Trials-Courts_Role_in_Sentencing-Captions.xml
Trials-Courts_Role_in_Sentencing-Captions.xml
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<p begin="00:00:00.25" end="00:00:05.30">This is your legal minute, brought to you by the Ohio State Bar Foundation.</p>
<p begin="00:00:06.00" end="00:00:14.00">In a criminal case, the jury must decide unanimously whether the defendant is guilty or not guilty based upon the evidence.</p>
<p begin="00:00:14.10" end="00:00:21.40">The jury does not find the defendant “innocent,” just that the State failed to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt.</p>
<p begin="00:00:21.50" end="00:00:29.60">If the jury finds the defendant “guilty,” however, the judge is the person who determines what sentence to give the defendant.</p>
<p begin="00:00:29.70" end="00:00:33.90">Sometimes the sentence may follow immediately upon the jury’s verdict,</p>
<p begin="00:00:34.00" end="00:00:41.20">but most often the judge will order a pre-sentence investigation and then set a sentencing hearing for a later time.</p>
<p begin="00:00:41.30" end="00:00:47.80">At the sentencing hearing, both sides may present evidence, and the court often hears from the victim of the crime.</p>
<p begin="00:00:47.90" end="00:00:56.30">Juries only get involved in sentencing in death penalty cases, when they recommend “death” or a “life sentence” to the judge.</p>
<p begin="00:00:56.40" end="00:01:03.00">This legal minute is brought to you by the Ohio State Bar Foundation.</p>
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