After this, he was especially known for acting as a mediator between conflicting parties ( In Cologne he is not only known for being the founder of Germany's oldest university there, but also for " the big verdict " ( der Große Schied ) of 1258, which brought an end to the conflict between the citizens of Cologne and the archbishop.

Hornblower was soon brought to trial and the verdict of the four judges ( in 1799 ) was decisively in favour of Watt.

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.

So that a hasty verdict was brought in against him, and the question being asked, if he had anything to say, why judgement should not pass, he only said, that since the Court had refused to hear what was fit for him to speak in his defense, he had no more to say ; upon which Bridgeman pronounced the sentence.

According to Cornelius Nepos, in his defense Epaminondas merely requested that, if he be executed, the inscription regarding the verdict read: Epaminondas was punished by the Thebans with death, because he obliged them to overthrow the Lacedaemonians at Leuctra, whom, before he was general, none of the Boeotians durst look upon in the field, and because he not only, by one battle, rescued Thebes from destruction, but also secured liberty for all Greece, and brought the power of both people to such a condition, that the Thebans attacked Sparta, and the Lacedaemonians were content if they could save their lives ; nor did he cease to prosecute the war, till, after settling Messene, he shut up Sparta with a close siege.

Motions can also be brought after the close of a trial to undo a jury verdict that is contrary to law or against the weight of the evidence, or to convince the judge that she or he should change his decision or grant a new trial.

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.

However, if the jury brought in a " proven " verdict they would in effect cause this innocent man to die.

Ipso facto is a Latin phrase, directly translated as " by the fact itself ," which means that a certain phenomenon is a direct consequence, a resultant effect, of the action in question, instead of being brought about by a subsequent action such as the verdict of a tribunal.

Seth Lipsky, in an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal that ran on June 28, 2011, called the verdict against Black " head-scratching ," noting that Black was found not guilty of the most serious charges brought against him and " the jury convicted him of a count of obstruction, for obeying an eviction notice by Hollinger to remove from his former office in Toronto boxes of papers and personal effects that he hadn't been informed were under seal.

Essentially, Natalya Vasilyeva said the judge's verdict was " brought from the Moscow City Court ".

Separately, in August 2005 Spitzer lost the only trial arising from his investigations when a jury could not reach a verdict on all counts in a case brought against Theodore Sihpol, III, a broker with Bank of America who introduced Canary Capital to the bank.

Architect J. E. R. Carpenter brought suit, and won a verdict overturning the height restriction in 1923.

Public response to the acquittal was that of outrage and a private appeal was brought against the verdict by Mary's brother, William Ashford.

Bailey brought up the confession to the stranglings as part of his client's history at the trial in order to assist in gaining a ' not guilty by reason of insanity ' verdict to the sexual offenses but it was ruled as inadmissible by the judge.

If the unanimous verdict of seven judges dissipated any public doubts, the reiterated protestations of the condemned man brought them to life again.

The jury brought in a verdict for Mackay with Harrison to pay £ 800 damages.

However, the basis on which the lower court reached its verdict may be brought into consideration and edited.

India's general elections in 1996 brought about a fractured verdict.

This official may order criminal charges to be brought against individuals and corporate entities, take over criminal proceedings instituted by another person or authority, or dismiss any charges before a judicial verdict has been rendered.

In the very same year in which the first Royal Commission of 1784 gave its discussed verdict, one of Mesmer's most faithful disciples discovered new phenomena which was even more mysterious and brought new increased attention on animal magnetism.

The verdict was in James ' favour, with his uncle being convicted of claiming he was dead and selling him into slavery so that he could take up the title and estates.

On April 22, 1806, he was found dead at the Hotel de la Patrie in Rennes with six stab wounds in the left lung and one in the heart: a verdict of suicide was recorded.

When the verdict came in against his young neighbor, Hengesbach said:

While acknowledging that his conduct had been lax, he countered that he had never allowed gifts to influence his judgement and, indeed, he had on occasion given a verdict against those who had paid him.

The House of Representatives then had to select the verdict ; Clay, who had received the least amount of electoral votes and dropped from the ballot, supported Adams.

* 1884 – A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, US, attacks members of a jury who had returned a verdict of manslaughter in a clear case of murder, and then over the next few days would riot and destroy the courthouse.

According to the verdict, Rehima was the one who supplied the gunmen with a photo of Ze ' evi, details of the hotel in which he would be staying and information on the hotel layout.

Roh was reinstated in May by the Constitutional Court, who had overturned the verdict.

** A coroner's jury returns a verdict of suicide on Roberto Calvi, who was found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge.

The earliest recorded verdict of Lucretius ' work is by Cicero, who calls Lucretius's poetry " full of inspired brilliance, but also of great artistry ".

Since a jury is intended to be an impartial panel capable of reaching a verdict, there are often procedures and requirements, for instance, fluent understanding of the language, or the ability to test jurors or otherwise exclude jurors who might be perceived as less than neutral or more partial to hear one side or the other.

Knudsen maintains that because Longstreet became a " reconstructed rebel ", embraced equal rights for blacks, unification of the nation, and reconstruction, he became the target of those who wanted to maintain racist policies and otherwise could not accept the verdict of the battlefield.

One Los Angeles case resulted in a $ 45 million jury verdict against the Ford Motor Company ; the resulting $ 30 million judgment ( after deductions for another defendant who settled prior to trial ) was affirmed on appeal in 2006.

Gladys Weatherspoon, who had previously represented Guandique in the 2001 assault cases, stated that she was troubled by the jury's verdict: " I just think they were going to convict anyway ....

Many others were outraged not at Calley's guilty verdict, but that he was the only one within the chain of command who was convicted.

The Lord High Steward, who presided, decided questions of law or procedure, but a jury of " Lords Triers " determined the Court's verdict.

The dominant historical verdict is that there were two Asquiths: the urbane and conciliatory Asquith, who was a successful peacetime leader, and the hesitant and increasingly exhausted Asquith, who practised the politics of muddle and delay during the Great War.

Brigid Makowski, who was called to testify at his court martial in Mornington in County Louth, remarked that " Jesus could have testified on Costello's behalf and it wouldn't have changed the verdict.

An inquest jury found by a majority verdict of 3-2 that an overdose of fentanyl was responsible for the death by misadventure of Anita Chan Lai-ling, 69, who died on October 17, 2007, after she was given an overdose of fentanyl.

In 1934, at a time when Sebastian was publicly insulted by Nae Ionescu, who prefaced his book ( De două mii de ani ...) with thoughts on the " eternal damnation " of Jews, Mircea Eliade spoke out against this perspective, and commented that Ionescu's references to the verdict " Outside the Church there is no salvation " contradicted the notion of God's omnipotence.

The verdict read: " According to the indictment, this group consists of about 130 officers who held certain positions in the military hierarchy between 1938 and 1945 ...

This arose tension and led to protests by a huge number of Kenyans who felt that Kibaki had refused to respect the verdict of the people and was now forcibly remaining in office.

The jury is normally a body of randomly selected citizens who decide the guilty or not guilty verdict, which is a prime example of demarchy.

This edition is therefore dedicated to the twelve jurors, three women and nine men, who returned a verdict of ' Not Guilty ' and thus made D. H. Lawrence's last novel available for the first time to the public in the United Kingdom.