Sentences with phrase «before hearing any evidence»

Judge Seated Juror Who Declared Defendant Guilty Before Trial Jose Felipe Velasco insists Orange County Judge David A. Hoffer cheated him out of a fair trial by placing a juror on the supposedly neutral citizen's panel after she repeatedly declared the defendant guilty before hearing any evidence.

Not exact matches

«You weigh the reports and references before you and the evidence you hear.

However unexpected, strange and bizarre a reported event may appear to us to be, the evidence for it must be given a fair hearing and examination before it can be dismissed as unhistorical.

On his way to give evidence before the home affairs select committee inquiry into last year's riots, Boris tactfully juxtaposed the seriousness of the hearing with the silliness of his headgear.

The video evidence is to be presented before the committee by outgoing ambassador of the United States of America to Nigeria, James Entwistle at th commencement of the public hearing of the case.

Since our client was not given an opportunity to cross examine Hon. Joseph Osei - Owusu on this unsubstantiated piece of evidence, it would surely be in accord with the rules of natural justice that our client be heard in his own defence before your Committee.»

The Lawyers in an official letter addressed to members of the 5 - member ad - hoc committee tasked to investigate the alleged scandal, said: «we have been instructed by our client to convey to you, which we hereby do, his desire to appear before your committee to be heard on the above allegation and to provide evidence that would assist your Committee to reach a fair and true conclusion on this substantially important matter of public interest.»

I've heard this basic story before, and there is ample evidence that Republicans pursued a race - based Southern Strategy starting with Nixon to appeal to disenfranchised Southern whites, for instance the Lee Atwater quote I linked to in my question.

Following Paladino's response, the complainant has another 10 days to reply before the commissioner makes a decision about whether there is enough evidence to move forward with a formal hearing on his potential removal as a Buffalo School Board member.

Like Chuka Umunna before him, Mr Hunt has now withdrawn precipitately from a debate in which his ideas could and should have been properly heard and his candidacy thoughtfully assessed on the evidence.

«It is crystal clear that the process that led to this contract before us today was and is flawed, and that all legal evidence indicates that the City has no right to move on this contract since the LRA process has not been completed,» Diaz testified at Thursday's hearing.

Before sending jurors home for the night, the judge, Valerie E. Caproni, gave the usual advice that they not read about or listen to news accounts regarding the case, but she added a caution that they should not make up their minds because they had not heard all of the evidence.

«Before we rush to make a decision like this we ought to at least hold hearings and look at the evidence that's presented,» McGuire said.

«The Committee, after the hearings and the analysis and evaluation of the evidence adduced before it has come to the conclusion that there is no merit in the allegations levelled against the Ministry of Trade and Industry as contained in the motion and which culminated in the setting up of the Special Committee,» concluded the committee's report.

Vacco said he will present evidence at the hearing before state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia that the Buffalo School Board regularly goes into executive sessions to discuss matters that should be discussed in public.

The Commission shall afford any person defamed, degraded, or incriminated by such evidence or testimony an opportunity to appear and be heard in executive session, with a reasonable number of additional witnesses requested by him, before deciding to use such evidence or testimony.

If a dog attacks a person or other domestic animal without provocation, a hearing can be held before a judge where evidence is presented to have the dog declared dangerous.

To have the same opportunity as the respondent (s) to participate in a student disciplinary hearing before a faculty - student disciplinary committee, including the right to be present, to be represented by a person of your choice, including an attorney, to present evidence, call witnesses, cross-examine witnesses, have your prior sexual history with persons other than the respondent (s) excluded from the hearing, have your prior mental health diagnosis and / or treatment excluded from the hearing, receive written notice of the outcome of the hearing, and to appeal from the decision;

On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in a case about the collection of DNA evidence, and whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits police from obtaining DNA samples before conviction without a warrant.

The hopeful refuse to believe how bad it's become — I can't tell you how often I've heard the phrase «I just won't believe it» coming from many in the world of environmental science regardless of the physical evidence before them.

I have never heard that claim before and all the evidence I've seen indicates otherwise.

There were signs they'd escaped before (evidence of past abrupt changes), but only faint scratching could be heard now.

As we saw in the March 21 courtroom tutorial hearing, the judge was not impressed with one of the main bits of accusatory evidence about the «conspiracy,» and the one Chevron attorney speaking at the hearing, Theodore Boutrous, had never seen the plaintiffs» «conspiracy evidence» before — which could actually undermine other lawsuits against energy companies.

His other repeated narratives about the period of time before the hearings, when he co-authored a Washington Post article with Harvard Medical School Dr Paul Epstein in March 1995, give no indication he was anything other than a retired reporter — no evidence I can find shows him to be employed with any news outlet at that time.

The first link in my article takes readers to a prior one where I show how the very same Sheldon Rampton appeared before a US House hearing and regurgitated an accusation phrase against skeptic scientists that was made famous by anti-skeptic book author Ross Gelbspan and the enviro - advocacy group Ozone Action in 1996 - 7 — these people have every appearance of being the epicenter of the accusation that skeptic scientists operate under a coal / oil industry directive to fabricate false assessments in exchange for mega-millions...... an accusation that has no evidence to support it that I can find, and its central piece of evidence is a 1991 coal industry memo that no one is allowed to see in its complete context.

At the hearing before Holman J neither party was legally represented and there was no expert evidence on the law in Pakistan.

