Jury decisions

Usage examples of verdicts.

The verdicts of first-and second-degree murder meant that the death penalty could not be imposed, as Fogleman and Davis had wanted.

A reporter noted that “Baldwin appeared to cry as the verdicts were read” but that “Echols did not.

Nevertheless, Martin wrote, two juries had found the defendants guilty and he had seen no convincing evidence that their verdicts were wrong.

Across the country, guilty verdicts were being overturned on the basis of DNA evidence, some of which had been stored for years.

After the verdicts were read, Burnett asked the clerk to poll the jurors, but foreman Kent Arnold interrupted.

Sixteen had gone to trial and ended with verdicts in favor of the tobacco companies.

Large verdicts were something she secretly loathed, and for good reason.

Louis where trial lawyers told war stories about big verdicts, but he still wasn't convinced these "cutting edge" experts were little more than con artists.

He'd quietly celebrated the verdicts, but he'd never had the chance to purchase one.

The law says that we must refrain from reaching verdicts until all the evidence is in.

He heard verdicts all the time, but he had a hunch this one might have some pop to it.

Every trial judge could tell stories of juries whose verdicts disintegrated after they were delivered and while the polling took place.

Jarrett's old firm had ten lawyers, ten courtroom brawlers who won verdicts and were in demand.

Evidently, the popular tactic was to round up as many cases as possible, then tag team with Patton French who'd be happy to include them in his own personal class action in his backyard over in Mississippi, where the judges and juries and verdicts always went his way and the manufacturer was terrified to set foot.

What they don't want is protracted litigation on many fronts, with verdicts landing everywhere.