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The Missouri litigation led to four verdicts against J&J in which juries issued verdicts totaling $307 million.
Beyond the explicit verdicts of DOJ personnel in the IG's report, there are implicit verdicts as well of the accusers.
That doesn't mean there weren't not guilty verdicts in those cases, but it's just that those verdicts were based on reasonable doubt.
J&J has appealed all of the plaintiff verdicts, and the company said it is confident the verdicts would be overturned on appeal.
The court's verdicts are binding and can lead to the acquittal of academics still on trial, or lead appeals courts to overturn verdicts of those sentenced.
But that 2017 verdict by a California jury, as well as other verdicts in Missouri, was overturned on appeal, and challenges to at least another five verdicts are pending.
Judges at the Criminal Court in Bangkok held a lengthy session on Wednesday to announce the verdicts, and many relatives of the defendants were crying as the verdicts were read.
Its verdicts are binding, but it has no enforcement powers.
"I am very pleased," he says of the guilty verdicts.
Any "behavior" arising from disappointment with court verdicts is unacceptable.
Any "behaviour" arising from disappointment with court verdicts is unacceptable.
Egypt's judicial system has issued other surprising verdicts of late.
FIFA would not comment on when appeal verdicts were expected.
More than 99% of criminal cases still yield guilty verdicts.
The jury filed in, and the foreman gave the verdicts.
Judge Rakoff rejected their argument to overturn the guilty verdicts.
"But in trafficking cases there are contradictory verdicts," he said.
Before 1966, 23 criminal FARA trials ended in guilty verdicts.
All the verdicts are subject to appeal, he told Reuters.
Harris remained stoic as the verdicts were read on Monday.
The verdicts were not a good result for team Manafort.
Before 1966, however, 23 criminal trials ended in guilty verdicts.
Only 94 of those rape cases resulted in guilty verdicts.
We are hopeful that many more such verdicts will follow.
Supporters of Mr. Sanders cried as his verdicts were read.
Appeals evaluate verdicts based on the evidence adduced at trial.
Mueller, 55, showed no reaction as the verdicts were read.
Verdicts of such size are often scaled back by courts.
The verdicts came following Baca's second trial on the charges.
"We're not a show that levies verdicts," Mr. Shepard said.
The issue isn't new — a 2010 report from Reuters found 90 cases where verdicts were challenged because of alleged Internet-related juror misconduct, including 28 instances where judges granted new trials or overturned verdicts.
That could buy the company time and prevent excessive jury verdicts.
Both verdicts were later slashed on post-verdict motions or appeal.
Courts rubber-stamp the party's own verdicts on its own officials.
McAllister said the guilty verdicts were not "a win for anybody."
Verdicts about the court itself, meanwhile, are already being handed down.
Previous talc trials have produced verdicts as large as $417 million.
Badged content will also link to media partners' verdicts on it.
Months later, in 1934, voters approved the law allowing split verdicts.
The verdicts mark an end to the SFO's current Libor trials.
Mphahlele added that the community should be happy with the verdicts.
A federal court jury returned 20 guilty verdicts against the McDonnells.
After the verdicts were announced, the Pennsylvania courthouse erupted with emotion.
Another 11 lawmakers face the same charges and are awaiting verdicts.
Prior to Friday's convictions, the ECCC has delivered only three verdicts.
Five other juries have failed to reach verdicts, resulting in mistrials.
Historically around 240% of criminal verdicts in Mexico have been convictions.
Nevertheless, some front-row denizens were ready to issue their verdicts.
Mr. Morgenthau moved to vacate the verdicts his office had won.
Now witnesses can put off prison instead by appealing their verdicts.
Those verdicts are on appeal, and some have been thrown out.
So far, he's gotten no verdict or verdicts that were overturned.
J&J has successfully overturned prior verdicts in the talc litigation.
J&J has said it will appeal the recent verdicts against it.
We also examined whether those studies agree or disagree in their verdicts.
Here are the verdicts from The Verge, Engadget, Gizmodo, CNET and Wired.
The verdicts come more than a year after Craig Rideout was murdered.
The verdicts were later overturned and he pleaded guilty on lesser charges.
The verdicts were focused on his activities as a lobbyist for Ukraine.
Hernandez was visibly emotional when the verdicts were read, embracing his attorneys.
Pinehurst's Pashley is confident players will render positive verdicts on Hanse's work.
This makes them slower and puts verdicts on less sure legal footing.
" Immediately after the verdicts were read, Mary Alexander said, "God is good.
Majority-Shi'ite Iran criticized the verdicts, its state news agency IRNA said.
One rarely objects to her verdicts about what exactly happened and why.
Three Insider employees decided to give it a try, with mixed verdicts.
The company has vowed to appeal or already has appealed the verdicts.
The reading out of the verdicts was broadcast live on national television.
The Manafort guilty verdicts were, however, a sizable win for Mueller's team.
In October, a judge reversed two verdicts in favor of the company.
But they were persuaded to return guilty verdicts on virtually every count.
Many states allow non-unanimous verdicts for misdemeanors and less serious crimes.
Two years later, however, a federal appeals court threw out both verdicts.
The company has successfully overturned previous talc verdicts on technical legal grounds.
Supporters and press freedom groups denounced the verdicts as travesty of justice.
But the Weinstein verdicts indicate that we are beginning to correct course.
Outside of St. Louis, the only other significant talc verdicts against J&J to date have come in lawsuits filed by individual plaintiffs in New Jersey and California, where the company is currently facing jury verdicts totalling $142 million.
Outside of St. Louis, the only other significant talc verdicts against J&J to date have come in lawsuits filed by individual plaintiffs in New Jersey and California, where the company is currently facing jury verdicts totaling $142 million.
In announcing the verdicts, Saudi state television showed mugshots of all those executed.
Attorneys declined to comment publicly on the verdicts before the trial has concluded.
There were no surprises in the verdicts and no surprises in the reactions.
The jury was unable to reach verdicts on two counts of attempted extortion.
His testimony against the other players helped secure guilty verdicts in their trials.
"This is the longest sentence for Article 112 verdicts ever recorded," iLaw said.
Justice Anthony Kennedy questioned the role of "generous jury verdicts" in the debate.
Some have sided with the company, and others were unable to reach verdicts.
Knows nothing about my history of over $1 Billion in verdicts and settlements.
But before we hand down any guilty verdicts, let's look at the evidence.
Guilty verdicts for Bridget Anne Kelly and Bill Baroni in the Bridgegate trials.
Florida and Alabama remain the only states that do not require unanimous verdicts.
Several of the defense lawyers said their clients were appealing the guilty verdicts.
"The verdicts were shocking today," said one of the defense lawyers, Ahmed Saad.
Juries in four additional mesothelioma trials could not reach verdicts, resulting in mistrials.
Oregon is the last state that allows non-unanimous verdicts in criminal cases.
That's why about 95 percent of civil lawsuits end in settlement, not verdicts.
Quick verdicts are not generally associated with lengthy, document-heavy white-collar prosecutions.
Gene Williams blamed those verdicts on confusion created by plaintiffs' lawyers at the trial.
As the guilty verdicts were read by the jury foreman, Ciminelli shook his head.
Of that group, 22017 ended in settlements or verdicts against them or the city.
A fast-tracked hearing took just 62 days to reach verdicts in the case.
Those verdicts have been met with outrage by both victims' and women's rights groups.
He was convicted of corruption after a jury returned 18 guilty verdicts against him.
I don&apost know, 95 percent of federal cases end up in guilty verdicts.
Residents know the nation is watching their city -- and its reaction to the verdicts.
And all of that helps me ignore the anti-veganism verdicts I frequently encounter.
The first trial concluded with all six co-defendants receiving verdicts of not guilty.
Family members of the victims in the courtroom sobbed as the verdicts were read.
These verdicts have broken and shattered him and our family in so many ways.
They were considering murder or voluntary manslaughter verdicts and could not reach a decision.
Jurors will also be allowed to consider first-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter verdicts.
Adverse jury verdicts have wiped more than 900% from Bayer's market value since August.
But the real drama might not begin until after the verdicts are handed down.
Some are pending, while others have led to settlements, plea deals and guilty verdicts.
But explain why it's important to hold off for a while on some verdicts.
Prosecutors in Japan rarely lose; about 99 percent of indictments end in guilty verdicts.
Hers came as one of a string of separate jury verdicts against Johnson & Johnson.
Granted, observers are not yet done picking through reports to make their final verdicts.
The political pressure on Mr. Cuomo over the verdicts is not expected to lessen.
Oregon is the last remaining state that allows non-unanimous verdicts in criminal cases.
All 12 verdicts will be appealed, and some already have been, Mr. Ali said.
Lawyers for the men both said on Friday that they would appeal the verdicts.
Today, the verdicts behind such grim episodes still inspire extremists in the Muslim world.
In a separate set of verdicts, Moscow courts on Friday sentenced three other protesters.
Since the April verdicts, Cosby has not been permitted to leave his Pennsylvania home.
However, one of Khashoggi's sons said the verdicts had been fair to his children.
Verdicts are meant to have consensus, but will be approved by majority when necessary.
Mr. Bendrer, 30, sat with his head bowed during the reading of the verdicts.
The arrest warrant was dated 2015, but was amended and unsealed following the verdicts.
Here we'll give you the lowdown on 2016 releases — and the critics' verdicts on them.
Some juries have sided with J&J and others have been unable to reach verdicts.
All five verdicts have dealt with African suspects from Congo, Central African Republic and Mali.
All five verdicts have dealt with African suspects from Congo, Central Arican Republic and Mali.
PureShares has said verdicts on the lawsuits could change the way ETF managers do business.
After the second round of verdicts, some could be seen celebrating with signs and flags.
The verdicts were 10-2 on both counts and came after five hours of deliberation.
Lawyers for Daud and Omar did not immediately return requests for comment on the verdicts.
Fields remained subdued and quiet as the verdicts were read aloud inside the Charlottesville courtroom.
As the consecutive guilty verdicts were being read, family members began breaking down and crying.
It also could imperil prior verdicts and cases that have yet to go to trial.
We can expect lengthy appeals once the active cases go to trial and reach verdicts.
If the appeals court reverses Judge Cogan's decision, the jury's guilty verdicts will be reinstated.
Some of those cases carried verdicts against Johnson & Johnson with multimillion dollar awards to plaintiffs.
Such partisan verdicts will lead to years of conflict over the implementation of those policies.
There was also a number of "not guilty" verdicts in lower courts for conscientious objectors.
After the jury left, lawyers for Nordlicht and Levy moved to overturn the guilty verdicts.
State broadcaster TRT reported verdicts from two other local courts that would halt the congress.
Guilty pleas and guilty verdicts are not the stuff that great presidencies are made of.
After four major debuts in Paris this week, four front-row retailers deliver their verdicts.
The firm had a track record of winning big verdicts and settlements for its clients.
Judge Richard E. Moore of Charlottesville Circuit Court affirmed the verdicts, but made no comment.
Juries in those cases have hit the company with verdicts as high as $4.69 billion.
The verdicts represent a mixed result for the taxpayer-funded SFO in a complex case.
But as the Bridgegate guilty verdicts were handed up, Mr. Christie found himself shut out.
"This is justice," Martin Andanar, a spokesman for the Philippine government, said after the verdicts.
The panel needs at least three judges to render verdicts, but now has only one.
His departure raised concerns for Democrats and liberal activists that those verdicts could be overturned.
The new report follows two prominent legal verdicts that determined the herbicide caused cancer in plaintiffs.
"These verdicts have broken and shattered him and our family in so many ways," Dan writes.
Some of those cases carried verdicts against Johnson & Johnson with multi-million dollar awards to plaintiffs.
The verdicts will set the tone for how cases like these are handled around the country.
But the trials of some have ended in verdicts of subverting state power and heavy sentences.
Consumer protection laws certainly aren't always consumer-friendly, and the ALI's restatement accurately reflects some verdicts.
The two St. Louis verdicts were the first talcum powder cases in which money was awarded.
"The writers of 'Dark Horse' view the verdicts as a travesty of justice," the statement said.
J&J has been successful at having other talc verdicts in Missouri thrown out on appeal.
"These verdicts have broken and shattered him and our family in so many ways." he wrote.
In many countries, including England and Australia, pleas now account for a majority of guilty verdicts.
On the other hand, "I don't want farmers in prison", he said, speaking before Thursday's verdicts.
As the guilty verdicts were read Saturday, Vandenburg's mother began to weep, according to The Tennessean.
Kinkeade also denied J&J's bid to set aside the verdicts and order a new trial.
Similarly, former Montgomery County Judge Randall Thomas overrode five life verdicts to impose the death penalty.
The stock prices of the banks involved have fallen over costly verdicts by the U.S. Treasury.
It comes after a lengthy trial where prosecutors won guilty verdicts against Trump's former campaign chairman.
More than half of completed homicide cases in seven pilot neighborhoods now result in guilty verdicts.
DNA prosecutors won 970 final verdicts last year, raising DNA's conviction rate to roughly 92 percent.
A mistrial was declared on 10 other charges in Manafort's case along with the guilty verdicts.
