate its work into two separate grand juries.
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Moreover, the president himself sanctioned Russian intelligence agents that one of the special counsel&aposs grand juries indicted.
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Louisiana and Oregon are the only two states that allow people to be convicted by non-unanimous juries.
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According to Jonattan, many of the users in these forums are film directors, critics, festival juries, and academics.
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Kentucky --because prosecutors can get around it by simply supplying race neutral justifications while building mostly white juries.
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The results have been split, with some juries siding with J&J and others unable to reach verdicts.
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The paper suggests that when capital punishment was an option, juries were often reluctant to convict at all.
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In "Democracy in America", Alexis de Tocqueville wrote perceptively of randomly chosen juries as forms of political institutions.
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While the juries overwhelmingly backed Australia, it was the audience vote that brought gold home for Ukraine Saturday.
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Arizona, the Supreme Court ruled that juries, not judges, must make the factual findings to support death sentences.
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The Missouri litigation led to four verdicts against J&J in which juries issued verdicts totaling $307 million.
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These somewhat old-fashioned narrative skills tend to appeal more to readers than to novelty-seeking prize juries.
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People get assignments, things go awry, juries hand out judgements, and our lawyers celebrate or lick their wounds.
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I read with interest Johnson's column on the baffling legalese contained in instructions given to juries (April 14th).
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It is typically juries, not judges, who decide which of these two mental states the defendant was in.
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The defense lawyers routinely found a way to inject race into the trials, yet the juries had convicted.
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And attorneys stack juries with non-technical jurors who return massive verdicts for patents on online shopping carts.
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Litigators are timed down to the minute, and juries are let out at the exact time he specifies.
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A Supreme Court case about juries may not sound like the most exciting legal battle of all time.
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A 2007 study by Samuel Sommers of Tufts University found that race plays a major role in juries.
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The first three juries deadlocked 11-1, 10-2 and 6-6, forcing the judge to declare mistrials.
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He suggested that juries "would be impressed" by concert footage of Sheeran "seamlessly transitioning" between the two songs.
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Like the public votes, these juries rank the songs into a top 10 and hand out points accordingly.
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Although grand juries are responsible for deciding whether to return a criminal indictment, that's not their only function.
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Federal grand juries have a maximum of 23 members, but only need 16 people present for a quorum.
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Juries elsewhere have returned four other verdicts against Johnson & Johnson, and another case in New Jersey was dismissed.
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Clarity in law allows for the courts and juries to make clear decisions on charges that are brought.
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In other words, juries don't buy the "vast government conspiracy" defense, and neither should the American public now.
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"Just think, when Planned Parenthood was founded, women couldn't vote or sit on juries,"says Clinton https://t.
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Some defense attorneys and judges have voiced concerns that the practice may bias juries toward the person testifying.
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And nowhere is that intention to protect the citizenry more clear than in the rules governing grand juries.
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For one, the US Supreme Court has allowed non-unanimous juries, most notably in 1972's Johnson v.
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Under the bill, juries would have to decide unanimously on the aggravating factors that warrant a death sentence.
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It has repeatedly and consistently violated that promise, refusing to submit strong cases of contempt to grand juries.
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" "In the 71 years of this world-renowned festival, there have been 12 female heads of its juries.
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The juries selecting the finalists are comprised of executives from companies like Elektrobit, Nvidia, Porsche Consulting and Microsoft.
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Defense attorneys use these tactics to exploit PTSD in survivors, to shame them, and make juries doubt them.
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He said the law needed to adapt to recognize that separating juries from the internet was becoming impossible.
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He issued orders enforcing black voting rights and with more blacks appearing on juries, desegregated the jury box.
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Other judges and juries have raced to wrap up trials that started before the pandemic hit the city.
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Either way, split juries today perpetuate the racial discrimination that exists at every stage of the jury process.
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It occurs in all groups and communities, including companies, classrooms and juries, and it's usually unrelated to politics.
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Until the Pennsylvania report, investigations by grand juries and attorneys general only looked at single dioceses or counties.
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It has a relatively new district attorney; the previous one was known for striking African-Americans from juries.
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Some people had presumed that more videos would hand juries clear-cut answers to accusations of police misconduct.
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"We are trying this case before two juries: the Senate and the American people," Schiff said Wednesday afternoon.
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She opposed the death penalty, for example, but repeatedly authorized her prosecutors to ask juries to impose it.
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In 2012, the state's highest court decided that Maryland juries in the 1970s had been given faulty instructions.
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With "Anthracite Fields" she tapped a vein — not just with critics and prize juries, but also with audiences.
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These people know more about bad juries than everybody here, including the sheriff and the mayor and everybody.
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Juries tend to believe police, tend to look at them and see that they have a difficult job.
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Guyger, then, is only the third officer Dallas juries have convicted for murder in more than forty years.
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In the 1980s juries awarded huge settlements to those children hurt by vaccines against diphtheria and other illnesses.
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Judges often instruct juries that science has not yet developed a way to look inside a person's mind.
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Essentially, predatory cops are "picking on people who juries won't believe or who don't trust police," Stinson said.
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State and federal grand juries have begun hearing evidence from prosecutors, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Juries are notoriously hard to predict, and there are several books worth of complicated information in this case.
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But studies have indicated race does play a role in juries' decision to sentence a defendant to death.
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State executions this year hit a 25-year low, and juries imposed the fewest death sentences since 63.
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In the first three trials, Mr. Flowers, a black man, was found guilty by nearly all-white juries.
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His killer remained free for more than three decades after two all-white juries deadlocked on his guilt.
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In most states, juries have to unanimously agree on aggravating factors to recommend a defendant be put to death.
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Two white men were tried and acquitted by all-white juries after Till&aposs brutal slaying 63 years ago.
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Juries -- comprised of everyday American citizens -- react more strongly to what they see and hear than what they read.
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Federal grand juries are used to compel reluctant witnesses to testify, to subpoena documents and to consider bringing charges.
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Gates later pleaded guilty; Manafort is still fighting indictments returned by federal grand juries in Washington, DC, and Virginia.
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First, much of Mueller's work is being conducted via grand juries, and grand jury work is normally kept confidential.
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"Strangely, when I would relay even the most horrific details, the reaction by juries was always tempered," she says.
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Doing so, she explained, would make it even more difficult to find people willing to serve on federal juries.
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Like previous presidential candidates who were practiced in executing their arguments before judges and juries -- former New Jersey Gov.
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When attorneys want to convince juries and judges that drunk sex and rape aren't synonymous, they call her up.
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Their reward, beyond a safer America, was investigations, grand juries, legal expenses and condemnation by some members of Congress.
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Kentucky, which states prosecutors must find a race-neutral reason for keeping minorities off juries with a preemptive strike.
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No. I feel that the jury, in both those cases, that's not the way juries are supposed to work.
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Bland's death is the latest of several in which grand juries have decided not to indict the officers involved.
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The legal implications will ultimately be decided by Mueller and any judges or juries that may consider this subject.
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It led in the first half of the voting, which was decided by professional juries from each competing country.
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Grand juries are used for the investigation portion as well as for charges, so there may be no charges.
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We discovered a dramatic increase in death sentences when judges instead of juries were the final arbiter of death.
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She pointed out that when Planned Parenthood was founded, women couldn't vote or sit on juries in most states.
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Juries find defendants guilty or not guilty of an alleged crime; they do not find people innocent of it.
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J&J won the first Pinnacle test trial in 2014, but subsequent juries determined the companies to be liable.
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Oregon is the only other state that allows split juries, but even it requires unanimous verdicts for murder trials.
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Grand juries are secret panels, made up of regular Americans, that are convened to help an investigation move forward.
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Remarkably, Flowers has been prosecuted six times for the crimes, because of a series of hung juries and mistrials.
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They are seldom very popular with juries but their testimony typically overcomes the distaste most jurors have for them.
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Mr. Giuca and Mr. Russo were tried together by separate juries and were both found guilty of the murder.
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Instead, she said, lawmakers should address the underlying social issues that led judges or juries to accept these defenses.
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For the most sensitive, dangerous or high-profile cases, such as O. J. Simpson's murder trial, juries are sequestered.
