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16 Dec 2009, 8:36 am
The Supreme Court in October clarified standard jury instructions for death penalty cases in response to another recommendation in that study, which found widespread confusion among jurors.Lawyers signing the petition included former Justices Harry Lee Anstead, Arthur England and Gerald Kogan and former American Bar Association President Martha Barnett.D'Alemberte, also a former American Bar Association president, served on the National Advisory Board of the… [read post]
9 Dec 2009, 10:19 pm
Some Other Day Please: Motion to Continue While Judge Strickland granted the State’s Motion for Determination of New Trial Date, it must be realized that his order only instructed the Clerk to docket the Check Fraud case for “pretrial and trial” – a standard couplet of court dates that are scheduled in all criminal cases. [read post]
4 Dec 2009, 4:43 pm
" The petition also raised a second question, challenging the Seventh Circuit's "retroactive" creation of a rule that an accused in a criminal case forfeits any claim of error in the jury instruction by resisting a split verdict approach. [read post]
1 Dec 2009, 10:11 pm
" See Florida Standard Jury Instruction 2.5. [read post]
29 Nov 2009, 9:12 pm
Exclusive Rights, 7th Circuit Opines on Originality Standard for Derivative Works. [read post]
22 Nov 2009, 3:23 am
And, in most states, the jury will be instructed by the judge that this refusal can be viewed as "consciousness of guilt". [read post]
20 Nov 2009, 7:21 am
He relies principally on a single criminal case, State v. [read post]
16 Nov 2009, 5:22 am
(Hawaii November 13, 2009),the Hawaii Supreme Court announced that "a criminal defendant has a constitutional right to confer with counsel at all stages of his case, including recesses taken during his testimony" Id. at 61 (emphasis in original). [read post]
10 Nov 2009, 11:24 pm
The real, workaday standard of proof typically employed in criminal cases is closer to what lawyers would call a "preponderance of the evidence" - based on the evidence heard by the jury, guilt is more likely than not, but by no means certain. [read post]
10 Nov 2009, 8:49 am
" Violations of Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Truck Regulations Violations of FMCSA Regulations establish standards of care upon which a jury should be instructed in negligence actions. [read post]
9 Nov 2009, 6:01 am
The six other companies pleaded guilty in criminal cases. [read post]
5 Nov 2009, 7:40 am
The following NJ criminal conviction appeals were decided by the New Jersey Supreme Court and the New Jersey Superior Court - Appellate Division in October. [read post]
4 Nov 2009, 1:31 pm
Traditionally we instruct jurors every day, don't talk about the case, don't read about it in the newspapers etc. [read post]
3 Nov 2009, 6:33 am
Under Section Section 10.15 of the Florida Standard Jury Instructions, the state must prove that the convicted felon had in his care, custody, possession, or control a firearm, electric weapon/device, or ammunition. [read post]
31 Oct 2009, 12:03 pm
Note: this does not appear to involve child porn, which is (also) criminalized under separate federal statutes that carry much higher exposures).At trial the jury instruction regarding whether the material was “obscene” did not define which “community’s standards” the jurors were to consider when reaching this determination. [read post]
30 Oct 2009, 4:00 pm
After a 3 week trial, a jury convicted them of criminal CAN-SPAM violations, criminal obscenity for 2 spammed images and other charges. [read post]
29 Oct 2009, 1:45 pm
The Florida Supreme Court revised standard jury instructions for death penalty cases Thursday in ways the justices hope will reduce widespread confusion among jurors disclosed by an American Bar Association survey. [read post]
22 Oct 2009, 10:09 pm
The court later instructed the jury that it could infer that the nephew's testimony would have been incriminating. [read post]
20 Oct 2009, 10:21 am
The following New Jersey criminal appeal cases were decided by the New Jersey Superior Court - Appellate Division and the New Jersey Supreme Court in September. [read post]
15 Oct 2009, 3:40 am
One problem was the jury instructions: they were led to believe that, in order to impose a life sentence, they would have to unanimously agree that the mitigating circumstances outweighed the aggravating circumstances. [read post]
