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A citizen's right to a trial by jury is a central feature of the United States Constitution. It is considered a fundamental principle of the American legal system. Laws and regulations governing jury selection and conviction/acquittal requirements vary from state to state (and are not available in courts of American Samoa), but the fundamental right itself is mentioned five times in the ...
A NJ State Police helicopter in 2005. The New Jersey State Police is responsible for general police services, general highway and traffic enforcement, statewide investigation and intelligence services, emergency management, support for state and local law enforcement efforts, maintenance of criminal records and identification systems and regulation of certain commerce such as firearms ownership.
When the Great Depression struck the nation in the 1930s, organizations like the Federal Grand Jury Association (FGJA), a voluntary association of present or former grand jurors in the Southern District, began to expand their requirements for those who could serve on juries to retain working men in their positions and have enough jurors serving in the court.
Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000), is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision with regard to aggravating factors in crimes. The Court ruled that the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial, incorporated against the states through the Fourteenth Amendment, prohibited judges from enhancing criminal sentences beyond statutory maxima based on facts other than those decided by the ...
Yet it was the Supreme Court itself, Gorsuch noted in his dissent today, that greenlit governments to shrink juries in its 1970 decision Williams v. Florida, which initially approved the six ...
Contempt of court could land someone in state prison for up to 18 months. According to the assistant prosecutor, a judge could direct the sheriff to send the person a written notice to respond to ...
Miami-Dade: Criminal courthouse is at the Richard E. Gerstein Justice Building, 1351 NW 12th St.. Courthouse for civil cases is in downtown Miami at 73 W. Flagler St.. Federal courthouse is at 400 ...
The court does not intend to express any opinion concerning the weight of the evidence, but it is the duty of the court to advise you as to the law, and it is your duty to consider the instructions of the court; yet in your decision upon the merits of the case you have a right to determine for yourselves the law as well as the facts by which ...