Though the slave's dying words about the woman troubled the coroner's panel, Dandy's accusation was adjudged an aberration by the jury and disregarded.

the jury wanted better evidence than that and he was acquitted, at a cost of $30,000 in bribes, it was estimated.

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.

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..

`` 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 ''.

Implementation of Georgia's automobile title law was also recommended by the outgoing jury.

Bellows made the request while the all-woman jury was out of the courtroom.

Karns said it was a `` wrongful act '' for Wexler to take statements `` privately and outside of the grand jury room ''.

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 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.

The award was made by Judge Fred B. Perkins who heard their petition without a jury by agreement of the parties.

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

Neither was seated on the jury.

At the opening of the trial, the jury panel was questioned as a group by Mr. Weaver about Ku Klux Klan connections.

He was not seated on the jury.

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.

For private suits the minimum jury size was 201 ( increased to 401 if a sum of over 1000 drachmas was at issue ), for public suits 501.

1000 and 1500 are regularly encountered as jury sizes and on at least one occasion, the first time a new kind of case was brought to court ( see graphē paranómōn ), all 6, 000 members of the jury pool were put onto the one case.

In the United States, the Fifth Amendment has been interpreted to prohibit a jury from drawing a negative inference based on the defendant's invocation of his right not to testify, and the jury must be so instructed if the defendant requests.

The United States Supreme Court ( in Penry v. Lynaugh ) and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ( in Bigby v. Dretke ) have been clear in their decisions that jury instructions in death penalty cases that do not ask about mitigating factors regarding the defendant's mental health violate the defendant's Eighth Amendment rights, saying that the jury is to be instructed to consider mitigating factors when answering unrelated questions.

For instance, if a criminal defendant chooses not to testify, the jury will be often be instructed not to draw any negative conclusions from that decision.

In 2008, a three-judge panel of the U. S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the murder conviction but ordered a new capital sentencing hearing because the jury was improperly instructed.

" 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.

Whereas colonial judges routinely instructed jurors that they were the ultimate arbiters of both fact and law, the modern judge asserts almost an plenary control over the evidence, law, and facts, instructing the jury as to what the law is, and may overturn decisions in favor of the defense.

Likewise, when Carter Wentworth was charged for his role in the Clamshell Alliance's 1977 illegal occupation of the Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant, the judge instructed the jury to disregard his competing harms defense, and he was found guilty.

:: Example: Whether or not the court properly instructed the jury to consider Mr. Coristine's reasonable belief of Ms. Fjelstad's capacity to consent is a question of law that we will review de novo.

The jury was instructed to analyze California ’ s community standards of obscenity.

Upon the death of a tenant-in-chief, the escheator would be instructed by a writ of diem clausit extremum (" he has closed his last day ", i. e. he is dead ) issued by the king's chancery, to empanel a jury to hold an " inquisition post mortem " to ascertain who the legal heir was, if any, and what was the extent of the land held.

He first instructed the jury that a conviction was its only option under the law, he then instructed them that they could apply the unwritten law of the " fair fight " and acquit.

Holroyd J. instructed a jury that violence could not be used against a civil trespasser, adding: “ But, the making an attack upon a dwelling, and especially at night, the law regards as equivalent to an assault on a man's person ; for a man's house is his castle and therefore, in the eye of the law, it is equivalent to an assault.

Although Chew was raised in a Quaker family, he first broke with Quaker tradition in 1741, when he agreed with his father, who had instructed a grand jury in Newcastle on the lawfulness of resistance to an armed force.

In that case the jury were instructed that they could convict of seditious libel only if they were satisfied that the defendant " meant that the people should make use of physical

Judge Hawkins then instructed the jury, stating that any defendant aiding in the crime was as guilty as any of the defendants who had committed it.

" He instructed the jury that if Patterson was so much as present for the " purpose of aiding, encouraging, assisting or abetting " the rapes " in any way ", he was as guilty as the person who committed the rapes.

Alabama Governor Bibb Graves instructed every solicitor and judge in the state, " Whether we like the decisions or not ... We must put Negroes in jury boxes.

They say that the jury was not instructed of this fact.

