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jury and asked
U.S. Attorney Macon Weaver said the federal complaint, charged that the juror gave false information when asked about Ku Klux Klan membership during selection of jury.
The two stages of the procedure ran in the reverse order from that used under almost any trial system — here it is as if a jury are first asked " Do you want to find someone guilty?
The jury found that the facts submitted by Millar were accurate, and asked the judges to clarify whether common law copyright existed.
The prosecution counsel Mervyn Griffith-Jones famously stood in front of the jury and asked, in his closing statement: " Is it a book you would wish your wife or servants to read?
On the third day, the jury asked Judge Gerald Fisher to clarify the definition of assault.
A jury of French composers and playwrights including Daniel Auber, Fromental Halévy, Ambroise Thomas, Charles Gounod and Eugène Scribe considered 78 entries ; the five short-listed entrants were all asked to set a libretto, Le docteur miracle, written by Ludovic Halévy and Léon Battu.
When asked what would make a revised work eligible, the chairman of that year's music jury, Robert Ward, said: " Not a cut here and there ... or a slight revision ," but rather something that changed " the whole conception of the piece.
The members of the jury panel from the original trial were contacted and asked to sit on the set.
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.
The Ramseys ' son Burke, who was nine at the time of JonBenét's death, was also targeted by speculation, and asked to testify at the grand jury hearing.
He was defended by none other than the great Capitolinus, who simply asked the jury, if the accused was convicted, who would go to tell the aged Cincinnatus the news.
At the grand jury, Ruth Greenglass was asked, " Didn't you write information down on a piece of paper?
In 1653, Lilburne was on trial again and asked the jury to acquit him if it found the death penalty " unconscionably severe " in proportion to the crime he committed.
With the jury absent on September 6, 1995, the defense asked Fuhrman whether he had ever falsified police reports or if he had planted or manufactured evidence in the Simpson case.
The jury reversed the verdict of the earlier trial but asked for the full court to consider the further argument of the prosecution that torture of a free person was so repugnant to the laws of England that Picton must have known he could not permit it, whatever Spanish law authorised.
During the trial the judge asked the jury to decide if the murder had actually been committed by one of the two men alone ; in the latter case the other would be found guilty only of non-capital murder at the most.
He asked the jury to take Peace's revolver in their hands and try the trigger, so as to see for themselves whether it was likely to go off accidentally or not.
He called the jury commissioner, asked if there were any blacks on the juror rolls, then suggested his answer was not honest.
On April 29, 2002 a King County Superior Court judge ruled that Mak will not face the death penalty because the 1983 jury wasn't asked to determine how much of a role he had in the crime.
When the jury are called to deliver a verdict after majority directions have been given, a careful protocol of questions is followed: only in the event of a guilty verdict is it then asked whether or not all jurors were agreed on that verdict.
The prosecution had asked the jury of five Army officers to imprison England for four to six years.
The jury found him guilty on June 5 but asked for leniency on behalf of Father Divine.
When asked to enter a plea, he declared himself " not guilty of any treason whatsoever ," objecting to a jury being made responsible for his death but allowing that he would be tried by God and country.
This was one of three key points the jury was asked to consider by the trial judge during his summing up.

jury and Judge
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..
Attorney Dwight L. Schwab, in behalf of defendant Philip Weinstein, argued there is no evidence linking Weinstein to the conspiracy, but Judge Powell declared this is a matter for the jury to decide.
The award was made by Judge Fred B. Perkins who heard their petition without a jury by agreement of the parties.
The first incident occurred before the trial got under way when Judge H. Hobart Grooms told the jury panel he had heard reports of jury-tampering efforts.
The prosecution tried to present the poster to the jury in isolation for consideration as obscene material, but Judge Susan Isacoff ruled that the poster must be considered along with the music and lyrics.
In 1989, after a five-week trial which began on August 28 in Charlotte, the jury found him guilty on all 24 counts, and Judge Robert Potter sentenced him to 45 years in federal prison and a $ 500, 000 fine.
One Pakistani Judge called a trial by jury " amateur justice ".
Three previous trials of the defendants had been halted because of jury tampering, and the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, cited cost and the additional burden on the jurors as reasons to proceed without a jury.
" Judge Gerard L. Goettel instructed the jury that the case involved the Unification Church, Sun Myung Moon, and his followers, whom the judge stated were " sometimes referred to as Moonies.
Judge John T. Raulston accelerated the convening of the grand jury and "... all but instructed the grand jury to indict Scopes, despite the meager evidence against him and the widely reported stories questioning whether the willing defendant had ever taught evolution in the classroom.
Following the bombing Judge Eugene Nickerson, presiding over Gotti's racketeering trial, rescheduled to avoid a jury tainted by the resulting publicity while Giacalone had Gotti's bail revoked due to evidence of intimidation in the Piecyk case.
Some contend that Judge Leval's instructions to the jury over what constituted " actual malice " to prove libel convinced Westmoreland's lawyers that he was certain to lose.
Most matters were tried by a County Court Judge, and where necessary, a jury.
During the next few months, Cox, the United States Senate Watergate Committee, and U. S. District Judge John J. Sirica struggled with the Nixon Administration over whether Nixon could be compelled to yield those tapes in response to a grand jury subpoena.
If the Judge holds that probable cause is established for felonies, then the decision is bound to the grand jury for indictment and then to Circuit Court.
He was arrested and held for trial after a preliminary hearing before a Superior Court Judge finding that evidence presented justified a trial by jury.
Judge Azariah W. Lincoln called for a grand jury.
A clearly disturbed Kirkland takes on Judge Fleming's case, which Judge Rayford and a jury will hear in court.
Judge Moore then charged the jury, who retired to consider their verdict, which after some time they brought in and handed down to the clerk of the Crown.
In a hearing, U. S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein decided to make public the grand jury testimony of 36 of the 46 witnesses but not that of Greenglass.

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