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12 Nov 2015, 7:55 pm by Thaddeus Hoffmeister
The first section addresses research on jury bias, which shows that jurors often make harsher judgments of defendants from other racial and ethnic groups and are more likely to give death sentences in cases involving Black or Latino defendants and White victims. [read post]
21 May 2019, 6:51 pm by Hanlon Law, PA
The State’s failure to precisely charge the elements cannot be cured by a jury’s findings. [read post]
10 Oct 2009, 8:05 pm
The defendant was found guilty of DWI and was sentenced to thirty (30) days in jail. [read post]
11 Mar 2010, 9:13 am by Terry Lenamon
  The younger Dubose Brothers were given life sentences by another jury last week, and this week all eyes have been upon the men and women setting in a Jacksonville, Florida, courtroom who are hearing evidence as part of Rasheem Dubose's sentencing phase. [read post]
20 Nov 2019, 10:51 am by Steve Lash
A Prince George’s County Circuit Court jury this week found District Heights Mayor Eddie L. [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 2:17 pm by Associated Press
(AP) — A federal jury has convicted a Marshfield man of conspiring to sell fake driver’s licenses. [read post]
5 Apr 2021, 10:08 am by Thaddeus Hoffmeister
I propose that with more information in hand, defense attorneys can improve their ability to rank jurors and select a jury more inclined to impose a life sentence. [read post]
11 Jun 2010, 12:20 pm by Chamlin, Rosen, Uliano & Witherington
If the jury makes a recommendation for mercy, the court should remind the jury that the recommendation is not binding, the jury has no sentencing function, and the jury should reach its verdict without regard to the sentence. 4. [read post]
13 Feb 2008, 4:43 am by Sean Hayes
Today, Brendan Carr, an American attorney working for a medium-sized law firm, noted on his blog that in the first jury trial case a 4-year sentence was suspended. [read post]
17 May 2016, 10:37 am by Thaddeus Hoffmeister
  We believe that this restriction on the rights and responsibilities of citizenship should be stricken by the Legislature to bring jury service into harmony with voting law as part of the rehabilitative process afforded to all persons who have served their judicially mandated sentences. [read post]
16 Jul 2018, 2:08 pm by Benjamin Christenson
The justification for a court’s use of acquitted conduct at sentencing is that under current law a judge may find facts by a preponderance of evidence at sentencing, a lower standard than the beyond a reasonable doubt standard the jury uses. [read post]
17 Apr 2017, 4:51 pm by Thaddeus Hoffmeister
Nevertheless, there are other procedural stages - arrest, charge, bail, bargain, and sentence - where equitable discretion is more appropriate. [read post]
24 Apr 2009, 2:25 pm
Failing to provide the jury in a federal child pornography prosecution with mandatory minimum sentencing information that the jury may have used to nullify the defendant's convictions is not a valid ground on which the district court may grant a new trial: The U.S. [read post]
11 May 2009, 11:10 am
  LINKJefferson County Circuit Judge Teresa Petelos last week refused to go over a jury's head and sentence Bobby Ray Sims to death. [read post]
23 Sep 2016, 12:10 pm
Many states across the country allow judges and juries to consider mitigating circumstances when determining the sentencing for a crime. [read post]
22 Feb 2016, 6:21 am by David Markus
"The 11-page sentencing memo describes prison terms in other financial fraud cases, including the 50-year sentence imposed on disgraced Fort Lauderdale attorney Scott Rothstein.Clark was convicted Dec. 11 after a five-week retrial, after a jury could not reach a verdict in his first trial.Federal authorities say Cay Clubs was a $300 million Ponzi scheme.Yikes, a life sentence for this crime... when Rothstein -- the supposed worst of the worst -- gets 50. [read post]