Jury Sentence Examples

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  • What's it got to do with jury duty?

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  • In this court and in this court alone there is always a jury of twelve.

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  • The jury remained out on the effect of Julie's injury on her speech.

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  • You'll be busy with this jury business.

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  • Not to mention your campaign manager job and jury duty.

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  • The jury system has not been introduced.

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  • As for the jury, the members whispered to each other for a few minutes before they appointed their spokesperson.

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  • Among the curious customs of Halifax was the Gibbet Law, which was probably established by a prescriptive right to protect the wool trade, and gave the inhabitants the power of executing any one taken within their liberty, who, when tried by a jury of sixteen of the frith-burgesses, was found guilty of the theft of any goods of the value of more than 13d.

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  • Armed with this and the false report of a spy, who charged the wife of Desmoulins with conspiring for the escape of her husband and the ruin of the republic, Fouquier-Tinville by threats and entreaties obtained from the jury a sentence of death.

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  • But after a while, just as a jury comes out of its room, the bigwigs who guided the club's opinion reappeared, and everybody began speaking clearly and definitely.

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  • What's the problem with this jury business?

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  • Fred O'Connor—my stepfather—was called for jury duty.

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  • You'd think you were on trial today instead of sitting in a jury box.

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  • The fisheries were held by the Incorporated Company of Dredgers (incorporated by Act of Parliament in 1793), the affairs being administered by a foreman, deputy foreman and jury of twelve; but in 1896 an Act of Parliament transferred the management of the fishery to a company.

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  • Moreover, a democratic element was introduced by the adoption of the jury system and - so far as one order of tribunal was concerned - the election of judges.

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  • The selection of works was made by an international jury from which Venetian artists were excluded.

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  • That would take some research by Fred and his stalwarts, if Dean could figure a way to distance that investigation from Fred's court-dictated jury duty restrictions.

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  • She swallowed hard, uncomfortable with playing the role of judge and jury.

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  • I have that Women's Club debate, and with Fred starting jury duty, this place will be short-handed.

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  • At some indeterminate later period, the " clerk " was tried for felony by a jury in the king's court and then "pleaded his clergy," after conviction there, and was remitted to the ordinary for ecclesiastical punishment.

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  • The district court, sitting with a jury, can try criminal cases without appeal, but only by special leave in each case of the court of appeal.

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  • At her right sat the queerly assorted Jury--animals, animated dummies and people--all gravely prepared to listen to what was said.

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  • The way Fred loves mysteries you'd think he'd be thrilled to be a part of a real jury.

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  • It seems to me, the jury is still out on this mess but if Shipton is stalking her, legally or not, she deserves reasonable protection until we know for sure.

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  • The measure soon met with strong opposition in the northern states, and Personal Liberty Laws were passed to hamper officials in the execution of the law; Indiana in 1824 and Connecticut in 1828 providing jury trial for fugitives who appealed from an original decision against them.

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  • Special commissioners were to have concurrent jurisdiction with the U.S. circuit and district courts and the inferior courts of Territories in enforcing the law; fugitives could not testify in their own behalf; no trial by jury was provided; i The precise amount of organization in the Underground Railroad cannot be definitely ascertained because of the exaggerated use of the figure of railroading in the documents of the "presidents" of the road, Robert Purvis and Levi Coffin, and of its many "conductors," and their discussion of the "packages" and "freight" shipped by them.

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  • These Personal Liberty Laws forbade justices and judges to take cognizance of claims, extended the habeas corpus act and the privilege of jury trial to fugitives, and punished false testimony severely.

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  • If you think jury duty is so great, why don't you go in my place?

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  • So you made it on the jury.

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  • How can you sit on a jury that involves guests staying at Bird Song?

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  • In view of Fred's jury duty, even mentioning the name Dawkins around him was a no-no.

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  • Fred's back to being upset over this jury business.

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  • Perhaps the weekend respite from the jury box had lessened Fred's apprehension.

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  • The penal tribunals have jurisdiction in cases involving imprisonment up to ten years, or a fine exceeding 40, while the assize courts, with a jury, deal with offences involving imprisonment for life or over ten years, and have exclusive jurisdiction (except that the senate is on occasion a high court of justice) over all political offences.

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  • The list of grievances presented by Wesley's enemies to the Grand Jury at Savannah gives abundant evidence of his unwearying labours for his flock.

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  • He made a good defence, but on the absurdest of evidence the jury convicted him of treason, and on the 1st of July he was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn.

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  • The first specific legislation on the subject was enacted on the 12th of February 1793, and like the Ordinance for the Northwest Territory and the section of the Constitution quoted above, did not contain the word "slave"; by its provisions any Federal district or circuit judge or any state magistrate was authorized to decide finally and without a jury trial the status of an alleged fugitive.

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  • His trial for high treason lasted for six days (17th to 22nd of November) and ended in his acquittal, the jury only taking eight minutes to settle their verdict.

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  • It was composed of a jury, a public prosecutor, and two substitutes, all nominated by the Convention; and from its judgments there was no appeal.

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  • In 1801 he was one of the educational jury for the Seine; from 1803 to 1806 he was inspector-general of public instruction.

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  • Trial by jury for criminal cases was established in 1829.

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  • The word is also used of the body of tenants attending a manorial court, or of the court in a court baron (consisting of the tenants that do homage and make inquiries and presentments, termed a homage jury).