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Not only will these criminals have the right to vote, but they will also be serving on our juries.
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Both permit juries in felony trials to return guilty verdicts even if one or two jurors vote to acquit.
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Separate juries found both men were guilty, with Mr. Giuca's jury returning in the brief span of two hours.
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These statistics are important because they are used by juries to consider whether a DNA match is just coincidence.
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Juries in California, the state with the largest death-row population, handed down three new death sentences in 2019.
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The rise of video evidence has also raised new questions about how it should be properly presented to juries.
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Cultural movements can impact juries, said Michelle Madden Dempsey, a former prosecutor and a law professor at Villanova University.
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Oregon's population is about 85 percent white, and most people convicted by nonunanimous juries there are white as well.
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He could not understand how a Louisiana law that allowed non-unanimous juries in criminal cases could be constitutional.
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He could not understand how a Louisiana law that allowed non-unanimous juries in criminal cases could be constitutional.
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In November 2018, the state amended its constitution, barring split juries for crimes committed since the start of 2019.
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Maybe it was a coincidence, but after a while, the tough cases seemed to go to other grand juries.
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In federal court, grand juries are typically used to compel witnesses to testify or to issue subpoenas for documents.
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And juries may be more willing to blame, and pin large settlements on, well-off car and technology firms.
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Williams and Ward are being tried together, but with separate juries because of different defenses, reported CNN affiliate WLS.
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Whether these risks are worth any benefits should be evaluated by E.P.A., not juries on an ad hoc basis.
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It's also the only death-penalty state in which judges routinely overrule juries that vote against imposing death sentences.
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Federal grand juries do two things: indict people (or occasionally decline to indict them) and help prosecutors conduct investigations.
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Two all-white, all-male grand juries refused to indict the men, even though one of them had confessed.
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Others who faced the death penalty were sentenced by juries who hadn't unanimously recommended capital punishment, the center said.
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He learned about the racial iniquities (all-white juries and police forces, for starters) of the American justice system.
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I'm not going to participate because I've been in so many juries that at this point I don't care.
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Some counties with large African American populations have seen more than 80 percent of black jurors struck during selection in death penalty cases, resulting in all-white juries half of the time and juries with only one black member the remainder of the time, according to a report from the Equal Justice Institute.
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But, "DNA being viewed as a very powerful too [by juries]," both sides will "have to address it," he says.
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Two white men were previously tried on murder charges and acquitted by all-white juries, but they&aposre both dead.
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Votes from the professional juries and viewers used to be combined and then counted as 50% of the final score.
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The waning enthusiasm for the death penalty of another group of laymen—juries—is a big factor in its decline.
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Are judges and juries capable of understanding the sort of hair-splitting details around which these disputes tend to revolve?
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Federal grand juries in DC normally serve 18-month terms, although they only sit for about eight days per month.
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Juries in California and Missouri have also issued verdicts in ovarian cancer cases totaling more than $720 million in damages.
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" In the U.S. legal system, juries are required to find a defendant guilty of a crime "beyond a reasonable doubt.
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Law firms even use them when trying to gauge how juries will respond to an argument or line of questioning.
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Some convened their own "common law" grand juries and "indicted" officials for ostensibly failing to uphold their oaths of office.
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Plea bargaining also shifts power away from judges and juries and hands it to state, local, and federal prosecutors instead.
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He said he had urged his fellow district attorneys to work with Underwood's office to convene grand juries when necessary.
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The justices ruled that Florida judges were given powers that juries should wield in deciding eligibility for the death penalty.
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Pennsylvania still allows juries to consider whether a victim promptly reported a sexual assault as a factor in determining credibility.
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He and Meadows decided to work together and started flushing out what became a winning strategy, at least with juries.
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I'm representing my country, and I'm presenting the prototypes to juries made up of people from all over the world.
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Mueller used grand juries throughout his probe, helping him issue more than 2,800 subpoenas and create roughly 500 search warrants.
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The court also agreed to hear constitutional challenges to state laws allowing non-unanimous juries and barring the insanity defense.
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And that means it could positively impact not only Flowers's case but the racial makeup of juries around the country.
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At the time, only a handful of black lawyers were practicing in South Carolina, and blacks were excluded from juries.
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J&J has now been cleared of liability in four trials, with another five resulting in hung juries and mistrials.
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The ruling, Bates v Dow Agrosciences, gives broad leeway to juries to decide if such claims should proceed, they said.
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"As a general principle, I object to grand juries," she said in a video statement after being released last week.
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Previous grand juries examined the dioceses of Philadelphia and Altoona-Johnstown; the new report covers the rest of the state.
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And according to The Advocate, requiring unanimous juries would lead to only 12 additional mistrials in the state per year.
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Grand juries are used in the U.S. legal system to assess the validity of possible criminal charges in major cases.
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Opinion Why are police officers rarely charged for taking black lives, and when they are, why do juries rarely convict?
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All but two pleaded guilty, while longtime adviser Roger Stone and former campaign chairman Paul Manafort were convicted by juries.
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Separate juries found Mr. Giuca and Mr. Russo guilty, and both were sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.
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The critics have been receptive to it, though it's far from clear if reviewers have any effect on Cannes juries.
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In an 8-1 decision on Tuesday, U.S. justices found that Florida unconstitutionally gives judges powers that juries should wield.
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"There's strong authority," according to public access lawyer Ted Boutrous, for judges who supervise federal grand juries to release information.
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Ms. Chopra discussed concerns of equity and access — who, for instance, is on the juries and panels that award grants.
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In some states, defendants can be made to pay fees upward of $200 for the juries who hear their cases.
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In Pennsylvania, grand juries often serve as investigative bodies, researching the evidence of potential crimes before criminal charges are filed.
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In recent weeks the justices issued countervailing decisions concerning the death penalty, both by 8-1 votes: they rapped Florida on the knuckles for giving judges, not juries, the final word on whether convicts should be executed and restored death sentences for three Kansas inmates who complained that their juries were given faulty instructions.
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Freeman said on Wednesday that the county had been using grand juries for more than four decades in officer-involved shootings.
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Two US juries have sided with men who claimed that glyphosate, the key ingredient in Roundup, caused them to develop cancer.
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Only two of Flowers's trials has had more than one black juror — and both of those cases ended in hung juries.
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This contradicts decisions by U.S. juries that found it caused cancer in people and led to thousands of lawsuits against Bayer.
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And even in cases with similar evidence and expert testimony, juries in mass personal-injury litigation can come to different conclusions.
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"No one argues that Florida's juries actually sentence capital defendants to death — that job is left to Florida's judges," he wrote.
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It has lost two mesothelioma cases in New Jersey and California, with juries awarding a total of $142 million in damages.
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And, compounding this systemic bias, Harris County juries were more than twice as likely to impose death on African-American defendants.
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The newspaper also found that black people are heavily underrepresented on the juries that send people to jail, often for life.
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In a new twist the public votes are not going to be revealed until after the juries have allocated their points.
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Bayer to date has lost three U.S. jury trials in the Roundup litigation, with juries in California granting multimillion-dollar awards.
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Governor Tom Wolf declared a moratorium on executions when he took office in 2015, but juries can still impose the sentence.
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The presence of mind-altering substances can encourage juries to focus on the actions of the victim, instead of the accused.
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After losing the case, perhaps Mueller will find employment in the construction industry, though, in truth, with juries you never know.
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The state's Constitution prohibits the legislature from attempting to place caps on the damages that juries can award to injured persons.
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Several cases where grand juries failed to indict officers on criminal charges have still resulted in civil settlements for the families.
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The 85033-page Delaware ruling cited that Supreme Court decision, concluding that its state law infringed on the role of juries.
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To help gauge those cases' value, a series of test trials has been set to determine how juries view the evidence.
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These are the kind of judgment calls actual courtroom juries have trouble making, let alone a bunch of overworked Twitter moderators.
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This is the bread and butter of trial testimony, why juries determine facts and appellate courts restrict themselves to the law.
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It's virtually certain that the military intelligence officers named in the court filing will never appear before American judges and juries.