Yost countered that the state will be harmed if the bellwether trial results in inconsistent verdicts.
To the Editor: In Scottish criminal courts there are three possible verdicts rather than our two.
The company has had previous success overturning large verdicts in cases alleging harm from its products.
As the guilty verdicts were read, she said, she held hands with family members and cried.
"Now why would you be looking at jury verdicts if you didn't expect litigation," Srebnick asked.
In the Thai court tradition, regional chief justices can review judges' verdicts before they are announced.
The results, in far too many cases, were bad verdicts, ruined reputations and permanently damaged lives.
Spain's new equality minister has promised fresh legislation on consent following major protests over the verdicts.
He told us Weinstein is focused on issues regarding his plan to appeal the guilty verdicts.
In court, there have been mixed verdicts, mistrials and some appellate rulings in J&Js favor.
Hundreds of "Law and Order" episodes concluded with definitive guilty verdicts, punctuated by a signature sound effect.
The verdicts are now in, and fans can rest assured: It's arguably even better than season one.
The verdicts have sparked new-found concern over the safety of talc-containing products in the home.
In 2014, Radcliff received a $14.5 million verdict — one of the largest defamation verdicts in US history.
Critics say the limits make it impossible to reach verdicts in many cases, especially white-collar crime.
That may disappoint some who believe the police get away with murder, but these verdicts were correct.
In 2014, a Florence court reinstated their guilty verdicts, sentencing them to 28 and 25 years, respectively.
This assumes that national courts can be trusted to issue impartial verdicts—and governments, to respect them.
Willis showed no emotion as the verdicts were read, and he quickly was escorted from the courtroom.
It heard 404 cases against politicians between 2011 and 2016 but issued guilty verdicts in just three.
"I produce 160 verdicts per year—and the European Convention on Human Rights bans slavery," he complains.
Several others have resulted in jury verdicts, but Friday's verdict dwarfs the next largest of $2.5 million.
A fourth of talc lawsuits nationally were brought in St. Louis after the first large verdicts there.
The not-guilty verdicts in Yanez's trial came a month after a jury acquitted a Tulsa, Okla.
Yet what's done is done: since AIBA recently scrapped its appeals process, all Olympic verdicts are final.
Investors appeared to agree that the verdicts from regulators did not endanger the banks' current business models.
His law firm, Eagan Avenatti LLP, had hauled in more than $21990 million in verdicts and settlements.
Today, Olga, Margot, and Samed all logged on to the State Department website to get their verdicts.
"Previously, for politically sensitive cases like these, the verdicts would not be reached so quickly," he said.
The verdicts represented the first convictions of leaders of the 2014 protest, known as the Umbrella Movement.
In 1984, there were over 4,000 jury verdicts; in 2015, there were fewer than half of that.
The verdicts were overturned on appeal, as were various contempt citations, on the basis of judicial bias.
Their 12 guilty verdicts were for three different schemes: voting on legislation benefiting American Pharmacies Cooperative, Inc.
"I'm just incredibly happy it's over – thank God," Radomski told reporters outside the courthouse following the verdicts.
And while lots of the verdicts are already in, plenty of shows are still on the bubble.
His Special Prosecutions Division received guilty verdicts or convictions in six major white-collar public corruption cases.
We'll learn in the coming weeks in court filings how Manafort's team plans to attack the verdicts.
The jury awarded him $14 million, one of the largest-ever verdicts in a wrongful-conviction case.
A jury in St. Louis awarded them $22 billion, one of the largest personal injury verdicts ever.
The Hall of Famer was in the court room when the verdicts against his son were read.
The recent verdicts against Cumhuriyet were denounced by human rights and press freedom groups around the world.
He said he tired of having his verdicts subverted by superiors with little interest in the evidence.
Some of the boys were retried and reconvicted, and the Supreme Court twice overturned the guilty verdicts.
I mean students (and their parents) awaiting actual colleges' verdicts on early-decision and early-action applications.
A jury convicted him on both counts, but a judge overturned those verdicts and dismissed the case.
Several verdicts have prompted street protests, including some of the world's largest marches on International Women's Day.
In England, referees have been relying heavily on the VAR system feeding their verdicts through the radio.
All the verdicts point to one thing: There are now countertop ovens for different types of cooks.
Pell's lawyers also said the majority was wrong in their conclusion that the verdicts were not unreasonable.
Jackson left the gag order in place after the guilty verdicts against Stone were returned last month.
Given his domineering influence over Egyptian media, al-Sisi could easily contain fallout from overturning the verdicts.
Both other jury verdicts also came in California, one in state court and one in federal court.
The prior two jury verdicts against Bayer in U.S. Roundup trials triggered steep declines in Bayer shares.
I have, herein, included verdicts on Thomson and Colville previously unpublished, so that inquiring minds can know.
Final verdicts generally take years and no date was set for the case to be heard in full.
The results have been split, with some juries siding with J&J and others unable to reach verdicts.
He boasted to Esposito about winning big verdicts for clients in slip-and-fall cases against major hotels.
It has said publicly talc is safe and that verdicts against the company are based on "junk" science.
And attorneys stack juries with non-technical jurors who return massive verdicts for patents on online shopping carts.
Here is what some of them have to say about the verdicts and her innocence throughout the years.
A few big patent jury verdicts could quickly change the perception on whether patents are valuable offensive tools.
This poses a new challenge for retailers, whose supply chains must respond ever more quickly to wanghong verdicts.
Today, split-jury verdicts play out in quite different ways in the only two states that allow them.
Bolin's case was marked by multiple overturned convictions before guilty verdicts stuck in each of the women's deaths.
The murder verdicts were overturned on appeal in 2013 then reinstated last year by the country's highest court.
Under the court's rules, judges will now meet to decide whether to accept or reject the jury's verdicts.
Juries elsewhere have returned four other verdicts against Johnson & Johnson, and another case in New Jersey was dismissed.
As the judges were handing out their verdicts, protesters shouted "Liar!" and at least one rushed the stage.
When Parliament reconvenes on Monday, the government will have to deliver verdicts on challenging environmental and military questions.
However, when 18 guilty verdicts came down, many people felt a sense of relief we should find unsettling.
Judge Barry G. Williams, who presided over the Goodson trial, issued the verdicts to a hushed, packed courtroom.
The rapidly delivered verdicts, Mr. Liu said in an interview, reinforced a sense of choreography about the proceedings.
That would jeopardize hundreds of verdicts ranging from corruption to human trafficking and potentially Dragnea's cases as well.
But minutes later, state broadcaster TRT reported fresh verdicts from two other local courts ordering the meeting halted.
As the verdicts were read on Tuesday afternoon, there were gasps from the officers' supporters in the benches.
Iranian judges scarcely ever handed down stoning verdicts, but the situation seemed to require an especially horrific punishment.
The Commission also asked Poland to publish all verdicts of the Constitutional Tribunal, as stipulated by Polish law.
Allowing such challenges would encourage lawyers to harass former jurors, she said, and undermine the finality of verdicts.
"What will matter about the verdicts will be the documentary record that they establish," he said by telephone.
The latest high-profile exposé: this spring's big verdicts against Monsanto over the herbicide Roundup's relationship to cancer.
Turkish law allows for trials in absentia, but they normally cannot reach verdicts without testimony from the accused.
The tally of damages from verdicts against Johnson & Johnson is already in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
The pair of judges who hand down the verdicts are the onomatopoetic foodies Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood.
Of 317 arrests related to rhino poaching in 103, for example, just 15 percent resulted in guilty verdicts.
The court said in its ruling late Thursday that the guilty verdicts had been influenced by the government.
They challenged the verdicts before Russia's Constitutional Court, which upheld the ban on the grounds of protecting morals.
The cases are the first to reach an appeals court, and the verdicts could have far-reaching consequences.
The series was overshadowed by the riots in Los Angeles after the Rodney King verdicts were handed down.
On Tuesday, the jury handed out guilty verdicts on all counts, including conspiracy to murder and money laundering.
That could shield the company from excessive jury verdicts and buy time by putting a hold on the claims.
He served more than three years behind bars before those guilty verdicts were overturned on different grounds each time.
Reed told CNN at that time she was not going to retry the cases if the verdicts were overturned.
The prospect for climate-friendly verdicts is improving, says Sophie Marjanac of ClientEarth, an advocacy group, for two reasons.
"We fully expect this verdict would be on the high side of the verdicts around the country," Kelly says.
"The writers of 'Dark Horse' view the verdicts as a travesty of justice," said the statement obtained by Variety.
The verdict came after three straight prior jury verdicts in St. Louis against J&J awarding plaintiffs $195 million.
Last week's letter marks the second time jurors in the Roundup litigation called on judges to uphold their verdicts.
Judge Barry Williams will decide the verdicts since Rice opted for a bench trial instead of a jury trial.
When the judge read the verdicts -- "not guilty" for six counts and "guilty" of one -- Jones felt somewhat relieved.
In 92 percent of those overrides, judges overruled jury verdicts of a life sentence to impose the death penalty.
They are also allowed to find verdicts on lesser charges of second-degree murder or involuntary manslaughter against McCarthy.
The company also said it believed the Supreme Court decision required the reversal of the four St. Louis verdicts.
All of the defendants can appeal the verdicts to the Egyptian Court of Cassation, the country's highest civil court.
We have not prosecuted similar cases in Finland before, so the verdicts set a necessary precedent for the future.
There were four verdicts against the company in Missouri, which ended in a total of $307 million in damages.
But the Baltimore police verdicts also feel of a piece with the way of life in Baltimore these days.
Three other officers, who have allowed the judge presiding over the trial to decide, are still awaiting their verdicts.
Oregon is the only other state that allows split juries, but even it requires unanimous verdicts for murder trials.
There were 1,460 trial verdicts in criminal cases that year, while 3963,304 criminal cases were resolved without a trial.
The United States Supreme Court also agreed to decide whether the Constitution allows non-unanimous verdicts in criminal cases.
Both permit juries in felony trials to return guilty verdicts even if one or two jurors vote to acquit.
Louisiana goes further, allowing split verdicts in murder cases, where convictions can result in sentences of life without parole.
From 1993 to 2004, 72% of death penalty verdicts reviewed by the Supreme Court were overturned, sparing 677 people.
But even after the officer's second-degree murder conviction last week, this city is still waiting for other verdicts.
Court verdicts for Mr. Jia, the executed farmer, are among those that do appear in the open court records.
The careful counting of the sherds by the city's archons, respected figures who rotated annually, meant verdicts were accepted.
Such verdicts are forbidden in federal trials under the Sixth Amendment but permitted in ones held in state court.
The big picture: This could be the first of many verdicts likely to be handed down against al-Bashir.
Human Rights Watch senior Maya Wang said the verdicts represented "another alarming blow to Hong Kong's fast deteriorating autonomy".
Stone stood and braced himself with his fingers on the counsel table as the seven guilty verdicts were read.
Oregon, which said the Constitution required federal juries to render unanimous verdicts, but allowed divided juries in state courts.
The court-martial panel of five combat officers returned not guilty verdicts on all counts after an hour's deliberation.
That decision, issued half a year after the Silver and Skelos verdicts, vacated the corruption conviction of former Gov.
A jury in Alexandria, Va., quickly returned two guilty verdicts against Rafiekian, but the judge there tossed them out.
In the end, the jury spent only half a day deliberating before returning its guilty verdicts on every count.
When the verdicts were read out Thursday, Richardson sobbed before she was led out of the courtroom in handcuffs.
She did not respond to several messages from POLITICO just after the jury verdicts were returned and on Friday.
The government and its supporters are welcoming the sweeping verdicts, but critics say the process has been deeply flawed.
Brooklyn's office has asked judges to vacate 22 wrongful convictions; Manhattan's has asked that six verdicts be set aside.
The foreperson stood at the instruction of the judge to read all three verdicts just like in the movies.
"They're desperate to find a way not to pay these verdicts and are engaging in legal shenanigans," Mr. Gilbert said.
Forget it: Judge Chrissy is here to deliver sassy verdicts that hopefully read exactly like her hilariously unfiltered Twitter account.
Officials from the Italian environment ministry had been due to deliver their verdicts on the bidders' proposals by Nov. 13.
Egypt maintains that its judiciary is independent, and the government routinely rejects all criticism of its judges or their verdicts.
The goal is to cap unfair dismissal compensation awards and cut the time taken to reach verdicts in labor tribunals.
Part of the reason why is because verdicts in Russian courts can take judges hours or even days to deliver.
It demands that jurors arrive at verdicts free of any influence beyond the testimony and evidence that's presented in court.
Deliver a series of damning verdicts on your team and you inevitably raise a red flag about your own leadership.
As soon as the court clerk started to read the 11 guilty verdicts, the tears began – both theirs and mine.
Juries in California and Missouri have also issued verdicts in ovarian cancer cases totaling more than $720 million in damages.
Court verdicts in such cases are not routinely made public and judiciary officials avoid commenting on them in the media.
Its rulings are binding, though the court has no enforcement powers and countries have been known to ignore its verdicts.