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  • The jury decided unanimously in the affirmative, and on the 16th of October 1793 Marie Antoinette was led to the guillotine, leaving behind her a touching letter to Madame Elizabeth, known as her "Testament."

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  • At intervals these coins are weighed and assayed by a jury of skilled persons and the results reported to the Crown.

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  • The trial is now held annually by a jury consisting of freemen of the Company of Goldsmiths.

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  • This work was refused; the jury alleged that a statue of Diana demanded drapery; without drapery, they said, the goddess became a "suivante de Venus," and not even the proud and frank chastity of the attitude and expression could save the Diana of Houdon (a bronze reproduction of which is in the Louvre) from insult.

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  • Respected Jury and dearly beloved Ozma, I pray you not to judge this feline prisoner unfeelingly.

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  • In this same year a system of peonage that had grown up in the state attracted wide attention, and a Federal grand jury at a single term of court indicted a number of men for holding persons as "peons."

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  • The assaults of the South in defence of slavery upon free speech, free press, the right of petition and trial by jury, he pronounced "exorbitant claims. ..

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  • This arrangement lasted until 1565, when the burgesses put in a claim to their right of election, and it was decided that out of four burgesses nominated by the lord of the manor the jury of the court leet should select the mayor.

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  • He advocated trial by jury in press prosecutions, the extension of municipal franchises and other liberal measures.

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  • To make it easier, the justiciar ordered the assessment to be made by a sworn jury in every hundred, and one may reasonably conjecture that these jurors were also elected.

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  • Jury courts (Schwurgerichte) are not permanent institutions, but are periodically held.

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  • They are formed of three judges of the Landgericht and a jury of twelve; and a two-thirds majority is necessary to convict.

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  • In one district was trial by jury in an open court; in another the old procedure by written pleadings before ajudge.

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  • His speech in favour of reserving to the crown the right of absolute veto under the new constitution drew down upon him the wrath of the advanced politicians of the Palais Royal; but in spite of threats and abuse he continued to advocate a moderate liberal policy, especially in the matter of removing the political disabilities of Jews and Protestants and of extending the system of trial by jury.

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  • Opposition newspapers were suppressed; cases in which Czech journalists were concerned were transferred to the German districts, so that they were tried by a hostile German jury.

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  • Shaftesbury was attacked, but was saved for the time by a favouring jury.

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  • By eloquence, readiness of wit, and adroit flattery of the jury he contrived to secure his acquittal in the face of the open hostility of the judge - a unique achievement at a time when the condemnation of prisoners whom the authorities wished to convict was a mere matter of course.

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  • Anne Boleyn fared no better than the Catholic martyrs; she failed to produce a male heir to the throne, and her conduct afforded a jury of peers, over which her uncle, the duke of Norfolk, presided, sufficient excuse for condemning her to death on a charge of adultery (1536).

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  • The jury of the borough are mentioned in 1275, and Crediton returned two members to parliament in 1306-1307, though never afterwards represented.

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  • Notable was the innovation that agreement by threefourths of a jury should be sufficient in civil cases and that a jury might be waived in minor criminal cases, a provision which of course was based on experience under the Mexican law.

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  • Before the end of the war Mexican laws not incompatible with United States laws were by international law supposed to be in force; but nobody knew what they were, and the uncertainties of vague and variable alcalde jurisdictions were increased when Americans began to be alcaldes and grafted English common-law principles, like the jury, on Californian practices.

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  • On the 13th of June 1545, she was arraigned as a sacramentarian under the Six Articles at the Guildhall; but no witness appeared against her; she was declared not guilty by the jury and discharged after paying her fees.

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  • In parts of the state it became impossible to get a jury composed of these small squatters to convict anybody for stealing or killing cattle, and so bad did this become that, in 1892, certain cattlemen formed a small army of mounted men and invaded the central part of the state with the avowed intention of killing all the men generally considered to be stock thieves, an episode known as the Johnson County Raid.

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  • The edition of 1723 was presented as a nuisance by the Grand Jury of Middlesex, was denounced in the London Journal by "Theophilus PhiloBritannus," and attacked by many writers, notably by Archibald Campbell (1691-1756) in his Aretelogia (published as his own by Alexander Innes in 1728; afterwards by Campbell, under his own name, in 1733, as Enquiry into the Original of Moral Virtue).

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  • But in the standing jury courts (of which the first - that for repetundae - was instituted in 149), or rather in the most important of them, the praetors themselves presided and tried the cases.

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  • When the clergy, refusing to acknowledge the authority of the Burgesses in reducing their stipends, and, appealing to the king against the Assembly, entered the courts to recover damages from the vestries, Patrick Henry at Hanover court in 1763 easily convinced the jury and the people that the old church was wellnigh worthless.

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  • With all his learning and ingenuity Coke failed in inducing or even forcing the jury to bring in a bill against the court of chancery, and it seems fairly certain that on the technical point of law involved he was wrong.

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  • In it he advocated trial by jury; but he was unable to obtain the jury system in civil cases.

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  • Among other works he painted his own portrait with his dog, and "The Man with a Pipe," both of which were rejected by the jury of the Salon; but the younger school of critics, the neo-romantics and realists, loudly sang the praises of Courbet, who by 1849 began to be famous, producing such pictures as "After Dinner at Ornans" and "The Valley of the Loire."