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Defendants so threatening their juries were anonymous Jurors will even be transported to and from the courthouse by armed US marshals.
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Rick Scott approved in March, required juries to reach conclusions about the aggravating factors that are crucial to death penalty decisions.
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Both are Republicans indicted by federal grand juries on separate corruption charges and then, incredibly, re-elected in the 2018 midterms.
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Because arbitrators tend to hand down lower awards than juries or judges, lawyers have less incentive to take cases on contingency.
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Fewer than a dozen states regularly carry out executions, and even in those states, juries are sentencing fewer people to death.
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That way, prosecutors can continue to tap them for information and call them to testify before grand juries and at trials.
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Death penalty opponents said defendants in Florida courts were found guilty or innocent for civil or criminal crimes by unanimous juries.
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Police officers have wide discretion to use deadly force, and juries and judges often give them the benefit of the doubt.
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Pulitzer juries in the past decade have typically comprised a mix of classical and jazz musicians, critics, academics and arts administrators.
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Juries typically tack on punitive damages to a standard compensatory award when they deem a defendant's behavior to be especially harmful.
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Transforming juries into a mere straw poll, on the other hand, runs counter to both popular expectations and its constitutional role.
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Now he said he hopes people will support this "non-partisan" ballot issue to strike down non-unanimous decisions by juries.
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I hope this is the beginning of judges and juries understanding and taking the nuances of abuses of power more seriously.
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"Generally, grand juries are to investigate crimes and a prosecutor's role at the end of the day is binary," Barr said.
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But San Francisco juries rarely, if ever, handed down the death penalty and the suspect was just 29, she told CNN.
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But the mesh settlements are notable because of their size relative to the awards granted by juries, lawyers and experts said.
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Update: This article has been updated to clarify the circumstances around Tiller's trial and the citizen grand juries convened against him.
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Amendments five through eight, dealing with such issues as juries, bail, and cruel and unusual punishment, limit the government's judicial powers.
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At the same time, at least three juries have rejected claims that Baby Powder was tainted with asbestos or caused plaintiffs' mesothelioma.
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And all three juries have sided with the patients -- including a California jury that just awarded a couple $2.055 billion in damages.
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The firm also agreed to make available current and former partners and other employees for questioning by investigators, including before grand juries.
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But the Florida Supreme Court overturned the new law in October because it does not require juries to unanimously recommend capital punishment.
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But they did not provide a road map to juries and lower courts on how to navigate similar disputes in the future.
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But the attention-grabbing judgment is no guarantee future plaintiffs will be able to convince juries the company's products caused their illnesses.
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After a conviction, juries weigh aggravating factors against mitigating ones to decide whether the death penalty or a lesser sentence is warranted.
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The End Violence Against Women Coalition said prosecutors had stopped sending cases to court that they feared would be rejected by juries.
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Tourism mostly amounts to lawyers who float in and out to try patent lawsuits, thanks to Marshall's reputation for plaintiff-friendly juries.
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They found all-white juries were much more likely — by 16 percentage points — to convict a black defendant over a white one.
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Green said it was the job of the SFO to bring cases to trial and up to juries whether to convict defendants.
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But there is reason to worry that juries often do not understand what they are told to do to fulfil this role.
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He maintained his innocence in a television interview on Wednesday despite being found guilty 10 times by juries in the three cases.
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Juries tend to focus on two main issues: One, whether they believe the accuser, and two, whether the sexual behavior was consensual.
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Sequestered juries have been used in many of the biggest trials of the last decade, including for Casey Anthony and George Zimmerman.
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Two juries in California previously sided with men who claimed that glyphosate, the key ingredient in Roundup, caused them to develop cancer.
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Bayer to date has lost three U.S. jury trials in the Roundup litigation, with juries in California awarding multi-million dollar awards.
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Fun fact: Wyoming women were the first in the nation to be able to vote, serve on juries and hold public office.
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Despite being found guilty 10 times by juries in the three cases, Bolin maintained his innocence in a television interview on Wednesday.
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So threatening is this power to the system that courts intentionally conceal it from the juries who don't know they have it.
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"At their core, grand juries are about finding probable cause that a crime has been committed," says Danny Cevallos, CNN legal analyst.
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I think practically, in my experience, it would be very rare to try a case a third time after two hung juries.
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The FBI investigates and forwards findings to the Department of Justice, which has sole discretion to initiate prosecutions, including empanelling grand juries.
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And the Justice Department rules governing grand juries unequivocally talk about the sanctity of protecting citizens who end up not being charged.
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One of them allowed split juries for felony trials, so the few black jurors could be easily overruled by a white majority.
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Louisiana's law, in and of itself, does not mention race; it's simply a law about how juries are structured and reach decisions.
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It is a question that courts and juries are likely to be grappling with in similar cases in the years to come.
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Through tort law, states may define what counts as negligence, and juries may then determine what conduct is reasonable and what's unreasonable.
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Several justices struggled with how they would devise a test for lower courts and juries to use to determine design patent damages.
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But its most important impact may be on juries, whose imagined favor can determine whether a rape claim gets investigated at all.
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Defense attorneys routinely employ myths about rape to get juries on their side, politics professor Caroline Heldman wrote at Vox in 2017.
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Grand juries have seen evidence, judges have signed off on warrants, and there are likely subpoenas and indictments waiting in the wings.
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In five trials in Missouri involving ovarian cancer lawsuits, juries found J&J liable four times and awarded the plaintiffs $307 million.
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Rapists' defense attorneys know they can rely on juries' susceptibility to these unexamined myths, and more often than not, they are successful.
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For major crimes, the military has a justice system somewhat like the civilian courts, with judges and juries, lawyers and formal proceedings.
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Four statewide grand juries in Pennsylvania since 2003 identified around 500 alleged sexual predators among acting or former Catholic clergy, he said.
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Some researchers, including Ferguson, have suggested that in certain applications, big data could lead to more representative juries, but there are tradeoffs.
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Swaying the jury Perhaps, most importantly, it is widely accepted that juries look to the judge for more than just legal rulings.
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Philip Levine was the first winner, followed by Mary Oliver, A.R. Ammons and other estimable artists chosen by juries of their peers.
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The truth is prosecutors, judges, juries, police officers and their defenders have given them plenty of reason to believe that's the case.
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The availability of video -- either shot by police-issued cameras or civilians -- often hasn't been enough to convince juries of police misconduct.
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The podcast also detailed how the prosecutor in the case, Doug Evans, repeatedly sought to keep blacks off juries considering Flowers' fate.
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It assured Congress that it would handle such cases in a fair and detached fashion in bringing such claims before grand juries.
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Grand juries conduct their business in secret and CNN has not reported about any unusual grand jury activity involving McCabe this week.
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In the United States, juries have awarded huge monetary damages to people who say their cancer was caused by exposure to glyphosate.
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The gun's owner, Byron De La Beckwith, a white supremacist, was tried twice for the crime — both trials ending in hung juries.
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Juries have awarded plaintiffs huge settlements in talc cases, including almost $20173 billion to a group of 22017 women in July 22.
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The New York Times reported in December that two separate grand juries had begun hearing testimony in both the federal and state cases.
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The expert witnesses would have to be summoned again and again, and the court would need to assemble different juries for each case.
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Picture a court where there are no juries, the doors are closed to the public, and the judge has pre-determined your guilt.
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He added that it would be very difficult for juries and judges to decide if defendants were incorrigible many years after their crimes.
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Festivals have prioritised supporting and screening independent film, which crucially alerts domestic critics and juries early to the potential of many first-timers.
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Many of the cases, like the one about juries and race, deepen pupils' understanding of hot-button topics without touching on them directly.
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The Justice Department's rules governing grand juries say they can't keep investigating after an indictment is filed, unless they are pursuing additional charges.
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Convincing two juries that a defendant acted with fraudulent intent is usually a signal that there is enough evidence to support the charges.
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The FAA settled on the number in the late 1980s by averaging what juries were awarding in damages to survivors of accident victims.
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Some prosecutors were particularly peeved because Mr. McAuliffe's order also made ex-felons eligible to serve on the juries that hear their cases.