First, the jury finds the facts, as proved by the evidence, then it applies the law as instructed by the court, and finally it returns a verdict in one conclusion that settles the case.

" Even though the judge instructed the jury to find Howe guilty, jurors took only 10 minutes to acquit him.

The use of the jury in the common law system seems to have fostered the adversarial system and provides the opportunity of both sides to argue their point of view.

The use of expert witnesses is sometimes criticized in the United States because in civil trials, they are often used by both sides to advocate differing positions, and it is left up to a jury to decide which expert witness to believe.

In many, but not all, United States jurisdictions that use grand juries, prosecutors often have a choice between seeking an indictment from a grand jury and filing a charging document directly with the court.

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.

Japanese courts use a modified jury system, and there are no administrative courts or claims courts.

Only the United States and Canada make routine use of jury trials in a wide variety of non-criminal cases.

Other common law legal jurisdictions use jury trials only in a very select class of cases that make up a tiny share of the overall civil docket ( e. g. defamation suits in England and Wales ), while true civil jury trials are almost entirely absent elsewhere in the world.

The use of jury trials evolved within common law systems rather than civil law systems, has had a profound impact on the nature of American civil procedure and criminal procedure rules, even in cases where a bench trial is actually contemplated in a particular case.

Defense counsel for Sun Myung Moon instead asserted use of the word in the jury selection process was necessary to identify the Unification Church and to question jurors about possible prejudice.

The grand jury indicted Clemens on August 19, 2010 on charges of making false statements to Congress about his use of performance-enhancing drugs.

Barkan writes that if defendants plead not guilty, " they must decide whether their primary goal will be to win an acquittal and avoid imprisonment or a fine, or to use the proceedings as a forum to inform the jury and the public of the political circumstances surrounding the case and their reasons for breaking the law via civil disobedience.

The jury convicted, but the case went to appeal on the basis that no means of accumulating evidence had been provided for jurors who did not wish to use Bayes ' theorem.

Timestamps are inserted into the margin if a videorecording is being made ; in the event the witness is unavailable for trial, the parties and / or the court will use the timestamps to identify admissible segments which a video editor will stitch together to present to the jury.

Accordingly, while most depositions are not videotaped, opposing counsel may use the opportunity to get an impression of the witness's affect and appearance, because these are telling factors as to how that person will present in front of a jury.

The film is notable for its almost exclusive use of one set: with the exception of the film's opening, which begins outside on the steps of the courthouse and ends with the jury's final instructions before retiring, a brief final scene on the courthouse steps and two short scenes in an adjoining washroom, the entire movie takes place in the jury room.

With the use of a Final 2, the jury has almost always been odd-numbered, thus ensuring that no tie would be possible.

An example of demarchy is the use of a jury of peers in criminal cases.

Most of the players named in the book initially denied steroid use, though Giambi admitted to steroid use in testimony before a grand jury investigating the BALCO case and on January 11, 2010, McGwire admitted publicly to using steroids.

Some lawyers use a shadow defense to get information entered into the record that would otherwise be inadmissible hoping that evidence will trigger a jury nullification.

The use of ordinary household items to jury rig devices shows an influence from The A-Team ( though MacGyver eschews firearms ).

However, upon appeal the New York Court of Appeals, in a unanimous finding, held that the use of an entirely subjective test to determine the appropriateness of deadly physical force by a defendant could permit a jury to acquit every defendant who believed that his actions were reasonable, regardless of how bizarre the rationale, creating a slippery slope.

In accordance with 265 ( 4 ) an accused may use the defense that he believed that the complainant consented, but such a defence may be used only when " a judge, if satisfied that there is sufficient evidence and that, if believed by the jury, the evidence would constitute a defence, shall instruct the jury when reviewing all the evidence relating to the determination of the honesty of the accused's belief, to consider the presence or absence of reasonable grounds for that belief "; furthermore according to section 273. 2 ( b ) the accused must show that he took reasonable steps in order to ascertain the complainant's consent, also 273. 2 ( a ) states that if the accused's belief steams from self-induced intoxication, or recklessness or wilful blindness than such belief is not a defense.