He is determined to abolish the right of some defendants to opt for a trial by jury.
Trying to force Swartz (or anyone) to take a plea bargain by throwing the book at him erodes our right to a trial by jury.
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Indeed, the ICC may very well have the last word, given that the U.S. legal system provides various protections, such as the right to a trial by jury, which may be deemed inconsistent with ICC rules and procedures.
These will not, however, include such pillars of U.S. criminal jurisprudence as a trial by a jury of the defendant's peers or the right to confront his or her accusers.
It means e-Discovery, depositions, and, failing a grudging settlement, trial by jury.
This is a factual question that can only be resolved by a jury after a full trial.
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Last April, a judge ruled that the suit needed to go to trial by jury and denied Gonzalez's request for a summary judgment.
But the Fraud (Trials Without A Jury) Bill died a death after being blocked in the House of Lords by peers who felt the right to a jury trial was sacrosanct.
If Lewis had proceeded to trial and been convicted by a jury, he could have faced a term of life without parole, said Assistant District Attorney Glenn Kurtzrock.
Beyond this invocation of the Public Safety Rule, Tsarneav will be accorded all the rights of due process prescribed by the Constitution, including a civil trial before a jury of his peers.
In January a jury trial began in the defamation suit brought by Dallas oil heir and real estate developer Hiram Walker Royall against Wright Gore III, whose family runs shrimp wholesaler Western Seafood in Freeport, Tex.
Into the chaos, the fumbling in the dark, an order is imposed as people form circles around performers, a troupe of acrobats, jugglers and escape artists, a comedian, a group of musicians, a story-teller... this is trial by public jury: if the performance falls flat, the tricks fail to amuse or the stories to amaze, the crowds move on.
He was found not guilty by a jury and later told BBC Essex the trial was the "scariest thing in my life".
Extradited to Memphis, he avoided a jury trial - and possibly the electric chair - by entering a guilty plea the following year.
Judge Burr said Mr Thorley was not on trial for acting inappropriately or inadvisably and a jury properly directed by a judge could not safely convict on eight of the charges.
Phone conversations between Vicky Pryce and her ex-husband Chris Huhne have been heard by a jury at Southwark Crown Court during her trial on a charge of perverting the course of justice.
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The Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York didn't necessarily disagree with the government's case against Quattrone--he was accused of urging subordinates to destroy evidence being sought by a grand jury--but it said the trial judge should have required jurors to find that the former CS First Boston executive knew exactly what the grand jury was trying to gather under subpoena.
He was cleared by a jury at the end of a four-day trial at Teesside Crown Court.
During the trial, the jury heard about the incident - via a statement made at the time by Miss Blunnie to police.
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It includes the full presumption of innocence until proven guilty, public trial by jury, the hearing of oral evidence in open court and the creation of a prosecution service that is independent, rather than an arm of the police.
It didn't help that the trial had initially been delayed by a bomb threat, as well as the impaneling of a new judge and jury for reasons that remain hazy.
For reasons that remain unclear, the case was heard by a military court, where the judge tried to hold the trial in private, claiming that the jury was afraid of being seen on television.
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