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He also urged the Supreme Court to let judges and juries, rather than medical professionals, decide who should be spared the death penalty.
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Louisiana's law, in and of itself, did not mention race; it was just a law about how juries are structured and reach decisions.
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"Federal prosecutors know -- and they know the juries understand this -- if you're lying about something, there's usually some reason for it," Bharara said.
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Completing the Census form is a civic duty, as valuable to society as serving on juries, paying taxes or obtaining a driver's license.
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But for investigators and juries, the videos do not always settle questions about what happened and whether officers were justified in their actions.
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But in some of those areas, too, videos have proved ambiguous: In the courtroom, for example, they have repeatedly failed to persuade juries.
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The law gives the police wide latitude to use deadly force, and an officer's testimony often carries great weight with judges and juries.
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"I don't think we can leave it to judges and juries given the record of homophobia that we've seen in courtrooms," he said.
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But police officers have wide latitude to use deadly force, and prosecutors in other cities have struggled to convince juries to convict them.
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But two states have bent this rule, enabling juries to convict a defendant even if one or two jurors thinks they aren't guilty.
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And in Ohio, prosecutors dropped a murder case against a former University of Cincinnati officer after juries twice failed to reach a verdict.
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Legal experts described the application as an extreme move aimed at keeping juries in both cases from learning anything that might cause bias.
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Mr. Davis, 33, is black, but the jury was all white, in a county with a long history of striking blacks from juries.
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Applying the unanimity requirement to the states is backed by civil rights groups, which say that minorities are disproportionately targeted by split juries.
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While grand juries are conducted in secret, it is not illegal for witnesses who have been called before them to discuss the proceedings.
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That's not because minority jurors are biased in favor of minority defendants, but because whites on mixed juries more carefully consider the evidence.
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Judge Pollak held that the appeals court left it up to juries to decide what banks knew about the operations they were funding.
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Military judges and juries may well question their own decisions, wondering whether the president will intervene and pillory them instead of the guilty.
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Mr. Evans and the office he led appear to have made a practice of excluding a disproportionate number of black people from juries.
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" In other words, Mr. Abrams said, the appellate court ruled that "there's no protection for journalists at all in front of grand juries.
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It also remains to be seen how juries in other part of the country react to the evidence in upcoming trials, he said.
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Mr. Hunter said he worried that juries might be more skeptical of testimony from agents even in criminal trials unrelated to Mr. Trump.
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The gang label helps to persuade juries when evidence is weak, and carries extra jail time—perhaps, for the "Gremlins", an extra 40 years.
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Responsible eclecticism is what I'd want going forward from Pulitzer juries, for whom the "DAMN." award will hopefully be freeing in the best sense.
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Justice Samuel Alito Jr. dissented from the decision, arguing that Florida juries play "a critically important role" in recommending a sentence to the judge.
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All voters have heard is legalistic language about grand juries, leaving the door wide open for the Republican narrative of a partisan witch hunt.
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But the trend has continued in the past decade, even after the organisers introduced juries of musical experts as a counterweight to popular opinion.
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Every individual, Curry came to believe, was a sovereign citizen and had the right to create their own courts and juries following common law.
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Before the Pennsylvania grand jury report, only a precious few grand juries have ever been empaneled to explore the crimes of the Catholic Church.
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Grand juries are groups of citizens who meet in secret and decide whether to authorize criminal indictments or demands for evidence sought by prosecutors.
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Whitley faced a minimum of 16 years in prison and a maximum of 60, and juries are not told the potential sentences during trials.
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They operate in secret, but general information about how grand juries function is spelled out in federal law, Justice Department guidelines, and court rules.
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Courts have all sorts of procedural protections built in — due process rights, impartial juries — but you cannot perfectly analogize that to the legislative realm.
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"Juries are stuck when a prosecutor seeks to put someone in prison for things that are simply not presented in the courtroom," she said.
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Barr and Republicans have cited federal rules to support their claim that information in the report about grand juries cannot legally be made public.
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" As one source said, "Iowa juries that understand rural life are not going to convict a guy who tries helping the victim before leaving.
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Mueller, who takes over leadership of an FBI investigation that began last July, can present evidence to grand juries and hear testimony from witnesses.
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Grand juries make the preliminary decision of whether or not to officially accuse a criminal defendant and compel him or her to stand trial.
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He remained mute after the officer involved in the Ferguson, Mo., controversy was cleared of any wrongdoing by both state and federal grand juries.
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Some might say that juries can be biased, and judicial ability to override biased jury decisions are needed as an added layer of protection.
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It would allow the government to call campaigns into grand juries to answer for discussions of how they obtained information or who they consulted.
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Such a commission would hear evidence in public, unless it were classified, and would provide safeguards to witnesses not available in secret grand juries.
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Two of those trials ended in hung juries; courts tossed out three of the convictions for prosecutorial misconduct or racial discrimination in jury selection.
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Following an initial indictment last fall, grand juries in Virginia and Washington, D.C., handed up two more, in February and June of this year.
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In the imperfect contest of credibility, juries don't hear from the criminally pristine, they hear from two evils and choose to believe the lesser.
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And that's why police officers who speak this way, and the juries who are likely to believe them, keep worsening the divide we face.
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" To do otherwise, "places great power in the hands of the prosecutor" and "risks allowing policemen, prosecutors, and juries to pursue their personal predilections.
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That's unsettling, but so is the idea of AI courtroom lie detectors and what sort of impact that may have on judges and juries.
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But a part of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, known as Rule 6(e), says that "matters" before grand juries should remain secret.
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"I object to the use of grand juries as tools to tear apart vulnerable communities," Manning wrote in a May 2019 letter to Trenga.
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And because felons are barred from serving on juries, plaintiffs with felonies on their records won't be heard by a jury of their peers.
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Over the course of six trials, Mr. Evans relied on a signature tactic: he worked diligently to keep black people off Mr. Flowers's juries.
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Such juries are highly unusual; it was the first one in Mendocino County in 52 years, said Thomas Allman, the county sheriff and coroner.
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There have been 10 previous reports by grand juries and attorneys general in the United States, according to the research and advocacy group BishopAccountability.
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Given how difficult it is to collect data on juries, the research into the correlation between personality traits and jury decisions is extremely limited.
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Louisiana juries convict 81 percent of the time, as compared with 71 percent in other parts of the country, according to a 2003 survey.
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Manning has said she believes grand juries in general are an abuse of power and that she would rather starve to death than testify.
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When the public doesn't trust a prosecutor, juries become skeptical of evidence and are more apt to acquit defendants who genuinely threaten public safety.
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Manning has said she believes grand juries, in general, are an abuse of power and that she would rather starve to death than testify.
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To diagnose police officers' lethal fears as racist, juries and prosecutors would also have to diagnose their own fears of black bodies as racist.
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Winners are determined through a combination of juries and viewer votes, and each competition is hosted in the home country of the previous winner.
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To preserve capital punishment in the state, Florida's Republican-controlled legislature on Thursday passed a law making juries responsible for finding death penalty eligibility.
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The ruling invalidated a system that has allowed judges, rather than juries, to specify the aggravating factors that determine a defendant's eligibility for execution.
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Anonymous juries are sometimes used in high-profile cases when retribution toward jurors is a possibility or past efforts to obstruct justice have occurred.
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On top of that, he said, many unlicensed dealing suspects have no previous criminal record, making them sympathetic to juries and unappealing to prosecutors.
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And he was losing, as defense lawyers convinced juries that the companies had only recently learned of the dangers of the cancer-causing mineral.
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Many black residents say they are at a significant disadvantage in the criminal justice system, complaining of nearly all-white juries and harsher sentences.
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"The media should not fear that its journalists' professional judgments will be second-guessed by juries without benefit of careful independent review," he wrote.
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Study after study has shown that all-white juries are harsher on black defendants, make more errors, and discuss fewer of the case facts.
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Class-action litigation can result in large damages awards by juries and is harder for businesses to fight than cases brought by individual plaintiffs.
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The discord over brakes bankrolled by Ford "has, in certain cases, tipped the scales for the defendants with juries," said plaintiffs' lawyer Jon Ruckdeschel.
