Sentence examples for judicial instructions from inspiring English sources

Fourth, through expert testimony or judicial instructions, jurors should be educated about the many factors that can affect eyewitness identification and that those need to be considered in evaluating the reliability of an eyewitness's testimony.

Defence lawyer Alan Gold, however, argued that the jury "fell into error" due to faulty judicial instructions and other factors when they delivered their unanimous guilty verdict.

Defense lawyer Alan Gold, however, argued that the jury "fell into error" due to faulty judicial instructions and other factors when it delivered the unanimous guilty verdict.

A judicial instruction to presume innocence reduced jurors' beliefs in the defendant's guilt.

In order to help alleviate the bias, the study suggests "voir dire and juror screening questionnaires," the American Bar Association Journal notes, adding that "judicial instruction" may also be part of the solution.

It is subject to congressional oversight and judicial scrutiny, and receives instructions from an elected government.

While judicial mistakes at trial — including improper instructions to juries or rulings on evidence — were the most common causes for reversal, cited in 164 cases, prosecutorial misconduct was found in 86 of the cases.

In county races (for sheriff, for example), in judicial races and in the superintendent of public instruction contest, any candidate who gets more than half the vote Tuesday wins outright, with no November runoff.

It laid down canons of judicial administration for the trial judge to the extent that his instructions to the jury, certainly when appropriately invoked, might affect the behavior of jurors.

And, in any event, it leaves the States free to apply their own judicial remedies in light of, and bounded by, the Convention's general instructions.

Presumably the NC Conference of Superior Court Judges did not need the promise of royalties in order to compile the Pattern Jury Instructions; creating those instructions was simply a part of good judicial practice for the state.