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The jury further said in term-end presentments that the City Executive Committee, which had over-all charge of the election, `` deserves the praise and thanks of the City of Atlanta '' for the manner in which the election was conducted.
`` 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.
`` 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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-- A jury of seven men and five women found 21-year-old Richard Pohl guilty of manslaughter yesterday in the bludgeon slaying of Mrs. Anna Hengesbach.
It will generally be phrased as " Prisoner at the Bar, you have been found Guilty by a jury of your peers of the offense of XYZ.
On 13 December 2010, Mark Weston became the first person to be retried and found guilty of murder by a jury ( Dunlop having confessed ).
In addition, the government is barred by collateral estoppel from re-litigating against the same defence a fact necessarily found by the jury in a prior acquittal, even if the jury hung on other counts.
Both sides claim they attempted to resolve the matter without legal action, but the ultimately complicated legal dispute ( involving royalties, publishing rights, and a number of other issues ) soon led to the courts, where Biafra was found liable for the royalties after the jury determined that he had committed fraud and malice, and was ordered to pay damages of nearly $ 200, 000, including $ 20, 000 in punitive damages, to the band members.
The jury and judges also noted, in their words, that Biafra “ lacked credibility ” on the songwriting issue and found from evidence presented by both sides that the songwriting credits were due to the entire band, using a clause in the band's written partnership giving a small share of every Dead Kennedys song royalty directly to the band partnership.
More significantly, the jury also found that the leading anti-cult group known as the Cult Awareness Network was a co-conspirator in the crime and fined CAN $ 1, 000, 000 in punitive damages, forcing the group into bankruptcy.
At the coroner's inquest the next day, the jury, which included Oxford's servant and Cecil's protégé, the future historian Raphael Holinshed, found that Brincknell was drunk when he ran onto Oxford's blade.
A layman could bring a bill of indictment to the grand jury ; if the grand jury found there was sufficient evidence for a trial, that the act was a crime under law, and that the court had jurisdiction, it would return the indictment to the complainant.
His defence was in vain ; his arguments were rebuked by Coke and Northumberland, and along with his seven co-conspirators, he was found guilty by the jury of high treason.
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.
The jury found for Watt, but the question of whether or not the original specification of the patent was valid was left to another trial.
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.
The Magna Carta being forgotten after a succession of benevolent reigns ( or, more probably, reigns limited by the jury and the barons, and only under the rule of laws that the juries and barons found acceptable ), the kings, through the royal judges, began to extend their control over the jury and the kingdom.
Being a Common Law jurisdiction, Gibraltar retains jury trial in a similar manner to that found in England and Wales, the exception being that juries consist of nine lay people, rather than twelve.
The jury found Standard Oil guilty on all 1, 903 counts.
Two witnesses who had originally testified in her grand jury indictment had died by the time she was found and brought to trial: a plumber who had sold materials used in the bomb had picked Soliah out of a lineup as one of the buyers, and a bomb expert had stated the explosive could have been built in Soliah's apartment.
" A UK newspaper reported the case of a self-taught gunsmith named Grant Wilkinson, who " was ordered to serve a minimum term of 11 years after a jury found him guilty of running a gun factory supplying lethal Mac-10 weapons to criminals, mainly in London ".
A jury found in favor of the NFL in 2001, but the verdict was overturned a year later due to alleged juror misconduct.
On May 26, 2004 the jury found him guilty on all charges, but deadlocked on the issue of sentencing him to death.
And told the jury that scientific testimony from bug experts would prove it was " impossible " for Westerfield to have dumped Danielle's body, and that no trace of him was found in the van Dams ' house.

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