We respect the legal process and reiterate that jury verdicts are not medical, scientific or regulatory conclusions about a product.
This fastidious emphasis on language and how the world uses or misuses it involves Amis in some rather curious verdicts.
He has tried over 185 cases, and his clients have received settlements, judgments, and verdicts in excess of $500 million.
The final verdicts on which party controls redistricting will come during legislative and gubernatorial elections in 2628, 28503 and 22019.
Bayer is appealing, or has vowed to appeal, the two jury verdicts, but more than 11,000 plaintiffs are seeking damages.
After asking each of the defendants to rise, Judge Anna J. Brown read off the string of not-guilty verdicts.
"These verdicts give us confidence but they are 0.1 percent of the total cases," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
And in contrast to the self-serving verdicts rendered on his allies and enemies, his broader conclusions seem well balanced.
Afterward, Mr. Lightfoot said the verdicts would send a message to correction officers that abusing inmates would not be tolerated.
Some have been on death row since the 1970s because the process of appealing death penalty verdicts can take decades.
It is the front page of the conservative internet, and claims tend to spread before fact-checkers can render verdicts.
We wanted to know if you thought the verdicts against Office Van Dyke represented a turning point or an aberration.
Chicago and Cook County have already paid roughly $21 million in settlements and verdicts to victims in the torture cases.
Chicago and Cook County have already paid roughly $100 million in settlements and verdicts to victims in the torture cases.
At that point, the district attorney may offer an insanity plea — some 212002 percent of N.G.R.I. verdicts are plea deals.
The Sixth Amendment does not mention the requirement, she said, meaning that non-unanimous verdicts should be permissible in both.
Overturning the verdicts on the CSA and honest services fraud predicates is not meant to condone or minimize this behavior.
In response to the outcry, the Saudi Justice Ministry issued a rare statement defending its judicial process and the verdicts.
Regardless of the guilty verdicts in New York, Mr. Weinstein still faces charges in a separate case in Los Angeles.
Almost 60 district attorneys across the country now have conviction integrity units, which are charged with reviewing potentially wrongful verdicts.
But Judge Wapner's reasoned verdicts, in disputes over missing pets, encroaching fences or botched hairdos, were difficult to argue with.
When the verdicts were read, family and friends of the people who died in the fire gasped and cried. 5.
By mid-1963 Mr. Goody was already a career criminal, a 33-year-old ex-convict with nine verdicts against him.
"The possibility that verdicts can be actually brought into doubt for a period of 20 years is quite unique," Blok said.
With the new evidence, Ware and the Innocence Project of Texas filed for post-conviction relief to have the verdicts overturned.
It won the first case in 2014, but lost all subsequent trials, with verdicts ranging from $151 million to $540 million.
The judge then declared a mistrial on those charges, and had his clerk read the verdicts on the remaining eight counts.
It does not take a constitutional scholar to devise a more forceful means for these senators to support such tepid verdicts.
It also changed the law to require a two-thirds majority for all verdicts, making it hard to overturn PiS legislation.
Louisiana and Oregon allow non-unanimous verdicts in most criminal cases, but at least 10 of the 12 jurors must agree.
Yet the voters of Bhutan, a Himalayan country of 800,000 sandwiched between India and China, are capable of delivering harsh verdicts.
"The jury's verdicts in this case are a vindication of outstanding investigative work and prosecution," US Attorney Stephen McAllister told reporters.
Americans render similarly mixed verdicts as they consider the possibility of future election interference by a foreign power such as Russia.
The partnership was signed as part of Microsoft's Defending Democracy programme; the tech company has no oversight over NewsGuard's editorial verdicts.
Products that prioritize functionality earn high scores; there's very little room for emotion or irrational verdicts in this line of work.
But as citizens' concerns about climate change grow, so will the prospect of real-life verdicts that resemble Kirkenes's fictional one.
J&J lost four of those trials and, along with a talc supplier, has been hit with $307 million in verdicts.
Many patent cases are handled in the Texas court, which has a reputation for awarding favorable verdicts to plaintiffs alleging infringement.
The trial lasted 11 weeks, and the jury deliberated for another seven weeks before returning the guilty verdicts in October 2014.
Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, Alabama judges have overridden jury verdicts in death penalty cases 107 times.
His case also has been marked by multiple overturned convictions before guilty verdicts finally stuck in each of the woman's deaths.
Scenes at these games of bloody faces and bad verdicts will remind fans of the worst side of the professional game.
Contentious verdicts are usually overturned by higher courts, where judges tend to be more attuned to government policy, judicial experts say.
A Justice Department brief in the Bundy case revealed that prosecutors dreaded jury nullification — "not guilty" verdicts due to government abuses.
Until that happens, federal prosecutors should continue fearing verdicts from Americans who refuse to convict those whom the feds wrongfully vilify.
With rare exceptions, there are typically no formal indictments against those they name, no prosecutions or trials, no verdicts or sentences.
While the early verdicts are not binding on other cases, they are important in helping both sides assess the claims' value.
Reporting restrictions on the verdicts were lifted on Monday after the jury failed to reach a verdict on two other defendants.
Li, who was contacted by phone, said Sun had done nothing to overturn the verdicts of those he believes were wronged.
Some of the lower courts have sided with them on safety concerns, but the verdicts are usually overturned in higher courts.
Some victims have serious facial injuries from metal shrapnel and would win large verdicts if Takata were financially strong, lawyers say.
He had overridden six jury verdicts calling for life sentences, a state record, while never rejecting a jury's recommendation of death.
The decision overruled the verdicts of lower courts that had found the men guilty of the lesser charge of sexual abuse.
Scholars have also examined whether there is a decline in homicides after well-publicized death verdicts or executions; there is not.
Relatives of the 24 victims in the Ford case burst into applause in the courtroom as a judge read the verdicts.
Motherboard reached out to six attorneys that appear to be responsible for some of the verdicts Momus claims as success stories.
Split jury verdicts may also add to the size of Louisiana's prison population, which is already the nation's largest per capita.
The country's judiciary is reviled by many citizens for its gargantuan bureaucracy, slowness in delivering verdicts and outsize salaries for judges.
The verdicts were all overturned this year after the appeals court ruled a network called Ergenekon was not proven to exist.
Mr. Lewin, who has a long record of winning guilty verdicts in cold murder cases, had him arrested in New Orleans.
While partial verdicts are never a desirable result, especially in high-profile matters like the Weinstein trial, they are not uncommon.
The court of public opinion can render verdicts harshly and quickly, and those caught in its glare can be treated unfairly.
The verdicts were also handed down just before some of the defendants completed two years in jail, after being denied bail.
This year, verdicts are expected in defamation cases involving President Trump, the Senate candidate Roy Moore and the actor Johnny Depp.
Since Anderson took office in 2013, there have been four new death verdicts and none since 2014, according to her office.
Bayer is legally challenging the verdicts and has stressed that regulators across the globe have found the product to be safe.
Johnson & Johnson, which is based in New Brunswick, N.J., has prevailed in some cases and succeeded in overturning verdicts in others.
The verdict came after three straight prior jury verdicts in St. Louis against J&J awarding plaintiffs a combined $195 million.
The detectives, Daniel Hersl and Marcus Taylor, were shackled and led out of Federal District Court after the verdicts were read.
Ultimately, the decisions or verdicts in these cases are simply taken as after-the-fact proof that the criminal justice system works.
Fallout from those verdicts -- plus thousands of similar lawsuits against Monsanto -- have dealt a huge financial blow to Monsanto's parent company, Bayer.
Baumann, the CEO, acknowledged that the Roundup lawsuits and early verdicts had placed a "heavy burden" on the company and its investors.
Ultimately, IBM hopes speeches by influential figures, court verdicts and other such sources will be automatically uploaded into Watson's cloud-based brain.
It says decades of studies show its talc to be safe and has successfully overturned previous talc verdicts on technical legal grounds.
In the realm of social media, there is no right to a trial by jury; verdicts arrive quickly, viciously, and without cause.
Amid a news cycle swarming with reports of arrests, sentences, and verdicts, a prison-themed coffee shop suddenly popped up in Turkey.
The government will appoint "neutral arbitrators" to each jirga, who must approve their verdicts—a measure it hopes will eliminate misogynist horrors.
These decisions are 50 or 60 pages long, but there's always core evidence, or core turning points, that leads to these verdicts.
We've seen quite a number of verdicts; some in your favor, some against, and, you know, some quite large, billions of dollars.
About two-fifths ended with split verdicts, which were 30% more likely when the defendant was black—as, in Louisiana, most are.
In 2015, as part of a defense spending bill, Congress took away the right of military commanders to overturn sexual assault verdicts.
Racial bias in the courtroom: The Supreme Court ruled if there's racial bias in jury deliberations, their verdicts can be thrown out.
The appeals process is expected to take years, and could see the bank and prosecutors go through at least two more verdicts.
" Rommel says the office has been involved in 120,000 investigations, resulting in 6,000 verdicts, which he says is "a rather bad ratio.
The Post reports that the not guilty verdicts came after the jury found no evidence that they were connected to the vandalism.
"Of all the verdicts against Johnson & Johnson that have been through the appellate process, every one has been overturned," the statement added.
"But this week, the verdicts were delivered on the same day as the trial, and the defendants' lawyers hardly raised any objections."
IRA vice president Brahim Ramdane called the verdicts a "parody of justice" and said the group's lawyers were deciding how to respond.
Warsaw would publish unreleased constitutional tribunal verdicts, which had ruled against the appointment of three judges nominated by PiS to the tribunal.
Mr. Schindler laughed it off, but he said he had no doubt that the repercussions of Thursday's verdicts were far from over.
"It's not about him," Stanley's son Kurtis Stanley said after the guilty verdicts, referring to Grate, according to the Mansfield News Journal.
That amount places it among some of the top past trade secret jury verdicts in the U.S. in the last 10 years.
It was not immediately clear whether they would appeal the verdicts that could serve as precedents for many other cases in Denmark.
Then came the indictments and the trials and the verdicts and the oddest thing happened: Nearly anyone of importance was left untouched.
Louisiana has since amended its state Constitution to bar non-unanimous verdicts, but the move came too late to help Mr. Ramos.
Some legal experts believe Bayer will have a tough time convincing appellate courts to throw out verdicts and lawsuits on those grounds.
Since then, the Brooklyn district attorney's office has asked judges eight times to reverse guilty verdicts that Mr. Scarcella helped to obtain.
Famous or notorious defendants must also trust their fates to courtroom illustrators, their verdicts both suitable for framing and ineligible for appeal.
Just six Guantanamo cases have resulted in convictions so far, with two guilty verdicts being appealed, according to the military commissions' website.
According to the Naples Daily News, Sievers showed no emotion as the verdicts were read while Teresa's family shared a collective embrace.
Judge James Burke asked jurors Friday to try to render verdicts on all counts, something that requires a unanimous vote on each.
"Of all the verdicts against Johnson & Johnson that have been through the appellate process, every one has been overturned," the company added.
Unlike other international organizations, whose rules have no way of being enforced, the W.T.O. may dole out punishments along with its verdicts.
A mistrial was declared on all three counts after the jury was unable to reach unanimous verdicts on any of the counts.
Judges and justices have not looked favorably upon white-collar prosecutions for more than a decade now, overturning verdicts and narrowing statutes.
While the individual tribunals within the ICC have handed out verdicts for sex crimes, this was a first for the court at large.
The appeal court decision, which confirms earlier local court verdicts, confiscates earnings of 12,250 euros and 2,800 euros respectively from the two drivers.
Bayer is appealing or plans to appeal the verdicts and has pointed to global regulators' findings that the use of glyphosate is safe.
The ruling, while sending Apple's specific case back to a lower court, changes the landscape for how design patent verdicts can be calculated.
Should these trials reach verdicts, we expect the courts will hold that St. Jude Medical has been grossly negligent in its product design.
At least one bank each year has failed to have its capital plan approved since the Fed began issuing pubic verdicts in 2012.
The report included 21 interviews with four former detainees, analyzed 38 court verdicts and 35 detailed detainee accounts from 200 Chinese media reports.
Appeals courts often reduce massive personal-injury verdicts, and Texas law limits the amount of punitive damages that can be awarded to plaintiffs.
Thursday's verdicts instantly reignited debate here over whether Ms. Mosby had overcharged the officers and prompted speculation about what she will do next.
As recently as this week, the sports court issued verdicts on Russian athletes who had been barred for doping by their sports' authorities.
If we prioritize conviction rates rather than having just verdicts, and if we vote that way in elections, this problem will just continue.
"Revealing that he and his fellow jurors reached a unanimous decision, he writes, "our verdicts were marginalized" based on Persky's "own personal opinion.
"Verdicts like these ignore the realities of how and why marriages fail, and remove personal responsibility for a person's own marriage," she said.
But last year, a federal appeals court threw out the verdicts for three of the contractors and ordered a retrial for Mr. Slatten.
Some of the ovarian cancer verdicts have been overturned on appeal on technical legal grounds, while the company's other appeals are still pending.
To date, only a handful of verdicts have been reached, in part because many politicians in power today were involved in the fighting.
