Rajat Gupta, who reached the pinnacle of corporate America as managing partner of McKinsey & Co. and director at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. ( GS ) and Procter & Gamble Co. ( PG ), was convicted by a federal jury of leaking inside information to hedge-fund manager Raj Rajaratnam.

Since 1927 South Australia has permitted majority verdicts of 11: 1, and 10: 1 or 9: 1 where the jury has been reduced, in criminal trials if a unanimous verdict cannot be reached in four hours.

He took silk in 1816, and from this time till the close of 1834 he was the most successful lawyer at the bar ; he was particularly effective before a jury, and his income reached £ 18, 500, a large sum for that period.

He concluded that the design was flawed, and that the wrought iron trusses fixed to the girders did not reinforce the girders at all, which was a conclusion also reached by the jury at the inquest.

Nonetheless, the jury reached a verdict in favor of Whistler, but awarded a mere farthing in nominal damages, and the court costs were split.

By 1986 social worker Carol Darling argued in a grand jury that the conspiracy reached the government.

The following May, plaintiffs and county officials reached an agreement providing for random jury selection.

When a unanimous decision is not reached and the jury feels that one is not possible, they declare themselves a ' hung jury ', a mistrial is declared and the trial will have to be redone at the discretion of the plaintiff.

A JNOV is appropriate only if the judge determines that no reasonable jury could have reached the given verdict.

After hearing a jury had reached its verdict and anticipating a conviction, Fish issued a statement: " I am very sorry to learn that George Hill, a disabled, decorated veteran of the World War and a clerk in my office, has been convicted of perjury ... Mr. Hill is of English ancestry ...

A twelve-person jury reached its verdict on August 18, 1994.

" A similar conclusion was reached in the 1982 case Eddings v. Oklahoma, in which the Supreme Court held that United States law does not prevent a jury from considering a defendant's childhood abuse when determining the appropriate sentence.

Ward was still in a coma on Wednesday 31 July, when the jury reached their verdict of guilty of the charge of living on the immoral earnings of Keeler and Rice-Davies.

" ( non obstante veredicto, or notwithstanding the verdict ) asks the court to reverse the jury's verdict on the grounds that the jury could not reasonably have reached such a verdict.

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.

The three-judge panel said that the jury reached its decision on faulty instructions that incorrectly stated the law.

After two preliminary rounds, Shahini reached the final on 20 December at the end of which hosts Adi Krasta and Ledina Çelo presented her as the winner of the combined jury and televote.

Both juries were composed of a majority of black citizens ( two whites on Nevers ' jury, one on Budzyn's ), but both juries reached unanimous verdicts.

Despite losing the case, he gets some satisfaction in sleeping with Sidra ( from " The Implant "), which would have been more satisfying if the jury had not reached a decision so quickly.

His arrest reached national attention over the following year due to the First Amendment implications of arresting a citizen for handing out educational pamphlets about jury nullification to prospective jurors outside of a courthouse.

Similarly, in R v Thornton ( No 2 ) ( 1996 ) 2 AER 1023 the battered wife adduced fresh evidence that she had a personality disorder and the Court of Appeal ordered a retrial considering that, if the evidence had been available at the original trial, the jury might have reached a different decision.

An out-of-court settlement was reached while the jury was deliberating.

“ There has got to be a deadline … and we have reached our deadline .” Nichols ' counsel, a nationally known death-penalty litigator from Charlotte, North Carolina, attorney Henderson Hill, acknowledged in his opening statement to the jury that the " terrible, almost unspeakable things that happened on March 11 " were " at Mr. Nichols ' hands.

The jury also commented on the Fulton ordinary's court which has been under fire for its practices in the appointment of appraisers, guardians and administrators and the awarding of fees and compensation.

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.

After a protracted, hysterical trial scene more notable for the frankness of its language than for dramatic credibility, the jury, to no one's surprise, leaves the legal question unresolved.

The clause prevents the newspapers and media from publishing material that is too extreme or sensationalist about a criminal case until the trial is over and the jury has given its verdict.

The book freely uses accenting in its dialogue to give the reader such insight as to how cross-examiners rattle witnesses to obtain their desired effect for the jury.

Like a grand jury, FISC is not an adversarial court: the federal government is the only party to its proceedings.

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.

Availability of a trial by jury in American jurisdiction usually depends on the availability of a jury trial in a particular type of case under the common law of England at the time of the American Revolutionary War ( which allowed jury trials in its " courts of law " but not in its " courts of equity "), despite the fact that jury trials are no longer available in the vast majority of such cases under modern English law.

Malaysia abolished its jury system from 1 January 1995, citing inter alia the danger of jurors untrained in the legal profession delivering verdicts coloured by emotions or popular perception.

It is not necessary that a jury be unanimous in its verdict.

Following the 2008 appeal by ATI over the validity of (' 327 ) and Silicon Graphics Inc's voluntary dismissal of the (' 376 ) patent from the lawsuit, the Federal Circuit upheld the jury verdict on the validity of GPHI's US Patent No. 6, 650, 327, and furthermore found that AMD had lost its right to challenge patent validity in future proceedings.

The right to confront and cross-examine witnesses also applies to physical evidence ; the prosecution must present physical evidence to the jury, providing the defense ample opportunity to cross-examine its validity and meaning.

:“ We can see no reason why partial profile DNA evidence should not be admissible provided that the jury are made aware of its inherent limitations and are given a sufficient explanation to enable them to evaluate it.

In March 2001, Forbes and Shelton were indicted by a federal grand jury and sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which accused the company of directing the massive accounting fraud that ultimately cost the company and its investors billions of dollars.

It was held in R v Dawson and James ( 1978 ) that " force " is an ordinary English word and its meaning should be left to the jury.

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 FBI yesterday arrested on a perjury charge one of the members of the jury that failed to reach a verdict in the `` Freedom Rider '' bus burning trial four weeks ago.

A mistrial was declared in the case against the other seven when the jury was unable to agree on a verdict.

And due to the double jeopardy principle, the state or prosecution may never appeal a jury or bench verdict of acquittal.

In March, 2010 a jury returned a verdict finding that Novell, not the SCO Group, owns the rights to Unix.

The government is not permitted to appeal or try again after the entry of an acquittal, whether a directed verdict before the case is submitted to the jury, a directed verdict after a deadlocked jury, an appellate reversal for sufficiency ( except by direct appeal to a higher appellate court ), or an " implied acquittal " via conviction of a lesser included offence.

This principle does not prevent the government from appealing a pre-trial motion to dismiss or other non-merits dismissal, or a directed verdict after a jury conviction, nor does it prevent the trial judge from entertaining a motion for reconsideration of a directed verdict, if the jurisdiction has so provided by rule or statute.

However the jury was unable to reach a verdict.

A jury was unable to reach a verdict.

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

In the event the jury is split six to six, and Athena dicates that in such a case the verdict should henceforth be for acquittal.

Typically, the jury only judges guilt or a verdict of not guilty, but the actual penalty is set by the judge.

This has been changed so that, if the jury fails to agree after a given period, at the discretion of the judge they may reach a verdict by a 10-2 majority.

In civil cases a special verdict can be given, but in criminal cases a general verdict is rendered, because requiring a special verdict could apply pressure to the jury, and because of the jury's historic function of tempering rules of law by common sense brought to bear upon the facts of a specific case.