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jury and foreman
The jury foreman, Mrs. Olive Heideman, of rural Elsie, said that a ballot was not even taken until yesterday morning and that the first day of deliberation was spent in going over the evidence.
This court ( lagmannsretten ) is administered by a three-judge panel ( usually 1 lagmann and 2 lagdommere ), and if 7 or more jury members want to convict, the sentence is set in a separate proceeding, consisting of the three judges and the jury foreman ( lagrettens ordfører ) and three other members of the jury chosen by ballot.
The role of the foreman is to ask questions on behalf of the jury, facilitate jury discussions, and sometimes to read the verdict of the jury.
* Bill Macy as the foreman of the jury
Sillard, one of Mitchel's biographers, quoted from the speech of Mitchel's defence Council Robert Holms, " The foreman of the Grand Jury, gentlemen, having been asked if the jury had found bills against the prisoner — replied — ' Oh yes, we find him guilty of sedition.
Nearly ten million other people have the same vision complaint ( including the judge and jury foreman ), and are awarded $ 10 million in damages.
Backed by his cousin Camille Desmoulins, Fouquier de Tinville became the foreman of a jury established to pass verdict on crimes of Royalists arrested after the journée du 10 août ( 1792 ).
Ebenezer Sproat was the first sheriff, Paul Fearing became the first attorney to practice in the territory, and Colonel William Stacy was foreman of the first grand jury.
Rothschild was convicted — the jury foreman reportedly drew a noose on the wall during deliberations with the slogan, " That's my verdict!
The social reformer and anti-monarchist Francis Place managed to get on the inquest jury and became its foreman.
The jury foreman, Eugene Bailey, handed the handwritten verdict to Judge Horton.
The jury foreman Eugene Bailey had held out for eleven hours for life in prison, but in the end agreed to the death sentence.
* William Phelps, a founder of both Dorchester, Massachusetts and Windsor, Connecticut and foreman of the first grand jury in New England.
Denver area key leaders in both educating the public and pursuing contamination information that remains withheld by the U. S. Government include Dr. Leroy Brown, a Boulder scientist, retired FBI Special Agent Jon Lipsky, who led the FBI's raid of the Rocky Flats plant to investigate illegal plutonium burning and other environmental crimes and Wes McKinley, who was the foreman of the grand jury investigation into the operations at Rocky Flats and is today a Colorado State Representative.
Former grand jury foreman McKinley chronicles his experiences in the 2004 book he co-authored with attorney Caron Balkany, The Ambushed Grand Jury, which begins with an open letter to the U. S. Congress from Special Agent Lipsky:
G. K. Chesterton, best known for the Father Brown mystery stories, was the judge while George Bernard Shaw was the foreman of the jury, made up of other authors.
Easter becomes jury foreman after the previous one became ill ( an illness resulting from Nicolas and Marlee spiking his coffee ) and convinces them to find for the plaintiff and make a large monetary award-$ 2 million for compensatory damages, and $ 400 million for punitive measures.
The Twilight Zone episode " Shadow Play " involved a man having a dream in which he is sentenced to die, with the various roles ( judge, jury foreman, attorney, fellow inmates, etc.
In 1992 it was revealed that the jury foreman, Luke Shaw, was a member of the Young Nationals and was identified with the " Friends of Joh " movement.