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  • The jury system does not exist in Chile, and juries are unknown except in cases where the freedom of the press has been abused.

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  • All serious cases of crime are tried before a judge and jury, with the same formalities and safeguards as in England, while minor offences are dealt with by stipendiary magistrates possessing a limited statutory jurisdiction.

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  • In criminal cases it is necessary for the jury to find a unanimous verdict.

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  • In civil cases either party may demand a jury, a privilege which is seldom exercised; but in a civil case the verdict of the majority of jurors prevails.

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  • Women, however, since 1897, have had the right to vote and to hold office, and they are subject to jury service.

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  • By statute (1891) it has been provided that in civil actions three-fourths of a jury may render a verdict, and in misdemeanour cases five-sixths may give a verdict.

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  • The police were compelled to fire on the rioters, and two men were killed, after which the coroner's jury brought in a verdict of wilful murder against the police.

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  • In 1840 the press was free in every part of Australia, trial by jury had been introduced, and every colony possessed a legislature, although in none of them except New South Wales had the principle of representation been introduced, and in that colony only to a very limited extent.

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  • The court leet was a court of record, and its duty was not only to view the pledges but to present by jury all crimes that might happen within the jurisdiction, and punish the same.

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  • He was widely known as an effective advocate, especially in jury trials.

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  • The author was prosecuted by the grand jury of Middlesex; and, when he attempted to settle in Dublin at the beginning of 1697, he was denounced from the pulpit and elsewhere.

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  • He advocated the suspensory veto, and the establishment of trial by jury in civil causes, but voted with the Left against the system of two chambers.

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  • An appeal from these lies to the departmental courts, which sit in every capital of a department, and in which sessions are held, at stated times, for the trial by jury of serious offences.

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  • But the feeling in the country was strong against the German sovereign, who seriously thought of abdicating when a jury acquitted the accused rebels.

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  • Three electoral colleges were formed instead of four; a considerable addition R of the was made to the numbers of the senate and chamber; Consti- trial by jury was established for press offences, except those committed against the royal family and the 1883-84.

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  • The grand jury was reduced to twelve members, and nine concurring may indict.

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  • Three of these (woo) restrict the calling of the grand jury, permit two-thirds of a petit jury to render verdicts in courts not of record, and three-fourths to give verdict in civil ' In 1900 only one person in six had both parents of foreign birth.

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  • The judiciary was irremovable, and trial by jury was allowed for criminal offences.

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  • He became reporter to the Supreme Court of the United States in 1861, but after publishing the reports for the years 1861 and 1862 he resigned, and devoted himself almost exclusively to his private practice, appearing in such important cases before the Supreme Court as the one known as Ex-Parte Milligan, in which he ably defended the right of trial by jury, the McCardle case and the United States v.

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  • In one of these attempts, the affair at Belfort, Buchez was gravely compromised, although the jury which tried him did not find the evidence sufficient to warrant his condemnation.

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  • Almost immediately upon his arrival in Louisiana, where the legal system had previously been based on Roman, French and Spanish law, and where trial by jury and other peculiarities of English common law were now first introduced, he was appointed by the legislature to prepare a provisional code of judicial procedure, which (in the form of an act passed in April 1805) was continued in force from 1805 to 1825.

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  • There can be no doubt that these "lawmen," who can be shown to form a close parallel to and indeed the ultimate source of our jury, were of Scandinavian origin.

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  • It appears, without being expressly stated, that the facts of a case were investigated and ascertained by laymen, probably by the Aireachtas - a local assembly or jury - before submission to a Brehon for legal decision.

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  • The 13th-century jury was a rough and primitive institution, which acted at once as accuser, witness and judgebut it was at any rate preferable to the chances of the red-hot iron, or the club of the duellist.

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  • General rules of indisputable equity are fixed for the conduct of the courtsno man is to be tried or punished, more than once for the same offence; no one is to be arrested and kept in prison without trial; all arrested persons are to,be sent before the courts within a reasonable time, and to be tried by a jury of their peers.

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  • Their acquittal by a jury was the first serious blow to the system adopted by the king.

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  • Happily the jury refused to convict, and its verdict saved the nation from the disgrace of meting out the extreme penalty of high treason to an attempt to hold a public meeting for the redress of grievances.

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  • The common sense of a British jury had preserved, in spite of parliament and ministry, that free right of meeting which was to be one of the strongest instruments of future reform.

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  • He now devoted himself mainly to the study of criminal law, and in 1818 published La Justice criminelle en France, in which with great courage he attacked the special tribunals, provosts' courts or military commissions which were the main instruments of the Reaction, and advocated a return to the old common law and trial by jury.

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  • The jury, which received wages, voted openly, so that condemnation was almost certain.

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  • A royal court took the place of the Althing courts; the local business of the local things was carried out by the (hreppstjori) bailiff, a subordinate of the sheriff; and the g050r5, things, quarter-courts, trial by jury, &c., were swept away by these innovations.

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  • Trial by jury, which existed among the Serbs at least as early as the 13th century and fell into desuetude under Turkish rule, was revived in 1871.

