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  • the line between fiction and nonfiction. In a jury trial she was found not guilty, but an appeal went all the way to the Florida Supreme Court and ...
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  • Together with his Clearing by the Jury (1686) [Nissenbaum, chap. 1]. Reverend Paul Nedergaard, a clergyman in Copenhagen, Denmark, attracted controversy ...
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  • The first Masses trial ended in a hung jury the day before Reed reached ... The second Masses trial also ended in a hung jury. In Philadelphia ...
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  • the work of the governors just as the jury evaluates the accused in a trial." Fred Cutler, Jeremy Bentham and the Public Opinion Tribunal ...
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  • upon future American law and that of England. A jury refused to convict William Penn of preaching a Quaker sermon, which was illegal. Even though ...
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  • were found to be in close agreement. The "jury" declared itself satisfied, and the decipherment of cuneiform was adjudged a fait accompli ...
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  • him. Adamson backed up Brazel's story. The jury took less than a half-hour to return a not-guilty verdict. Cox hosted a barbecue in celebration ...
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  • in 1863, which displayed works not accepted by the jury of the official Paris Salon. The official Salon rejected Cézanne's submissions every year ...
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  • sued under a Florida whistleblower law. A jury ruled that FOX had indeed ordered the reporters to distort the facts. FOX successfully appealed ...
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  • I’ve never argued a case in front of a jury. I don’t know more medicine ... and in an episode of Law and Order: Trial by Jury. King hosted the ...
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  • excavations of the site. Wilfrid and Elsie Jury of the University of Western Ontario undertook additional excavations, and in 1954 the graves ...
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  • events, was enough to convince the coroner's jury to accept Franklin's explanation that it was a case of justifiable homicide. And with that ...
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  • and was the first black man to serve on a grand jury in the county. As stern as his father was, David's mother was kind and loving. She ...
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  • Patience, Iolanthe, and Trial by Jury. Gilbert and Sullivan were gifted, funny writers, and I could always count on certain songs of theirs ...
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  • peers. Many think that this gave rise to jury and magistrate trial, but ... of Lords, Lord Keating, forced a grand Jury of Middlesex to return a verdict ...
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  • defend her in court and successfully persuaded the jury to acquit the woman, thus saving her life. As his wealth increased, Stephens began acquiring ...
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  • refused his lawyer's plea offers and the jury was replaced on the day of the trial to frustrate Capone's associates' efforts to bribe ...
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  • Platform section has a high-profile international jury which confers the C$25,000 Platform Prize; both documentaries and narrative films are eligible ...
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  • man convicted of murder by an all-white jury challenged a West Virginia ... protection to black defendants, since the jury had been "drawn from ...
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  • In 1964, when he was nearly blind, Lang was president of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1971, Lang wed his long-time girlfriend Lily ...
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  • on March 8, 1949. After long deliberations, the jury convicted Gillars on only one count of treason. Gillars was sentenced to 10 to 30 years, and died ...
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  • compete. The overall winner was voted on by a jury of his peers. Many of the "Top 15" finishers (some were Xingyi boxers) became teachers at ...
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  • the law, abolition of the Table of Ranks, trial by jury, religious toleration, freedom of the press, emancipation of manorial serfs, habeas corpus, and ...
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  • was the king of outlaws, he had no lawyers and no jury, and he wasn’t allowed to speak. However, when accused of being a traitor, he responded, "I ...
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  • of Philip's most senior lieutenants. A jury of twelve Englishmen and six ... quot;Grand Enquest," which was a grand jury of sorts, elected from the ...
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  • involved. The justice system, including a judge, jury, lawyers, medical staff, professional experts called to testify, and witnesses all play a role in ...
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  • quot; as the Constitution required. As a result, the jury acquitted the defendant, leading to increased animosity between the President and the Chief Justice. ...
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  • Obispo, where the sheriff-coroner's jury delivered the verdict that ... over into Jimmy's right of way. The jury's verdict flew in the ...
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  • George Corley Wallace, Jr. (August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998), was United States politician who was elected Governor of Alabama as a Democrat ...
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  • by Lord Chief Justice Eyre to the Grand Jury, October 2, 1794 where he forcefully argued that that the prosecution's concept of "constructive ...
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  • Judicial Council of California Civil Jury Instructions (2022 edition) Retrieved February 2, 2023. Proving fraud in a California court of law ...
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  • Protesting a rigged jury for the upcoming trial of the president, (composed of fellow representatives supportive of the president and also under ...
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  • of 12 witnesses in her defense. The jury based their verdict on the testimony of one individual, a Detective Jacobs. Voltairine de Cleyre gave ...