jury and himself
Gorton reverted to his Plymouth tactics, refused to let her go, and appeared himself before the Portsmouth grand jury.
In the Gorgias written years later Plato has Socrates contemplating the possibility of himself on trial before the Athenians: he says he would be like a doctor prosecuted by a pastry chef before a jury of children.
* Barry Bonds has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly perjuring himself in testimony before a grand jury in 2003 as part of the BALCO steroid scandal, in which he denied using any performance-enhancing drugs.
Common law precluded the judge from himself entering a verdict ; a new trial, with a new jury, was the only course permissible.
This is why he himself will be the jury – and the judge, for that matter.
Flynt himself made a cameo appearance as an Ohio judge and also a jury member in the court scene of the Jerry Falwell case.
Soon, several escaped from jail and fled to the current state of Iowa ; however, Big Neck himself and the remainder were put on trial by a grand jury of Randolph County.
A narrative verdict may also consist of answers to a set of questions posed by the Coroner to himself or to the jury ( as appropriate ).
Furthermore, appellate courts in such jurisdictions will not question the facts as found by a judge or jury in the trial court as long as there was some evidence in the record to support such findings, even if the appellate judge himself or herself would not have personally believed the underlying evidence if he or she had been present in the trial court when such evidence was entered into the record.
Mosley testified in 2003 that he injected himself with the notorious doping agent EPO as he prepared for his Light Middleweight title fight against Oscar De La Hoya, according to grand jury transcripts and doping calendars.
The jury was composed entirely of Aguinaldo's men and even Bonifacio's defence lawyer himself declared his client's guilt.
The jury was entirely composed of Aguinaldo's men ; Bonifacio's defense lawyer acted more like a prosecutor as he himself declared Bonifacio's guilt and instead appealed for less punishment ; and Bonifacio was not allowed to confront the state witness for the charge of conspiracy on the grounds that the latter had been killed in battle, but later the witness was seen with the prosecutors.
' This view was not shared by the jury, which, after three days ’ hearing, acquitted Lilburne — who had defended himself as skilfully as any lawyer could have done — to the great horror of the Judges and the chagrin of the majority of the Council of State.
Articles 7-16 propose restrictions on the powers of the government, declaring the government should not have the power of suspending or executing laws, " without consent of the representatives of the people "; establishing the legal rights to be " confronted with the accusers and witnesses, to call for evidence in his favor, and to a speedy trial by an impartial jury of his vicinage ," and to prevent a citizen from being " compelled to give evidence against himself.
He went to the root of the matter when he wished the jury " to understand that, had he been a publisher of ministerial parodies, he would not then have been defending himself on the floor of that court.
Annoyed at the cold reception his wife's realistic still lifes had received from an art exhibition jury, Jordan-Smith sought revenge by styling himself as " Pavel Jerdanowitch " ( Cyrillic: Па ́ вел Жердaнович ), a variation on his own name, and entering a blurry, badly painted picture of a Pacific islander woman brandishing a banana skin, under the title " Exaltation ".
Mr. Lockwood in his address to the jury did his best to persuade them that the death of Dyson was the accidental result of a struggle between Peace and himself.
In England, if the family were unable or unwilling, an assessment was made by crown representatives in consultation with a local jury and all interested parties, including the subject himself or herself.
While the law pronounces the duty of the U. S. Attorney is to impanel a grand jury for its action on the matter, some proponents of the unitary executive theory believe that the Congress cannot properly compel the U. S. Attorney to take this action against the Executive Branch, asserting that the U. S. Attorney is a member of the Executive Branch who ultimately reports only to the President and that compelling the U. S. Attorney amounts to compelling the President himself.
During the trial, however, the jury heard evidence that once Whittock himself was picked to sit in the hot seat, his throat problems disappeared.
That in all prosecutions for criminal offences, a man hath a right to be heard by himself and his council, to demand the cause and nature of his accusation, to be confronted with the witnesses, to call for evidence in his favour, and a speedy public trial, by an impartial jury of the country, without the unanimous consent of which jury he cannot be found guilty ; nor can he be compelled to give evidence against himself ; nor can any man be justly deprived of his liberty except by the laws of the land, or the judgment of his peers.

jury and was
Though the slave's dying words about the woman troubled the coroner's panel, Dandy's accusation was adjudged an aberration by the jury and disregarded.
the jury wanted better evidence than that and he was acquitted, at a cost of $30,000 in bribes, it was estimated.
The jury further said in term-end presentments that the City Executive Committee, which had over-all charge of the election, `` deserves the praise and thanks of the City of Atlanta '' for the manner in which the election was conducted.
The September-October term jury had been charged by Fulton Superior Court Judge Durwood Pye to investigate reports of possible `` irregularities '' in the hard-fought primary which was won by Mayor-nominate Ivan Allen Jr..
`` Only a relative handful of such reports was received '', the jury said, `` considering the widespread interest in the election, the number of voters and the size of this city ''.
Implementation of Georgia's automobile title law was also recommended by the outgoing jury.
Bellows made the request while the all-woman jury was out of the courtroom.
Karns said it was a `` wrongful act '' for Wexler to take statements `` privately and outside of the grand jury room ''.
The verdict brought vindication to the dead woman's stepson, Vincent Hengesbach, 54, who was tried for the same crime in December, 1958, and released when the jury failed to reach a verdict.
The jury, which was locked up in a motel overnight, was canvassed at the request of Walker after the verdict was announced.
The award was made by Judge Fred B. Perkins who heard their petition without a jury by agreement of the parties.
A mistrial was declared in the case against the other seven when the jury was unable to agree on a verdict.
Neither was seated on the jury.
At the opening of the trial, the jury panel was questioned as a group by Mr. Weaver about Ku Klux Klan connections.
He was not seated on the jury.
Leavitt, as he entered the jury room, said he was prepared to answer questions about the $12,500 his liquor firm paid to Stein for `` labor consultant work '' with five unions which organized Leavitt's workers.
For private suits the minimum jury size was 201 ( increased to 401 if a sum of over 1000 drachmas was at issue ), for public suits 501.
1000 and 1500 are regularly encountered as jury sizes and on at least one occasion, the first time a new kind of case was brought to court ( see graphē paranómōn ), all 6, 000 members of the jury pool were put onto the one case.

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