" On Tuesday night, he told his crowd in South Carolina that they'd heard the verdicts of only "the first two of 50 states.
After the verdicts were read, Mr. DiCarmine was hugged by his lawyer, and the trial judge told him he was free to leave.
The jury ultimately reached unanimous guilty verdicts on eight crimes, for tax fraud, bank fraud and a fraudulent foreign banking disclosure in 2012.
Austrian courts have already jailed several people for links to terrorist organizations after verdicts that were supported by data acquired from seized devices.
But they will be choosing only among the candidates who still appear viable after the first two, predominantly white, states render their verdicts.
The Supreme Court is weighing the constitutionality of nonunanimous verdicts, and is expected to hand down a decision as early as this month.
Oregon that the Sixth Amendment requires verdicts in federal cases to be unanimous, but did not apply the unanimity requirement to the states.
One produced eight guilty verdicts against former Trump campaign boss Paul Manafort; the other eight guilty pleas from former Trump fixer Michael Cohen.
The verdicts against Ahmed Ouyahia and Abdelmalek Sellal came days before the country holds a presidential election that protesters have called a sham.
As the verdicts were read, there were noticeable gasps and tears from relatives and friends of those who died, CNN affiliate KPIX reported.
After a six-day trial, the jurors returned guilty verdicts on one count of material support and two counts of obstruction of justice.
In this particular context, their success will be determined by children, who offer much clearer and swifter verdicts than even the tersest adults.
Adweek reviewed each new spot as it aired and tweeted out the mini verdicts in real time; they're all collected here, grouped by quarter.
The rule, found in both federal and state law, is intended to promote the finality of verdicts and to shield jurors from outside influences.
BOSTON – The Latest on the guilty verdicts for Francis "Cadillac Frank" Salemme and his co-defendant Paul Weadick (all times local): 255:21993 p.m.
The jury returns guilty verdicts on five counts of tax fraud, one charge of hiding foreign bank accounts and two counts of bank fraud.
We also delve into the mystery of who tipped Lady Catherine about Darcy's attachment to Elizabeth, and consider our final verdicts on Mr. Bennett.
The Gulf state does not dictate verdicts to its courts and there was full and proper legal process in Hedges' case, the ambassador said.
Ifrah Ahmed, a Somali resident of Garden City, said she found out about the verdicts when the police chief sent her a text message.
"We hope the verdicts in the criminal case will mark another important stage in resolving the humidifier sterilizer issue," said Reckitt spokeswoman Patty O'Hayer.
Tang Jingling, Yuan Chaoyang and Wang Qingying were present in the courtroom in Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong Province, when the verdicts were announced.
In recent years, Burford has expanded its business to include areas such as aiding litigation winners to recover money won in settlements or verdicts.
As is often the case with the Italian court system, the case has dragged on for many years with numerous judges reversing previous verdicts.
"These sick Asian paedophiles are finally facing justice," tweeted the home secretary, Sajid Javid—himself of Pakistani descent—when the latest verdicts were announced.
While not binding on other cases, verdicts in these bellwether, or test, trials are meant to help steer settlement talks in the overall litigation.
Verdicts in the bellwether trials are not binding on the other suits, but they provide both sides insights about the value of each claim.
"It's about speeding up investigations and court decisions, reaching faster verdicts and finding ways of deporting perpetrators and potential offenders without exceptions," he said.
A mistrial was declared on all three counts on Friday after the jury was unable to reach unanimous verdicts on any of the counts.
Ten of the cases reviewed by News21 involved voter impersonation, and most of those investigations led to plea agreements or guilty verdicts at trial.
But the larger question is whether the verdicts will have any effect on what is still widely considered business as usual in college basketball.
In this week's Race/Related newsletter, we highlight some of your thoughts on the guilty verdicts against the Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke.
Thurmond remained silent after the verdicts came down and then echoed the anti-Yankee, neo-Confederate nationalism that was dramatized in the trial summations.
"The same judge has denied similar motions on prior verdicts in his court that were ultimately overturned by the appellate courts," the company said.
It also makes note of some of the most important trials in recent history and how the press affected the outcomes of those verdicts.
The verdicts came after a monthlong trial marked by intense debate over the terms set by United States District Court Judge Gloria M. Navarro.
However, the court handed down guilty verdicts against two other defendants, Italian public relations expert Francesca Chaouqui and Spanish priest Angel Lucio Vallejo Balda.
In any other state across the nation, the outcome would have meant a hung jury, since nearly all felony criminal convictions require unanimous verdicts.
In addition to reporting on trials, these journalists monitor court dockets for new cases and watch for verdicts, motions or rulings in important proceedings.
The final verdicts for nearly 75% of cases in the document, like Patem's, suggest some type of release, which is often connected to employment.
The Supreme People's Court set up the debt defaulter website in 2013 to speed up compliance with verdicts and make court work more transparent.
From arrests to interrogations to verdicts in the courtroom, I lived for every twist and turn and "I-can't-believe-he-did-it" moment.
Protesters gathered outside and inside the courthouse in Algiers to hear the verdicts against the two former prime ministers, Ahmed Ouyahia and Abdelmalek Sellal.
Legal obstacles assume the Egyptian judiciary is genuinely independent, a claim belied by repeated regime interventions to obtain favorable verdicts and remove problematic judges.
In the clip above he teams up with two friends, and they give their verdicts on everything from Walkers Ready Salted to Pork Rinds.
Not publishing the verdicts in a much-publicized trial "would be likely to undermine public confidence in the system of criminal justice", they said.
Mr. Garcia resigned from the House of Representatives in January 21950, shortly after the verdicts in the federal trial of him and his wife.
Down below, the Manafort jury had hit a brick wall and announced it had reached verdicts on eight counts but deadlocked on the others.
The justices will then need time to reach their verdicts, so the outcomes are unlikely to be made public before late June, he predicted.
Our court-appointed attorneys have two weeks to present evidence and arguments before the judge in motions that will hopefully have our verdicts overturned.
Savchenko's lawyer, as well as officials in Kiev and Moscow, have suggested that a prisoner exchange could come after expected guilty verdicts are handed down.
With that new evidence, defense attorney Mike Ware, along with the Innocence Project of Texas, filed for post-conviction relief to have the verdicts overturned.
Kid Rock's assistant dead at singer's property Hillsborough disaster verdicts set to be delivered Tiger Woods plays his first holes of golf in eight months
" Foxx added: "We hope that this verdicts brings some measure of closure and peace for the family of Tyshawn Lee, whom we will never forget.
If a government initiative isn't going well, the voters render their verdict … at the next election, mingled with their verdicts on all the other initiatives.
The prosecutors also claim that Yemelianov nudged the judges to deliver his preferred verdicts and would take judges off cases if they refused to comply.
Crowds throng the courthouse in Lahore, the capital of the state of Punjab, drawn by the spectacle of a judge dispensing verdicts like a king.
Louisiana required unanimous verdicts for its first 80 years of statehood, but after the civil war newly enfranchised black people started to serve on juries.
Given the number of favorable verdicts in Credit Suisse vs Highland Capital cases to date, we look forward to the outcome of the appeal process.
"When this happens, the court cannot accept one of the two inconsistent verdicts while discarding the other; both of them have to go," Kennelly wrote.
The channel didn't really touch the verdicts, opting instead to lean heavily on coverage of Post Malone's plane, the Mollie Tibbetts case, and confederate monuments.
The same source, who asked not to be identified, said verdicts has been issued this week to at least 12 film-makers, photographers and writers.
There are still three more officers awaiting trial, as well as Officer Porter, but the chances of guilty verdicts in any of them are slim.
In Alabama, the Equal Justice Institute reports that judges have overridden jury verdicts in 112 cases to date, about a quarter of all death sentences.
The Algiers court on Tuesday also delayed issuing verdicts against 20 others protesters facing the same charges, including 11 held under arrest, until Nov. 18.
There are nearly 3,500 similar cases in the consolidated litigation, and two bellwether cases ended with $1.6 million and $5.1 million verdicts for the plaintiffs.
Austrian courts have already sentenced several people to prison for links to terrorist organizations after verdicts that were supported by data acquired from seized devices.
Louisiana's Republican-led state legislature approved a referendum to reconsider the law, and, in November, voters chose to require unanimous verdicts in trials involving felonies.
But death penalty experts said it was only a matter of time before the issue of nonunanimous death penalty verdicts cropped up before the court.
In turn, his office achieved significant guilty verdicts or convictions involving crimes of theft, capital murder, public corruption, illegal gambling, ethics violation and voter fraud.
Despite their vast collective wealth, Mr. Levine, Mr. Boesky and Mr. Milken couldn't buy the verdicts they sought and were convicted and sent to prison.
Of the eight ovarian cancer cases that have gone to trial so far, four have resulted in verdicts for plaintiffs and one for the company.
Conservative media outlets have already delivered their verdicts on the officials, who are regularly skewered on the popular Fox News program hosted by Sean Hannity.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court overturned one of those guilty verdicts, for falsifying documents — and reduced his sentence accordingly — but left the others in effect.
Judge Emirsah Bastog read out guilty verdicts for 42 of the 47 defendants, according to a Reuters reporter at the court in Mugla, southwestern Turkey.
Often these defendants are lowly drug couriers, and verdicts against them do not appear in the official court database, said Mr. Nee, the Amnesty researcher.
The verdicts are impossible to reconcile, both sides agreed, as the only contested issue on any of the charges was whether there had been bribery.
The justices are considering a case involving a murder conviction from Louisiana, which permitted split verdicts until two years ago, when voters overturned the law.
What we have learned since the first domino fell is that statistically the more victims who speak out, the more guilty verdicts there will be.
British Europe minister David Lidington told Rzeczpospolita daily that it would be unfair to conduct second referendum concerning Brexit, as one should respect democratic verdicts.
Most reviews of Supreme Court verdicts are dismissed immediately, but the controversy, anger and fear surrounding the case has added an extra layer of uncertainty.
She said the defendants' court-appointed lawyer did not intervene during the proceedings apart from a three-minute statement just before the verdicts were delivered.
And even when there has also been body-cam, dash-cam or civilian visual documentation, it has not made any difference to the court verdicts.
Matos showed no visible reaction to the guilty verdicts, which came a day after he confessed to the killings from the witness stand, the paper reports.
Newsom's unilateral decision to ignore jury verdicts imposing the death penalty is not just an arbitrary exercise of power, it is a gross miscarriage of justice.
Taking any case to trial — let alone such a high-profile case — is messy and exorbitantly expensive, and on top of that, jury verdicts are unpredictable.
Ristesund's case was one of more than 60 related talc lawsuits consolidated in Missouri state court, where juries have a reputation for issuing high-paying verdicts.
The company faces lawsuits by more than 13,400 plaintiffs nationwide and a series of Roundup jury verdicts against Bayer have prompted its share price to plummet.
The verdicts do little to settle the conflict and dealt a blow to hopes the NLD can resolve thousands of outstanding land disputes around the country.
It is the fourth trial over Roundup and the first one outside of California, where three juries hit Bayer with verdicts as large as $2 billion.
This will replace closed-door criminal proceedings, in which judges render verdicts on the basis of written statements, with oral arguments between prosecutors and defendants' lawyers.
Gasps were heard from the gallery when the initial verdicts were read, and members of the victims' families were led out of the courtroom in tears.
That verdict would keep him from death row today, but the Florida Supreme Court decided the change requiring unanimous verdicts does not apply to older cases.
The Equal Justice Initiative found that Mobile County Judges Braxton Kittrell and Ferrill McRae have overridden a combined 11 life verdicts to impose a death sentence.
"We respect the legal process and reiterate that jury verdicts are not medical, scientific or regulatory conclusions about a product," J&J said in a statement.
Verdicts in these early trials are not binding on the rest of the litigation, but are used to help gauge the value of the remaining claims.
One of the changes to the tribunal means that all verdicts need to be approved by a two-thirds majority, rather than just a simple majority.
Cosby had no visible reaction when the verdicts were read, but he later stood up and cursed the prosecutor when he called Cosby a flight risk.
Pell's lawyers appealed against the 2-1 decision by the Court of Appeal, saying the majority were wrong in concluding that the verdicts were not unreasonable.
Judge Cogan acquitted Mr. Levy only after the jury had returned its verdicts, so there is no violation of the double jeopardy clause of the Constitution.
Schumer declined to further discuss Cohen's plea or the verdicts, noting he had been in a meeting with Kavanaugh and wasn't fully briefed on both events.
Russian spies have been convicted of or accused of murdering suspected Islamist extremists in Dubai, Qatar and Turkey, according to officials, court verdicts and published reports.
About a dozen rabbit advocates, one of whom carried a small straw rabbit, were in court for the half-hour reading (and rereading) of the verdicts.
"While we are disappointed with the verdicts, we thank the jurors for their service," said Trisha Young, spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Las Vegas.
Ms. Clark, a Democrat, who had attended the opening arguments in the Lightfoot case, sat in the front row on Tuesday when the verdicts were announced.
Austrian courts have already sentenced several people to jail for links to terrorist organisations after verdicts which have been supported by data acquired from seized devices.
