http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/jury/ en-us Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:16:57 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029016/posts A judge aborted a drug conspiracy trial Tuesday after some jurors were found to have been playing the puzzle game Sudoku while evidence was being given. Sydney District Court Judge Peter Zahra ended the trial Tuesday for two men facing a possible life sentence for drug conspiracy charges. The trial had been running for 66 days and had cost taxpayers an estimated 1 million Australian dollars (US$950,000). The judge was alerted after it was observed the jurors were writing vertically, rather than horizontally. It had been assumed they were taking notes. "Yes, it helps me keep my mind busy paying... CBS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029016/posts#comment Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:16:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993450/posts Jury finishes first day of deliberations in terror trialAssociated Press - March 28, 2008 5:33 PM ET MIAMI (AP) - A Florida jury has wrapped up its first day of deliberations in the trial of 6 men accused of plotting terrorist attacks against Chicago's Sears Tower and FBI offices. Before the deliberations started, prosecutors appealed to the jury not to buy defense claims that the plot was really just a con aimed at getting some money. The alleged ringleader testified that he faked interest in terrorism in an effort to scam $50,000 out of a man he thought had been... KJCT8.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993450/posts#comment Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:01:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983840/posts Panelists claim woman wouldn't consider evidence, accused them of racism - The sole black juror on a panel deadlocked along racial lines lied to win a seat on the jury and then set out to exact revenge on law enforcement by serving as the spoiler in the trial of an alleged drug chief serving as his own lawyer, some of her fellow jurors said Monday.Jurors in the trial of Johnnie "Bro" Martin walked out of U.S. District Court with nothing to show for nine days of work but a mistrial. "She made a mockery of the system," one juror said... Knoxville News Sentinel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983840/posts#comment Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:58:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982880/posts A Minneapolis man who was arrested in the same bathroom sex sting as U.S. Sen. Larry King convinced a jury that he should be acquitted. The Boise Idaho Statesman reports that 39-year-old Vince Tuzon told the jury he was not guilty because the officer conducting the sting initiated the foot tapping. Craig orginally pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct, but then sought to withdraw his plea. A judge turned down his request, and that has been appealed to the Minnesota Court of Appeals. oregonlive.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982880/posts#comment Sun, 9 Mar 2008 15:45:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1897707/posts EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - A jury has ordered the Denny's restaurant chain to pay $600,000 to 15 members of a black family who claimed their white waiter deliberately ignored them and used racial slurs. newsday.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1897707/posts#comment Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:43:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1894823/posts Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and the city unfairly dismissed two police officers, a jury found Tuesday, capping a 15-day whistleblower lawsuit that churned out allegations of misdeeds by the mayor's staff and extramarital affairs by Kilpatrick. The 11-member jury awarded Gary Brown and Harold Nelthrope $6.5 million in damages. WXYZ.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1894823/posts#comment Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:39:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1889248/posts CHICAGO - Do you believe "The Clown" or an admitted hit man? Jurors will have to decide when they begin deliberations Tuesday in Chicago's biggest mob trial in years. They got the case Thursday night after prosecutors made a last pitch to sway them to believe the testimony of their star witness, admitted hit man Nicholas Calabrese. Defense lawyers have pegged Calabrese as "a walking piece of deception" whose testimony shouldn't be believed, even suggesting that if Calabrese says it's raining, someone ought to go outside to check. But prosecutors say it's the five men on trial who can't be... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1889248/posts#comment Fri, 31 Aug 2007 05:28:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1886114/posts Could it be? Could it actually be that white people are starting to gain equal rights when it comes to claims of racism? Between the whole Nagin official thing, and now this, I am left to ponder. Needs Of The Many http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1886114/posts#comment Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:09:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1866217/posts Today a Louisiana Federal Jury found Attorney Tommy Cryer NOT GUILTY of 2 counts of willful failure to file an income tax return. Earlier on Monday July 9th the Government had on its own motion dismissed 2 counts of tax evasion charges that it had charged Tommy Cryer with. Watchman.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1866217/posts#comment Sun, 15 Jul 2007 14:25:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1844454/posts LIVINGSTON — A Livingston Parish jury returned a verdict worth more than $1 million against Wal-Mart in a wrongful death lawsuit filed in December 2005, attorneys and court officials said. Ruby R. Guillory, 90, of Westlake died about month after she was hit in the leg by a garden cart being pushed by a Wal-Mart employee in the Walker Supercenter, plaintiffs’ attorney Timothy Pujol said in a statement. Guillory’s leg bled from the 8-inch cut sustained Oct. 3, 2005. The wound later became infected. She died five days after being released from a two-week hospital stay to treat that infection,... 