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19 Jan 2008, 10:19 am
" He also instructed: "The only triumph in any case, whether it be civil or criminal, is whether or not the truth [has] triumphed. [read post]
30 Aug 2013, 3:52 pm by Jacek Stramski
In Re: Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal CasesInstruction 14.2 (SC12-1940). [read post]
6 Mar 2024, 6:31 am by Heather Douglas
It is more than a mere incident of criminal procedure. [read post]
29 Jan 2015, 2:32 am by Michael DelSignore
As a Massachusetts OUI Lawyer, I have always been arguing this standard to the jury but it will require that the judge provide this precise instruction at trial when instructing the jury. [read post]
23 Jul 2023, 4:00 am by Administrator
Appeals Criminal Law: Jury Instructions; Criminal OrganizationsR. v. [read post]
17 Feb 2016, 3:43 pm by The Federalist Society
The question before the Supreme Court was twofold: (1) how should federal courts assess a challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence in a criminal case when a jury instruction adds an element to the charged crime and the Government fails to object; and (2) can a defendant successfully raise the general federal criminal statute of limitations for the first time on appeal? [read post]
23 Oct 2021, 8:22 am by Randall Hodgkinson
Dinkel's defense:The failure to give the jury the tools it needed to apply Dinkel's defense against the State's case made it impossible to achieve the fundamental fairness we expect in a criminal trial. [read post]
2 Sep 2007, 9:00 pm
Court of Appeals ruled that such an instruction "impermissibly invaded the jury's  exclusive province to weigh the evidence as a whole against the standard of reasonable doubt, and requires reversal even under the high standard for plain error review. [read post]
24 Dec 2012, 5:56 am
When juries are given their instructions by the judge, they are also told about other charges they can consider if they don't think the standards are met for what the state has charged. [read post]
8 Jun 2023, 7:46 am by Alex Phipps
These summaries will be added to Smith’s Criminal Case Compendium, a free and searchable database of case summaries from 2008 to the present. [read post]
11 Mar 2010, 11:25 am by Rumpole
We start our 3rd DCA roundup with a case that has a conundrum: What do you do when the jury instruction for a lesser has a higher standard of proof then the jury instruction for the charged crime? [read post]
4 Dec 2012, 11:37 am by Dave
  However, clear and convincing evidence is lower than the beyond a reasonable doubt standard used in criminal cases. [read post]
7 Feb 2020, 3:45 am by Tim James-Matthews
In short, the appellant contended that the Senior Coroner incorrectly instructed the jury as to the applicable standard of proof of suicide: a conclusion of suicide (even a narrative conclusion of suicide) can only be reached by application of the criminal standard of proof. [read post]
1 Oct 2020, 12:14 pm by Christopher Tyner
Justice Newby dissented, stating his view that the trial court’s jury instructions, which included a general transferred-intent instruction but not the specific instruction requested by the defendant, enabled the defendant to make the jury argument he desired. [read post]
13 Aug 2018, 6:44 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
The allegations in this case gave defendant's lawyer something to work with, as it suggests the jury ignored the trial court's directive not to discuss the case during trial (a standard instruction) and that one juror racially-profiled the defendant as a drug dealer at first sight.But Juror No. 10 said nothing about the content of the mid-trial discussions. [read post]