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- of competence to serve on a grand or petit jury or to vote in elections even ... are entitled to the right of trial by jury. Infractions are the least ...15 KB (2,199 words) - 16:11, 5 April 2017
- until World War II. The following year, a jury was added to the festival ... ;Grand Jury Prize This prize is awarded to the second best film screened ...27 KB (3,956 words) - 16:58, 3 May 2023
- The jury had first accepted her painting, The Mandolin Player, for ... without bothering about the eventual judgment of a jury." ...12 KB (1,997 words) - 16:00, 7 November 2022
- system is the frequent lack of a jury of peers, which is guaranteed in many common law jurisdictions. Inquisitorial systems tend to have something ...15 KB (2,321 words) - 22:28, 10 December 2023
- tried by the military judge alone or by a jury. A court-martial jury is called ... of the court judge the facts of the case, like a jury. They may also ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 08:45, 10 January 2024
- innocent--those are determinations to be made by the jury and/or the judge. Thus, according to that view, the proper ethical stance for the defense is ...17 KB (2,791 words) - 19:04, 25 October 2022
- matters after the event. Thus, although the jury in self-defense cases are ... be guilty of any offence. It is for the jury, as ordinary members of the ...26 KB (4,174 words) - 17:48, 25 January 2023
- The jury returned a verdict in favor of the Cayuga Indian Nation of New York and the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma finding current fair market ...16 KB (2,498 words) - 23:34, 3 December 2023
- themselves the power to select the judges, jury and accusateur public (Prosecutor). ... from across France. It was composed of a jury of twelve. This was an innovation ...30 KB (4,279 words) - 19:45, 31 August 2023
- had confessed, and he wanted to avoid a jury trial. Public sentiment surely ... plead guilty. In this way, Darrow avoided a jury trial which, due to the strong ...16 KB (2,623 words) - 21:57, 25 October 2022
- the Bill of Rights, the U.S. Constitution requires jury trials and prohibits excessive bail and "cruel and unusual punishments." Similarly, ...9 KB (1,377 words) - 18:35, 13 February 2024
- and should not be presented to the jury (which had been excluded during ... Darrow asked the judge to bring in the jury and addressed the: ...29 KB (4,801 words) - 17:27, 25 January 2023
- of New York in 1735. In this instance of jury nullification, Zenger was ... the Press to refuse a subpoena from a grand jury by claiming freedom of the ...23 KB (3,543 words) - 10:49, 11 April 2024
- how so many professionals had been fooled, a grand jury launched its own investigation into conditions at the asylum, inviting Bly to assist. The jury ...15 KB (2,430 words) - 16:12, 11 November 2022
- had been introduced. Three years later, in 1850, a jury decided the Scotts should be freed under the Missouri doctrine of "once free, always free ...9 KB (1,416 words) - 17:39, 30 January 2024
- until they were commissioned to write Trial by Jury. was delighted with it, and Trial by Jury was composed in a matter of weeks. ...35 KB (5,340 words) - 10:04, 14 December 2022
- were arrested. In the aftermath, a grand jury indicted eight demonstrators ... The original eight defendants, indicted by the grand jury on March ...17 KB (2,608 words) - 06:30, 15 January 2023
- the Seventh Amendment's guarantee of a jury trial applies (a determination ... arbitrary remedies, and reinstating a jury system of citizens sworn on ...32 KB (5,079 words) - 00:10, 8 January 2024
- to the newly-built Saint Volodymir Cathedral. The jury, however, failed to appreciate the striking novelty of his works, and they were rejected. At ...8 KB (1,194 words) - 17:54, 9 November 2022
- fines and cruel and unusual punishment. Trial by jury and a ban on ex post facto laws were also rights granted. ===Prohibition of slavery=== ...10 KB (1,533 words) - 06:38, 16 November 2022
- were rejected. But in 1848, the Liberal Jury eased his anger, recognized ... medal, his third medal overall from the Salon jury. Courbet's ...18 KB (2,723 words) - 01:44, 27 July 2023
- executed Floyd without benefit of judge or jury. Kirchner, 63. Floyd's body was placed on public display in Sallisaw, Oklahoma. His funeral ...9 KB (1,370 words) - 22:48, 30 November 2022
- Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s grand jury after receiving a personal waiver, both by telephone and in writing, of her earlier confidential ...18 KB (2,766 words) - 15:40, 30 April 2023
- adversary is able to convince the judge or jury that his or her perspective ... courts may function with a judge and a jury: juries make findings of fact ...21 KB (3,221 words) - 08:44, 10 January 2024
