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After an initial rejection, which he attributed to a `` general Excitement against Abolition and Emancipation '', Giffen bribed the right individuals on the jury, and got the permission without further delay.
Some convictions triggered an automatic penalty, but where this was not the case the two litigants each proposed a penalty for the convicted defendant and the jury chose between them in a further vote.
Under Texas law, the death penalty can only be issued if the jury is convinced that the defendant is not only guilty, but will commit further violent crimes in the future if he is not put to death.
The Magna Carta of 1215 further secured trial by jury by stating that
This may require the jury to decide between conflicting medical evidence which they are not necessarily equipped to do, but the law goes further and allows them to disagree with the experts if there are facts or surrounding circumstances which, in the opinion of the court, justify the jury in coming to that conclusion.
The case received further national publicity when the accused shooters were found " not guilty " by an all-white jury.
The difference between a jury and a committee is that the members of the committee are usually assigned to perform or lead further actions after the group comes to a decision, whereas members of a jury come to a decision.
We the jury further believe that if one Frank Meno, had not interfered, the above named Harry Lenzi would now be in custody.
A jury's ability to nullify the law is further supported by two common law precedents: the prohibition on punishing jury members for their verdict, and the prohibition ( in some countries ) on retrying defendants after an acquittal ( see related topics res judicata and double jeopardy ).
Instead of dismissing the jury, the judge sent them back for further deliberations.
Without leaving the courtroom the jury found Turpin guilty of the first charge of stealing the mare and foal, and following further proceedings, guilty of stealing the gelding.
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.
Since there were no further instructions required to be given by the defendant to his own counsel, the judge ruled that the trial would proceed in the defendant's absence, and after summing up, he sent the jury to deliberate.
After a two-hour representation by Havers, the Attorney-General, a 90-minute lunch break and a further 40 minutes of legal discussion, he rejected the diminished responsibility plea and the expert testimonies of the four psychiatrists, insisting that the case should be dealt with by a jury.
The judge, Michael J. Virga, declared a mistrial when the jury said further deliberations would not change their minds.
A further separation was made in 1815 with the creation of a lesser Jury Court to allow certain civil cases to be tried by jury.
Pratt appeared in Owen's defence and his novel argument was that it was not the sole role of the jury to determine the fact of publication but that it was further their right to assess the intent of a libel.
In a 4 – 2 ruling issued May 18, 2006, the Kentucky Supreme Court barred the grand jury from issuing further indictments against individuals covered by Fletcher's blanket pardon, reversing the Court of Appeals.
In their 1978 study, Bray and Noble explored the effects of authoritarianism on juror and jury decisions and further investigated the generalizability of the group polarization for a simulated jury task.
Judge Ralph K. Winter Jr. wrote: " No grand jury can make an informed decision to pursue the investigation further, much less to indict or not indict, without the reporters ' evidence ".
The jury will be permitted only ( a ) to call for refreshments, ( b ) to pass a note to the judge, perhaps asking for further guidance, or ( c ) to announce that they have reached a verdict.

jury and said
`` 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 ''.
The jury said it did find that many of Georgia's registration and election laws `` are outmoded or inadequate and often ambiguous ''.
The grand jury commented on a number of other topics, among them the Atlanta and Fulton County purchasing departments which it said `` are well operated and follow generally accepted practices which inure to the best interest of both governments ''.
However, the jury said it believes `` these two offices should be combined to achieve greater efficiency and reduce the cost of administration ''.
The City Purchasing Department, the jury said, `` is lacking in experienced clerical personnel as a result of city personnel policies ''.
`` This is one of the major items in the Fulton County general assistance program '', the jury said, but the State Welfare Department `` has seen fit to distribute these funds through the welfare departments of all the counties in the state with the exception of Fulton County, which receives none of this money.
The jury said it found the court `` has incorporated into its operating procedures the recommendations '' of two previous grand juries, the Atlanta Bar Association and an interim citizens committee.
`` These actions should serve to protect in fact and in effect the court's wards from undue costs and its appointed and elected servants from unmeritorious criticisms '', the jury said.
Karns said it was a `` wrongful act '' for Wexler to take statements `` privately and outside of the grand jury room ''.
In his opening statement to a jury of eight women and four men, Bernard H. Sokol, attorney for the detectives, said that evidence would show that his clients were `` entirely innocent ''.
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.
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.
Lee said he had told the jury that he made an agreement in April with Stein to supply and supervise janitors in McCormick Place.
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.
In its citation, the jury said: " Ieoh Ming Pei has given this century some of its most beautiful interior spaces and exterior forms ... His versatility and skill in the use of materials approach the level of poetry.
It has been said that the expectation of jury members as to the explanatory power of scientific evidence has been raised by television in what is known as the CSI effect.
In the United States, every person accused of a crime punishable by incarceration for more than six months has a constitutional right to a trial by jury, which arises in federal court from Article Three of the United States Constitution, which states in part, " The Trial of all Crimes ... shall be by Jury ; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed.
Joy said, " The jury really is still out on these bodies, whether they were aristocrats, priests, criminals, outsiders, whether they went willingly to their deaths or whether they were executed – but Lindow was a very remote place in those days, an unlikely place for an ambush or a murder ".
During the United States v. Sun Myung Moon in 1982, federal prosecutors argued that the word " Moonie " be banned during the jury selection process because they said it was considered " a negative term ," and prejudicial in nature.
The Pritzker jury said the Pompidou " revolutionized museums, transforming what had once been elite monuments into popular places of social and cultural exchange, woven into the heart of the city.
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.
Plimpton says in the write-up about her " I went to jury duty the other day, and somebody said, ' You always play drug addicts!
The sentence was thrown out in December by the U. S. Supreme Court, because the jury had not said that it intended for Stroud to hang.
Mitchel said: " I have to say that I have been found guilty by a packed jury — by the jury of a partisan sheriff — by a jury not empanelled even according to the law of England.

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