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A West Palm Beach man has been convicted by a federal jury in a $67 million Medicare fraud scheme after the call center he managed tricked doctors of Medicare patients into approving thousands of ...
Arthur Andersen believed the instructions given to the jury were not proper. The jury was reportedly told "even if petitioner honestly and sincerely believed its conduct was lawful, the jury could convict". This is not true, held the Supreme Court. The statute they were being charged under used the language "knowingly ... corruptly persuade".
A jury nullification advocacy group estimates that 3–4% of all jury trials involve nullification, [10] and a recent rise in hung juries (from an average of 5% to nearly 20% in some locales) is seen by some as indirect evidence that juries have begun to consider the validity or fairness of the laws themselves (though other reasons such as the ...
What to know about the case. The fate of three people accused of playing critical roles in a South Florida nursing-school “diploma mill” is in the hands of a federal jury, which began ...
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 .
Special counsel Jack Smith blasted a recent order by the judge in the classified documents case against Donald Trump, saying her request for jury instructions is based on a “fundamentally flawed ...
On September 26, 2013, an appellate court ordered a new trial, finding that the jury instructions in Alexander's trial impermissibly shifted the burden of proof from the prosecution to the defense. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Alexander was released on bail on November 27, 2013 [ 11 ] and required to stay under house arrest . [ 12 ]
Florida, a case concerning Florida woman Natoya Cunningham who was sentenced to eight years in prison after a six-person jury found her guilty of aggravated battery and retaliation against an ...