- a judge or by indictment issued by a grand jury. As to felonies in Federal ... may be tried before a magistrate without a jury, while indictable offenses ...32 KB (5,141 words) - 06:24, 11 January 2024
- Justice Ward Hunt explicitly instructed the jury to deliver a guilty verdict. As the facts of the case were not is question, he declined to poll ...18 KB (2,853 words) - 13:58, 28 April 2023
- amount of which in most cases is determined by a jury, based on the harm done to the plaintiff. The court may also award punitive damages to punish ...11 KB (1,639 words) - 05:00, 18 August 2023
- * Boswell: The Applause of the Jury, 1782-1785 * Boswell: The English Experiment, 1785-1789 * Boswell: The Great Biographer, 1789-1795 ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 08:53, 18 March 2024
- Daniel Webster (1937). He is part of the Jury of the Damned summoned by ... Simpson," the Devil summons a "Jury of the Damned" to determine ...25 KB (4,026 words) - 23:53, 12 February 2024
- scene, a polygraph expert can supply the jury only with another opinion…” ... called in the trial, was a matter for the jury. #The polygraph "expert ...34 KB (5,091 words) - 00:19, 12 April 2023
- received a short sentence for tampering with the jury. Edward Doheny was acquitted in 1930 of attempting to bribe Fall. ==Aftermath== ...10 KB (1,500 words) - 00:48, 21 April 2023
- phrases, such as "ladies and gentlemen of the jury." Some court reporters use scopists to translate and edit their work. A scopist is ...10 KB (1,562 words) - 19:57, 9 February 2023
- Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (September 29, 1912 – July 30, 2007) was an Italian modernist film director whose films ...19 KB (2,837 words) - 17:12, 9 November 2022
- for his clients because they had been denied fair jury trials, based on their race. In Hurd v. Hodge (1948) 334 U.S. 24, Houston persuaded the ...10 KB (1,509 words) - 19:09, 4 December 2023
- Mérante she figured on the six-member select jury of the first annual competition for the Corps de ballet, held April 13, 1860. Her only choreographic ...10 KB (1,510 words) - 04:14, 6 November 2022
- #039;s key weapon. In a number of federal grand jury cases in 1931, Capone was charged with 22 counts of tax evasion and also 5,000 violations of the ...10 KB (1,445 words) - 16:13, 13 February 2024
- Little Elgin Theatre in Ottawa. The initial jury consisted of Hye Bossin, managing ... The 1973 awards were also criticized for the jury's choice of ...36 KB (5,123 words) - 19:13, 25 November 2023
- United States on June 8, 1998, when a grand jury charged him with killing five ... bin Laden was indicted by a federal grand jury in the United States District ...20 KB (3,020 words) - 04:35, 18 November 2022
- attorney knows is materially false to a judge or jury as if it were factual. Generally, the knowledge that the testimony is materially false must rise ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 17:57, 26 March 2023
- this was sufficient evidence for the jury to convict her on the conspiracy ... were not viewed sympathetically by the jury whatsoever. ...29 KB (4,418 words) - 21:16, 4 October 2022
- us, in many Cases, of the Benefits of Trial by Jury." Many historians maintain that some of the grievances are exaggerated for purposes of ...24 KB (3,622 words) - 09:03, 28 January 2024
- Bill of Rights. For example, both require jury trials, contain a right to ... Court. Article Three also requires trial by jury in all criminal cases, defines ...45 KB (6,615 words) - 11:55, 3 May 2023
- of 1899, Anna made quite an impression on the jury, and it was announced that she would join the Imperial Ballet at the Mariinsky Theatre later ...11 KB (1,683 words) - 06:48, 28 July 2023
- there obtain an ethnically mixed and sympathetic jury. L. H. Thomas ... while Manitoba law specified a 12-man jury and assurances of bilingual ...46 KB (7,007 words) - 04:09, 4 November 2022
- 4881277 Tampa Man Killed Self Coroner's Jury States] The Evening Independent, June 28, 1926. Retrieved December 24, 2014. == External links == ...11 KB (1,723 words) - 04:15, 3 August 2022
- four times for treason before a grand jury indicted him. This is surprising, because the only physical evidence presented to the Grand Jury was ...38 KB (5,858 words) - 07:13, 13 June 2023
- so that when it came time for his trial, the jury found him innocent, liking him too much to convict him. Following that trial, Dewey and Fiorello ...21 KB (3,285 words) - 21:07, 30 April 2023
- the resulting two-hour trial, by a miners jury, an ad hoc local group of ... because it was in Indian Country and the jury was irregular. The new trial ...21 KB (3,433 words) - 18:45, 4 May 2023