The Polish government is refusing to publish a number of the court's recent verdicts, including those ruling that recent changes to the tribunal violate the constitution.
For financial crimes, where wrongdoing is often not discovered for years, there is then little time left to secure three guilty verdicts before the case expires.
The panel also issued guilty verdicts against the two most senior surviving members of the regime, Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, now 92 and 633 respectively.
The often-delayed trials have not yet reached verdicts, but some of the accused who refused to attend them at first have started to come forward.
He held the hands of his lawyers on both sides of him as a clerk read the verdicts, then left the courthouse without making a comment.
But at least one study has found a slight relationship between jurors with higher levels of extraversion and conscientiousness and not-guilty verdicts in criminal trials.
There was the old-school former governor, speaking earnestly — and truth be told, dryly — about democratic institutions and the need to respect verdicts rendered by voters.
She quotes Turner's father's complaints that "these verdicts have broken and shattered" his son, who can no longer enjoy the rib-eye steaks he once loved.
St. Louis has become the main destination for talc lawsuits nationally, and J&J has been hit with three straight jury verdicts there, totaling $195 million.
"Pat has tried cases with billions of dollars at stake and had taken cases to jury verdicts involving tens of millions of dollars," Sekulow told CNN.
Matsumoto postponed setting a sentencing date, after Brafman noted that the defense also will be filing a motion asking her to overturn the jury's guilty verdicts.
The court may also choose to allow a partial verdict in which some counts are declared as a mistrial but verdicts on other counts are accepted.
The guilty verdicts against Harvey Weinstein in a prosecution that faced long odds is more than a victory for the #MeToo movement that his case propelled.
He and his cronies want judges to become subordinate to the Ministry of Justice, a step that would allow the government to interfere with their verdicts.
Shortly after the Alexandria jury returned guilty verdicts, Trump told reporters that "Paul Manafort is a good man," adding, "I feel very sad about" his situation.
Any honest supporter of the death penalty simply cannot avoid facing the high probability of mistaken verdicts, of which there are indeed many in this country.
But budgetary defeat on Wednesday could force Mr. Sánchez to call elections before the summer, which means they could take place before verdicts are made public.
In Little Rock, Ken Starr's Whitewater prosecutors needed eight days of jury deliberations in 1996 to secure guilty verdicts in his fraud case against Arkansas Gov.
A jury in Manafort's criminal trial reached guilty verdicts Tuesday afternoon on eight counts of bank fraud, tax fraud and failing to file foreign bank account reports.
As the next four verdicts were delivered, the man described by his own lawyer as the "Darth Vader" of the Catholic Church sat with his head bowed.
Are they just making verdicts on single tweets, or do they act as a proper community moderator, someone who knows and understands the culture of the platform?
The 11 justices charged with delivering what will be one of the most significant verdicts in British history probed both sides with searching questions throughout the case.
Baltimore police Officer Edward Nero, accused of assaulting Gray, elected Tuesday to have a bench trial, meaning a judge will make the final decision on the verdicts.
" JC Hewitt, whose law firm frequently works with Amazon sellers, calls the system's mandatory guilty pleas, arbitrary verdicts, and obscure language "a Kafkaesque bureaucracy with bad writing.
Anthony Garcia, a former medical resident, became a convicted serial killer Wednesday afternoon as jurors returned guilty verdicts on his four first-degree murder counts, PEOPLE confirms.
Both were in the St. Louis' 22nd Circuit Court, which has issued several large verdicts against J&J and Imerys, including one for $4.7 billion in July.
Recently cornered by glowing pregnant women while waiting for my annual at the OBGYN, I deemed this an opportune time to list my potential verdicts: A friend.
And while Echeverria's case seems settled (although the company is appealing this and other verdicts), the science linking baby powder and ovarian cancer isn't quite so straightforward.
"We were thinking that they would receive a sentence because of the verdicts in other similar cases and the political juncture we are going through," she said.
The fish is festooned with duplicates of checks -- all of them seven figures -- that he's collected over years while winning cash settlements and verdicts for his clients.
A mistrial was declared for the other four men after jurors could not agree on verdicts, even after Judge Gloria Navarro sent them back for further deliberations.
Before and after the verdicts were read (Rodgers was cleared of first- and third-degree murder counts), defense attorney Geoffrey McInroy patted his client on the back.
" He said the law "was unconstitutional from the start," and that the old verdicts were an injustice that "hurt each sentenced person deeply in his human dignity.
They also tie a jury's hands, and make their verdicts nearly irrelevant, by allowing legislators instead of jurors to decide the maximum award allowed in these cases.
On criminal justice, Amendment 11 in Florida will make reforms retroactive, Louisiana now requires unanimous jury verdicts in felony cases, and Colorado voters abolished unpaid prison labor.
Abu Khatallah, wearing a white shirt untucked with his sleeves rolled up and a white beard, stood and faced the jury emotionless as the verdicts were read.
"I believe justice was served today on behalf of young Cooper Harris," Cobb County District Attorney Vic Reynolds said in a statement after the verdicts were read.
As you know, today marks the 25th anniversary since the not guilty verdicts in the Rodney King LAPD police officer trial, which almost immediately triggered the riots.
I spoke with the judge to find out about the verdicts he's regretted over the years and the worst evidence he's been forced to review during cases.
Shortly before the verdicts for Mr. Shaveddinov and Ms. Yarmysh were announced, a number of other members of Mr. Navalny's campaign were sentenced to longer jail terms.
Model judges are epistemically just: Their cognitive processes are never biased or unduly swayed, their conclusions are not prejudged, and their verdicts reliably correspond to the facts.
Thanks to last night's verdicts in Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, and elsewhere, the horror the Democratic poohbahs once feared is quickly giving way to full-scale relief. Sen.
Gasps were heard from the gallery when the initial verdicts were read, and members of the victims' families were led out of the courtroom, also in tears.
The verdicts sparked anger in Myanmar where hundreds held protests outside the Thai Embassy in the commercial capital of Yangon, calling for the two to be released.
The judge said the evidence in the case, involving lobbying for Turkish interests, was insufficient to sustain a pair of guilty verdicts a jury returned in July.
But the states' verdicts this year may face the greatest risk in decades of being second-guessed by the larger and more racially diverse states that follow.
An article on Page 8003 about split-jury verdicts misstates the number of people the Innocence Project New Orleans says have been exonerated in Louisiana since 2800.
"Instead the company proclaimed it was ready for any and all verdicts, which, by the way, have recently [been] going into their own right direction," Cramer said.
My days and nights were kaleidoscopes of terror: weekslong hospitalizations, middle-of-the-night sprints to emergency rooms, daylong drug infusions at clinics, beeping monitors, doctors' verdicts.
InfoWars host Alex Jones said he was relaying a direct message from Stone to Trump on his show the day before the jury reached its guilty verdicts.
Ricciardi and Demos examine those convictions in "Making a Murderer," and the information they present has led viewers to respond with near-universal outrage about the verdicts.
YANGON (Reuters) - A court in Myanmar is set to hand down verdicts on Monday in the case of two Reuters journalists accused of obtaining secret state documents.
In 2012, the Supreme Court ruled the workers had the right to sue Japanese companies despite the 1965 treaty, and ordered lower courts to reconsider earlier verdicts.
Of the 34 states that allow the death penalty, Alabama is the only one where judges are permitted to override jury verdicts and impose a death sentence.
So far, nearly 3,000 security personnel and civilians have been convicted, and the sweeping verdicts have been welcomed by the government and its supporters as justice served.
How did you select the four artists featured therein, and would you indulge me and give your "hot or not" verdicts on Tom Thomson and Alexander Colville?
Shervin Pishevar's brother Afshin worked as a lawyer near Washington for years, with one of his cases landing on Washingtonian Magazine's 2014 list of top personal-injury verdicts.
Roundup cancer verdicts could cost Bayer billions But the EPA's announcement saying glyphosate is still safe was a boon for Bayer, which has insisted the same all along.
The defense allows Judge Manning to consider four possible outcomes: guilty but mentally ill, not guilty by reason of insanity, or straightforward verdicts of guilty or not guilty.
Bayer is appealing or plans to appeal the verdicts and has pointed to global regulators' findings that the use of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, is safe.
Franklin, who has close-cropped hair and wears glasses, stared straight ahead and remained silent during the several minutes it took the court clerk to read the verdicts.
Calls have grown stronger for Mosby to drop charges against the remaining officers, since further trials are almost assured to achieve similar not guilty on all charges verdicts.
However, rights activists say that holding "open" trials in sensitive cases allows authorities to demonstrate state power as a deterrence, with statements and verdicts usually agreed in advance.
The prosecutor elected to try each of these defendants separately, acknowledging the possibility that there would be inconsistent verdicts, or, as it turned out, a run of acquittals.
"These verdicts have broken and shattered [Turner] and our family in so many ways," Dan wrote, asking the judge to give his son probation rather than prison time.
It was a major setback for J&J, which faces 4,800 similar claims nationally and has been hit with over $300 million in verdicts by juries in Missouri.
But rights activists say that in sensitive cases holding "open" trials allows authorities to demonstrate state power and deter others, with statements and verdicts usually agreed in advance.
Twelve jurors spent more than 53 hours deliberating testimony and evidence presented in court, but remained deadlocked, unable to reach verdicts on three counts of aggravated indecent assault.
The company prevailed in only one of the four talc trials that followed in the same court, with the other verdicts ranging from $55 million to $110 million.
His was the first celebrity assault trial since the #MeToo movement gained steamed, and many pointed to the guilty verdicts as further evidence of a true cultural shift.
The verdicts were a major victory for the Bronx district attorney, Darcel D. Clark, a Democrat, who has made prosecuting crimes committed by anyone at Rikers a priority.
The guilty verdicts this week against five current and former Rikers officers in the 2012 beating and cover-up did more than just yield justice for Mr. Lightfoot.
Lanier is smart enough not to expect every astounding verdict to hold up – the Vioxx and Actos verdicts were, in fact, slashed on post-verdict motions or appeal.
"Based on the direction of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, executions were carried out on Thursday on 12 convicted terrorists who have received final verdicts," the statement read.
Then there are stories like Dion Harrell's, which show that the suffering attached to unjust verdicts can linger even after the innocent are sprung from their prison cells.
An anonymous juror told ABC News on Thursday that the jury deadlocked after ten wanted to convict Cosby and two refused, with both sides adamant about their verdicts.
When the companies provide us early access to their gadgets, they set a date and time for when reviewers can publish their verdicts before the products are released.
Diverse groups are better at problem-solving; in mock trials, diverse juries give fairer verdicts; diverse companies are more profitable; researchers argue that diverse countries have stronger economies.
Condit's conservative strategy did not go over well with fans, and the split decision win that strategy earned him remains amongst the most debated verdicts in MMA history.
It was a straightforward slip-and-fall lawsuit pitting him against a less experienced attorney, and Alvarez was riding high off a series of "multi-million dollar" verdicts.
Harriet A. Hendel, Poughquag, N.Y. There have been many unjust and incorrect verdicts made in the United States justice system over the years, mostly affecting people of color.
"What won this case was a dearth of evidence that connected Hernandez to these shootings," Ron Sullivan, a member of his defense team, told reporters after the verdicts.
The agency's testing of talc-based cosmetics this year followed jury verdicts totalling more than $5 billion against J&J in cancer lawsuits, as well as a Dec.
About 300 cases are currently making their way through the Oregon Supreme Court and the Oregon Court of Appeals challenging nonunanimous verdicts, including a challenge by Mr. Worley.
Some experts said the McDonnell ruling would probably not extend to old corruption cases, adding that it was difficult to reverse guilty verdicts that had already been appealed.
The injury occurred about 15 minutes before the end of the show, on a night with many journalists in the audience, as critics prepared to render their verdicts.
News of Cohen's guilty plea was breaking almost at the same time Tuesday afternoon as a jury returned 8 guilty verdicts against Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
The agencys testing of talc-based cosmetics this year followed jury verdicts totalling more than $5 billion against J&J in cancer lawsuits, as well as a Dec.
The NBCC Awards, which are open to any book published in English in the United States, stand out from other major awards because book critics deliver the verdicts.
Such political prisoners are routinely denied due process under the law and are forced to participate in show trials in which verdicts are predetermined by Communist Party insiders.
The court acknowledged the importance of supporting the finality of verdicts, protecting candor and confidentiality within the jury room and discouraging efforts to flip jurors beset by regrets.
Looks like all of Tekashi 6ix9ine's singing from the canary cage actually paid off, 'cause the jury just handed out a bunch of guilty verdicts ... including for kidnapping.
A clear vision of the stakes for our own progeny is a powerful motivator to act aggressively to limit emissions, regardless of our own verdicts on having children.
Jurors who have delivered guilty verdicts to crime lords and serial murderers have "informally" sought post-trial protection, said Gleeson, once a judge in the same Eastern District.
"We respect the legal process and reiterate that jury verdicts are not medical, scientific or regulatory conclusions about a product," J&J said in a statement on Wednesday.
You know this better than anyone as you have seen the number of plaintiff verdicts [in asbestos cases] decrease and the cost of settlement go down over time.
