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arrive at a verdict

The court is expected to reach a verdict in a matter of weeks.

Instead of taking months or years, the court must reach a verdict within 30 days.

Consider working a few more hours each day to reach a verdict.

And that may have helped us finally reach a verdict.

The trial was long, and did not reach a verdict.

"I feel that justice has been done and the people have reached a verdict."

It took the jury two hours to reach a verdict.

Only six jurors are needed to reach a verdict in the case.

I would have been more worried if they had reached a verdict the first hour.

It is common for criminal cases to take months, if not years, to reach a verdict.

Jurors could not reach a verdict in the earlier cases.

But in the end it took just seven and a half hours for the jury to reach a verdict.

The judge took less than twenty minutes to reach a verdict.

But this jury had no such problems reaching a verdict.

The jury met for 10 hours before reaching a verdict.

He was tried last November, and the jury could not reach a verdict.

In order to reach a verdict, at least five of the six jurors had to agree.

For others, there is even less of a plan once the jury reaches a verdict.

After 2 hours and 16 minutes, the jury reached a verdict of guilty.

In the spring of 1644, he was brought to trial, which ended without being able to reach a verdict.

They retired for the evening about 6 without reaching a verdict.

The 12-member jury needed a consensus of 10 to reach a verdict.

A jury failed to reach a verdict in the case earlier this year.

Does it mean that the jury is far from reaching a verdict?

"As I was saying, to reach a verdict we must consider two questions.

There's no need for a body to arrive at a verdict.

The demand that the Senate arrive at a verdict before hearing any evidence is bizarre.

It was clear from the beginning that the only way to arrive at a verdict was to keep talking.

The usher withdraws, and when the jury have arrived at a verdict, they push the button.

Madam foreman, has the jury arrived at a verdict?"

The jury was unable to arrive at a verdict on Jerry Gross and the government decided to drop his case.

Had they already consulted with Kevin and Joseph and arrived at a verdict?

Without determining intent, it would often be impossible to arrive at a verdict or impose a punishment that fits the crime.

However one of the jurors wished it to be recorded that he had had great difficulty arriving at a verdict.

Then arrive at a verdict.

February 24, 2009 - Melton's federal civil rights trial ended in a mistrial when jurors notified the judge that they could not arrive at a verdict.

As opposed to the bench trial format used in most court shows, Jury Duty used a jury trial to arrive at a verdict.

"Suppose the count was 11 to 1; you wouldn't change solely for the sake of arriving at a verdict so that you could just go home, would you?"

"You understand that either way, if there is a verdict, they will know how you voted, because in order to arrive at a verdict the vote must be unanimous?"

It was also said that the town had been ransacked for this "murderer" (the public are not slow in the matter of sifting evidence and arriving at a verdict), but that he could not be found.

Four hours after they were handed the case, the jury arrived at a verdict at 2 am on November 30, 1941, finding Buchalter guilty of first degree murder, the penalty for which was death by electrocution.

This means that if a suspect refuses to answer questions from the police or a defendant does not answer the charges during a trial, the judge could instruct the jury to take this into account in arriving at a verdict.

Although a panel was set up in 1972 to review drugs in use prior to this regulation, its recommendations are often contested: drug manufacturers are allowed time to submit new evidence, which the panel must review before arriving at a verdict.

It took Diana Perdomo, a 22-year-old student from Manhattan, a several-minute stroll through the vertical shopping mall in the new Time Warner Center to arrive at a verdict about the place, known as The Shops at Columbus Circle.

Any time you have something such as the Rodney King incident on video tape for the entire nation to see, and the jurors somehow arrive at a verdict of not guilty, it is obvious that the system is not based on truth or justice at all.

"We're having some difficulty at arriving at a verdict," the jurors said in a brief note that was read aloud in the courtroom shortly after 11 A.M. by Judge Joel L. Lefkowitz of Suffolk County Criminal Court.

The jury considering attempted murder charge against Austin Offen, 27, of Floral Park, Queens, for the bludgeoning of a black man during a brawl outside a Westhampton Beach nightclub two years ago completed its first day of deliberations yesterday without arriving at a verdict.

The panel - in addition to arriving at a verdict - also has the responsibility of sentencing the accused (military parlance for "the defendant"), should the accused be found guilty of the charges which have been brought forward by the trial counsel (or prosecuting attorney), a Judge Advocate General.

Reading the 26 rules that govern a Senate trial for impeachment, Mr. Lamb discovered that the most crucial part of the entire proceeding, the final deliberations in which each senator can speak for 10 or 15 minutes while arriving at a verdict, is "closed" to the public, and thus to TV cameras.

Under the newly approved measure, which has already been signed into law by Gov. George Pataki, an avid supporter of the change, trial judges will have the discretion to decide whether preserving the integrity of a particular proceeding requires housing jurors away from their families overnight and guarding them until they arrive at a verdict.