We will change the Criminal Justice Act 2003 to strengthen the right to trial by jury.
Singapore will find vindication for its decision in 1970 to abandon trial by jury for murder cases.
He is determined to abolish the right of some defendants to opt for a trial by jury.
"Trial by jury is the most fundamental of our civil liberties and eroding it is wholly unjustified, " he said.
It means e-Discovery, depositions, and, failing a grudging settlement, trial by jury.
Last April, a judge ruled that the suit needed to go to trial by jury and denied Gonzalez's request for a summary judgment.
Trial by jury, rather than by judges, has been portrayed as the only way to protect the rights of the individual against political interference.
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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Ginsburg was a national board member and president and trustee of the American Board of Trial Advocates Foundation, which provides education concerning the history and value of the right to trial by jury, his family said.
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.
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.
The coalition has also announced a number of policies it says will strengthen civil liberties such as scrapping ID cards, extension of the Freedom of Information Act, more protections for the DNA database, protecting trial by jury and regulating CCTV.
One defends the freedom and rights of the English Church, another relates to the privileges enjoyed by the City of London and the third - the most famous - is generally held to have etablished the right to trial by jury.
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.
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.
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.
Garnering the jury members' favor by directly appealing to their sensibilities is textbook trial strategy, as is reminding the jury that hostile witnesses made deals to avoid extensive jail time.
The harrowing confession was recorded by police and shown to the trial jury in evidence.
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This is a factual question that can only be resolved by a jury after a full trial.
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The audiotape's leak was the main subject of a meeting hastily called Tuesday by trial Judge John Cleland and attended by prosecutors, defense attorneys and even the judge who has overseen the grand jury that's investigated the Sandusky case, a source with knowledge of the meeting told CNN National Correspondent Susan Candiotti.
The defense team gave several reasons, including that they didn't want to risk losing any more jurors by prolonging the trial, especially since they see the jury as tilting pro-Simpson.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The jury, which by the end of the trial consisted of six men and seven women, took about 20 hours over five days to come to their verdicts following an 11-week trial.
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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During the eight-week trial the jury has heard from about 90 witnesses, all called by the prosecution.
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