"Cases that they get tremendous verdicts on, we're like, 'We wouldn't be able to even accept that here because we couldn't get it through summary judgment,'" she said.
Magistrates are investigating whether funds may have been shifted abroad illegally to avoid detection after the original fraud verdicts against Bossi and Belsito, something which Salvini has always denied.
"These verdicts have broken and shattered him and our family in so many ways," Dan Turner wrote, asking the judge to forego a prison sentence in favor of probation.
However, Japanese lower courts sometimes hand down contentious verdicts that are then overturned by higher courts, where judges tend to be more attuned to political implications, judicial experts say.
But since these types of investigations are conducted largely out of the public spotlight, it's hard to say when we'll see any official conclusions, particularly indictments, trials, and verdicts.
A jury handed down verdicts against both defendants in 2014, awarding $1 million for lost future pay, $200,143 in punitive damages and $150,000 in back wages, plus attorney fees.
But some observers will be watching the trial closely, fearing that not-guilty verdicts will make it harder for prosecutors to hold police accountable when they go too far.
Brailsford, who is no longer on the force, was on trial for 2nd degree murder and reckless manslaughter -- until the jury returned not guilty verdicts Thursday on both counts.
"Big jury verdicts do tend to be reined in during the course of the appellate process, and I expect that to be the case here," she told Associated Press.
"It has been journalism itself that has been in the dock and today's verdicts defy logic and offend justice," said Milena Buyum, Turkey campaigner at rights group Amnesty International.
They have also backed a second decree that would allow politicians and others convicted of graft since 2014 to retroactively challenge the verdicts handed down by the supreme court.
It could nullify hundreds of verdicts for crimes ranging from corruption to human trafficking, including potentially the case against Social Democrat leader Liviu Dragnea, a former deputy prime minister.
The judge announced his verdicts without any explanation, in a courtroom packed with correction officers — including several of the defendants who had learned their fate Tuesday — and their supporters.
Since most modern conventions have simply served to rubber-stamp clear verdicts delivered by the voters in primaries, the issue of the delegates' personal preferences has been largely irrelevant.
Accused of the 1996 murders of four small-town furniture store employees, Flowers has been found guilty six times since 1997 — and each of the verdicts has been overturned.
This sentencing followed the February verdicts finding Weinstein guilty of raping Jessica Mann at a Midtown hotel in 2013, and forcibly performing oral sex on Miriam Haley in 2006.
In Louisiana, voters said juries in felony trials must be unanimous in their verdicts, overturning a Jim Crow-era law that allowed 10 of 12 jurors to decide cases.
This year, several associate judges took the rare step of criticizing him in public, accusing him of abusing his authority of assigning cases to get the verdicts he desired.
And no confrontation is more legendary than that of Shangela and Mimi Imfurst during Untucked, a bonus backstage look at the anxious queens awaiting the verdicts from the judges.
The goal is to profit on the advances, some of which come with interest rates as high as 100 percent, from the proceeds of any settlements or jury verdicts.
Franklin, who did not testify in his own defense and sat impassively in court as the verdicts were read, has been in custody since his arrest in July 2010.
After the string of guilty verdicts, the prosecution urged U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson to have Stone, who has been free on bail, immediately taken into custody.
Typically, judges accept partial verdicts only after they strongly urge the jury to reach a consensus and determine that the panel is hopelessly deadlocked on some of the charges.
This year, key verdicts are expected in defamation cases involving President Trump, the Senate candidate Roy Moore and the actor Johnny Depp, and lawyers are watching the proceedings closely.
Ultimately, federal prosecutors opted against calling Flynn as a witness in the foreign lobbying case, which culminated in two guilty verdicts against Rafiekian that the judge later tossed out.
That is less than settlements reached in other mass torts, even though the jury verdicts some women have won in pelvic mesh cases suggest the figure should be higher.
The defense's claim that the length of the deliberations is a good sign for them is pure spin; indeed, quick verdicts in complex cases are frequently for the defendant.
The decision to grant the Rule 29 motion by Mr. Bogucki's lawyer, Sean Hecker, demonstrated the challenge that prosecutors face in securing guilty verdicts against individual Wall Street bankers.
The latest verdicts bring to eight the number of bankers convicted of benchmark rate rigging in Britain in a series of prosecutions brought by the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO).
"Big jury verdicts do tend to be reined in during the course of the appellate process, and I expect that to be the case here," she told the Associated Press.
Bayer is appealing or plans to appeal the Roundup verdicts and has pointed to global regulators' findings that the use of glyphosate, the active ingredient in the herbicide, is safe.
Kenyan Vice President William Ruto and former Vice President of Serbia Vojislav Šešelj, for example, are currently awaiting verdicts in The Hague for allegedly inciting violence against other ethnic groups.
"So they now convict Roger Stone of lying and want to jail him for many years to come," Trump tweeted back in November, minutes after the jury's verdicts were read.
Two juries believes the prosecution's theory, and the millionaire car-dealership owner served more than three years behind bars before those guilty verdicts were overturned on different grounds each time.
Even if Lula is freed while awaiting appeals of his conviction, Brazilian electoral law bans candidates whose guilty verdicts have been upheld on a first appeal, as is Lula's case.
Iowa voters on Monday at last cast their verdicts on the Democratic and Republican presidential fields in the state's intricate and quirky caucuses, officially launching the 2872 White House race.
Judge Thomas Lynch slapped the rapper with 5 guilty verdicts Wednesday in a Fort Lauderdale courtroom -- finding he'd clearly ventured out of his home without approval from his probation officer.
There is little evidence of any Saudi government involvement in the 9/11 plot that would stand up in court, and victims are unlikely to achieve the verdicts they seek.
Johnson & Johnson in particular was slapped with several hefty verdicts, although one has already been shaved by the judge post-trial and more cuts could come in the new year.
Their verdicts will offer early clues about the advantage Democrats hold heading into the midterm elections and whether Republicans can mitigate some of the damage by focusing on key issues.
Those verdicts were thrown out after it was revealed that one of the jurors had not disclosed during the trial that he had once been a victim of statutory rape.
Auction antics hardly amount to historical verdicts, but, these days, trying to ignore the market when discussing artistic values is like trying to communicate by whisper at a Trump rally.
But the November ruling of the Constitutional Court clarified the nature of the legal change, allowing several recently convicted politicians to challenge the verdicts in their cases and walk free.
Verdicts in the tens of millions of dollars, or even hundreds of millions, are not uncommon, Jeff Dion, director of the National Crime Victim Bar Association said in an email.
"It's good to be over," June Barry, 79, a lifelong South Boston resident who used to joke with friends about Mr. Bulger's grip on the neighborhood, said after the verdicts.
"If rape cases got tried and jurors understood the crippling effect that those types of events have on victims, you would see hundred-million-dollar verdicts rather frequently," he said.
It was 2013 and I had tried over 50 jury cases in the past three decades, winning quite a few substantial verdicts, but I felt that something was going on.
"The biggest problem with nonunanimous verdicts occurs precisely when the accusations are horrible and unpleasant, and jurors want to convict the moment they hear what the charges are," he said.
The court verdicts followed a landmark trial in which 12 leaders of the Catalan independence movement stood accused of crimes ranging from rebellion and sedition to misuse of public funds.
If any anniversary should still resonate today, it's the one surrounding the verdicts in the beating of Rodney G. King 25 years ago this month and the events that followed.
In 2016, he squeezed out an Electoral College victory while narrowly losing the popular vote and facing even more lopsidedly negative verdicts on his personal attributes in the exit poll.
"You are not aiding Islam by talking about killing judges and by killing our generals who have sacrificed so much for our country," Khan said in defense of the verdicts.
Earlier this year, Mr. Toader also proposed legislation that would allow politicians and others convicted of graft since 2014 to challenge the verdicts — something that could amount to an amnesty.
Ms. Burch said a 40 percent fee — at the high end of personal injury fees — might be justified for those cases, which went to trial and yielded multimillion-dollar verdicts.
In today's hyperactive media environment, four days seems like an eternity—particularly given that cable news partisans all seemed to reach their own verdicts before the trial had even begun.
After last month's verdicts, a lawyer representing the state said the sentences were lenient and that some of the accused had been indicted for serious crimes including attacking law enforcement officers.
When it does not, whistleblowers, who can receive a cut of any settlements or verdicts that result from the cases, often pursue the lawsuits on their own on the government's behalf.
After the verdicts, he appeared poised to go on the attack a day after delivering a State of the Union address remarkable mostly for underscoring the deep partisan tensions in Washington.
"These verdicts send a strong message to the city's correction officers: engage in brutal behavior, lie to cover it up, and you will be punished," said Mark Peters, the DOI commissioner.
Outside the courtroom after the verdicts were read, Samara Herard, sister to Franklin's youngest victim, 22010-year-old Princess Berthomieux, said she was not surprised at the killer's lack of reaction.
Lonnie Franklin Jr. showed no emotion as a clerk read the 13 murder verdicts in Los Angeles County Superior Court after a two-month trial in the potential death penalty case.
Vale has been targeted by several court verdicts related to mines that use dams similar to the one that burst in the town of Brumadinho in January, killing over 300 people.
Similar verdicts in favour of the forced labourers followed suit, and South Korean President Moon Jae-in said last week that he respects the decision upholding their individual rights to compensation.
As the jury was deliberating, they agreed not to appeal the jury verdicts in exchange for the government dismissal of a slew of ancillary charges, including "conspiracy" to commit the offense.
Chinese legal experts have argued that the number of death sentences have been reduced simply because lower court officials are instinctively keen to avoid having their verdicts scrutinized by their superiors.
Obviously it is not the job of philosophers to do science, or to give verdicts on one theory over another, or to tell scientists how they should go about their business.
Similar verdicts in favor of the forced laborers followed suit, and South Korean President Moon Jae-in said last week that he respects the decision upholding their individual rights to compensation.
Four months into a presidency is too soon for verdicts—and even the most seasoned, grounded presidencies (and again: this ain't that) open with a period of fluidity, jockeying, and experimentation.
The SEC, which confirmed the verdict on Friday, said the jury after several days of deliberation had been unable to reach unanimous verdicts on its fraud or lying to auditor claims.
BEIJING (Reuters) - A court in China on Thursday exonerated four men who had been originally sentenced to death for rape and murder, in the latest case of courts overturning dubious verdicts.
In the other legislation passed on Thursday, Mr. Hamid, the law minister, said that verdicts in rape cases would have to be given within three months, and that sentences would increase.
Regardless of whether he is freed or not while awaiting appeals of his conviction, Brazilian electoral law bans candidates whose guilty verdicts have been upheld on appeal, as is Lula's case.
Pascrell spoke out during the closed-door session to note that recent court rulings have sided with the Democrats' requests for information, and more are likely to follow with similar verdicts.
Juries and the processes they use to reach verdicts are parameterized, but a trial is nonetheless all about convincing those juries of something that is inexact and subjective at its core.
Elizabeth Rowe, a professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, analyzed about 150 trade secret verdicts through 2014 and said $245 million would rank as the second highest.
The company says that its talc does not contain asbestos, that claims that talc causes cancer are based on bad science and that it is appealing any jury verdicts against it.
The worst part didn't come during the match itself, lukewarm drizzle though it was, but after the match, when the leaders of United States soccer delivered their verdicts to the press.
Louisiana has since amended its state Constitution to bar non-unanimous verdicts, but the move came too late to help Mr. Ramos, as it applies only to crimes committed after 2018.
Chief Justice John Roberts can be urged to accelerate the schedule in all three cases, and report the verdicts prior to the customary end of the Supreme Court session in June.
That will happen after prosecutors and defense lawyers argue how much, if any, money Shkreli should be ordered to forfeit, and after defense lawyers ask her to overturn the guilty verdicts.
According to Japan's public broadcaster NHK, there have been calls this year to change the country's law around sexual assault after a string of not guilty verdicts in sexual assault cases.
He also accused Democrats of trying to influence the rulings of the newest justice, an ironic comment given his own relentless habit of publicly attacking judges and complaining about their verdicts.
A panel of seven Supreme Court justices is presiding over the trial and one of them will then write the verdicts, which must be approved by a majority of the panel.
On Tuesday, El Chapo "looked a little stunned sitting with his lawyers and listening to the guilty verdicts come in through translation," said The Times's Alan Feuer, embedded in the courtroom.
Needless to say, British newspapers and media outlets didn't hold back on their verdicts on the vote, the chaotic state and uncertain future of Brexit and Theresa May and her Conservative government.
GENEVA (Reuters) - World Trade Organization arbiters sided against the United States on Thursday over duties it had applied on Canadian paper in one of the final verdicts of the WTO's appeals body.
A fifth of the plaintiffs have cases pending in state court in St. Louis, where juries in four trials have hit J&J and a talc supplier with $307 million in verdicts.
J&J has successfully overturned talc verdicts in the past, with appeals courts pointing to a 2017 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that limits where personal injury lawsuits can be filed.
"While there have been several trials where juries have awarded significant verdicts against Johnson & Johnson [in the talc cases], each one that has been heard on appeal have been overturned," Knewitz said.