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Professional juries and televoters awarded a separate set of points to each performance, ensuring the finale winner remained unpredictable until the competition's very last moments.
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In five trials in Missouri involving ovarian cancer lawsuits, juries found J&J liable four times and awarded the plaintiffs a total of $307 million.
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Criminal justice reform: Louisiana approved a measure to require a unanimous jury for convictions, overturning a Jim Crow-era law that allowed for split juries.
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Rules that govern grand juries say that prosecutors can't continue to subpoena witnesses to the secret proceedings unless they are pursuing additional targets or charges.
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The use of DNA in investigations, though, was in its early years, and juries didn't yet view it as the Rosetta Stone of criminal culpability.
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On Monday, the Supreme Court effectively refused to weaken a legal rule that makes it harder for prosecutors to stuff juries with exclusively white jurors.
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The fraternising has increased sharply since 1997, when votes by the general public were introduced to supplement those cast by juries of so-called experts.
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Juries will still hear criminal trials in person, but administrative hearings beforehand—for example, to choose which witnesses to call—could be held by video.
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Grand juries are extremely effective at flushing out the truth in these types of situations, because at their very hearts, they are criminal investigative bodies.
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Now is the time for all state attorneys general and district attorneys to empanel grand juries to investigate the Roman Catholic dioceses in their jurisdictions.
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Louisiana required unanimous verdicts for its first 80 years of statehood, but after the civil war newly enfranchised black people started to serve on juries.
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While juries are often reluctant to convict law enforcement officers, he said, Peterson's case could be an exception, because the shooting was so emotionally charged.
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But she and others also see it as a warning sign, an example of what can happen when complex, unfamiliar science is brought before juries.
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An update rolling out today will convene "flash juries" of randomly selected viewers whenever a fellow viewer reports a comment for being abusive or spam.
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This is due in part to the withdrawal of legal aid and because juries place too much trust in circumstantial evidence presented by the police.
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It's also possible that the decline in murders overall has affected public opinion or the views of prosecutors, judges and juries about the death penalty.
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It goes to the proper functions of the FBI, prosecutors, special counsels, and grand juries in a democracy that subjects them to checks and balances.
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I urge Alabama's legislators to join the rest of the nation and ensure that unanimous juries, not judges, decide who receives the community's ultimate penalty.
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Juries were disproportionately white and defendants were not, mandatory minimum sentences are enormously high in Georgia, and the public defenders' offices are overworked and underpaid.
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Interestingly, though defense lawyers are not permitted to accompany witnesses who testify before grand juries, apparently Mueller prosecutors have no objection to man's best friend.
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While juries have been willing to sentence people to death, actual executions have been rare: only 271 since California reinstated the death penalty in 183.
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Demographically balanced "Citizens Juries" are being formed across the country to hear from experts and deliberate in a civil fashion the difficult issues we face.
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They've shown juries selective internal company memos that they say suggest Johnson & Johnson has been aware of this potential problem for decades and done nothing.
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Expert testimony is highly influential in product liability cases, and evidentiary standards exist to prevent juries from making decisions based on theories unsupported by science.
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After her release last week, Manning shared a YouTube video providing a bit of insight about why she objects to grand juries on moral grounds.
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That changed under the charismatic leadership of the museum's first director, Juliana Force, who instituted a "no juries, no prize" policy for the inaugural exhibition.
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Last month the State Senate passed a bill to amend the state's Constitution to require jury unanimity in all felony cases with 12-person juries.
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Research shows that non-unanimous juries are actually less careful in their deliberations, which increases the risk of wrongful convictions — a major problem in Louisiana.
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If the amendment becomes law, it is not the case that it would allow former felons to serve on juries and run for public office.
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Matching a defendant's genetic material with a sample found on a weapon or at a crime scene has proved extremely persuasive with judges and juries.
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It is impossible to say to what extent the disparities — no matter how great — are due to racial prejudice by the police, prosecutors or juries.
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Judges instruct juries that they may use a defendant's lies to conclude that the defendant knew about, and knew he was guilty of, other crimes.
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It is not possible to rely on law for liberation or juries for justice when both systems are committed to maintaining a racist status quo.
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One panel decision isn't binding on another panel," and even more shocking, "inter partes review panels can invalidate patents upheld by federal courts and juries.
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They could go into and out of court, exposing court staff and judges and members of the public who may be juries, and vice versa.
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Even so, she's found that juries are inconsistent and sometimes harsh in how they judge victims (and perpetrators) who act against their own self-interest.
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Instead, the biographical documentary has risen to be a winner with both juries and audiences; since 21960, the Academy has preferred a biopic over investigative documentaries.
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In my experience, victims typically have no reason to lie, and juries can and will believe victims, particularly if their voices are supported by other evidence.
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Juries say glyphosate causes cancer, award billions A federal jury unanimously determined in March that Roundup was a "substantial factor" in causing a California man's cancer.
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When pressing criminal charges isn't viable, it's also possible to file a lawsuit against someone accused of groping, but juries don't typically punish this offense harshly.
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In fact, black and other minority defendants frequently face trials by all white or overwhelmingly white juries, even in places where demographics would make that unlikely.
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Ristesund's case was one of more than 60 related talc lawsuits consolidated in Missouri state court, where juries have a reputation for issuing high-paying verdicts.
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As it turns out, being a lawyer involves performing a range of tasks, from reading and analyzing documents, to counseling, appearing in court and persuading juries.
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Periscope has taken some steps on its own as well — it issued updates that pulls together "flash juries" to evaluate comments a couple of years ago.
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TechCrunch notes that while the existing "flash juries" method can be a useful way to curb harmful behavior, it only boots someone from a specific chat.
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Women can now attend what were once all-male military institutes and may not be struck from juries on the basis of their sex, for example.
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It is the fourth trial over Roundup and the first one outside of California, where three juries hit Bayer with verdicts as large as $2 billion.
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Here, Hunter was implying (I think?) that defendants tried by juries of their peers sometimes get away with crimes as a result, and, thus, if O.
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Since many people of color also serve on juries, logically it can't be true that African-Americans are uninterested in punishing other blacks who commit crimes.
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"Cover-ups make juries angry," said Doug Wojcieszak, the founder of Sorry Works, a group that trains health care workers to disclose and apologize for errors.
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Justice Samuel Alito was the sole dissenter in Tuesday's ruling and disagreed that the Sixth Amendment requires juries to make specific findings authorizing a death sentence.
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It's a strategy in which victims paint a picture of a subculture used to enforce control, and juries learn about their close attachment to the defendant.
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Periscope says it hopes random juries will discourage trolls from interrupting broadcasts by making the trolls realize they are likely to be shut out of discussions.
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" Sixty-one local lawyers, all of them white, agreed with Cockrel, signing a petition that urged Cahalan "to stop attacking judges, defense attorneys, juries, and witnesses.
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Grand juries also did not to indict officers in the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, or Eric Garner in Staten Island, NY, among others.
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Prosecutors sought fewer death sentences than they did in the tough-on-crime era of the 7003s and 1990s, and juries handed them down less frequently.
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"There's only one way we're going be able to move forward, and that's if juries are educated on what to expect from a victim," she said.
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Juries tend to reflect public sentiment and have recently penalized not just an irreverent new-media site like Gawker, but also a newspaper doing investigative work.
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Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan, speaking to a lawyers group in 2012, cited another effect of the decline: fewer Americans serving on juries.
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After racking up three hung juries in federal court, pretty much unheard of in criminal proceedings, the US Attorney's office was determined to get a conviction.
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The Constitution requires that sentencing juries be presented with biographical information about individuals facing the death penalty before deciding whether or not to end their lives.
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" Bibring told me that under AB 392, "the decision makers — juries, police captains, prosecutors — have to look at the officer's conduct leading up to the shooting.
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"Our reporting also called attention to how little we know about the race of people struck from juries in this country," she said in an email.
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Mr. Ross, 34, is a senior consultant at Decision Analysis, a company in Los Angeles that provides guidance to lawyers on presenting their cases to juries.
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After the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Florida's death penalty law in January 2016, no longer allowing judges to override nonunanimous juries in death penalty trials.
