Sentence examples for deliberated only from inspiring English sources

The jury deliberated only 50 minutes before returning a guilty verdict.

Nevertheless, a jury deliberated only 15 minutes before finding her guilty of homicide by child abuse.

Two other men, Melvin Walker and David Ramsey, were acquitted of murder charges in a separate trial by a jury that deliberated only four hours.

The six-member jury, which has weighed the different phases of the case for two years, deliberated only five hours before reaching its decision.

The jury in Charles Town, Va., deliberated only 45 minutes before sentencing John Brown to death by hanging for leading a raid on the federal arsenal at nearby Harper's Ferry.

A jury of nine women and three men deliberated only a few hours between Tuesday afternoon and late yesterday morning before returning its verdict in the first sex-abuse trial of a priest in New Jersey since the scandal erupted this year.

They had begun deliberating only two days earlier.

They started to deliberate, only to be told after a few minutes to hold off.

A jury saw through the madness and, after deliberating only a few minutes, acquitted him in June 1997.

Juries are supposed to deliberate only on facts, but the key "fact" in Mr. Kearns's case was whether his patents were valid.

By press accounts, Ms. Reno took them seriously enough to deliberate only 24 hours before asking a Federal court to expand Mr. Starr's mandate, even though she had the right under the Independent Counsel Act to inform the court that such an expansion was not warranted.