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  • Emerging Answers says that the jury is still out about the effectiveness of abstinence-only programs. That is, current evidence about the success ...
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  • , and he invited the Cochise County grand jury to reevaluate his decision ... However, on December 16, the grand jury decided not to reverse Spicer ...
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  • to seize the laptop was issued by a grand jury on behalf of the U.S. attorney ... FBI had acquired the devices via a grand jury subpoena, though it was unclear ...
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  • the establishment of trial by jury, the gradual emancipation of slaves, freedom of the press, the abolition of arbitrary imprisonment and of ...
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  • he had so long denounced were remodeled, trial by jury was established, liberty was to a great extent conceded to the press. It became clear that Herzen ...
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  • Marshall was the first black man to serve in a grand jury in Baltimore. Marshall attended Frederick Douglass High School in Baltimore. During ...
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  • freedom from cruel and unusual punishment, trial by jury, and exemption from unreasonable search and seizure. States were authorized to organize constitutional ...
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  • *1951: Won Special Jury Prize, A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), "For having produced a stage play on screen, poetically interpreting the ...
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  • route" ring trials in 1882 and 1883, the jury found Brady not guilty. Garfield appointed Richard A. Elmer as Brady's replacement. ...
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  • world.Jeffrey Crelinsten, Einstein's Jury: The Race to Test Relativity ... Jeffrey Crelinsten, Einstein's Jury: The Race to Test Relativity ...
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  • attorney, outlining his argument as if to convince a jury, using logic, persuasion and playing on the emotions of hope and fear. He rejected the prevailing ...
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  • 1876), but was acquitted because a jury found that they could not clearly understand his arguments and therefore could not condemn them. ...
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  • Watson killed a man named William Bradley. A jury found that Marlowe had no involvement in Bradley's death and Watson was found to have acted in ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology Category:Law [[Image:Antonio Villaraigosa.jpg|right|thumb|260px|Los Angeles Mayor Antonio ...
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  • monster Argus. All of the other gods acted as a jury, and as a way of declaring their verdict they were given pebbles, and told to throw them at whichever ...
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  • a director (formerly called the president of jury) was assisted by four judges. Two judges were positioned behind each fencer, one on each side ...
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  • this man who was captured in a war a full jury trial. I mean it's crazy ... admitted by the defendant or found by a jury under the Sixth Amendment ...
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  • burglar cannot complain that he is being tried by a jury of honest citizens" ("The Legality of the Nuremberg Trials," Juridical Review ...
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  • United States Constitution) and the right to a jury trial (Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution). Few nations, not even the United Nations ...
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  • already committed to. Since the evidence in a jury trial can be complex, and jurors often reach decisions about the verdict early on, it is reasonable ...
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  • are South African jurists. There is no trial by jury; rather, judges make rulings alone, or, in the case of criminal trials, with two other judges ...
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  • from prosecution. However, a federal grand jury in 1869 determined that the ... condemning the intimidation of the jury as failing to provide due ...
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  • Even though Mather never presided in the jury; he exhibited great influence over the witch trials. In May 31, 1692, Mather sent a letter “Return ...
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  • based on a poem by de Musset. It was rejected by the jury of the Salon de Paris for immorality, since it features suggestive metaphors in a scene from ...
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  • in Bronson, where the governor's grand jury met and found no one to prosecute]] Cary Hardee appointed a special grand jury and special prosecuting attorney ...
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  • was suspended. Trial by judge without jury was introduced and republican detainees or those convicted were denied the status of political prisoners ...
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  • have skilled orators capable of convincing a jury of their story. Oratory in court cases comes both from speaking skills and a deep knowledge of the ...
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  • (2004, 2007). In May 2007 Pamuk was among the jury members at the Cannes Film Festival headed by British director Stephen Frears. In the 2007-2008 ...
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  • trial did not begin until January 1850, and the jury ruled Scott and his family were legally free. Emerson again appealed to the Supreme Court of Missouri. ...
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  • director Andrei Tarkovsky, winning a Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1972; later in 2002, a Hollywood remake was shot by Steven Soderbergh ...
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  • Shankar won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Prize of the Jury at the 1957 Berlin International Film Festival for composing the music for the movie ...
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  • , but on the strength of it the jury voted for More's conviction. Before his sentencing, More spoke freely of his belief that "no temporal ...
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  • The determination of what is obscene is up to a jury in a trial, which must apply the "Miller test." Essentially, this case established ...
