A jury trial, or trial by jury, is a legal proceeding in which a jury makes a decision or findings of fact. It is distinguished from a bench trial in which...
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Trial by Jury is a comic opera in one act, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It was first produced on 25 March 1875, at London's...
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has been growing. Most trial juries are "petit juries", and usually consist of twelve people. A larger jury known as a grand jury has been used to investigate...
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Jury Duty is an American reality hoax sitcom television series created by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, about a fake jury trial. It stars Ronald Gladden...
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Law & Order: Trial by Jury is an American legal drama television series about criminal trials set in New York City. It was the fourth series in Dick Wolf's...
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civil) trials. In Canada, the jury must reach a unanimous decision on criminal cases. If the jury cannot reach a unanimous decision, a hung jury is declared...
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A citizen's right to a trial by jury is a central feature of the United States Constitution. It is considered a fundamental principle of the American...
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Jury nullification, also known in the United Kingdom as jury equity or a perverse verdict, is when the jury in a criminal trial gives a verdict of not...
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A bench trial is a trial by judge, as opposed to a trial by jury. The term applies most appropriately to any administrative hearing in relation to a summary...
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jury trial is an alternative dispute resolution technique, increasingly being used in civil disputes in the United States. In essence, a mock trial is...
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more jurors than a trial jury, sometimes called a petty or petit jury (from the French word petit meaning "small"). A grand jury in the United States...
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libretto by W. S. Gilbert. Trial by Jury may also refer to: Trial by jury or jury trial, a type of legal proceeding Trial by Jury (TV series), a 1989-90 scripted...
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Trial by Jury is a 1994 American legal thriller film directed by Heywood Gould and starring Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, Gabriel Byrne, Armand Assante and William...
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Trial by jury in Scotland is used in the courts of Scotland in solemn procedure for trial on indictment before a judge and jury for serious criminal cases...
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of the community, it is called a jury trial. Where the trial is held solely before a judge, it is called a bench trial. Hearings before administrative...
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different rights, including the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury consisting of jurors from the state and district in which the...
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Jury selection is the selection of the people who will serve on a jury during a jury trial. The group of potential jurors (the "jury pool,” also known...
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kinds of cases tried before a jury, how many jurors hear a trial, and whether the lay person is involved in a single trial or holds a paid job similar to...
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girlfriend Marlee (Weisz) appear to be able to sway the jury to deliver any verdict they want in a trial against a gun manufacturer. The film was released October...
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evening of August 14, 2017, with the jury ruling in Swift's favor and ordering Mueller to pay her $1. The trial was subject to significant media attention...
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K. M. Nanavati v. State of Maharashtra (category Trials in India)
declared not guilty by a jury, but the verdict was dismissed by the Bombay High Court and the case was retried as a bench trial. The case is often erroneously...
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trial, alleging that the court clerk tampered with the jury; a new trial court judge denied the motion in January 2024. Local media called the trial South...
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unconventional move for a federal antitrust lawsuit, the DOJ has pushed for a jury trial for the case. In March 2023, judge Leonie Brinkema denied Google's request...
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tradition of jury trial that has evolved over centuries. Under present-day practice, juries are generally summoned for criminal trials in the Crown Court...
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James Earl Ray (section Mock trial and civil suit)
Ray was convicted in 1969 after entering a guilty plea—thus forgoing a jury trial and the possibility of a death sentence—and was sentenced to 99 years...
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trial by jury in England is influential because many English and later British colonies adopted the English common law system in which trial by jury plays...
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not a fair trial; for example, the right to a jury trial and other important procedures vary from nation to nation. The right to fair trial is very helpful...
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Civil Rights Act of 1957 (section Part V – To Provide Trial by Jury for Proceedings To Punish Criminal Contempts of Court Growing Out of Civil Rights Cases and To Amend the Judicial Code Relating to Federal Jury Qualifications)
several provisions via the Anderson–Aiken amendment and the O'Mahoney jury trial amendment, significantly watering down its immediate impact. During the...
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right to trial by jury. In particular, the Court pronounced that: "The perceived importance of the jury and the Charter right to jury trial is meaningless...
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guilty plea that is accepted by the court, a jury trial in which a verdict of guilty is delivered, or a trial by judge in which the defendant is found guilty...
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