Sentence examples for influenced deliberations from inspiring English sources

They therefore have little chance of being selected for jury duty.Ms Thomas and her team chose to study racially mixed juries to see whether a defendant's race influenced deliberations (a later study will look at racial bias among all-white juries).

"It could influence deliberations if a juror is afraid of retaliation or harassment," she said.

By joining the convention, the United States would greatly strengthen its ability to influence deliberations involving activities by Russia and other nations to extend their continental boundaries, as well as countless other national security and economic decisions.

Mistrials have been declared when jurors so much as brought dictionaries into the jury room and let it influence deliberations.

Judges worried that lawyers would improperly influence deliberation, and civil lawyers feared that professionals would be more tightfisted with jury awards.

They also suggested that campaign contributions by a developer looking to build office buildings at the Century City intersection influenced the deliberations.

There are reports of lawyers who serve as jurors offering off-the-cuff jury-room legal opinions that improperly influence deliberations.

Instead, brief impressions are likely to be heavily influenced by deliberation.

Mr. Cohen said the case seemed likely to influence current deliberations to revise the country's state secrets law.

Khanh's letter was timed to influence the deliberations of the Central Committee's 10th plenum that met July 5 10.

"Terrorists do have families," Mr. Karas said, an apparent suggestion to the jury not to allow sympathy to influence its deliberations in the trial, in which one of the defendants, Mr. El-Hage, has seven children.