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Mr. Ross, 228, is a senior consultant at Decision Analysis, a company in Los Angeles that provides guidance to lawyers on presenting their cases to juries.
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It shows that the jury process maintained its integrity and that juries are capable of separating their own personal beliefs from the facts presented at trial.
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Courtroom juries allow the public to play an important role in fighting corruption, Whitehouse, a former federal prosecutor and state attorney general, argued in his brief.
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They have ordered the disclosure of evidence gathered by grand juries investigating espionage cases during the Cold War against Alger Hiss and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
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Mr. Newman's scholarly courtroom demeanor and decades of trial experience (by one count, he tried some 400 cases) commanded respect from judges, juries and his peers.
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A similar case of juror discrimination, arising from a Mississippi prosecutor's elimination of African-Americans from a murder defendant's juries, was heard recently, Flowers v. Mississippi.
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But the financial situation looks precarious, not least because juries tend to rely more on human emotion than hard science, especially when it comes to damages.
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In August, Underwood sought to partner with district attorneys, the only entities with the power to convene grand juries in the state, to investigate possible crimes.
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However, juries sometimes cannot decide on a verdict on a particular charge, which is what happened with several counts in Mr. Manafort's federal case in Virginia.
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Yes, but: Three juries in a row have ruled in favor of the plaintiffs this past year, awarding them hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation.
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"Now two different juries have held that Roundup causes an individual's non-Hodgkin's lymphoma," Ms. Moore said, "and that Monsanto should be punished for its conduct."
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Though not often successful—two juries rejected its use by Araujo's killers—they are troubling for the fact that in most states they're allowable at all.
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But tackling impunity for gender-based crimes poses a particular set of challenges because it requires judges and juries to confront deep-rooted patriarchal biases, says Baires.
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It does not decide whom or what to charge; it merely reports its findings to federal prosecutors in conjunction with their presentation of evidence to grand juries.
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On Tuesday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said that glyphosate is not a carcinogen, contradicting decisions by U.S. juries that found it caused cancer in people.
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It contends there's no federal pre-emption because the Constitution's grand jury clause addresses grand juries themselves, not the conduct of federal prosecutors who have convened them.
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Moreover, every state bar Alaska now gives juries the option of making sure that a murderer will never be released, by sentencing him to life without parole.
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Manafort is separately pursuing motions to dismiss the indictments returned by federal grand juries in Washington and Virginia, raising similar arguments about the validity of Mueller's appointment.
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The inmates said their juries should have been told in so many words that the beyond-a-reasonable-doubt standard did not apply to the mitigating factors.
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Both the New Jersey and Massachusetts Supreme Courts have ruled that juries must be informed of the imperfection of human recall before testimony because of her research.
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"It was the consequence of their efforts to disinform that led juries and judges — who are members of the public — to say, 'Wait a minute,'" Frumhoff says.
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The latest indictment also answers the question of why Manning has been summoned before grand juries investigating WikiLeaks twice this year in the Eastern District of Virginia.
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Almost 80 years after that, however, Congress changed the federal Rules of Criminal Procedure governing the operation of federal grand juries, curtailing their power to independently indict.
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Florida judges do not currently know which aggravating circumstances juries have selected, making them free to choose their own, essentially overriding the jury's grounds for recommending death.
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To compound this issue, very often cases will come down between civilian eyewitnesses and the police officer — and juries are much more likely to believe the latter.
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While the justices differ about who should decide the standard for intellectual disability — either scientists or judges and juries — all eight agree that Texas' standard is unacceptable.
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In Washington State, researchers found that juries were four times as likely to recommend a death sentence for a black defendant as for a similar white defendant.
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Though national data on how juries vote is hard to come by, some prosecutors have cited juror reluctance in explaining a retreat from seeking the death penalty.
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Officials blacked out some information on 88 of the pages, largely citing privacy and legal prohibitions against disclosing information from grand juries and material sealed by courts.
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The 2018 juries feature two female heads this year (Cate Blanchett and Ursula Meier), and the festival has announced efforts to gain parity in its administrative staff.
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A prosecutor on the East Coast voiced concern about the potential impact of political interference on juries and judges, who could perceive that cases aren't being brought objectively.
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Elizabeth Murrill, Louisiana's solicitor general, spent most of her time arguing that the court had been wrong to require unanimous juries in either state or federal court.
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Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh asked Ms. Murrill for her best arguments for treating state juries differently from federal ones should the court reject her Sixth Amendment argument.
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Officers have wide latitude about when to use deadly force if they perceive a threat, and courts and juries have been hesitant to second-guess their decisions.
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Having so many criminal statutes is a problem as it makes it possible for prosecutors, rather than judges and juries, to decide how undesirable conduct is punished.
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She said that in her experience studying juries, she had found that, above all, jurors were driven to "get it right," adding, "Whatever that means to them."
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Aaron Wolfson, a former prosecutor in New York, noted that it was not uncommon for juries to be out "five, six or seven days" in complicated cases.
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He also routinely claims to have advance knowledge what's happening, even down to the precise number of grand juries impaneled and indictments that are on the way.
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Because of past criticism over a lack of transparency when grand juries consider possible charges in police shootings, Freeman plans to decide on charges himself, his spokesman said.
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" He said, "I'd sit in court when juries would struggle with those situations, where it was a 'he-said-she-said,' which was unfortunate if it really happened.
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Both of the Bolivar County sheriff&aposs deputy&aposs trials ended in hung juries, but Grant has been indicted in federal court on a charge of evidence tampering.
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That's because in the decision-making behind all of these disparities, there's room for the personal racial biases of law enforcement officers, judges, and juries to shape results.
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Grand juries had previously found widespread sex abuse by priests in the state&aposs two other Roman Catholic dioceses, including in a landmark report in Philadelphia in 2005.
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"Juries really want to see that the perpetrator is the one that forced the alcohol," said Garcia, the former investigator for the district attorney's office in San Diego.
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The plea agreement requires him to cooperate completely with the government, including giving interviews without his attorney present and testifying before any grand juries or at any trials.
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According to Texas law, juries may only impose the death penalty if every juror agrees that the defendant is likely to commit more violent acts in the future.
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The men and women of the juries in some of America's highest-profile criminal trials are speaking out — explaining themselves, defending themselves — in Oxygen's new true crime series.
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Manafort contends that Mueller's appointment was invalid and has asked judges to dismiss the indictments returned against him by federal grand juries in Washington, DC, and Alexandria, Virginia.
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Grand jury information: Federal law says that matters before grand juries, which are secret panels that decide whether someone should be charged with a crime, should remain private.
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Newsom's moratorium is disheartening to victims and their families who have waited years for justice -- justice that judges, juries and voters agreed was warranted for these horrific crimes.
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Jurors can act as one way to safeguard against these disparities, because the research shows that diverse juries are much more likely to be sympathetic to black defendants.
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Where there are very limited legal avenues to holding large institutions accountable for their transgressions in civil cases, grand juries fulfill a critical function of protecting the public.
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It was a major setback for J&J, which faces 4,800 similar claims nationally and has been hit with over $300 million in verdicts by juries in Missouri.
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Will judges and juries treat ESI like forensic evidence, and give it the same weight and credibility as scientific analysis or the results reported by an expert witness?
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Grand juries aid prosecutors in investigations, and so the news that Mueller has convened one does not mean that criminal charges are coming anytime soon, if at all.
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"This shows that judges and juries are less inclined to resort to this flawed and cruel practice," said James Lynch, deputy director of Amnesty International's Global Issues Programme.
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That allows the company to avoid U.S. juries, which can award hefty punitive damages to accident victims for wrongful death, emotional suffering and economic hardships of surviving family.
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A provision of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure called Rule 6(e) requires government lawyers to maintain the confidentiality of "matters" before grand juries, with some exceptions.
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And a national emergency declaration could go a long way toward getting more juries and judges on the side of the plaintiffs in court or a settlement battle.
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Mueller also has the option to present evidence to other established grand juries, such as the one in Virginia he used to open a second case against Manafort.
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Yet section 20083(e) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure imposes strict secrecy requirements on government employees, including prosecutors and agents investigating cases pending before grand juries.
