During the nineteenth century, juries as far South as Georgia refused to convict whites who assisted slaves escaping from bondage. |
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Contrariwise, juries may convict where the judicial decision-maker would find the evidence insubstantial. |
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Politically impartial juries would no doubt reach different conclusions depending on their contemporaneity. |
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In addition to his work at the Museum of Modern Art, Barr served on the advisory boards of other museums and the juries of art competitions. |
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Those of us who have played in juries or competitions open ourselves up to evaluation and, in fact, desire the insight these experiences provide. |
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Criminal cops ride roughshod over prosecutors and juries and railroad people into prison or worse. |
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Does he feel there would be fewer drunk driving convictions if these cases were judged by juries as opposed to a judge? |
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That was my experience anyway of Supreme Court judges sitting with juries in New South Wales. |
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But would it not be well to limit grand juries to the investigation of felons, and leave misdemeanors to inferior courts? |
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The authorities give judges no help in directing juries on the quantum of exemplary damages. |
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Those are offenses properly addressed by judges, juries, and prison wardens. |
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The tradition of unanimous juries dates back to 14th century English common law and became the American standard during the colonial period. |
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Judges and juries were generous in making the required inference on the basis of evidence of long user. |
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Local residents should serve on juries in the upper courts and as lay magistrates in the lower courts. |
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And no matter how compelling the evidence, most of these juries would not render a guilty verdict. |
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Well, the new realism is that juries cannot be trusted in respect of any matter that might be adverse to the accused. |
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We were greeted by two bailiffs and two prosecutors who worked grand juries full-time. |
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So both barristers and judges have to be very careful that they deal with juries in a way that helps them to deal with the subject matter. |
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The machinations of Booker juries are a smugly guarded secret, but one senses a good few compromises and second-bests here. |
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Was there a correlation between particular kinds of cases, and hung juries? |
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Now he's traipsing around the country with a proposal to allow verdicts in criminal trials with less than unanimous juries. |
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Do we really think that juries are so sheeplike that they have to be shielded from fact and opinion? |
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As Ontario is a province which has maintained civil jury trials, the Juries Act also applies to the gathering of juries for civil trials. |
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Despite the fact that Arbuckle was later acquitted of manslaughter after two hung juries, he was essentially blacklisted from Hollywood. |
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The Government moved after research showed that middle-class professionals were under-represented on juries. |
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But there is no evidence which shows that juries are gullible fools, easily led by a passing headline. |
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These are books that juries have selected as finalists for the ultimate Pulitzer Prize. |
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A federal judge officially convenes both types of grand juries, though a prosecutor actually conducts the proceedings. |
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Emotionally manipulating juries in personal injury cases is what they do best. |
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Could that be done in this case without telling juries how they ought to go about fact finding? |
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First, for every argument why juries are more accurate factfinders, there is another why they are less accurate. |
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Recounts were mounted, grand juries were empanelled, and the FBI was called in. |
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He failed to secure an indictment for public nuisance from the county grand jury and was denied damage awards by two trial juries. |
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We see it very, very often, and juries very often feel the same way when you have a defenseless child. |
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The standard line, true or not, is that grand juries are such pushovers that a good DA can get an indictment against a ham sandwich. |
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In practice juries were rarely interested in establishing whether a forestaller was aiming to create a monopoly or whether any degree of monopoly had in fact been created. |
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Both were killed by police officers, but grand juries failed to indict in either case. |
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Punitive damages may have little statutory guidance, but juries are similarly unguided when they calculate pain and suffering damages, which are compensatory. |
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Four grand juries examined the case without returning an indictment. |
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Many targets will settle because their attorneys will advise them that their juries will likely be stocked with jacobins. |
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How well specific juries expressed the people's will was open to debate. |
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All juries will be selected online from new system developed by Yahoo. |
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The specific issue is that juries in the United States are drawn from county-wide population pools. |
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Time and again, juries refused to convict drug defendants, even in cases where there was overwhelming evidence of guilt. |
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The juries were properly instructed that in a case such as this reasonable doubt was relevant, and they rendered a verdict. |
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And it depends on grand juries who act as a conveyor belt, quickly funneling tens of thousands of young Black men into prison. |
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The ability to make comparisons with damages awarded for non-pecuniary losses in personal injury actions would have a salutary effect on libel juries. |
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The Anthony case could have a chilling effect on future juries, Judge Perry wrote. |
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Over 500 entries were screened by four juries consisting of three judges each, which speaks to the growing strength of the film and television industry in Alberta. |
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Two juries were discharged the first because a juror had to withdraw for personal reasons and the second because the jury room was found not to be soundproof. |
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No, I don't resile from it, of course bearing in mind it was 2004 and there may be some considerations in relation to juries being more amenable in 2014. |
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The juries under the Grand Assize replied under oath to inquiries by the sheriff or the justices on questions relating to right to land or questions of disseisin of land. |
