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26 Apr 2008, 10:41 am
What the victims did was more pertinent to resolving the issues of fact than what may have been in their minds.Also, carelessness and incompetence are not standards to be applied here, unless the conduct rises to the level of criminal acts, as defined by the law relating to each count charged.What happened outside the Club Kalua on November 25, 2006, and the ensuing incident that occurred around the corner on Liverpool Street are the two significant events about which proof was… [read post]
27 Jul 2008, 3:27 pm
S. ____ (2008) (slip opinion, formatted below from .pdf to .doc format by LawPundit), which, although it is a special case of maritime law, definitely sets the logical/legal standards for treatment of punitive damages in other cases in the future.In the Exxon Valdez case, the jury had initially awarded $5 billion in punitive damages, which the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit had reduced to $2.5 billion based upon due process considerations. [read post]
27 Dec 2010, 1:15 pm
” As noted above, the preponderance standard is not universally applied in civil cases, and certainly not in criminal cases. [read post]
19 Mar 2008, 7:03 am
"[16] Fourth, reviewing courts, under the Supreme Court's new Philip Morris decision, must ensure that the jury is instructed not to punish defendants an amount that figures in the harms to nonparties to the litigation.[17] One might see this as related, though not essential, to the Court's stated interest in ensuring that one state not try to punish defendants for conduct lawfully performed in another state.[18] Fifth, judicial review of a jury's award… [read post]
17 Feb 2017, 2:25 pm
Code §§ 1028(a)(1) and 1546(b)(3) for which he was convicted in the instant case. [read post]
2 Feb 2018, 11:16 am
At trial, they unsuccessfully asked for a jury instruction that the use of deadly force is unreasonable unless the officer has probable cause to believe the suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious physical injury. [read post]
23 Jul 2012, 12:02 pm
Defendant’s next jury-instruction argument is based on the trial court’s lack-of-knowledge instruction. [read post]
24 Feb 2012, 10:26 am
McDaniel stood on the fact that the jury in this case did not reach a verdict. [read post]
2 Jun 2017, 6:36 am
But it denied the relist involving Ohio’s effort to obtain summary reversal in a habeas case involving a faulty jury instruction in a murder trial. [read post]
1 Apr 2011, 5:27 am
” One judge in a recent case, though, couldn’t leave it alone, providing in the jury instructions “examples” of reasonable doubt such as “whether one cal tell what a jigsaw puzzle will show despite some missing pieces. [read post]
5 Mar 2010, 7:48 am
”They argued, and Fine agreed, that the law providing for the procedures surrounding instructions to a jury in the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure violate the Eighth and 14th Amendments to the U.S. [read post]
3 Jun 2014, 2:47 pm
CA Civil Jury Instruction 426. [read post]
12 Mar 2007, 2:09 am
The Court referred to cases which demonstrated the level of conduct the Court has previously found to deviate grossly from the standard of care of a reasonable person. [read post]
28 May 2012, 7:09 pm
The problem for Zimmerman is the notoriety of this case — any judge is going to want to avoid making that call and find a reason to let the case go to the jury. [read post]
27 May 2024, 5:45 am
While the jury instructions have not yet been publicly issued by the judge, the broad parameters are now sufficiently set due to the “charging conference” at which these issues were discussed, the proposed jury instructions submitted by both sides which were released Friday night, and standard jury instructions in New York courts. [read post]
29 Apr 2014, 10:55 am
12 Angry Men is interesting because it focuses on jury deliberations and does not depict the trial itself – only the judge’s jury instructions. [read post]
13 Jun 2011, 12:24 pm
A suitable limiting instruction “explain[s] precisely the permitted and prohibited purposes of the evidence, with sufficient reference to the factual context of the case to enable the jury to comprehend and appreciate the fine distinction to which it is required to adhere. [read post]
9 Aug 2011, 10:49 am
There was a “rigid limit” on the time the defendant had to turn the gun over to police, and as the defendant himself testified that he was planning to store the gun at his home, his request for a jury instruction on innocent possession was properly denied. [read post]
27 Apr 2018, 3:23 am
The court may find the facts constituting relevant conduct by a preponderance of the evidence standard; a jury trial is not required. [read post]
20 Nov 2010, 12:18 am
In many states, however, juries also assess criminal culpability in cases where the prosecution requests the death penalty.Surveys taken in the 1990s of people who had served on U.S. juries that decided in favor of the death penalty found many had suffered from posttraumatic stress disorder, insomnia and headaches.In death penalty cases heard by juries in the United States, the criteria and procedures for assessing culpability are stipulated in… [read post]
