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 jury foreman himself was unconvinced of the merit of the Act but he acted, as did most of the jury, on the instructions of the judge.

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 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.

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.

Clint Eugene Phillips was acquitted of her murder in 2003 by a jury trial.

A recurring strategy used by the practice – especially Eugene – is informally known as the " United States of America defense ", an appeal to patriotism which emphasizes the rights of their client as Constitutional priorities that must be upheld by the jury.

He ordered the Chicago district attorney to convene a grand jury to find cause to indict Eugene Debs and other labor leaders and sent federal marshals to protect rail traffic, ordering 150 marshalls deputized in Helena, Montana alone.

Some authorities have held that Byng was constitutionally obligated to refuse King's request ; for example, Eugene Forsey argued that King's advice to Byng was " utterly unprecedented " and said further: " It was tantamount to allowing a prisoner to discharge the jury by which he was being tried ....

They were tried by jury before the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Lord Goddard, at the Old Bailey in London between 9 December and 11 December 1952.

In February 1681, Shaftesbury and his supporters brought another indictment against York, this time at the Old Bailey, with the grand jury this time finding the bill true, although York's counsel were able to pursue procedural delays until the prosecution lapsed.

Bailey reminded the jury that the law presumed Patterson innocent, even if what Gilley and Price had described was " as sordid as ever a human tongue has uttered.

He was put on trial for the murder of Cook in 1856, and an Act of Parliament was passed to allow the trial to be held at the Old Bailey, London, as it was felt that a fair jury could not be found in Staffordshire.

Records of particular interest in this series are the records of the City of London Sessions, these include criminal trials held before the London jury at the Old Bailey.

In front of a jury composed predominantly of people of color, Bailey got the detective to claim he never used the word " nigger " to describe blacks at any time during the previous 10 years, a claim the defense team easily found evidence to refute.

Ultimately, the statement that Bailey drew from the detective, forced Fuhrman to plead the fifth in his next courtroom appearance, thereby undermining his credibility with the jury and the otherwise devastating evidence he allegedly found.

An Act of Parliament ( the Central Criminal Court Act 1856 ) was passed to allow the trial to be held at The Old Bailey in London, as it was felt that a fair jury could not be found in Staffordshire, where detailed accounts of the case and the deaths of his children were printed by local newspapers.

Also, Dan Franklin, who had edited Paedophilia: The Radical Case, wrote an afterword for the book ’ s American edition about O ’ Carroll ’ s two Old Bailey trials ( the second followed a hung jury in the first ) and imprisonment.

In most common law jurisdictions, an indictment was handed up by a grand jury, which returned a " true bill " if it found cause to make the charge, or " no bill " if it did not find cause.

A federal grand jury in the Middle District of Pennsylvania handed down a 48-count indictment against former Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas Judges Michael Conahan and Mark Ciavarella.

Fully Informed Jury Association activists have sometimes handed out educational leaflets inside courthouses despite admonitions not to ; according to FIJA, many of them have escaped prosecution because " prosecutors have reasoned ( correctly ) that if they arrest fully informed jury leafleters, the leaflets will have to be given to the leafleter's own jury as evidence.

It was reported that after Turner refused to date Colletta he handed her the gun and dared her to pull the trigger, telling her that the gun was “ only a toy .” A coroner ’ s jury later ruled that the shooting was an accident.

In 1999, a North Carolina grand jury handed down indictments against pig-farm workers on Belcross Farm in Camden County, the first indictments for animal cruelty on a factory farm in the United States, after a three-month PETA investigation produced film of the workers beating the animals.

The grand jury handed up indictments, and the U. S. Justice Department opened its own investigation.

The jury handed down a verdict on August 1, 2012, finding that Dupont not only infringed, but willfully infringed, and awarded a verdict of $ 1 billion, the fourth-largest patent verdict in the history of the United States.

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.

On January 19, 1994, after three days of evidence presentation, a grand jury handed up a 93-count indictment against Ferguson, which carried the possibility of up to 175 years in prison.

Four hours after they were handed the case, the jury arrived at a verdict at 2 am on November 30, 1941, finding Buchalter guilty of first degree murder, the penalty for which was death by electrocution.

Sentences of death are now handed down by the jury, and the jury's decision is read and approved or disapproved by the judge.

In a criminal case, the verdict, which may be either " not guilty " or " guilty "— except in Scotland where the verdict of " not proven " is also available — is handed down by the jury.

Just prior to the Supreme Court's ruling, the grand jury handed down indictments against Fletcher for three misdemeanors – conspiracy, official misconduct, and political discrimination.

In 1971, a grand jury announced that the Orange County Department of Education should not longer play a part with the competition and that full control should be handed over to the OCAD.

On the same day as the Leesburg search, the Boston grand jury handed down a 117-count indictment that named ten LaRouche associates, two corporations, and three campaign committees.

In July 1924, a grand jury in San Francisco handed down 19 indictments to people responsible for conferring fake medical degrees, and for some doctors who received them ; Brinkley was one, due mostly to his questionable application for a California medical license.

The city's police department was ridden with scandal and multiple grand jury indictments were handed down on public officials all around him.

The ILD's battles with the NAACP continued when the cases returned to Alabama for retrial, when the NAACP blamed the ILD for the conviction and death sentence handed down by the jury in the retrial of the lead defendant.

The jury at the inquest delivered their verdict on 15 December, stating that the " Deceased died of poison wilfully administered to him by William Palmer "; at the time this verdict could be legally handed down at an inquest.