Sentence examples for left juries from inspiring English sources

This result, which met with pleasure due to the popular disquiet with the idea of constructive treason, left juries unwilling to apply the extended law of constructive treason; as a result, the government was forced to incorporate it into statute law.

But as Mr. Davis, a retired printer, struggled to recall the charms of the woman he had seen, and to recount the description he had given detectives more than a decade ago, his confusion left jury members laughing and shaking their heads.

Leaving jury trials to his close friend and partner James Coleman, Mr. Sloman focused on arguing matters of law and jurisprudence through motions, briefs, and appeals.

In Roper, the dissenting Justices argued that judgments about a defendant's maturity and culpability should be left to juries.

NO PRESENTMENT SOUGHT Compiling of Definite Figures on Conditions in Borough Left to Jury's Inquiry.

That left the jury to choose only between murder and acquittal in her death.

Her lawyer's explanation that she had spent her teenage years as a drug-consuming prostitute left the jury unmoved.

In one courtroom, I got the Office of Court Administration to put in new carpeting because the jurors kept tripping on the worn carpeting as they left the jury box".

That left the jury with two possible verdicts: finding that the killing was lawful, as Scotland Yard contended, or rendering what is known as an open verdict.

But she also set a date for a new trial on the three charges against him that left the jury deadlocked.

After a summing up in which the judge left the jury in no doubt where his sympathies lay, Thorpe and his fellow defendants were acquitted.