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Jury instructions can also serve an important role in guiding the jury how to consider certain evidence. [10] All 50 states have a model set of instructions, usually called "pattern jury instructions", which provide the framework for the charge to the jury; sometimes, only names and circumstances have to be filled in for a particular case.
On August 15, 2014, Texas Governor Rick Perry was indicted by a Travis County grand jury, but has since been cleared on all charges. [1] [2] [3] The first charge of the indictment was abuse of official capacity, a first-degree felony, for threatening to veto $7.5 million in funding for the Public Integrity Unit, a state public corruption prosecutors department.
A Texas jury on Monday found that a San Antonio man violated the Ku Klux Klan Act in a two-week-long civil trial over a “Trump Train” convoy in Central Texas that swarmed a Joe Biden-Kamala ...
Jury instructions sometimes make reference to the juror's oath. For example, the Criminal Pattern Jury Instructions developed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit for use by U.S. District Courts state: [14] You, as jurors, are the judges of the facts.
Jury selection in Trump’s trial resumes Thursday. So far, seven jurors have been chosen for the trial over allegations that Trump falsified business records to cover up a sex scandal during his ...
A county court judge dismissed 140 cases against migrants charged in an April 12 "riot" at the U.S.-Mexico border after determining there was no probable cause for their arrests.
A jury consultant has helped Trump's lawyers research the backgrounds of prospective jurors whose names are provided to lawyers on both sides, but not to the public. Jo-Ellan Dimitrius, a jury consultant who worked on the O.J. Simpson trial team in the mid-1990s and remains employed in that capacity today, said a social media check has become ...
Following Heidelberg's death, police returned to the Wilson home and arrested him on a charge of second-degree manslaughter. He was released the next afternoon after posting $75,000 bond. [9] [10] In May he was indicted on the charge by a grand jury. [11] Heidelberg was the first Midland officer to die in the line of duty since 1966. [2]