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  • But the anti-Semitic and antiDreyfusard spirit in certain French circles could not easily be quelled even then; and on the occasion of the translation of the remains of Emile Zola (Dreyfus's determined champion) to the Pantheon on the 4th of June 1908, Major Dreyfus was shot at and wounded by a fanatical journalist named Gregori, who was subsequently acquitted by a Paris jury of the charge of attempted murder, his own plea being that he had merely intended a "demonstration."

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  • The administrative and fiscal duties previously exercised by the grand jury in each county were transferred to a county council, new administrative counties being formed for the purposes of the act, in some cases by the alteration of existing boundaries.

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  • O'Dogherty, chief of Inishowen, and foreman of the grand jury which found a bill for treason against the earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnel, was insulted by Sir George Paulet, the governor of Derry.

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  • On the 25th of January 1881 the jury disagreed, and Parnell became stronger than ever.

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  • The law was paralysed, for no jury could be trusted to convict even on the clearest evidence, and the National League branches assumed judicial functions.

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  • The attempt to govern Ireland under what was called " the ordinary law " was necessarily abandoned, and a perpetual Crimes Act was passed which enabled the lordlieutenant to proclaim disturbed districts and dangerous associations, and substituted trial by magistrates for trial by jury in the case of certain acts of violence.

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  • The coroner's jury brought in a verdict against the police, but that was a matter of course, and the government ignored it.

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  • The county commissioners of each county have charge of the poor-house of the county, appoint its superintendent, physician and other officials, and report annually to the judge of the Court of General Sessions, who submits this report to the grand jury.

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  • When the law of the 20th of April 1888 established trial by jury for most crimes and deticts, 49 audiencias criminales, one in each province, were created; these are a sort of assize held four times a year.

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  • Trial by jury was abolished, on the plea that it had not worked properly.

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  • Trial by jury was re-established for most crimes and offences.

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  • Regardless of this provision, however, the civil code denies the right of an appeal from an inferior court in cases that have been tried by a jury, and in which the amount claimed does not exceed $20, and the courts have decided that this denial is not in conflict with the constitution; but in at least one instance an appeal was allowed because of the constitutional guaranty, and that guaranty has doubtless had much influence on judicial legislation.

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  • On his return he was made a member from the United States of the International Art Jury at the Paris Exposition of 1878.

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  • As the number of free settlers in the colony increased an agitation arose for more political freedom and improved administration; especially was there a demand for a free press and for trial by jury.

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  • Among those of New Haven are the prohibition of trial by jury, the infliction of the death penalty for adultery, and of the same penalty for conspiracy against the jurisdiction, the strict observance of the Sabbath enjoined, and heavy fines for " concealing or entertaining Quaker or other blasphemous hereticks."

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  • During the controversy over the Stamp Act the general court instructed the colony's agent in London to insist on " the exclusive right of the colonists to tax themselves, and on the privilege of trial by jury," as rights that could not be surrendered.

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  • Martha was toddled off to bed for her final night under Bird Song's ancient eaves, the doors locked and pajamas donned before Dean resurrected the question of Fred's curious reaction to the jury summons.

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  • However, Dean sensed there remained concern about his upcoming jury duties.

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  • When he joined the Deans in the bakery-smelling kitchen, any apparent distress over his pending jury duty had vanished like a last piece of pie, replaced with jokes about grand-fatherhood and changing diapers.

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  • His jury duty was scheduled for the next day, although he gave no further indication of concern since Martha's bones were occupying his interest.

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  • Fred O'Connor—my stepfather—was called for jury duty.

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  • Explain the situation—they know you're on a jury.

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  • With the jury trial continuing into the coming week—far longer than originally expected—the Dawkins clan was going nowhere, thus causing a log jam of customers in the river of incoming lodgers.

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  • Fred, rejuvenated, popped up to check his e-mails as soon as he felt he'd drained the well of intelligence the Deans had been holding back during his jury and jail departures.

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  • The word's out the grand jury is inches away from returning an indictment against Big Daddy Delasandro!

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  • The verdict Following the 11 week Old Bailey trial, on 6 May 1994, the jury acquitted Malcolm Kennedy of murder.

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  • The last of these he won with a full jury acquittal.

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  • There may, of course, have been other reasons why the jury rejected the appellant 's account.

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  • If you would like to go with your jury bailiffs once more and return to your jury room.

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  • The Joint Minute should be read to the jury by Junior Counsel for the Pursuer at the end of the pursuer's case.

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  • He also confided that the jury verdict was wrong but refused to take any action because he wanted to get even.

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  • At the initial phase only cases imposing either death penalty or maximum imprisonment term will be handled by jury trial.

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  • Are completely free off for insurers programfor decades the excessive jury awards.

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  • He told the jury he found the racial remarks degrading and depressing.

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  • A second jury deliberated for nine hours and three minutes before reaching a majority decision that Lane was guilty.

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  • Lord Reed spoke on the controversial topic of the confidentiality of jury deliberations.

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  • Malcolm was denied bail during the jury's deliberations and was ordered to stay in a hotel with his lawyer, Tim Cooke.

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  • The jury is spread across acres quot says Eric.

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  • The jury convicted Dr. King of draft evasion, sentencing him to 18 months in prison.

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  • Obviously the wholly extraneous issue of radicalism and opposition to the war entered into the deliberation of the jury.

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  • At the spring assizes of 5833, a true bill was found by the grand jury of the boro for a capital felony.

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  • The court clerk will ask the jury foreman for the verdict.

