Sentence examples for verdict is set from inspiring English sources

Cites a case in which the bench showed marked prejudice; how a jury feels when the verdict is set aside; a women finding jury duty more exciting than men.

He asks, with respect to the trial by jury, "When the cause has gone up to the superior court, and the verdict is set aside, what benefit arises from having had a jury trial in the inferior court?" I would ask the gentleman, "What is the reason, that, on a special verdict or case agreed, the decision is left to the court?" There are a number of cases where juries cannot decide.

The verdict is set to be officially announced on August 17, but in the meantime, protests demanding the band (who VICE interviewed shortly before their arrest) be freed have been cropping up all over the place, including a solidarity rally and concert on Friday held in front of the Russian embassy in Glover Park, a normally quiet suburban neighborhood in Washington, DC.

The verdict is set to be officially announced on August 17th, but, in the meantime, protests demanding the band (who VICE interviewed shortly before their arrest) be freed have been cropping up all over the place, including a solidarity rally and concert on Friday, held in front of the Russian embassy in Glover Park, a normally quiet suburban neighbourhood in Washington, DC.

Mrs. Tiberi was first convicted of abusing public funds, but the verdict was set aside on a technicality.

That jury verdict was set aside in 2002 by Judge Sue L. Robinson of United States District Court in Wilmington, Del.

The verdict was set aside five months later, after the new attorney general, Eric Holder, was alerted to evidence of pervasive prosecutorial misconduct.

Lawyers for the five men convicted of the attack on the jogger have filed motions asking that the original verdict be set aside.

That verdict was set aside, but the Appellate Division later ordered a new trial, a decision that the attorney general's office asked Justice Doyle to dismiss.

In 1992, in response to Richard Mudd's plea, the Army Board for Correction of Military Records recommended that the military commission's 1865 guilty verdict be set aside on the grounds that Samuel Mudd should have been tried by a civilian jury.

Hyman Isaacs, Judge DeVita's lawyer, moved that the verdict be set aside on the grounds that the jury had pon dered so long that there had been "obvious compromise" in reaching a verdict and that the court had failed to explain to the jury "specific intent" in regard to the obstruction charge.