- deprogramming attempt. In 1995, the jury awarded Scott $875,000 in compensatory damages and and $2,500,000 in punitive damages against Ross, ...23 KB (3,474 words) - 09:48, 29 January 2024
- From 2009-2015 he also participated as jury member for the Conflict Prevention Prize, awarded every year by the Fondation Chirac. ==Memoirs== ...12 KB (1,720 words) - 19:59, 20 November 2023
- Tinville a death sentence after threatening the jury. The verdict was passed in the accuseds' absence, and their execution was scheduled for the same day. ...11 KB (1,788 words) - 18:30, 24 August 2023
- anti-anarchist sentiment to prejudice the jury. Prominent Americans such ... in the case, Webster Thayer, stated to the jury "This man, (Vanzetti ...47 KB (7,315 words) - 18:33, 22 December 2022
- that the man had been convicted before a jury. Mather had access to the ... various witnesses to testify before the grand jury. The University ...24 KB (3,678 words) - 01:48, 23 December 2022
- in a short for Warner Bros, Madame of the Jury (1930). She made her feature ... * Madame of the Jury (1930, Short) * Blood Money (1933) – Ruby Darling ...26 KB (3,842 words) - 18:10, 24 January 2024
- :“Find him innocent, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, because he has a wife and three children.” In a sense, many fallacies are appeals to ...14 KB (2,254 words) - 00:35, 25 March 2024
- The suspected slave could not ask for a jury trial or testify on his or her own behalf. In addition, any person aiding a runaway slave by providing ...12 KB (1,866 words) - 00:22, 8 January 2024
- across the nation, eventually resulting in a hung jury. ==Later in Life== The trial depleted Woodhull's strength and optimism. She moved ...11 KB (1,729 words) - 06:00, 8 May 2020
- After voting, jury nominations and award winners are held in strict confidence until the announcement of the prizes in May. Following a news ...15 KB (2,254 words) - 23:45, 2 December 2022
- In July 22, 1948, a federal grand jury indicted Hall and 11 other party leaders under the Alien Registration Act, popularly called the Smith ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 08:26, 7 December 2021
- denied under oath to HUAC. A federal grand jury indicted Hiss on two counts ... After a mistrial due to a hung jury, Hiss was tried a second time ...52 KB (8,001 words) - 20:43, 20 July 2023
- were narrowed down to 232, finally 39. The jury selected entry number 1026. *May 6, 1981 – A jury of eight architects and sculptors (Harry Weese ...24 KB (3,601 words) - 20:17, 3 May 2023
- of Tammany Hall. This led to a grand jury investigation and the appointment of the Lexow Committee, a state probe into police corruption in New ...12 KB (1,699 words) - 03:59, 27 February 2023
- Category:Psychologists Munsterberg, Hugo Hugo Münsterberg (June 1, 1863 - December 19, 1916) was a German-American psychologist. He was a pioneer ...13 KB (1,901 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- performances as the Associate in Trial by Jury, as substitute for an ailing ... in Fun magazine entitled "Trial by Jury: An Operetta." In 1873 ...46 KB (7,062 words) - 22:03, 3 May 2023
- for dance, writing about it and serving on the jury for international ballet competitions. She received the Stalin Prize in 1941, 1946, 1947, and ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 03:56, 18 April 2024
- of the time, she was found not guilty by the jury on the grounds that she had acted out of noble intent. In 1882, Nechayev died in his cell, still ...13 KB (1,992 words) - 10:02, 26 January 2023
- that Felt should have gone to the grand jury rather than leak. ... and on April 10, 1978, a federal grand jury charged Felt, Miller, and ...34 KB (5,368 words) - 10:34, 11 May 2023
- he had given before a federal grand jury the previous December. There ... trial, in June of 1949, ended with the jury deadlocked eight to four for ...35 KB (5,145 words) - 18:42, 4 May 2023
- Other Stories. In the same year, the fiction jury unanimously recommended Gravity's Rainbow for the Pulitzer Prize; however, the Pulitzer board ...33 KB (4,941 words) - 22:49, 30 April 2023
- quot; belief that the defendant is guilty, the jury is not satisfied beyond a "reasonable doubt." The precise meaning of words such as "reasonable ...15 KB (2,113 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
- the righteousness of such a law. The jury, recognizing that William ... Jeffrey Abramson. We, The Jury. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University ...39 KB (6,129 words) - 00:04, 15 April 2023