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  • According to the findings of the federal grand jury, Ninety bullets were fired inside the apartment.

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  • Last week, he was indicted by a grand jury.

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  • The inquest jury returned a verdict of " Injury to the brain and spinal cord consequent upon judicial hanging " .

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  • Why did the jury return a verdict of " justifiable homicide " at the inquest into the death of PC Robert Culley?

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  • Today (21 September 2005) at Southwark Crown Court he was acquitted by the jury.

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  • Malone denied murder but was convicted by the jury.

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  • Unsurprisingly, the all-white jury convicted Satpal of murder within about half an hour.

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  • The inquest jury recorded a unanimous verdict of unlawful killing in March 1998.

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  • At the discretion of the pre-selection jury, an applicant may be invited to submit additional information or an amended application.

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  • Following a previous five-day inquest on 1st February 2002, the coroner's jury returned a verdict of accidental death.

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  • At a later inquest the jury returned a verdict of unlawful killing.

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  • It was thought that trial by jury or by a stipendiary magistrate would be a more satisfactory mode of trial.

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  • On Friday a grand jury officially indicted Miller on two charges of attempted second degree murder relating to the 2001 incident.

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  • He is responsible for the jury's safety and to make certain they are not nobbled by Counsel!

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  • However, in an unusually clear example of jury nullification, the pair were acquitted, and the order was accordingly discharged.

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  • Given the critical reputation that the film enjoyed, he therefore concluded that it was highly unlikely to be found obscene by a jury.

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  • The Appeals Jury present at the event for Jumping will also officiate for the World Cup Driving.

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  • For example, someone facing charges of child rape could have previous convictions for downloading child pornography from the internet revealed to the jury.

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  • Odd it may sound, but there is a psychological connection between abolishing pounds and inches and abolishing Trial by Jury.

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  • The proposals also recast principles enshrined in the Magna Carta by ending many defendants ' right to be tried by jury.

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  • Either way, the jury is out in the US awaiting antitrust rulings next month, and until then the offer still stands.

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  • He denied that he broke the sequestration or carried away the goods, and claimed a jury.

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  • Instead, with the use of computer simulations, the jury was ostensibly able to ' see ' what happened.

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  • In 2003 she reached international stardom by becoming a member of the jury at Cannes.

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  • They have already issued a grand jury subpoena to at least one US airline in respect of the investigation.

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  • Earlier, the jury was shown CCTV images of both Singh and the alleged victim entering the secluded subway alone.

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  • The jury returned a verdict that the deceased was accidentally suffocated by drowning.

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  • Alexander Harris Solicitors Home » News » Coroner sets new date for jury inquest into death following tonsillectomy Jump to navigation.

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  • After Aaron told his story, the women left the courtroom and Aaron partially undressed and stood before the jury.

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  • We abolished our Grand Jury in the 30s because it had become manifestly unjust.

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  • Looking back at its record, the answer of our jury is surprisingly upbeat.

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  • The jury had other ideas and pronounced a verdict of willful murder by the person or persons who ordered the militia to fire.

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  • There should be a right for the prosecution and defense to appeal against perverse jury verdicts.

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  • A potential jury verdict nearly an second to lifting is.

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  • Others were less inclined to agree with the first jury's guilty verdict.

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  • The jury retuned a verdict of died by the visitation of God.

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  • Mr. Morgan then addressed the jury, and called several witnesses to disprove the statements made by the witnesses for the prosecution.

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  • On the 26th of June, accompanied by fourteen others, he presented to the grand jury of Westminster an indictment of the duke of York as a Popish recusant.

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  • Trial by jury is established by the constitution, but never practised.

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  • He was always ready to protect the rights of conscience, whether they were claimed by Dissenters or Catholics, and the popular fury which led to the destruction of his house during the Gordon riots was mainly due to the fact that a Catholic priest, who was accused of saying Mass, had escaped the penal laws by his charge to the jury.

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  • A conciliation bureau and a jury are elected to deal with disputes concerning wages, hours of work, labor contracts, &c., and have power to settle the disputes, without appeal, whenever the amounts involved do not exceed 1/28.

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  • A number of pamphlets asserting the complicity of the fallen minister in the Popish Plot, and even accusing him of the murder of, Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, were published in 1679 and 1680; they were answered by Danby's secretary, Edward Christian, in Reflections; and in May 1681 Danby was actually indicted by the Grand Jury of Middlesex for Godfrey's murder on the accusation of Edward FitzHarris.

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  • It did not establish freedom from arbitrary arrest, or the right of the representatives of the people to control taxation, or trial by jury, or other conceptions of a later generation.

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  • But the Constitutions of Clarendon (c. 9) reserved the preliminary question, of " frankalmoign " or not, for a jury in the king's court.

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  • The first of these, decided in 1890, upheld the verdict of a jury awarding damages to the Moores Lime Company, which had sustained a secondary boycott because it had sold material to a contractor who had been boycotted by Bricklayers' Union No.

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  • The indictment, in eight articles, dealt with his conduct in the Fries and Callender trials, with his treatment of a Delaware grand jury, and (in article viii.) with his making "highly indecent, extra-judicial" reflections upon the national administration, probably the greatest offence in Republican eyes.

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  • It is urged with justice that the greater part of Cicero's Defence of Archias was irrelevant to the issue and would not have been listened to by a Greek court of justice or a modern jury.

