Word: conviction
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...folks. The chat-show queen reported for jury duty in Chicago, telling reporters she thought she was "too opinionated" to make an attractive juror. Attorneys disagreed and selected Oprah for a murder trial. Serving for $17.20 a day, the media mogul and her fellow jurors voted to convict after deliberating for just over two hours. Now Oprah plans to tape an episode of her show about the experience, which she called a "huge reality check." Judges may want to start preparing now for a healthy turnout of future jury pools. The woman who persuaded mainstream America to embrace both Tolstoy...
...within five minutes, the rest of the jurors convinced her that we had clear evidence (tape-recorded phone calls) to convict the defendant of stalking. “Well,” she said, “I guess he’s guilty.” We looked at each other in amazement. One count down, four...
...determined to stick it out until we reached the right verdict. After a while we cajoled the bailiffs into getting us coffee and cookies, and at some point that afternoon, we agreed that there had been a robbery, but that we didn’t have enough evidence to convict on the two weapons charges (though some of us grumbled at that). Four counts down...
...Ironically, though Larry Stewart was brought in by the government to prove the allegation that Martha and Bacanovic lied about the pre-existing arrangement, the charge of creating a false document against Baconovic was the only one the jury didn?t convict on. But Martha's lawyers argue that Larry Stewart's testimony influenced the verdict. Last Thursday, judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum denied the motion and with it the defendants? last and best chance. Now, their only hope is an appeal...
...Over 20 years of sentencing reform are all but lost, and tens of thousands of criminal judgments are in jeopardy." SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR, in a dissent to the court's 5-4 ruling that judges may not increase a convict's sentence based on facts not already established by a jury. The ruling casts doubt on the constitutionality of 20-year-old federal sentencing guidelines...