- where it was nominated for a Documentary Grand Jury Prize, and at the Chicago International Film Festival where it was nominated for a Gold Hugo award ...16 KB (2,347 words) - 23:50, 25 September 2023
- On August 3, 1993, a federal grand jury returned a superseding ten ... pursuant to a plea bargain. After a jury trial lasting nearly two months ...56 KB (8,825 words) - 22:04, 3 May 2023
- arrested for Evers' murder. An all-white jury met twice that year to try Beckwith, but were unable to reach a verdict, allowing Beckwith to escape ...13 KB (2,037 words) - 03:55, 9 November 2022
- Imagine you are a member of a jury judging a hit-and-run driving case ... for justice using the system of trial by a jury of one's peers. ...28 KB (4,170 words) - 09:22, 18 June 2021
- of 1723 was represented as a nuisance by the Grand Jury of Middlesex, denounced in the London Journal by Theophilus Philo-Britannus, and attacked by ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 15:56, 29 September 2023
- On October 11, 2006, a federal grand jury issued the first indictment for treason against the United States since 1952, charging Adam Yahiye ...14 KB (2,143 words) - 12:38, 18 April 2023
- rights, such as a right to trial by jury, the right to cross-examine, and even the right to a speedy trial. Notable writings by reformers such ...17 KB (2,502 words) - 21:26, 4 October 2022
- In October 1995, a Houston jury convicted Saldívar of first degree murder and sentenced her to life in prison, with the possibility of parole ...16 KB (2,443 words) - 17:47, 25 January 2023
- of local white women support her. The all-white jury acquits Janie, and she returns to Eatonville, only to find the residents gossiping about her and ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 06:10, 13 June 2023
- 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 ...16 KB (2,394 words) - 15:59, 6 November 2022
- Together with his Clearing by the Jury (1686) [Nissenbaum, chap. 1]. Reverend Paul Nedergaard, a clergyman in Copenhagen, Denmark, attracted controversy ...16 KB (2,522 words) - 03:18, 23 December 2022
- 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 ...41 KB (6,282 words) - 07:41, 3 August 2022
- the work of the governors just as the jury evaluates the accused in a trial." Fred Cutler, Jeremy Bentham and the Public Opinion Tribunal ...17 KB (2,641 words) - 04:56, 9 April 2024
- 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 ...36 KB (5,594 words) - 10:49, 11 April 2024
- were found to be in close agreement. The "jury" declared itself satisfied, and the decipherment of cuneiform was adjudged a fait accompli ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 06:45, 12 January 2024
- 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 ...17 KB (2,723 words) - 09:03, 18 November 2022
- in 1863, which displayed works not accepted by the jury of the official Paris Salon. The official Salon rejected Cézanne's submissions every year ...18 KB (2,795 words) - 16:50, 21 November 2022
- sued under a Florida whistleblower law. A jury ruled that FOX had indeed ordered the reporters to distort the facts. FOX successfully appealed ...19 KB (3,020 words) - 05:48, 27 September 2022
- 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 ...42 KB (5,955 words) - 06:55, 4 March 2023
- excavations of the site. Wilfrid and Elsie Jury of the University of Western Ontario undertook additional excavations, and in 1954 the graves ...18 KB (2,715 words) - 21:18, 9 February 2024
- 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 ...19 KB (3,031 words) - 01:14, 21 April 2023
- 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 ...18 KB (3,027 words) - 00:27, 8 December 2022
- Patience, Iolanthe, and Trial by Jury. Gilbert and Sullivan were gifted, funny writers, and I could always count on certain songs of theirs ...18 KB (2,846 words) - 03:30, 1 October 2023
- 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 ...62 KB (10,535 words) - 05:01, 5 November 2022
- defend her in court and successfully persuaded the jury to acquit the woman, thus saving her life. As his wealth increased, Stephens began acquiring ...21 KB (3,127 words) - 21:02, 28 November 2023
- 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 ...18 KB (2,835 words) - 04:20, 17 June 2023
- Platform section has a high-profile international jury which confers the C$25,000 Platform Prize; both documentaries and narrative films are eligible ...26 KB (3,603 words) - 04:11, 1 May 2023
- man convicted of murder by an all-white jury challenged a West Virginia ... protection to black defendants, since the jury had been "drawn from ...45 KB (6,808 words) - 12:57, 12 February 2022
- 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 ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 07:06, 15 April 2024