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Sotomayor noted that cases involving unarmed men allegedly reaching for empty waistbands are increasing, making it even more important that credibility disputes be decided by juries at trial.
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The use of grand juries is typical for complex probes, because it allows investigators to seek subpoenas and indictments, and to interview witnesses in a more formal setting.
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But after two deadlocked juries were unable to return a verdict, the brothers faced trial yet again, and were convicted in the cold-blooded killings of their parents.
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In 19703 months, half a dozen juries had ruled in their clients' favor, awarding tens or hundreds of millions to five of the six plaintiffs in individual cases.
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"The most compelling argument, I think, is trying to get juries to focus on the notion that correlations or association is not the same as causation," Williams said.
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Louisiana voters during Tuesday's midterm elections approved Amendment 2, eliminating a Jim Crow law that made Louisiana one of two states allowing non-unanimous juries in felony trials.
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While the DOJ's attorneys are based in D.C., the grand jury for the investigation is in the federal court in Philadelphia, which suspended all grand juries on Wednesday.
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Alabama juries are not notably squeamish about the death penalty, but Judge McRae said they needed to be corrected when they were seized by an impulse toward mercy.
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Diverse groups are better at problem-solving; in mock trials, diverse juries give fairer verdicts; diverse companies are more profitable; researchers argue that diverse countries have stronger economies.
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Will future juries give adequate attention to nonclassical submissions — or have the knowledge to properly distinguish a work of the caliber of "DAMN." from other hip-hop entries?
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In New Hampshire on Thursday morning, all criminal and civil cases in the state Superior Courts were canceled for 30 days, and juries were ordered not to report.
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A prosecutor on the East Coast voiced concern about the potential impact of political interference on juries and judges, who could perceive that cases aren't being brought objectively.
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Juries have been most often kept anonymous in situations where judges are worried about their safety, such as in cases involving defendants associated with gangs or organized crime.
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An all-white-male jury -- black people were effectively not allowed to vote or serve on juries -- deliberated for only 67 minutes to deliver a not guilty verdict.
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"The Managers will continue to lay out the damning case to the two juries — the American people, and the Senators," said a Democratic official working on the trial.
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The law, which required judges and not juries to make the factual findings necessary to sentence someone to die, violated the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of a jury trial.
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Since 1988, according to the Federal Death Penalty Resource Counsel Project, federal juries have opted for life sentences for nearly two-thirds of defendants convicted of capital crimes.
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The former FBI director has assembled a team of more than a dozen prosecutors and attorneys, and has assembled two grand juries to issue subpoenas and compel testimony.
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Prosecutors typically use investigatory grand juries, which can issue subpoenas and which sit for weeks or months, to delve into complicated or politically sensitive cases, like police shootings.
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In civil trials, unlike criminal trials, the law allows juries to infer that a person refusing to testify means his testimony would undercut or contradict his own position.
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Washington (CNN)Now that he's been impeached, President Donald Trump's reputation rests with three juries: in the Senate, among 2020 voters and generations of Americans not yet born.
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Of the more than 200 officer-involved shootings brought before grand juries here between 2012 and 2016, only one was indicted — and that was just for official oppression.
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An evening with Mr. Silverbush provided a window into the mind of one of the lawyers charged with persuading judges and juries to evict tenants from their homes.
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But all experienced lawyers know that today's grand juries are merely 23 chairs, with 85033 puppets, who do whatever their puppet-master, the prosecutor, wants them to do.
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The court said Alabama juries play a constitutionally sufficient role in the process when they convict a defendant of a capital offense, even if they then recommend leniency.
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If Mr. Kassem wanted to leave "Homeland" executives with one message, it was that the show had a social responsibility because judges and juries and prosecutors all watch.
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Last year, California became the first state to ban grand juries in cases of deadly force by police, leaving the decision to indict officers solely up to prosecutors.
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Two all-white, all-male grand juries refused to indict the men who attacked and raped her, even though one of them confessed, according to the New York Times.
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One bill signed by Brown, a Democrat, changed California law to say prosecutors and juries may consider any sexual assault to be rape, including penetration with a foreign object.
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There are no juries and limited live witness testimony in PTAB proceedings, and its administrative judges apply a lower standard of proof than would be required in federal court.
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In most cases, experts say, investigators, prosecutors, or juries clear officers of wrongdoing in fatal shooting incidents based upon the belief that they were justified in using deadly force.
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In a bid to jazz up local democracy, the government is toying with the idea of "citizen juries", small panels of voters who would have a say on policy.
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The data bears this out — white juries see white defendants as less blameworthy generally, particularly when the victim is Black — as does our cumulative lived experience as Black Americans.
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Justice Scalia wrote that the instruction was not required and would not make much sense, as juries may consider any factor they like in deciding whether leniency is warranted.
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In a unanimous opinion, the court ruled Tuesday that juries need not award damages based on the profits for an entire product if the item consists of many parts.
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One only needs to read about some cases, like those of Robert Rhoades and Albert Brown, to understand why juries and judges imposed the death penalty for these murderers.
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In an interview on Monday, Ken Kratz, the prosecutor in the case, accused the filmmakers of withholding crucial evidence that led juries to convict Mr. Avery and Mr. Dassey.
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Grand Juries and prosecutions like this one broadcast an expanding threat to the press and function to undermine the integrity of the system according to the government's own laws.
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Monsanto has recruited Missouri-based expert witnesses to make its case in a place where it has century-old roots but where juries often hit companies with huge damages.
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These principles should apply with equal force to the civil justice system; the area of what state-court juries can award has long been particularly entwined with state law.
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Grand juries meet in secret to ensure that people being investigated are not tipped off, while also protecting the privacy of potential criminal defendants who ultimately are not charged.
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Before juries, and to the consternation of defense lawyers, he was prone to riffs of flamboyant oratory that he augmented with props like the bloodied clothing of a victim.
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"It's going to be tough picking a jury no matter what," said Paula Hannaford-Agor, director of the Center for Juries Studies at the National Center for State Courts.
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Grand juries generally operate in strict secrecy for good reason: Criminal investigations are most effective when potential subjects do not know precisely what steps law enforcement agents are taking.
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Juries meet relatively often on a wide variety of topics The D.C. grand jury appears to meet at least once a week or more, according to a CNN report.
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In patiently pursuing the truth by presenting cases to an independent judiciary and citizen juries, they return to victims a measure of the dignity that has been denied them.
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And legal experts agree it'd be hard for the authorities to pursue obscenity cases, which have grown difficult to prosecute as porn has grown more accepted by juries nationwide.
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In the Salman case, the justices were unconvinced that juries could distinguish between disclosures for "personal" as opposed to "corporate" purposes, especially because many tips involve multiple, overlapping purposes.
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A federal judge on Tuesday denied motions for new trials by two men whose claims that they were injured by Bayer AG's blood thinner Xarelto were rejected by juries.
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Studies show that victims from marginalized groups fare differently and worse at every stage of the criminal process: less likely to be believed by the police, prosecutors and juries.
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Researchers find that juries are more likely to recommend the death penalty for defendants who are perceived as showing a lack of remorse — and innocent people don't display remorse.
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Daniel D. Cassidy, president of the Bronx County Bar Association, said there was "no question" that Bronx juries had a reputation for siding with patients more often than doctors.
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"We should trust juries, and we should give clear instructions," said Bruce Baer Arnold, a law professor at the School of Law and Justice at the University of Canberra.
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In Louisiana, voters said juries in felony trials must be unanimous in their verdicts, overturning a Jim Crow-era law that allowed 10 of 12 jurors to decide cases.
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Over the last 25 years, scores of convictions in which the defendants confessed have been overturned, and juries have begun to view confessions with more skepticism, legal experts said.
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And pilot unions for Southwest Airlines, United Continental and American Airlines have been subpoenaed by federal grand juries as part of the Justice Department's investigations into the 737 Max.
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For decades, women who filed rape accusations had to undergo mandatory psychological screening, and judges would caution juries that rape charges were easy to bring and hard to prove.
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While these barriers fell, juries are still often skeptical, and countless systemic obstacles remain, Professor Schneider said, including the widespread practice of strict secrecy as the price of settlements.
