Nevertheless, `` we feel that in the future Fulton County should receive some portion of these available funds '', the jurors said.

She said the jurors agreed that Pohl's confession was valid.

A market was certainly in existence by 1269, however, the jurors of the assize of 1284 said that they did not know by what warrant the earl of Cornwall held a market and fair in the town of Henley.

John Corigliano, the winner in 2001, said that although the Pulitzer Prize for Music was intended to be for music that meant something to the world, it had become a very different kind of award: " by composers for composers " and " mired in a pool of rotating jurors.

Most of the jurors later said that they voted for acquittal.

In the Domesday Book three lords were associated with Swaffham: Walter Giffard, with the largest manor ; his tenant Hugh Bolebec, who held all of the Giffard land there ; and Aubrey de Vere I, who held a smaller manor at Swaffham which the Domesday jurors said Aubrey had seized without the king's permission.

Thereafter the sausage seller's accusations become increasingly absurd: Cleon is accused of waging a campaign against buggery in order to stifle opposition ( because all the best orators are buggers ) and he is said to have brought down the price of silphium so that jurors who bought it would suffocate each other with their flatulence.

" But one of the few jurors who believed Al-Arian was guilty on nine counts, causing a mistrial, said: Like another person on the jury, I was convinced Mr. Al-Arian was still working with the PIJ after it was illegal.

In spite of Lane's claim that he convinced the jury that Hunt was a JFK assassination conspirator, most of the jurors who were interviewed by the media said they disregarded the conspiracy theory and judged the case ( according to the judge's jury instructions ) on whether the article was published with " reckless disregard for the truth.

The Court said, " reasonable jurors could find that the advertisement posed a substantial risk of harm " and that " gun for hire " ads were not the type of speech intended for protection under the First Amendment.

That said, there are those who recognise that three de facto jurors from the community may well have a more realistic understanding of local life than a single district judge whose background is in law rather than working in the wider community.

One of the jurors in the case said the jury didn't think Voorhis had " done anything intentionally wrong " and there were " some feelings " that Voorhis had been unfairly " singled out " for prosecution.

* Euathlus: An associate of Cleon and a prosecutor of the aged Thucydides ( for which he was mentioned in The Acharnians ), he is said by Philocleon in line 592 to be a patron of jurors.

Judge Britt allowed this, but said that the jurors could decide for themselves whether they wanted to see their blood-splattered clothing.

Michael Klebnikov, Paul's brother, said it was a remarkable coincidence that the same eight jurors also acquitted the same two men of the murder of Yan Sergunin, a former Russian deputy prime minister of Chechnya, with whom Klebnikov had been in contact ; Sergunin was shot dead outside a Moscow restaurant just two weeks before Klebnikov's murder.

Linda Dunn, a chief deputy district attorney in Riverside County, said she thought the outcome of the Havey trial had more to do with jurors ' unwillingness to convict a Marine than with negative perceptions of the Perverted Justice witnesses.

and the jurors for fear gave the verdict contrary to their conscience, in proof whereof divers of them came to the said Ankarette in remorse and asked her forgiveness, in consideration of the imaginations of the said duke and his great might, the unlawful taking of the said Ankarette through three several shires, the inordinate hasty process

The recusal has been called into question by some commentators, as other cases have warranted a " slap on the wrist ", such as the Marion Barry trial in 1990 where Jackson said, " that he had never seen a stronger government case and was upset that some jurors would not vote to convict.

Fifty years later one of the jurors, Edwin Brooks, said that Riel was tried for treason but hanged for the murder of Thomas Scott.

In an interview with the Houston Chronicle DeGuerin said he did not yet have any hard evidence to support these claims, but was seeking court permission to depose grand jurors.

Two jurors were dismissed from the third trial, including an alternate who said he received a threatening visit from two men.

After the trial, jurors said that they did not find witnesses, particularly Alite, to be credible.

Unlike office holders ( magistrates ) who could be impeached and prosecuted for misconduct, the jurors could not be censured, for they, in effect, were the people and no authority could be higher than that.

Citizens active as office holders served in a quite different capacity from when they voted in the assembly or served as jurors.

" Another key component affecting a trial outcome is the jury selection, in which attorneys will attempt to include jurors from whom they feel they can get a favorable response or at the least unbiased fair decision.

Domitian also heavily prosecuted corruption among public officials, removing jurors if they accepted bribes and rescinding legislation when a conflict of interest was suspected.

The jury instructions provide something of a flow chart on what verdict jurors should deliver based on what they determine to be true.

Medieval juries were self-informing, in that individuals were chosen as jurors because they either knew the parties and the facts, or they had the duty to discover them.

An interesting innovation was introduced in Russia in the judicial reform of Alexander II: unlike in modern jury trials, jurors decided not only whether the defendant was guilty or not guilty, but they had the third choice: " Guilty, but not to be punished ", since Alexander II believed that justice without morality is wrong.

They do receive lunch for the days that they are serving ; however, for jurors in employment, their employer is required to pay them as if they were present at work.

The voir-dire is usually set with 16 prospective jurors, which the prosecution and defense may dismiss the 6 persons they do not desire to serve on the jury.

A form is sent to prospective jurors to pre-qualify them by asking the recipient to answer questions about citizenship, disabilities, ability to understand the English language, and whether they have any conditions that would excuse them from being a juror.

There has been much debate about the advantages and disadvantages of the jury system, the competence or lack thereof of jurors as fact-finders, and the uniformity or capriciousness of the justice they administer.

Whereas colonial judges routinely instructed jurors that they were the ultimate arbiters of both fact and law, the modern judge asserts almost an plenary control over the evidence, law, and facts, instructing the jury as to what the law is, and may overturn decisions in favor of the defense.

A study by the University of Glasgow showed that a jury of 12 people was ineffective because a few jurors ended up dominating the discussion, and that seven was a better number because more people feel comfortable speaking, and they have an easier time reaching a unanimous decision.

After the trial's gag order was lifted, jurors made it clear they believed the agents were blatant liars.

It is immediately apparent that the jurors have already decided that the boy is guilty, and that they plan to return their verdict quickly, without taking time for discussion – with the sole exception of Juror Number 8 ( Henry Fonda ).

U. S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson summarized the jurors ' decision by stating that they felt there was an " atmosphere of racial disharmony and mistrust within the United States Marshal Service ".

In a controversial decision over what many considered a bungled trial ( Judge Walter Jay Skinner ruled that the jurors should answer questions that they and many others considered confusing ), Beatrice was acquitted and Grace only paid $ 8 million, a third of which went to the lawyers and lawyer fees.

Although metics were barred from the assembly and from serving as jurors, they did have the same access to the courts as citizens.

Kunstler and Kuby argued they would have no problem finding 12 unbiased jurors, and claimed Ferguson had already been publicly attacked in the press by government and police officials.