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  • thumb|right|300px|Father Christmas persuades the jury of his innocence in The Examination and Tryal of Father Christmas (1686) by Josiah King[http://www ...
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  • on the grounds that it had not been imposed by a jury. The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes (July 21, 1925). In 1928, the Arkansas legislature ...
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  • reporting on the prosecution, judge, jury, and venue of the Scopes Trial, which he is credited for naming the "Monkey" trial. ...
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  • The jury broke into laughter, the charges were dropped, and Epaminondas was reelected as Boeotarch for the next year. ===Later campaigns=== ...
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  • ordered them to be made by a sworn jury in every hundred. It is likely that those jurors were elected. In foreign affairs, Walter negotiated with ...
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  • at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize. [https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/f/adieu-au-langage/ Adieu au Langage (Goodbye ...
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  • in the War Office. Dobsen had been foremen of the jury in the Revolutionary Tribunal. Rousselin edited the Feuille du Salut public. However, otherwise ...
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  • improper relationships with some of these women, the jury unanimously found that the evidence "completely vindicated the high moral character of ...
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  • to the short story as an art form". The jury gave the following citation: “Paul Bowles is a storyteller of the utmost purity and integrity ...
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  • profiling, witness examination and jury selection. While none of the tests available may give complete assessments, it has been possible to tailor ...
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  • leader Jimmy Hoffa, who had been convicted of jury tampering and fraud. [[Image:Iva Toguri.jpg|thumb|right|Iva Toguri D'Aquino|Iva Toguri ...
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  • North, indicted on 16 counts, was found guilty by a jury of three minor counts. The convictions were vacated on appeal on the grounds that North ...
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  • and the only which provides for jury trials in civil and criminal cases. *The state's Probate Court has jurisdiction over trusts, wills and ...
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  • Social Science Principes de Asturias Prize. The jury commended her for "offering her non-conformist, brave and far-reaching voice to those who ...
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  • , which challenged the validity of voluntary jury duty for women, on the ground that participation in jury duty was a citizen's vital governmental ...
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  • judgment of society represented by the decision of a jury of peers, offers a general example to the public of the consequences of committing a crime. ...
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  • conduct. It was characterized by trial by jury and by the doctrine of the ... *The confirmation of trial by jury (1166); *Magna Carta, issued by ...
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  • Although I know whenever the great rights, the trial by jury, freedom of the press, or liberty of conscience, come in question in that body ...
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  • that it was the only play nominated by all five jury members, and that they judged it "a mature work by an enduring (and often undervalued) American ...
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  • This trial ended with the jury unable to reach a verdict. The next, and last, trial was presided over by Chief Justice Sir Alfred Wills. On May ...
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  • accusing another man of being the father. A grand jury indicted Savin for forcing Lee to commit perjury, and despite discovering that Savin was the father ...
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  • in the cover-up. Nixon was named by the grand jury investigating Watergate as "an unindicted co-conspirator" in the Watergate Scandal ...
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  • people, and ever should be. The right of trial by jury, the habeas corpus, the liberty of the press, the freedom of speech, the natural rights of persons ...
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  • politics. For the first time, women served on a jury in Wyoming (Laramie in 1870). Wyoming had the first female court bailiff (Mary Atkinson, Laramie ...
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  • the new constitution. There is no trial by jury. Career civil service judges preside, and the king appoints Supreme Court judge—bribery is common. ...
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  • to bear arms, freedom of religion, trial by jury, and protection from cruel ... and rules of evidence that shield a jury from truth and create more ...
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  • for corruption, and in 2006 a federal jury convicted the former mayor on three counts of tax evasion in connection with gambling income he received ...
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  • power of the spiritual barons, introduced trial by jury instead of trial by battle, and ordered the laws to be written. ===English civil war=== ...
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  • Webster is not a soul sold to the devil, or the jury of ghostly traitors, but Webster speaking against the sanctity of contract. Webster has garnered ...
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  • Louise Bryant (December 5, 1885 – January 6, 1936), an American feminist, political activist, and journalist, became best known for her sympathetic ...
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  • the work was entered in a competition where the jury was headed by Johannes Brahms, but failed to win a prize. ===Growing reputation=== ...
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  • Boone "syndic" (judge and jury) and commandant (military leader) of the Femme Osage district. The many anecdotes of Boone's tenure ...
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  • Klan was a peaceful organization, a federal grand jury in 1869 determined that the Klan was a "terrorist organization," and hundreds of indictments ...
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  • The jury returned guilty verdicts for all eight defendants death sentences for seven of the men, and a sentence of 15 years in prison for Neebe ...
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