Summary jury trial is an alternative dispute resolution technique, increasingly being used in civil disputes in the United States. In essence, a mock trial...

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 offense...

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...

summary offence or petty offence is a violation in some common law jurisdictions that can be proceeded against summarily, without the right to a jury...

Contpt §§ 86–88. Summary conviction, convicting an accused without giving him the benefit of a jury trial and/or indictment. Summary court-martial, the...

instructions to the jury. In the absence of an award of summary judgment (or some type of pretrial dismissal), a lawsuit ordinarily proceeds to trial, which is...

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...

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...

penalty or judgment. 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

tradition of jury trial that has evolved over centuries. Under present-day practice, juries are generally summoned for criminal trials in the Crown Court...

of any post-trial motions." Many expected Trump, had the gag order been lifted, to assail trial participants including the witnesses, jury, and court staff...

partial summary judgment regarding Carroll I, finding Trump liable for defamation via his 2019 statements. The jury verdict from the January 2024 trial was...

court, which is then either summarily granted or denied orally by the court. This is still common with motions made during trial. Today, however, most motions...

The ostrich instruction is a jury instruction that the requirement of knowledge to establish a guilty mind (mens rea), is satisfied by deliberate ignorance...

sentencing phase of Arias's trial resulted in a hung jury, prompting the judge to declare a mistrial for that phase. The jury had reached an 8–4 decision...

before a jury. In Australia, an indictable offence is more serious than a summary offence, and one where the defendant has the right to trial by jury. They...

January 29, 1969, Shaw was brought to trial in Orleans Parish Criminal Court on these charges. On March 1, 1969, a jury took less than an hour to find Shaw...

the right to a fair trial. The cases included a lynch mob before the suspects had been indicted, all-white juries, rushed trials, and disruptive mobs...

juries during a criminal or civil trial. Scientific jury selection is used during the jury selection phase of the trial, during which lawyers have the opportunity...

after pleading and before discovery; summary judgment happens after discovery and before trial; JMOL occurs during trial. In United States federal courts...

jury in some jurisdictions. Jury selection differs based on the court and locality where a trial occurs. The process of jury selection and managing voir...

trial for all four murders resulted in conviction, but this was overturned by the Mississippi Supreme Court for racial bias by the prosecutor in jury...

and fair trial; usually pejorative Summary judgment, judgment entered by a judge or jury for one party and against another, without a full trial. Often...

intent to incite a riot.: 8  In a separate trial, seven of the indicted police officers were acquitted by the jury, and the case against the eighth indicted...

will present in front of a jury. Furthermore, deposition transcripts are frequently submitted in support of motions for summary judgment as evidence that...