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  • Jeffreys, however, was made lord chiefjustice in September; a jury was packed; and, after consultations between the judge and the crown lawyers, Sidney was brought to listen to the indictment on the 7th of November.

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  • The Poles would not abolish the jury to please the tsar, nor conform as he wished them to do to the Russian law of divorce.

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  • Protests, especially in South Germany, were raised against the criminal procedure, for it was proposed to abolish trial by jury and substitute over the whole empire the Prussian system, and a sharp conflict arose as to the method of dealing with the press.

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  • On the other hand, new and permanent jury courts (quaestiones perpetuae) were instituted at Rome, over which the praetors were called on to preside.

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  • His functions were considerably modified by the introduction of the standing jury courts (quaestiones perpetuae).

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  • Shaftesbury was imprisoned, and though the Middlesex jury threw out his indictment and he was liberated, he never recovered his power, and in October 1682 left England for ever.

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  • And now, at a signal from Ozma, the Woggle-Bug arose and addressed the jury.

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  • Failure to attend jury service is a punishable offense.

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  • At this point the jury suddenly returned and he had to scoot back up for the verdict (of not guilty).

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  • The jury was escorted in and lined up in a semicircle in front of the judge's bench.

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  • A jury at Bristol Crown Court found him guilty and he is serving a life sentence at Gartree jail in Leicestershire.

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  • Driza had told the jury the video showed Judge J snorting cocaine, a claim Judge J denied.

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  • A softhearted jury is still in carry all of loops through if.

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  • The jury on the inquest returned a verdict of suicide while in an unsound state of mind.

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  • The company has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury in the state, and says it is cooperating fully with all investigations.

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  • The Sergeant was ordered to summon a good jury for the Friday following.

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  • Last week Judith Miller of the New York Times was jailed after she refused to testify before a grand jury about her source.

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  • In addition he can authorize the transcript of proceedings of jury trials subject to payment of the appropriate fee.

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  • The unquestioned assumption is that thai by jury is superior to trial by a judge or panel of judges.

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  • An inquest jury has returned a verdict of misadventure on a prisoner found hanging in a cell at Bedford jail.

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  • The judges upheld the verdict of the original jury.

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  • The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, damages £ 120.

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  • It took several hours for the jury to come to a consensus.

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  • Mr. Zhong's mea cupla was enough to impress the jury, and his sentence has been reduced to 18 months.

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  • The attorney hoped his client's veracity would be convincing to the jury.

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  • A grand jury voted to indict the parents of the murdered toddler oncharges of child abuse resulting in death.

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  • The jury has handed down an indictment for the criminal.

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  • Courtroom Sciences became one of the leading jury consulting firms in the country, working with a number of international corporations.

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  • In 1998, when Oprah was sued by Amarillo, TX, based beef industry workers, she hired Courtroom Sciences to help with jury selection.

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  • At which time, a jury inquest will be held.

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  • While Willie Nelson is facing legal problems for drug use, the misdemeanor assault case against 57-year-old Hank Williams Jr. goes to the grand jury.

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  • The jury is still out on that one because normally the skin would have patchy spots and Jackson's is smooth.

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  • The emotional wrongful death case of actor John Ritter, most well known for his role as Jack Tripper on the sitcom Three's Company, came to an end today with the jury clearing the doctors of any wrong doing.

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  • The jury ultimately sided with doctors Lee and Lotysch, clearing both the doctors of any wrong doing and dismissing the Ritter family's wrongful death case.

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  • Kelly has come to a close with the jury awarding a not guilty verdict.

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  • Lawyers for both sides of the case have rested and sent the jury to deliberate, though at this time, the jury has broken with no verdict.

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  • They won a civil case against him in 1997, but have collected little of the millions of dollars the jury awarded them.

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  • A jury found Simpson guilty on all charges in the robbery, and he was sentenced to 33 years in prison.

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  • His first trial resulted in a hung jury, but his second trial found him guilty.

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  • Even though the jury is still out on gossip sites, celebrity blogs and the like, Katie's cut is apparently popular enough among the rest of us.

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  • The jury is still out on whether timing intercourse around ovulation or following the Chinese lunar calendar will really increase your chances of having a girl.

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  • The USA Today article "Jury Rules Bratz Dolls Conceived at Mattel" explains the complicated story behind the beginning of the Bratz Doll line of toys.

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  • Unfortunately, while some studies have supported the claims, the jury is still out on the long-term safety of this mineral.

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  • If you want to try a micellized liquid vitamin, unless your doctor says not to it is probably safe, but the jury is still out on whether or not it is more effective than other liquid vitamins.

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  • The jury is still out on how superfood supplements such as those listed above affect health.

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  • While other grains seem to have clear-cut boundaries when it comes to gluten content, the jury is still inconclusive on whether oats are a safe option for a gluten-free lifestyle.

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  • It appears the jury is still out on whether coats are a safe choice for celiacs, and it is very much a matter of how sensitive to gluten you are and how comfortable you are risking a relapse of symptoms.

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  • The jury is still out as to whether young children should watch television at all.

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  • The jury is still out as to whether watching television is detrimental to children's development, or if it is actually advantageous.

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  • While the jury seems to be out, it hasn't stopped the onslaught of information available listing the personality traits common to people with a certain birth order ranking.

