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Jury instructions, also known as charges or directions, are a set of legal guidelines given by a judge to a jury in a court of law. They are an important procedural step in a trial by jury , and as such are a cornerstone of criminal process in many common law countries .
Bruton v. United States, 391 U.S. 123 (1968), is a 1968 United States Supreme Court ruling in which the Court held that a defendant was deprived of his rights under the Confrontation Clause if a confession by his codefendant was introduced in their joint trial, regardless of whether the jury received instructions only to consider it against the confessor.
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia (in case citations, D.D.C.) is a federal district court in Washington, D.C. Along with the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii and the High Court of American Samoa, it also sometimes handles federal issues that arise in the territory of American Samoa, which has no local federal court or territorial court.
Judge Juan Merchan delivered his instructions to jurors before they began deliberations in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial.
On March 18, Cannon gave each side two weeks to propose jury instructions. [151] Each side must provide two sets: an instruction for the jury to decide whether each of the various records Trump kept should be considered "personal" or "presidential" under the Presidential Records Act, and another instruction that assumes Trump was permitted to ...
In an indication of just how important those instructions are, prosecutors and defense lawyers had a spirited debate last week outside the jury's presence as they sought to persuade Merchan about ...
He was subpoenaed to appear on April 1, 2002, before a District of Columbia grand jury investigating the disappearance. The date was kept a carefully guarded secret to avoid further leaks. [21] Condit left Congress at the end of his term on January 3, 2003, after failing to win his re-election bid. [22]
Sutton was convicted by a federal jury in December of 2022 of second-degree murder, conspiracy to obstruct, and obstruction of justice. A judge sentenced him to 5 and a half years in prison.