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You don't fight crime by nobbling juries and fixing trials, but by hiring officers who can catch criminals, a task which appears to be beyond Sir John. |
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The federal rules of evidence were amended in 1975 whereby judges were required to admit expert testimony and juries had to decide on its merit or truthfulness. |
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On Monday, I showed the Observer article to a law professor who has extensively studied the work of grand juries. |
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To begin with, prisoners are among the least lucrative of clients, and certainly the least sympathetic to juries, so that few lawyers are willing to litigate on their behalf. |
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With juries, admissions tend to trump other evidence as much as a full house beats two of a kind. |
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It made victims reluctant to prosecute, and juries loath to convict. |
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The police departments say procedures were followed, and grand juries have listened. |
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In 1310 the king granted life exemption from tallages, prises, juries, assizes, and royal ministries to Nicholas de Fakenham of Lynn, who is not known to have held any office. |
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After Jim Crow laws were abolished, these preemptory challenges were the tool used to keep blacks off of juries. |
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Still, there are other places where, like trial juries, sortition make sense. |
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But for juries to be credible and respected as the finders of fact and dispensers of justice in a community, they must represent diverse values and outlooks, Munsterman said. |
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Such juries would be unlikely to evict squatters from land owned by a wealthy entity that left the land untouched, i.e., treated as an investment. |
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Judges rarely render even highly suspicious confessions inadmissible, and juries often convict confessors, even in the absence of physical evidence. |
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Additionally, appellate courts have a much broader discretion to review findings of fact by juries in civil cases. |
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Lane County swears in two sets of grand juries every four weeks, with an oath that requires jurors to keep all proceedings secret. |
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These comprised juries of the citizens and sat in the thanas to resolve disputes. |
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Adopted from English law in colonial times, grand juries were seen as a citizen's check on a monarchic justice system. |
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Court officials Thursday said new special grand juries for criminal indictments will be convened at the district attorney's request. |
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He said grand juries exist to keep prosecutors from running amok and charging people without justification. |
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The less sinister aspect of the impanelling of special juries is represented by the desire to obtain a jury with a particular expertise. |
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Some maintain that arbitration avoids prejudiced juries and sympathy verdicts, but such remarks may merely reflect their utterers' antijury bias. |
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Scots juries, sitting in criminal cases, consist of fifteen jurors, which is three more than is typical in many countries. |
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Local juries were used occasionally in previous reigns, but Henry made much wider use of them. |
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For example, Justices of the Peace could replace suspect jurors in accordance with the 1495 act preventing the corruption of juries. |
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Without being able to vote, blacks were excluded from juries and running for any political office. |
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During 1771, Burke wrote a Bill that, if passed, would have given juries the right to determine what was libel. |
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Audio tapes of all the songs were sent to juries in each of the countries some weeks before the television show. |
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These juries selected the songs which would be included in the international broadcast. |
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Americans sued each other at a very high rate, with binding decisions made not by a great lord but by local judges and juries. |
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According to the Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, most felony convictions in the state are the products of nonunanimous juries. |
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On February 5, 1988, General Manuel Antonio Noriega was accused of drug trafficking by federal juries in Tampa and Miami. |
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In the early decades of the United States grand juries played a major role in public matters. |
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In South Australia and Western Australia, grand juries existed for longer periods of time. |
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Grand juries were introduced by the Judicature Act 1874 and have been used on a very limited number of occasions. |
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Civil juries are available in the United States and Canada in almost all cases where the only remedy sought is money damages. |
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The juries under the assizes began deciding guilt as well as providing accusations. |
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Modern juries tend to be found in courts to ascertain the guilt, or lack thereof, in a crime. |
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The modern criminal court jury arrangement has evolved out of the medieval juries in England. |
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After the Norman Conquest, some parts of the country preserved juries as the means of investigating crimes. |
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Called juries of presentment, these men testified under oath to crimes committed in their neighbourhood. |
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The Assize of Clarendon in 1166 caused these juries to be adopted systematically throughout the country. |
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For juries to fulfill their role of analyzing the facts of the case, there are strict rules about their use of information during the trial. |
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In Canada, juries are also allowed to make suggestions for sentencing periods at the time of sentencing. |
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Blue ribbon juries cannot be used in real trials, which require constitutional safeguards to produce a jury of one's peers. |
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The Belgian Constitution provides that all cases involving the most serious crimes be judged by juries. |
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As a result of the Taxquet ruling the juries give nowadays the most important motives that lead them to their verdict. |
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There are no civil juries in the courts of the Province of Quebec, nor in the Federal Court. |
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Even if juries were abolished, the layman continued to play an important role in the legal system throughout in Norway. |
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Sweden has no tradition of using juries in most types of criminal or civil trial. |
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It is the county council that have the responsibility to appoints juries for a tenure of four years under which they may serve in multiple cases. |
