Sentence examples for jury- from inspiring English sources

Cannes didn't make sex, lies and videotape (the film had already won the audience award at Sundance), but in giving the Palme d'Or to Soderbergh, Wim Wenders' jury gave the new indie cinema the old school's blessing.

"The storm of airplanes will not stop," Abu Ghaith was heard warning in an October 2001 video that was played for the jury.

The jury returned a verdict on three charges: conspiracy to kill Americans, conspiring to provide support to al-Qaida and providing support to al-Qaida.

Prosecutor Karim Khalil QC told the jury: "For reasons known only to him but which may well be rooted in the pressures of home life and his own inability to cope with the change in his circumstances, he took hold of his own baby, he bit her on the head, he struck her repeatedly and he shook her hard.

The band's singer Michael Stipe and Buck's wife Stephanie burst into tears as the jury cleared him of a charge of being drunk on an aircraft last April, two counts of common assault, and one charge of damaging BA crockery.

He said people should be allowed to "wear what the devil they like in public", but giving evidence in court required the full face to be visible at least to the judge and jury, but not necessarily to others.

Related: Dheepan review - Tamil Tiger loose in the urban jungle makes powerful thriller Yorgos Lanthimos's The Lobster got the jury prize: a movie about which I was agnostic: a brilliant absurdist comedy in its first half with some dazzling satire about modern society's reverence for relationships and coupledom.

Well, the best actress award was where the Coens' jury really covered themselves with something other than glory.

For a second night in a row, racially charged protests took place around the US after a Missouri grand jury decided not to indict a white policeman in the fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown.

Four of the 18 courts in the Old Bailey were empty on Friday, including court 12 where the phone-hacking trial is being held, though the judge told the jury this was because of an appointment he had at the sentencing council.

Contempt of court bars comment on ongoing trials and inquests to avoid the risk of influencing the jury in one direction.