2theadvocate.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1844454/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jun 2007 12:25:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1830990/posts Jury questioning Jefferson associateHer firm helped pay for trip to Africa Tuesday, May 08, 2007 By Bruce Alpert WASHINGTON -- The president of a company that helped pay for U.S. Rep. William Jefferson's trip to Western Africa in 2004 has signed a "testimonial agreement" with federal prosecutors and appeared before the grand jury on at least five days in the ongoing corruption investigation of the New Orleans Democrat. Disclosure of the grand jury appearance by Noreen Wilson, president of Global Environmental Energy, was made in billing documents filed by an attorney for the company in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New... NOLA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1830990/posts#comment Wed, 9 May 2007 23:05:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1814462/posts LOS ANGELES — A jury ordered the Los Angeles Unified School District to pay $7.6 million to the family of an epileptic boy who suffered a seizure at school and is now paralyzed in a minimally conscious state. Steve Martinez's family claimed the district was liable for the boy's injuries, saying the response to his April 18, 2005, seizure was inadequate. The district argued that adults responded almost immediately and tried to save the fourth-grader, but good-faith efforts to administer CPR were unsuccessful. "These are really, really hard cases," said Kenneth Reed, general counsel for the district. "Any time a... FoxNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1814462/posts#comment Mon, 9 Apr 2007 16:46:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1809235/posts BATON ROUGE, La. -- The West Feliciana Parish school system must pay more than $1.4 million to an English teacher who was suspended and demoted after refusing to change the Ds and Fs she gave to 70 percent of her students, a federal jury has found. The jury of four men and five women deliberated almost four hours before finding that the school board, superintendent and the principal at West Feliciana High School had harassed Paula Payne, violated her First Amendment rights and retaliated against her. "This is civics in action," Superintendent Lloyd Lindsey said. "The jury has spoken." He... katc.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1809235/posts#comment Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:58:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1796443/posts WASHINGTON - Jurors in the Libby trial turned their deliberation room into one big visual aid, plastering the walls with dozens of poster-size summaries of witness testimony. Denis Collins. a juror in the perjury trial of former White House aide I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, talks to the press regarding the verdict in the trial, Tuesday, March 6, 2007, outside federal court in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) They pushed two long tables together, pored over testimony, reviewed their notes and spent a week just laying out the evidence. But in the end, it came down to credibility and they simply did... Associated Press and Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1796443/posts#comment Wed, 7 Mar 2007 02:35:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1788663/posts WASHINGTON - Jurors began deliberating Wednesday in the perjury and obstruction trial of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, is charged with lying and obstructing the investigation into the 2003 leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity. Jurors heard about an hour of legal instructions from U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton on Wednesday morning before beginning deliberations shortly before 11:30 a.m. They heard a full day of closing arguments Tuesday after a monthlong trial. The jury of eight women and four men must be unanimous before... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1788663/posts#comment Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:16:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1726474/posts The Supreme Court of Canada has overturned the conviction of a medical marijuana crusader, ruling the trial judge erred by directing the jury to find the man guilty. In a 7-0 judgment released Thursday, the court granted a new trial to Grant Krieger, a Calgary man who had been found guilty on charges of possession of pot for purposes of trafficking. Grant Krieger, shown speaking to reporters outside a Calgary courthouse in 2000, has won a new trial on his medical marijuana conviction. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press) "The crucial fight is still ahead," Krieger told CBC News after the ruling was... CBC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1726474/posts#comment Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:44:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1708844/posts MCALLEN - Jurors today will hear about maintenance and safety practices of charter bus company Global Limo Inc. but not about the bus fire that killed 23 nursing home residents evacuated from Houston last year as Hurricane Rita bore down. U.S. District Judge Ricardo Hinojosa granted a defense motion to limit testimony to alleged mismanagement that occurred during a four-month period before last year's accident. James H. Maples, president and director of Pharr-based Global, faces charges he falsified driver time records and failed to adequately inspect and maintain his fleet of buses. The company was shut down for safety violations... Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1708844/posts#comment Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:42:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1678990/posts COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Attorneys for a man who has been sentenced to death say some members of the jury rushed to judgment because they needed a nicotine fix. Tuesday the Ohio Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments in the appeal of Phillip Elmore, convicted three years ago in the strangling of his ex-girlfriend in Newark. Elmore's attorneys say that the fact the judge wouldn't let jury members smoke or step outside to smoke led them to make a quick decision. That's one of 17 allegations the appeal makes. Lawyers for Elmore also say his trial attorneys were ineffective. WCPO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1678990/posts#comment Mon, 7 Aug 2006 04:44:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1668811/posts LOS ANGELES A jury convicted world-renowned geneticist William French Anderson on Wednesday of molesting the daughter of a colleague. Anderson, 69, is widely credited as the "father of gene therapy," a promising but controversial experimental medical treatment that involves injecting healthy genes into sick patients. He was the first person to successfully treat a patient this way in 1990, launching the field. The white-haired Anderson sat stoically, staring straight ahead, his head held high. He showed no reaction as the verdicts were read. His wife, a renowned surgeon, sat in the front row of the spectator section behind him with... ap on Riverside Press Enterprise http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1668811/posts#comment Wed, 19 Jul 2006 23:45:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1656519/posts CLEVELAND - A jury on Tuesday found makers of welding rods were not liable for the health problems of a former civilian worker at a Navy base in a ruling that could influence thousands of other cases that allege welding fumes cause neurological disorders, such as Parkinson's disease. Ernesto G. Solis, 57, claims years of exposure to welding fumes at his job at a Navy base in Corpus Christi, Texas, damaged his health because of exposure to manganese within welding rods. Scientific research has been at odds over whether such exposure can lead to Parkinson's, which diminishes movement and speech.... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1656519/posts#comment Tue, 27 Jun 2006 16:51:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1649636/posts WASHINGTON - Jurors in the David Safavian trial completed their first day of deliberations Wednesday without deciding whether the former Bush administration executive covered up assistance he gave Republican influence-peddler Jack Abramoff. The jury of 10 women and two men is weighing charges that while Safavian was the General Services Administration's chief of staff, he obstructed justice and made false statements. He is accused of concealing from GSA ethics officials and Senate investigators how he helped the disgraced lobbyist try to buy or lease two government properties. In the first trial to arise from the Abramoff scandal, the jury deliberated... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1649636/posts#comment Thu, 15 Jun 2006 04:55:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1639502/posts Jefferson can find hope in past caseFriday, May 26, 2006 Lolis Eric Elie "There are two sides to every story," Congressman William Jefferson said Monday. I doubt anybody would disagree with that general sentiment. But unanimity may have been lost when the New Orleans Democrat tried to apply that platitude to the specifics of his own situation. We've heard only the FBI's side, but it's pretty compelling. The feds say they have a videotape showing Jefferson accepting a $100,000 bribe. They also say most of that money ended up in Jefferson's freezer. Two of Jefferson's former associates have pleaded guilty.... NOLA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1639502/posts#comment Sun, 28 May 2006 00:15:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1628752/posts General Motors has won the first round of a consumer lawsuit that could set a precedent for other automakers in similar suits pending in several states. A U.S. District Court judge in Dallas has dismissed a suit in which the owner of a 2004 Chevrolet Tahoe alleged that GM had been negligent in using tempered glass in its side windows rather than laminated glass. Automotive News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1628752/posts#comment Mon, 8 May 2006 20:27:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1623489/posts A jury awarded $500,000 Friday to a woman who sued her employer after she was spanked in front of her colleagues in what the company called a camaraderie-building exercise. The jury of six men and six women found that Janet Orlando had suffered from sexual harassment and sexual battery when she was paddled on her backside on three occasions during her employment at home security company Alarm One Inc. in Fresno. The jurors, however, said that Orlando did not suffer from sexual assault as she had claimed. Orlando, 53, had asked the jury for at least $1.2 million in lost... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1623489/posts#comment Fri, 28 Apr 2006 23:34:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1616590/posts CHICAGO - Former Gov. George Ryan, who drew international praise when he commuted the sentences of everyone on Illinois' death row, was convicted of racketeering and fraud Monday in a corruption scandal that ended his political career in 2003. Ryan, 72, sat stone-faced as the verdict was read and afterward vowed to appeal. "I believe this decision today is not in accordance with the kind of public service that I provided to the people of Illinois over 40 years, and needless to say I am disappointed in the outcome," the former governor said. Ryan faces up to 20 years in... http://www.comcast.net/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1616590/posts#comment Mon, 17 Apr 2006 19:14:10 GMT