"Based on the orders of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, executions were carried out on Thursday of 12 convicted terrorists who have received final verdicts," a government spokesman said in a statement.
The case has been ongoing since 2011, and the countless appeals and verdicts have made it one of the most complex corporate patent infringement trials in the history of the technology industry.
WSB-TV reported that a Fulton County jury deliberated for just 30 minutes before delivering its verdicts against the two defendants - former police Sergeant Marcus Eberhart and former police Corporal Howard Weems.
When it ended early the next year, the guilty verdicts carried sentences that included death by hanging for two of the spies and 15-year terms for Ms. Ninio and a colleague.
The trial and verdicts are a confirmation, this time in a court of law, that the protests that engulfed the city after the death of Freddie Gray didn't happen in a vacuum.
"The message of the Malheur verdicts is that the federal land management agencies stand alone," Dennis McLane, the retired deputy chief of law enforcement for the Bureau of Land Management, told me.
While J&J faces some trials brought by individuals in other jurisdictions, the multi-plaintiff St. Louis cases are the largest and have the most potential to produce additional billion-dollar verdicts.
"You are not aiding Islam by talking about killing judges and by killing our generals who have sacrificed so much for our country," the Prime Minister said in defense of the verdicts.
Times Insider It took six weeks to go through the evidence at Keith Raniere's trial, but only four and a half hours for jurors to return guilty verdicts on all seven charges.
After the shooting, the United States implored its Iraqi allies to trust the American justice system, which, over 10 years, has delivered guilty verdicts, retracted them — and on Wednesday delivered one again.
And the verdicts against him, for aggravated attempted murder and nine other charges relating to the trainee and two colleagues with lasting kidney damage, did not mark the end of the investigation.
But his credentials are tainted by accusations that he was involved in a so-called death committee that issued verdicts that led to the executions of thousands of political prisoners in 1988.
"Let me be clear once again, I had no knowledge prior to or during these lane realignments, and had no role in authorizing them," Christie said after the first verdicts came down.
Even before Wednesday's decision, there have been calls this year to change the country's laws after a string of not guilty verdicts in sexual assault cases, according to Japan's public broadcaster NHK.
The other Bronx Democrats prosecuted in the scandal, Representative Mario Biaggi and the borough president, Stanley Simon, were convicted of corruption charges in verdicts that were upheld, and they served prison terms.
Still, the appeals panel led by Larry Mussenden — a former attorney general of Bermuda, who is seeking to become a FIFA vice president by winning the Concacaf presidency in May — rarely overturns verdicts.
Many of those lawsuits are pending in St. Louis, where the J&J has faced four prior trials, three of which resulted in $197 million verdicts against J&J and a talc supplier.
Mr Jammeh was swiftly condemned both by the UN Security Council and the African Union, which is less willing than it used to be to tolerate leaders who refuse to accept voters' verdicts.
The verdicts represent a severe blow to the reputation of British authorities, who have been criticized for their inability to successfully prosecute financial crimes, particularly when compared with the United States Justice Department.
Some are the result of hasty verdicts and mistaken identities: in 2012 four college students were wrongly accused of theft and killed by riled-up neighbours near the southern city of Port Harcourt.
Despite these earlier verdicts, the current case had been tied up in Italian courts for over a decade, dredging up issues of provenance and the legality of the statue's sale to the Getty.
The trial of O. J. Simpson for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, which ran from opening statements in January 1995 to the not-guilty verdicts that October, was inescapable.
But it has secured only five substantive verdicts in its 14-year history, all of them on African suspects, and several African countries have expressed concern that the continent is being picked on.
Outside the historic South Carolina church where the killings took place, several people who came to pay their respects a day after the verdicts said they wanted to see Roof stand trial again.
But we know without doubt that the Gray verdicts are not only not aberrations, but are par for the course, the most likely outcome any time someone is killed the way Gray was.
Whereas split verdicts are acceptable in England, in America they can convict people only in Louisiana and Oregon, each of which allows convictions in most felony cases when ten of 12 jurors agree.
China Judgements Online, the official database established in 2013 that purports to compile court verdicts from the entire country, shows that no less than 701 individuals received death sentences between 2011 and 2016.
This week, for the second time in five years, jurors returned guilty verdicts against a New York man who fatally shot his mother, stepfather and stepbrother during the summer of 2011, PEOPLE confirms.
The proposed changes would limit jail time for accused people awaiting verdicts, which could allow the release of at least 100 people facing corruption charges, as well as others accused of war crimes.
The government has delayed approving the decree and a second one that would allow politicians and others convicted of graft since 2014 to retroactively challenge the verdicts handed down by the supreme court.
They do not fear a successful prosecution and quite frankly they don't even fear a damn guilty verdict because the guilty verdicts in this city are suspended, all or most of the time.
Many of those lawsuits are pending in the state court in St. Louis, where the company has faced four prior trials, three of which resulted in verdicts awarding plaintiffs $195 million in total.
More than half of the death verdicts imposed in Louisiana have been reversed, meaning appellate judges found a legal error substantial enough to order a new trial or to vacate the death sentence.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Manhattan threw out one of the few verdicts finding fraud in how banks handled mortgages before the meltdown in the housing market.
"I have drafted an emergency decree that ... will enable all those convicted by illegally-formed panels to challenge (the verdicts)," Justice Minister Tudorel Toader told private television station Romania TV late on Sunday.
After jurors rendered their verdicts on Tuesday, several of them explained that after reviewing all the evidence thoroughly, they had concluded that Mr. Lightfoot did not have a weapon when he was beaten.
The verdicts for six of the nine current and former officers who were tried together were delivered by a jury in State Supreme Court in the Bronx on the fourth day of deliberations.
We favor predetermined verdicts that have been arrived at by collective sentiment — a cultural style that accuses first, presents evidence often without questioning it, then makes a judicial finding and passes a sentence.
The agency issued the decision against the two companies, Boston Scientific and Coloplast, at a time when multimillion-dollar verdicts against manufacturers of the devices continue to be awarded or upheld on appeal.
"It remains true that of all the talc-related verdicts against Johnson & Johnson that have been through the appeals process, every one has been overturned," the company said in its statement on Wednesday.
Mr. Oswald's commission has taken longer than first anticipated to reach verdicts after it struggled to come up with a suitable method of detecting whether bottles — previously considered tamper-proof — had been manipulated.
Jurors there in 2015 failed to reach verdicts on any of the counts against Officer William G. Porter, one of six officers charged in connection with the in-custody death of Freddie Gray.
Swift cried and hugged her mother as the verdicts were read in U.S. District Court in Denver and mouthed an emphatic "thank you" to members of the jury as they left the courtroom.
A senior official of the Trump administration, which critics say has been too soft on Saudi Arabia over the killing of Khashoggi, called the verdicts "an important step" in holding those responsible accountable.
As Judge Brian M. Cogan read the jury's charge sheet in open court — 230 straight guilty verdicts on all 503 counts of the indictment — Mr. Guzmán sat listening to a translator, looking stunned.
Manfred Weber, a member of Merkel's conservative bloc and leader of the European Parliament's biggest political group, cautioned against sweeping verdicts but said it was important to ensure that extremists didn't enter the country.
The company said this is the sixth case it has won in the past year on allegations that its baby powder caused mesothelioma and all verdicts against J&J have been overturned on appeal.
Domestic banks' willingness to mop up Italian bonds could be tested in coming months as verdicts by rating agencies loom on Rome's debt and intensifying tensions over the 2019 budget could unnerve foreign buyers.
Hua Thi Phan was prosecuted in connection with the corruption trials of members of Ocean Group's banking unit, whose founder, Ha Van Tham, and 50 other officials are awaiting their verdicts, expected this month.
Critics and even some supporters of Moro's anti-graft efforts have expressed concerns about messages suggesting the former judge had inappropriately steered prosecutors' efforts on cases where he eventually cast verdicts and issued sentences.
The dessert-centric vehicle will hand out free treats to Washingtonians and will feature "information about the latest guilty please, guilty verdicts, and indictments produced by the [special counsel's] probe," according to the group.
The court of cassation, Egypt's top court, rejected an appeal by Badie and others against verdicts issued against them last May in the case known in local media as "the Rabaa Operations Room" trial.
When a federal court of appeals threw out their convictions in 2014, it upset a raft of additional guilty verdicts in a highly publicized campaign against insider trading in the New York fund world.
On Tuesday, the jury said in a note to the judge that they had agreed on verdicts for three of the defendants, but that they were unable to reach a consensus on the others.
Musician John Legend has called on the state of Louisiana to "strip white supremacy from its constitution" by voting for an amendment that would require unanimous jury verdicts for convictions in all felony trials.
It did not give details of other verdicts and sentences handed to the defendants but said 16 of them were Russian nationals, while the others were Chechen, Tunisian, Egyptian, Algerian, Syrian and Turkish citizens.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the court, said the need to erase racial prejudice from legal proceedings overrides long-standing policies aimed at keeping jury deliberations generally off-limits in bids to overturn verdicts.
The jury deliberated for only about two hours on Thursday afternoon, and as a clerk began to read the guilty verdicts, one after the next, a few women in the courtroom nodded with satisfaction.
In late February as the verdicts came in, the once powerful producer seemed stunned and the New York Times reported that as court officers approached to take him to jail, he refused to move.
Now, for allowing Mr. Ghomeshi to speak and refusing to join a mob that claims the right to judge the truth or falsehood of unproven allegations, court verdicts notwithstanding, Ian Buruma loses his job.
And local prosecutors, including Leon A. Cannizzaro Jr., the Democratic district attorney of Orleans Parish, have continued to pursue convictions through nonunanimous verdicts for people arrested before January 2019, when the revocation took effect.
The verdicts came down — after three weeks of debate — almost entirely along party lines, with every Democrat voting "guilty" on both charges and Republicans uniformly voting "not guilty" on the obstruction of Congress charge.
The verdicts came down — after three weeks of debate — almost entirely along party lines, with every Democrat voting "guilty" on both charges and Republicans uniformly voting "not guilty" on the obstruction of Congress charge.
More recently, the agency has taken a tougher stance amid heightened scrutiny in Congress, a criminal investigation into J&Js statements regarding the safety of its talc powders and jury verdicts against talc manufacturers.
Ms. Valentine said she had obtained verdicts and settlements exceeding $250,000 for relatives of many patients who had died because of infected bedsores, medication mix-ups, malnutrition, dehydration or a failure to provide care.
The main questions are how separatists will react to the verdicts, whether the promise of peaceful protests holds and whether and how the reputation of both Spain and the separatist movement could be affected.
Federal prosecutors on Mueller's team now have until Wednesday to inform Ellis whether they plan to try again for guilty verdicts on those remaining counts or whether they will dismiss them from Manafort's indictment.
Amid heightened scrutiny in Congress, a criminal investigation of J&J and costly jury verdicts against the company, the regulator commissioned tests that found asbestos in 11 talc-based cosmetics, including Johnsons Baby Powder.
Reporters racing out of the courtroom -- where cellphones and computers are not allowed -- broke the news that Manafort had been found guilty on one count -- before similar verdicts on another seven were quickly confirmed.
The struggle over Mr. Tharpe's fate has to do, in part, with a continuing dispute over whether the legal system should allow jury verdicts to be impeached by the post-verdict testimony of jurors.
Melgen was free on bail before and during his two-month trial, but the bail was revoked and he was taken into custody April 28, when the jury returned the dozens of guilty verdicts.
Jennifer Rokala, executive director of the Center for Western Priorities, told the Oregonian that Thursday's verdicts could embolden militia groups across the country and prompt similar armed standoffs over federal control of public land.
LONDON (Reuters) - Three of Europe's top drugmakers face critical verdicts from U.S. regulators next week, with Sanofi and Roche likely to win approvals for two new products, while GlaxoSmithKline braces for a potential generic rival.
Pabon also acknowledges the persistence of racism in law enforcement—he has seen the same shocking videos of police violence everyone else has, read about the same not guilty verdicts for cops accused of wrongdoing.
Nine, though, won jury verdicts at trial or reached monetary settlements, all after claims the officers had been passed up for promotions because of their skin color or fired for saying something interpreted as racist.
Venezuela's opposition won National Assembly elections in 2015, but the legislature has been sidelined by verdicts from the pro-government Supreme Court and the controversial election this year of a pro-Maduro Constituent Assembly superbody.
If more software patents are allowed, and survive litigation and IPR/CBM proceedings and result in large trial verdicts, we could see a renewed interest in patent portfolio building by high-tech and software companies.
But so far the verdicts have been consistent: Three of the six officers charged in the case have been acquitted, and now we'll never know whether the remaining three would have been convicted or acquitted.
"I sued them because we already told them: 'If you want to work here, you have to follow the discipline of the Eastern Command'," Major Aung Htwe told Reuters in an interview before the verdicts.
The judge said he understood why transparency is important, but said that in our "less innocent" times, he was worried that jurors' fears of exposure could compromise their ability to deliver fair and impartial verdicts.
