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    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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  • 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 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    racially motivated jury nullification by the mostly African-American jury. Polling in later years showed the gap had narrowed since the trial; more than half...
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    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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  • 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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