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  • The movie was nominated Grand Jury Prize by the Sundance Film Festival and won the Jury Special Prize at the Deauville Film Festival, both in 2004.

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  • His film Amores Possíveis won the Jury Award for Latin American Cinema at the Sundance Film Festival.

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  • Consider your attempts at repair to be that of a lawyer preparing a case before a judge and jury.

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  • As a fruit, grapefruit is good for you, but the jury is still out on whether it's a miracle food.

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  • Eggs are excellent sources of protein but can be a tad high on fat and cholesterol; the jury is still out on how much this matters, but for now you can play it safe by mixing egg whites with whole eggs when making scrambled eggs or omelets.

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  • The jury's still out regarding women and testosterone increases following exercise.

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  • The jury is still out on the definite answer to this question, but one thing that's known for sure is the fact that each garment carries its own particular merits.

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  • Virgin disputed the case and a jury dismissed the claim.

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  • The jury is still out on the legality of P2P networks, and everyone who has challenged the RIAA lawsuits has won - but you can't assume that you will.

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  • Jud Birza, nicknamed "Fabio" for his long blond hair, was a bit of an underdog throughout the season, but he managed to win over the jury and beat out Chase Rice and Sash Lenahan for the title.

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  • In the end, the winner of the game is chosen by a jury made up of evicted houseguests, and the winner gets $500,000 in prize money.

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  • Candice Woodcock - Candice is 27, from Washington D.C. She originally appeared on Survivor Cook Islands where she was the 13th person voted out and the 5th member of the jury.

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  • Since most of the jury members were bitter over what they saw as Rob's betrayals, the votes went to Brkich, who won the game.

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  • She became a member of the jury that selected Westman as the winner.

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  • During the final jury vote, White handily beat the other two remaining players, Russell Hantz and Mick Trimming.

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  • Natalie convinced Erik to give her his immunity necklace to save face with the jury, and promised that she and Cirie would vote to eliminate Amanda or Parvati.

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  • At the final jury vote, Keith, Elisabeth, Jerri and Alicia voted for Tina to win the million dollar prize while Rodger, Amber and Nick voted for Colby.

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  • Tina was lauded by jury members for playing the game with her head and for being a true strategist.

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  • When there were only two players left, a jury made up of players previously voted off the show were allowed to vote to decide who should be the winner.

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  • During his speeches to the jury, Russell never apologized or explained any reasons for his behavior.

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  • He likely could have talked his way into the jury's good graces, but he chose instead to be cocky and act deserving.

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  • The jury, who voted for the winner of Survivor Samoa, appeared bitter that Russell was sitting where they thought they should be.

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  • Maybe he did play more strategically, but Natalie knew that she had to win favor with the jury in the end.

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  • The jury may still be about on the addictive nature of reality programs specifically, but there is some evidence that TV viewing can become a compulsion.

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  • Danielle seemed to have the game locked, but she hadn't counted on the fact that her private diary room confessions would be shown to the jury before the vote.

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  • Those diary room stints were filled with rants and insults, and a hurt jury awarded the game to Lisa.

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  • The sheriff's office was located only a few blocks east of Bird Song, behind the County Court House, where Fred O'Connor would report for jury duty the following Tuesday.

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  • Like you said, I'll probably be bumped from serving on the jury anyway.

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  • Cynthia and her husband were appreciative of his efforts, which Dean knew came as much from nerves over his pending jury duty as early morning kindness.

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  • Well, if he's on that jury, it won't take much time.

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  • Fred patted him on the back and apologized on behalf of his friends who spent the afternoon in the court house attending Fred's jury session.

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  • If it's one of them Dawkins, it might be considered jury tampering.

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  • Explain the situation—they know you're on a jury.

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  • Fred was back to worrying not only about Martha, but his duty with the reconvening jury after the weekend hiatus.

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  • Looks like he ate his service revolver, but the jury's still out.

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  • They include the local board of health and the board of jury commissioners.

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  • A few days later Nuncomar was thrown into prison on a charge of forgery preferred by a private prosecutor, tried before the supreme court sitting in bar, found guilty by a jury of Englishmen and sentenced to be hanged.

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  • On the 24th of November he was indicted for high treason at the Old Bailey, the chief ground being a paper of association for the defence of the Protestant religion, which, though among his papers, was not in his handwriting; but the grand jury ignored the bill.

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  • His English practice had as yet been scanty, but in 1737 a single speech in a jury trial of note placed him at the head of the bar, and from this time he had all he could attend to.

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  • The facts were left to the jury to decide as best they might, and no principle was.

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  • After the inconclusive proceedings at the realm-council of Merton (1236), when spiritual and temporal lords took opposite views, the king's judges went a step further and thenceforward submitted this particular question to a jury.

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  • The first of these, based on the English model, are the courts of the elected justices of the peace, with jurisdiction over petty causes, whether civil or criminal; the second, based on the French model, are the ordinary tribunals of nominated judges, sitting with or without a jury to hear important cases.

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  • In March 1848 he made a speech before the Confederation which led to his arrest for sedition, but at his trial the jury failed to agree and he was discharged.

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  • It was a scene of terror not only to the accused but to judges and to jury.

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  • Sagasta remained in office until 1890, long enough to carry out all his reform programme, including universal suffrage and the establishment of trial by jury.