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Judge Kravitch embarked on her legal career in Savannah, Ga., her hometown, in 1944, more than a decade before women were allowed to sit on juries in the state.
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By her account, Judge Kravitch eventually turned her gender into an advantage in front of all-male Southern juries, which, she said, tended to be "very protective" of her.
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Officer Yanez, who could be sentenced to 20 years in prison if convicted of manslaughter and two lesser charges, is among several American police officers facing juries this spring.
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District attorneys are the only entities in New York with the power to convene grand juries and pursue criminal charges for alleged abuse still within the statute of limitations.
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The larger point that the Cosby trial makes clear is that new data-driven innovations may work better than traditional legal solutions such as changing venue or importing juries.
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The two defense teams also attacked the truthfulness of the four disgraced detectives, noting that they had admitted to lying for years to juries, judges, colleagues and their families.
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In two cases earlier this year – in New Jersey and California – juries awarded big sums to plaintiffs who, like Coker, blamed asbestos-tainted J&J talc products for their mesothelioma.
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Trump unilaterally imposed financial sanctions on the Russian intelligence agents whom one of Mueller&aposs grand juries indicted for computer hacking and other crimes allegedly committed during the 2016 election.
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The result is a situation in which execution remains a choice for juries and is favored by many prosecutors, but where there is little political will to enforce the sentences.
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Lawyers for Shkreli and his co-defendant Evan Greebel confirmed Thursday that the duo want separate juries to decide their fate on fraud and conspiracy charges in Brooklyn federal court.
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In two cases earlier this year — in New Jersey and California — juries awarded big sums to plaintiffs who, like Coker, blamed asbestos-tainted J&J talc products for their mesothelioma.
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Criminal justice — from arrests to police shootings to juries' perceptions of defendants — is such a rich area for implicit racial bias to operate that it deserves its own separate discussion.
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In remarks made outside the Virginia courthouse, Manning said she opposed grand juries in general and that her team thinks they "still have grounds to litigate," the Washington Post reported.
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The courts should be performing their function with equity in all ways — including charging and convicting officers of wrongdoing, with juries who reflect the communities they were sworn to serve.
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Two juries believes the prosecution's theory, and the millionaire car-dealership owner served more than three years behind bars before those guilty verdicts were overturned on different grounds each time.
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" Medwed says he considers Thursday's verdict "a tremendous validation of a narrative that, in the past, has often been discredited by juries — the narrative of acquaintance rape involving powerful men….
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The decision to acquit Parker came after juries in Huntsville, Alabama twice deadlocked on whether Parker deprived the grandfather of his civil rights in a case that drew international attention.
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There's been a shake-up in the rules this year so scores from professional juries and the public will be announced separately, in order to create suspense over the winner.
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In the early days of forensic phylogenetics, she adds, the few juries that encountered it sometimes got the mistaken impression that an analysis showing a connection was proof of guilt.
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But in that case, a shaky camera during the fatal shot made the footage difficult to interpret, and juries twice failed to come to a conclusive verdict in separate trials.
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Products liability plaintiffs scored big wins this year against drug, medical device and car makers when juries agreed with their claims of corporate negligence, failure to warn and product defects.
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In Alabama, for example, judges can overrule juries and impose the death penalty just because they feel like it, a bizarre quirk upheld by the Supreme Court this past January.
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That's one of many factors that make it extremely hard for African Americans to get onto juries in capital cases, even though African Americans are often the ones on trial.
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That threshold almost always benefits the police, since judges and juries tend to be extremely deferential when assessing whether an officer was acting reasonably in the heat of the moment.
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These devices wield incredible power within the justice system: The numbers they print out are treated as all but indisputable by juries, and defendants usually don't try to fight them.
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The district's local rules and procedures are favorable to patentees, and the court sends a high percentage of cases to be heard by juries, who tend to side with patentees.
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American juries and judges, far from Sudan and not subject to Islamic law, regularly paint abused women as scheming assassins, their actions motivated by money or anger, rather than helplessness.
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The Wall Street Journal's Natalie Andrews pointed out that the special counsels who investigated Nixon and Clinton both used grand juries in their probes, which does everything behind closed doors.
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In its 26th year, Cate Blanchett chaired one of the juries, Irrfan Khan was honored, while for the second year in a row the festival hosted a "Star Wars" premiere.
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That meant that these people could regain some of the civic privileges they lost due to their records such as serving on juries, obtaining a government job, or owning firearms.
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At the founding of our nation, grand juries had broad authority to investigate possible crimes by public officials and others, and could issue indictments that prosecutors were bound to pursue.
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Still, prosecutors understand that juries may look askance at sweetheart plea deals, especially with those who've been publicly demonized, and that defense lawyers may subject cooperators to bruising cross-examinations.
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In Louisiana, an even greater share of voters—64 percent—approved another significant criminal justice reform: ending the state's practice of allowing non-unanimous juries to convict defendants at trial.
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The acquittal outraged many white Americans, while many African-Americans saw the verdict as a kind of payback for decades of racial discrimination by judges, juries and law enforcement officials.
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She sent them back for further deliberations, reading them a version of an Allen charge, an instruction typically given to juries when they suggest that they have reached an impasse.
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And in October 2016, the state's subsequent fix — allowing juries to sentence people to death with at least a 10-2 decision — was struck down by the Florida Supreme Court.
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"Juries are very reluctant to convict officers who testify in their own defense that they perceived an imminent threat, whether their actions were objectively reasonable or not," Mr. Stinson said.
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Each state will take a different approach, due to the range of laws concerning the convening of grand juries and who has the authority to subpoena documents from Catholic dioceses.
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Only one of the six photos under consideration for the photo of the year was made by a woman, though the juries were diverse in gender and country of origin.
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However, "In evaluating the legal responsibility for someone's untimely death, it is not a binary decision," he added, noting that juries in California could assign fault as they see appropriate.
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Members of Mr. Clinton's administration had to shoulder huge legal bills, some running into hundreds of thousands of dollars, after being forced to testify before congressional committees and grand juries.
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Anonymous juries are rare because the US judicial system is built on the principal of transparency, says Adam Benforado, a professor at Drexel Univesity's Thomas R. Kline School of Law.
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When I asked him if he had put these feelings out of his mind in selecting the juries in our case, he testified that he 'couldn't say' that he did.
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Victims' rights groups in Oregon say they also have concerns that ending nonunanimous jury convictions would lead to far more hung juries and mistrials, forcing victims to testify multiple times.
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Studies have shown that even when a defense lawyer is able to make the case that an informant has an incentive to lie, juries are just as likely to convict.
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Sometimes, however, juries reach an impasse and cannot decide on a verdict on a particular charge, which is what happened with several counts in Mr. Manafort's federal case in Virginia.
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The 8-1 ruling said that the state's sentencing procedure is flawed because juries play only an advisory role in recommending death while the judge can reach a different decision.
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Harry Nelson, a Los Angeles health care attorney and founding partner of Nelson Hardiman LLP, said juries almost always favor the patient over the facility in cases involving nursing homes.
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But while we're familiar with the concept and may even feel some sympathy, court cases of the last few decades show juries are rarely kind to so-called brainwashing victims.
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Some prosecutors, including in Southern states like Mississippi, have been accused over the decades of trying to ensure predominately white juries for trials of black defendants to help win convictions.
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A recent BuzzFeed News investigation found that hundreds of officers who committed the most serious offenses, from lying to grand juries to physically attacking innocent people, got to keep their jobs.
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The inmates' juries were told they had to find the aggravating factors beyond a reasonable doubt, but the jury instructions were silent about the standard of proof for the mitigating factors.
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Not only is the decision yet another reminder of the continued exclusion of people of color from juries and the resulting racially biased outcomes in death penalty and other criminal cases.
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Barr's Justice Department is currently in the process of redacting sections of the Russia report, including information about grand juries that they say cannot legally be made public, citing federal rules.
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Officer convictions Of the 26 officers convicted since 2005, 13 cases were decided by juries, according to Stinson: • 13 convictions resulted from guilty pleas; • No officers were convicted during bench trials.
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