In court, the press sat inside the bar, able to hear and report the whispering of jurors and lawyers, and able to scrutinize evidence before it was presented.

Nonetheless, it held that, having «heard evidence -LSB-...] of it being operated in practice ``, it found it «to be genuine, in the sense that Deliveroo have decided in the new contract that riders had a right to substitute themselves both before and after they have accepted a particular job ``.

Before that, St. Anne's survivors faced hearings for compensation under the settlement agreement's Independent Assessment Process where federal government lawyers denied the existence of documented evidence of abuse at the school.

The eleven justices of the Supreme Court heard evidence over four days in December before handing down their judgment today, establishing, by a margin of eight to three, that the UK Parliament must have a vote on whether the government may begin the official Brexit process, triggering Article 50.

A. Your hearing before the deputy commissioners is an evidentiary hearing, which means that you must be prepared to present all the evidence you have, including witness testimony, medical reports, and other evidence of your injury.

The Argersinger rule also tends to impair the proper functioning of the criminal justice system in that trial judges, in advance of hearing any evidence and before knowing anything about the case except the charge, all too often will be compelled to forgo the legislatively granted option to impose a sentence of imprisonment upon conviction.

At trial, the jury heard evidence that Yatim had consumed the drug ecstasy before boarding the westbound streetcar at Yonge Street.

The judge hearing the appeal found that the district judge at first instance had been right, on the evidence before him, to decide that there «had been no answer» and, indeed, the judge came to the same conclusion.

[20] I am satisfied on the evidence before me, particularly given the attitude demonstrated by Mr. Mitchell in his communications with Mr. Nazerali, that requiring the plaintiff to give notice to the respondents of this application would likely render the relief he seeks ineffective, and that it is appropriate in the circumstances for this application to be heard without notice.

Before a hearing can be held to determine if the test has been satisfied, the accused must show on a balance of probabilities that the evidence he is proposing to admit is capable of meeting the test.

In addition to providing an overview of new accident benefits arbitration process under the License Appeal Tribunal (LAT), which came into effect on April 1, 2016, Michelle will share valuable anecdotal discussion of what counsel have experienced so far on both sides, such as evidentiary and production issues at the case conference stage and before a hearing, what evidence adjudicators are looking for or emphasizing, the format of the hearing (written, oral, hybrid), witness issues, etc..

But in circumstances where the appellant accepted the invitation to participate in an oral hearing before the first reviewer, and in the absence of any evidence to suggest that he would have responded differently if invited to attend a further interview before the second respondent, I would infer that it is more likely than not that the appellant would have sought an oral hearing before the second respondent if he had been told that the first reviewer by whom he was originally interviewed had been replaced (pars.

Actual words of LAT adjudicators: «The Supreme Court of Canada Pintea v Johns is irrelevant» (LAT ordered Tarion and BUILDER to comply with rules and provide evidence and submissions — BEFORE the FINAL hearing) Of course they did not.)

The court held that the evidence before the adjudicator gave some justification for the conclusion that operations by Iraqi and Iranian agents were likely to be continuing at the time of the hearing, and that the tribunal erred in concluding otherwise.

The record means the aggregate of papers relating to an appeal proper (including the pleadings, proceedings, evidence, judgments and order granting leave to appeal) to be laid before Her Majesty in council on the hearing of the appeal.

Secondly is the fact that Mrs. McClean testified before Mrs. Karamitsos while the latter sat in court and heard her evidence.

It is quite clear here that the trial judge committed himself to an adverse assessment of the evidence of the appellant in isolation and before hearing the conclusion of her evidence and before hearing the submissions of counsel.

... In light of the fundamental constitutional rights at stake, before a judge finds that a defendant has forfeited his right to counsel and imposes the extreme sanction of denying an indigent defendant the assistance of counsel at trial or otherwise, she must first conduct a hearing at which the defendant has a full and fair opportunity to offer evidence as to the totality of the circumstances that may bear on the question of whether the sanction of forfeiture is both warranted and appropriate.

People have raised the concern that a juror thinking up questions might be deciding the case before they hear all the evidence, and might give too much weight to the answers to their own questions (or read a lot into it if a question is denied).

Legalized marijuana will lead to more impaired driving according to police representatives testifying before the House of Commons Justice Committee, which is hearing evidence about the government's new impaired driving law, designed to coincide with the legalization of marijuana.

Whilst it was correct that there was no such evidence before the Commercial Court, in fact criminal proceedings had been opened in Ukraine by the time of the hearing, and shortly afterwards Khrapunov was put on an international wanted list and an Interpol red notice was issued for his arrest.

The appeals court did note that if a court faces an emergency situation it may make a temporary change of custody before a hearing is held or before the other parent is notified, but because this was not the case in this situation the court was required to provide mother notice and an opportunity to present evidence before changing the child custody orders.

When the motion was heard on May 24, 2016 the landlord put forth evidence that this was the third case where this particular tenant had been involved in a landlord and tenant appeal following an eviction notice, allowing him to live rent free before the Appeal was quashed.

The government's evidence of its purpose in creating the DCO designation (there are 42 countries in that class) was to «deter abuse of [Canada's] refugee system by people who come from countries generally considered safe and «non-refugee producing,» while preserving the right of every eligible refugee claimant to have a fair hearing before the IRB.»