Jurors had been told that to return verdicts of "unlawful killing" they would have to be sure that David Duckenfield, the police commander in charge at the match, was responsible for "manslaughter by gross negligence".
"These verdicts leave no doubt for public opinion and the international community that Bahrain is not looking for reform but has decided to intensify the repression," IRNA quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi as saying.
Democrats and Republicans in Michigan appear set to deliver sharply different verdicts in fights over the direction of their parties on Tuesday when they go to the polls to pick nominees for their next governor.
"Many employees in the prime minister's residence could testify to the excellent, warm and humane treatment that they have received from the prime minister's wife," the family said in response to one of the verdicts.
Because the court "has no influence over either the sword or the purse," as Alexander Hamilton wrote in the Federalist Papers, its legitimacy and authority depend entirely on the shared public acceptance of its verdicts.
He was found in contempt last week for breaching a reporting ban by videoing defendants accused of sexually exploiting young girls outside a courthouse in Leeds, northern England, while jurors were still considering their verdicts.
Corruption is endemic in Indian politics, and judges are expediting trials of lawmakers accused of crimes including murder, fraud and extortion after a Supreme Court order to reach verdicts within one year in such cases.
N.C.A.A. Basketball Trial: Guilty Verdicts on Bribery Conspiracy A prospective agent and a former shoe company consultant were found not guilty on multiple charges, but were convicted of conspiring to funnel money to college coaches.
He claimed he was assigned to almost all of his cases, including the clients referenced in the SLF ad, and that the vast majority of his cases ended in no-contest pleas or guilty verdicts.
Following the announcement of the verdicts, Weinstein was remanded into custody until a sentencing hearing scheduled for March 11, where the charges he was convicted of could land him up to 25 years in prison.
There seemed little doubt that the justices would have found the question fairly easy absent a confusing 18983 decision that said the Constitution required federal juries to render unanimous verdicts but allowed divided state juries.
Van Dyke, who was also found guilty of 16 counts of aggravated battery with a firearm, sat impassively in a dark suit -- his shoulders slumped -- as the verdicts were read in the high-profile case.
Last week's verdicts in the corruption case made Mr. Rajoy's party the first Spanish political force to be convicted of operating a slush fund and ordered to pay a fine, 245,000 euros, or about $285,000.
The Supreme Court decision, and the reversals of the Silver and Skelos verdicts that flowed from it, haunts the efforts to clean up Albany by putting people like Mr. Silver and Mr. Skelos behind bars.
In the death-penalty lottery, only a fraction of murder cases result in death verdicts, and family members of murder victims in those cases can feel little solace from a sideshow centered on the defendant.
To date, 32 women have gone to trial in state or federal court, and 533 have obtained verdicts against mesh manufacturers totaling $345 million, for an average award of $14 million, according to court filings.
While the verdicts varied, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas was seen as starting strong but fading late, while Senator Marco Rubio of Florida had his moments but grew testy at times when faced with tough questions.
Among other points, he argued that Judge Glass improperly restricted the manner in which Simpson's attorneys could question potential jurors about whether they agreed or disagreed with the verdicts in the murder and wrongful death cases.
The two verdicts come as J&J fights some 14,200 talc-related lawsuits nationwide claiming its talc products, including Johnson's Baby Powder, can cause ovarian cancer and mesothelioma, a form of cancer linked to asbestos exposure.
OSLO (Reuters) - A Norwegian appeals court acquitted the former chief executive of fertiliser maker Yara, Thorleif Enger, and two other former top executives in a bribery case on Friday, reversing the verdicts of a lower court.
Uber's Finland country manager Joel Jarvinen said a police crackdown on drivers without licenses was regrettable at a time when the government was preparing changes in taxi regulation, but declined to comment further on the verdicts.
It followed a day of testimony Wednesday from Pell's barrister, Bret Walker SC, who presented 13 reasons why there should have been reasonable doubt in the minds of jurors when they returned the five guilty verdicts.
"The court has issued ten verdicts of life in prison against ten women after convicting them of terrorism, and sentenced to death by hanging another terrorist who holds Turkish citizenship," said Judge Abdul-Sattar al-Birqdar.
" "We continue to maintain that the guilty verdicts are not supported by the evidence in this matter as this was a purely accidental fire -- not a criminal act," Bonsib said in an email to CNN. "Mr.
Brussels issued its first verdicts in tax cases in October, ordering Luxembourg and the Netherlands to claw back tens of millions of euros of underpaid tax from Italian carmaker Fiat and US coffee shop chain Starbucks.
Two earlier juries both found him guilty before the courts set those verdicts aside – the first time after a new witness came forth, and the second time after a ruling that mistakes were made at trial.
After returning to the Antelope Valley, he turned multimillion-dollar personal injury verdicts into tremendous personal wealth: a private plane, philanthropy that got his name on a high school, and a mansion with private tennis courts.
Following a two-week trial, jurors on Wednesday returned guilty verdicts on just three of the 10 charges faced by Christian Dawkins and Merl Code, two of the main defendants in the college basketball bribery scandal.
The officer was also acquitted of two counts of discharging a firearm that endangers safety, according to CNN, which reported that several members of Castile's family screamed profanities and cried Friday after the verdicts were announced.
The government has placed state media and prosecutors under its direct control, passed legislation making it more difficult for the constitutional court to issue verdicts and approved a bill critics say will limit freedom of assembly.
The verdicts in London's fourth Libor trial bring to eight the number of defendants cleared in a five-year criminal inquiry into whether bankers were dishonest when they manipulated benchmark rates up to 12 years ago.
A new extended trailer for Netflix's Ted Bundy drama — titled Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (a direct quote from one of Bundy's numerous guilty verdicts) — reveals more of Efron's take on the notorious serial killer.
Judges do not often stop prosecutors from doing this, leaving juries with the impression that "rich equals guilty" resulting in guilty verdicts not based on evidence of actual misconduct satisfying the elements of the crime charged.
Stone looked very optimistic on his way into a federal court in Washington, D.C. -- clutching his wife and a Bible closely -- but after one full day of deliberations, the jury returned guilty verdicts across the board.
They believe the gun possession conviction seemed at odds with the acquittals, given that those verdicts aligned with the defense contention that Garcia Zarate found the gun by happenstance at the pier where the shooting occurred.
Under these amendments, Poland's supreme court would be more limited in its newly acquired ability to effectively overturn past verdicts, and the president - rather than the justice minister - would gain the right to appoint junior judges.
A jury in southeast Georgia, where the case was tried because of intense pretrial publicity here, returned guilty verdicts against the man, Justin Ross Harris, 35, on eight counts, including malice murder and cruelty to children.
"These results will buoy up the SFO, but they were desperately needed to save its reputation after the not guilty verdicts in the second Libor trial," David Corker, a partner at law firm Corker Binning, said.
Shanin Specter, a lawyer who has won numerous big jury verdicts against firms that manufactured the pelvic mesh, said the F.D.A. should extend the decision to include mesh devices used for treatment of some urinary conditions.
The two convictions carry a maximum sentence of up to 29 years for the 67-year-old Weinstein, who was taken into custody after the verdicts were read and is set to be sentenced March 11.
Of nearly 1,000 trials The Advocate reviewed over a six-year period, 40 percent resulted in split guilty verdicts, and black defendants were 30 percent more likely than whites to be convicted by a split verdict.
Four months after the jury verdicts in Bowser's case, U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan tossed out Bowser's conviction on an obstruction of Congress charge, ruling that statute doesn't criminalize interference with an ethics office investigation.
In the wake of the verdicts in the cases of Mr. Kaloyeros and Mr. Skelos, Mr. Cuomo's political opponents said the governor had hobbled the state's ethics oversight and never delivered on promises of procurement reform.
Trucking companies across the board have been slapped with "nuclear verdicts" — sometimes resulting in companies having to pay out tens of millions of dollars after a jury finds a truck driver guilty in a wrongful-death suit.
J&J, faced with some 11,700 U.S. talc lawsuits, in a statement on Thursday said it believed the mistrials, as well as the verdicts clearing it of liability reflected the "diligent review" by juries in the cases.
In two separate verdicts involving 10 forced laborers or their bereaved family members, the Supreme Court said Thursday that Mitsubishi must provide 80 million to 150 million won ($71,190-133,510) in compensation to each of the plaintiffs.
Jaborian "Tip" McKenzie, the fourth and final former Vanderbilt football player charged in the 2013 rape of an unconscious female student, will serve 10 years probation Monday after his testimony helped secure guilty verdicts for his teammates.
The state high court's decision voided one of the largest U.S. verdicts against a tobacco company related to smoking and tobacco-smoke exposure, which the U.S. surgeon general estimates causes 480,000 premature deaths annually in the country.
It framed the issue, like other courts have, as a tradeoff between, on the one hand, the finality of verdicts and avoiding potential juror harassment, and, on the other, the defendant's constitutional right to a fair trial.
ProPublica requested that Adams's report, which had been significantly redacted, and the code itself be made public on the grounds that its integrity, and by extension the validity of perhaps hundreds of verdicts, was in serious question.
Gilroy lards him up with character traits: He's a former civil rights activist turned low-paid lawyer, with a passion for defending those the judicial system saddles with unfair verdicts and/or the whole plea bargain system.
"The fact that jurors from both trials wrote letters in support of constitutionally impermissible verdicts is highly unusual, and generates further anti-Monsanto bias in the Bay Area that will infect future Roundup trials," the company said.
Asked about the verdicts, China's foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a regular briefing that Amnesty is biased when it comes to China and should not be believed, adding that China abides by the rule of law.
Snap got a slew of positive verdicts from Wall Street this week — but a month into its life as a public company, analyst sentiment resembles the troubled Twitter more than the successful Facebook after their respective IPOs.
When the system reforms, juries will stop "sending messages" and will return to determining guilt and innocence on an objective analysis of the evidence rather than using verdicts to teach bad cops and overzealous prosecutors a lesson.
After 6 days of deliberations, the jury returned guilty verdicts against Chapo for engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiracy to launder narcotics proceeds, international distribution of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and other drugs and use of firearms.
As news of the verdicts reached a crowd outside the court, two supporters of Ko Ni shouted out in protest, warning that what they saw as the light sentences for the co-conspirators set a dangerous precedent.
An Indian court has acquitted Bollywood star Salman Khan in an 225-year-old case involving the poaching of an endangered gazelle species in the state of Rajasthan, overturning earlier verdicts that had sentenced him to prison.
Romania's justice minister has drafted an emergency decree that allows politicians and others convicted of graft since 2014 in one of the European Union's most corrupt countries to challenge the verdicts handed down by the supreme court.
On Friday, the three defendants — who had all pleaded not guilty — sat impassively in dark suits as a court clerk began to read a litany of "guilty" verdicts, the most serious being conspiracy to commit murder overseas.
A U.S. District Court jury in Orange County, south of Los Angeles, returned the guilty verdicts against Nader Elhuzayel and Muhanad Badawi, both 25, after deliberating for just over an hour, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
All those Americans voting across our country right now, and especially those whose votes are thwarted by people who still refuse to accept historical verdicts a century and a half old, owe Douglass a nod of recognition.
The appeals judges who took up Bowser's case on Monday offered some glimmers of hope for his defense, but it sounded unlikely that he would see a ruling that wipes out all the guilty verdicts against him.
According to state crime data, of the more than 3,500 animal abuse cases reported in the decade ending in 2015, 47 percent were not prosecuted, another 33 percent were dismissed and 18 percent ended in guilty verdicts.
In Louisiana, which until 2018 was the only other state to allow criminal convictions with nonunanimous verdicts, the attorney general — Jeffrey Martin Landry, a Republican — has declined to re-examine convictions handed up before the law changed.
Liz Murrill, Louisiana's solicitor general — who argued the Ramos case before the Supreme Court — said that some 32,000 inmates in her state might be eligible to appeal convictions if the Supreme Court were to bar split verdicts.
DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD The jury on Friday returned guilty verdicts on the three defendants on trial, on charges including conspiracy to commit murder outside the United States and to provide material support for a foreign terrorist group.
The verdicts against Mr. Napout and Mr. Marin partially resolved the trial in the United States' case focused on FIFA, the governing body of international soccer that was thrown into chaos when allegations were announced in 2015.
The Bronx has the poorest residents of any borough and the highest percentage of nonwhite residents, and the relative unwillingness of Bronx juries to hand down guilty verdicts suggests a growing distrust of the legal system there.
A US District Court jury in Orange County, south of Los Angeles, returned the guilty verdicts against Nader Elhuzayel and Muhanad Badawi, both 25, after deliberating for just over an hour, according to the US Attorney's Office.
Many of these lawsuits, which often did not assert that asbestos contamination might have been the major contributing factor, have similarly failed, but cases that have gone to trial have resulted in verdicts in favor of the plaintiff.
Its formal notification to the European Commission of its intention to buy Sky also put it on a similar regulatory timetable to Fox, despite entering the race 14 months later, with verdicts on both bids due next month.
India's Chief Justice of the Supreme Court has presided over a string of verdicts in recent weeks that grant more rights to women, gay couples and religious minorities as he prepares to retire from the bench next month.

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