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Missouri has Missouri Supreme Court Rule 27.01(b), [5] "The defendant may, with the assent of the court, waive a trial by jury and submit the trial of any criminal case to the court..."; the prosecution needs not consent. With bench trials, the judge plays the role of the jury as finder of fact in addition to making conclusions of law.
Ibarra, 26, declined his right to a jury trial in favor of a bench trial, in which the judge decides the verdict. ... Prosecutors say defendant was 'hunting for females' The trial began Friday, ...
The suspect accused of killing 22-year-old Laken Riley was "hunting" for women on the University of Georgia's campus the day the nursing student was found brutally murdered on the school grounds ...
Ibarra waived his right to a jury trial. The case is being presented in the Athens-Clarke County courtroom to Judge H. Patrick Haggard, who will render a verdict. The prosecution said they expect ...
Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court ruling that a prosecutor's use of a peremptory challenge in a criminal case—the dismissal of jurors without stating a valid cause for doing so—may not be used to exclude jurors based solely on their race.
It established that bribery affecting a bench trial does not preclude the possibility of a second trial: if in said bench trial the defendant is found not guilty, but evidence shows that an act of bribery took place between the defendant and the judge, the defendant can be retried again for the same crime, and this second trial cannot be ...
The ability for defendants to waive their right to a trial by jury helps the court resolve difficult cases, like those in which a defendant's sanity is being questioned, said DiLauro, who is also ...
At least thirty states and the District of Columbia authorize courts to issue bench warrants for a defendant's arrest or orders for a defendant to appear after an FTA. [30] Many jurisdictions leave the decision to issue a bench warrant within the judge's discretion—at least under some circumstances.