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In jurisdictions where the size of a jury varies, in general the size of juries tends to be larger if the crime alleged is more serious. |
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Historically, grand juries were sometimes used in American law to serve a purpose similar to an investigatory commission. |
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Since a clear archetype for determining guilt does not exist, the criminal justice system must rely on rulings handed down by juries. |
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In the past, grand juries were required to destroy their investigative findings at the end of their one-year terms. |
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The police may be reticent to charge the alleged offender, prosecutors reticent to continue with the prosecution, and juries reticent to convict. |
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Logical folks for good reason like to joke about room temperature I.Q. juries, but this hot coffee case is truly incredible. |
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Grand juries have also been of importance in earlier history. |
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A grand jury in the United States is usually composed of 16 to 23 citizens, though in Virginia it has fewer members for regular or special grand juries. |
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Grand juries perform both accusatory and investigatory functions. |
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In juries of the Justices in Eyre, the bailiff of the hundred would choose 4 electors who in turn chose 12 others from their hundred, and from these were selected 12 jurors. |
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Grand juries carry out this duty by examining evidence presented to them by a prosecutor and issuing indictments, or by investigating alleged crimes and issuing presentments. |
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In the United States, juries are sometimes called on, when asked to do so by a judge in the jury instructions, to make factual findings on particular issues. |
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Although establishing the effectiveness of juries is an arduous task, contemporary research has provided partial support for the proficiency of juries as decision makers. |
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Augustine as state attorney with power to impanel grand juries and act as a representative of the state in hope of bringing about a peaceful conclusion. |
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The principal benefit of the proposed rule is that it would protect criminal defendants from facing indictments returned by improperly instructed grand juries. |
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A grand jury indicted the teens in August but defense attorneys objected to the secretly convened proceeding, saying grand juries do not have the right to indict minors. |
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Legislators, judges, and juries following intuitive notions of blameworthiness will tend to overassess individual responsibility and underassess situational factors. |
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Grand juries can also be used for filing charges in the form of a sealed indictment against unaware suspects who are arrested later by a surprise police visit. |
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These juries voted by secret ballot and were eventually granted the power to annul unconstitutional laws, thus introducing the practice of judicial review. |
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Williams, sounded the two themes of defense of and deference to grand juries that have resonated throughout the Court's jurisprudence in this area. |
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Henry set up a system to resolve land disputes using juries. |
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Members of both Houses are no longer privileged from service on juries. |
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In the United States jurors for grand juries are selected from jury pools. |
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The Constitution of Brazil provides that only willful crimes against life, namely full or attempted murder, abortion, infanticide and suicide instigation, be judged by juries. |
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In Canada, juries are used for some criminal trials but not others. |
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The administrative and financial business carried by county grand juries and county at large presentment sessions were transferred to the new councils. |
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There is controversy over smaller juries, with proponents arguing that they are more efficient and opponents arguing that they lead to fluctuating verdicts. |
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Normally consisting of twelve persons, juries are selected from a jury panel which is picked at random by the county registrar from the electoral register. |
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In civil cases juries are usually only used in cases of defamation. |
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In Scotland the percentage is higher due to having a lower population as well having juries made up of 15 people as opposed to 12 people in England and Wales. |
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While all states currently have provisions for grand juries, today approximately half of the states employ them and 22 require their use, to varying extents. |
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I arbitrated complex employee grievance matters. I tried several cases before both juries and nonjuries in State and Federal courts throughout the country. |
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Juries are often prohibited from considering penalties when deliberating a criminal case. |
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Juries are human, and can be easily swayed by the emotions of the case, and the clever manipulation of a strong barrister. |
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Juries at the assizes were then chosen from this panel of potential jurors. |
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There were 14 jurors empanelled, one of whom was discharged under the provisions of the Juries Act before the trial commenced. |
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Juries in death penalty cases are always quizzed about their attitudes on capital punishment before the start of the trial. |
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Juries have reason to be skeptical, but there is plenty of scientific evidence to suggest that sleepwalkers, or somnambulists, can engage in complex behavior. |
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Juries were replaced by a tribunal of a professional judges and two lay assessors that were dependable party actors. |
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Juries are almost never used in civil cases outside the United States and Canada. |
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In 1730, the British Parliament passed the Bill for Better Regulation of Juries. |
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Juries are often justified because they leaven the law with community norms. |
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Juries only decide questions of fact and have no role in criminal sentencing. |
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Juries existed in Norway as early as the year 800, and perhaps even earlier. |
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The Custos Brevium appointed the Clerk of the Juries, responsible for issuing writs of Habeas Corpus. |
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Juries may not, however, use punitive damages to punish a defendant directly for harms that the defendant visited on nonparties. |
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Juries may add a rider to their verdict as additional commentary on their verdict. |
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Grand Juries met in Sydney, Parramatta, Windsor and other places. |
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Juries decide matters of fact, and sometimes matters of the law. |
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