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  • A fugitive slave clause was inserted in the Articles of Confederation of the New England Confederation of 1643, providing for the return of the fugitive upon the certificate of one magistrate in the jurisdiction out of which the said servant fled - no trial by jury being provided for.

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  • In 1840 New York and Vermont extended the right of trial by jury to fugitives and provided them with attorneys.

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  • Great confusion prevailed in the first years of American dominion owing to the diversities of languages and the grafting of such Anglo-Saxon institutions as the jury upon the older system.

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  • Previously to this he had served, in 1855, upon the commission for organizing the Exhibition of 1855, and his services there led to his forming one of the French jury of awards in the London Exhibition of 1862.

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  • In the jury courts, the equites, thanks to Julius Caesar, already formed two-thirds of the judices; Augustus, by excluding the senators altogether, virtually gave them the sole control of the tribunals.

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  • He was indicted for treason by a Virginia grand jury, persistent efforts were made to connect him with the assassination of President Lincoln, he was unjustly charged with having deliberately and wilfully caused the sufferings and deaths of Union prisoners at Andersonville and for two years he was denied trial or bail.

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  • Criminal cases are tried before a single judge and a jury of nine - of whom not fewer than seven determine the verdict.

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  • There is no jury in this tribunal and single judges may hold circuit courts.

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  • The first, styled a charter of liberties and privileges, required that an assembly elected by the freeholders and freemen should be called at least once every three years; vested all legislative authority in the governor, council and assembly; forbade the imposition of any taxes without the consent of the assembly; and provided for religious liberty and trial by jury.

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  • The jury quickly agreed on a verdict of not guilty, and the acquittal was greeted by the populace with shouts of triumph.

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  • Criminal cases are tried before one judge and a jury of nine, who must give a unanimous opinion.

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  • His efforts are chiefly devoted to proving that the condemnation of the elder Oppianicus was just and in no way the result of the jury having been bribed by Cluentius; only a small portion of the end of the speech deals with the specific charge.

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  • The privileges of the nobles were curtailed; the administration of justice was put on a better footing; the press was unshackled; publicity in legal proceedings was granted; trial by jury was introduced for some special cases; and the German Catholics were recognized.

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  • It was only in 1917 that the emergency decrees promulgated by the Stargkh Ministry at the beginning of the war failed to receive ratification, in retaliation for the suppression of trial by jury by a military trial and the extension over civilians of the j urisdiction of the military courts.

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  • Under an act of 1893 three-fourths of a jury may render a verdict in lesser civil cases in county and circuit courts.

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  • Even the London street dogs, as Sydney Smith said, joined with O'Connell in barking" God save the Queen."Oxford seems to have been craving for notoriety; but it may be doubted whether the jury who tried him did right to pronounce his acquittal on the ground of insanity.

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  • In place of the monastic judicature a jury of six bachelors and six maidens appear in the 16th century.

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  • Trial by jury has been introduced; but as natives are not allowed to act as jurymen this has often led to serious miscarriages of justice and to excessive severities.

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  • As an advocate his sharpness and rapidity of insight gave him a formidable advantage in the detection of the weaknesses of a witness and the vulnerable points of his opponent's case, while he grouped his own arguments with an admirable eye to effect, especially excelling in eloquent closing appeals to a jury.

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  • Capital punishment for murder in the first degree is inflicted only upon the request of a jury.

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  • His brother, Lucius Aurelius Cotta, when praetor in 70 B.C. brought in a law for the reform of the jury lists, by which the judices were to be eligible, not from the senators exclusively as limited by Sulla, but from senators, equites and tribuni aerarii.

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  • He is also exempt from serving in the reserve forces or on a jury.

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  • The barrister sits without a jury.

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  • After a close and even cruel confinement (he was denied the use of pen and ink) of more than a year, he was brought to trial before .a special commission and a packed jury.

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  • By this act of perjury a verdict of " guilty " was procured from the jury.

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  • Though the jury found no witch-marks on his body he was convicted and executed on Gallows Hill, Salem, on the 19th of August, the only minister who suffered this extreme fate.

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  • The freedom he had demanded for the serfs was granted, the law-courts he had so long denounced were remodelled, trial by jury was established,.

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  • It is always, however, a matter of fact for the jury, and the onus of proving the death lies on the party who asserts it.

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  • No jury was empanelled and no witnesses were called; she was condemned, simply on her confession, to be burnt.

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  • The director of the jury or public prosecutor was Fouquier Tinville.

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  • Thursday 2 July 1970 Neil Blaney was found not guilty of illegal arms importation by a Dublin jury.

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  • The jury in the subsequent inquest returned a verdict of " accidental death " .

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  • At the meeting, both guest jurors acknowledged how honored they were to be on the jury.

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  • In these circumstances, a properly instructed jury would undoubtedly have convicted.

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  • Will your jury give Marshall a fairer hearing the second time round?

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  • A formal appeals process and trial by jury are commonplace.

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  • In later episodes, Johnny serves on a jury where he is the only person who believes (in fact he knows) that the accused is innocent.

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  • The edict of emancipation abolished this jurisdiction, and set up instead in each volost a court particular to the peasants (volostnye sud), of which the judges and jury, themselves peasants, were elected by the assembly of the volost (volostnye skhod) each year.

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  • He said in a small town like Ouray, it was an exception when the jury didn't know half the parties in his court.

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