Sentences with phrase «opening arguments began»

Opening arguments began this week in the federal corruption trial of Pedro Espada, Jr., and his son Pedro Gautier Espada, who are accused of using the Soundview Healthcare Network as «their own taxpayer - funded piggy bank» by funneling more than $ 500,000 from the organization and spending it on cars, spa treatments, and other personal luxuries.

Opening arguments began Monday in the case against John Haggerty, a Queens political operative and Bloomberg campaign volunteer who is accused of stealing $ 1.1 million of the mayor's money in 2009.

Not exact matches

So in 2011, he began filming the show with Channel 4, a «fly - on - the - wall drama» following the love lives, arguments and parties of his friends who were (and still are) constantly visiting London's best restaurants, bars, shops and club openings.

Judge Richard Leon announced March 15 that opening arguments will begin Wednesday following two days of hearings...

We have opened up the question sufficiently to show that there is a very real possibility that the whereabouts of the burial place of Jesus was not known when his resurrection first began to be proclaimed, and that unless this can be established as an historical fact, that argument for the «bodily resurrection» which we have been considering remains invalid.

«Essentially we have the beginning of a tsunami, where literally we could have a hole in our community with the closing of Sophie Finn and the closing of the Kingston Hospital campus right next door which I can see every day from my office,» said Gallo during a press conference which — as he paced back and forth in the Common Council chambers before an audience of reporters, community members and at least four school board trustees — seemed at times similar to the delivery of an opening argument at trial.

Opening arguments are scheduled to begin Wednesday.

Charter schools rationalize these issues by beginning and ending with the argument that they have «open lottery systems» that provides every child who wants to attend an equal opportunity to do so.

In reality, just about no amount of money is too small to begin investing (of course, that will depend on whether your broker has a minimum deposit required to open an account)-- but for the sake of argument let's look at how to invest in stocks with only $ 1,000.

«I am grateful to the Obama administration for not buying into a highly questionable suite of arguments against Open Skies that from the beginning smacked of protectionism, cronyism and an unfortunate allergy to healthy competition,» Dow said.

And through conversations with others in the growing climate justice movement, I began to see all kinds of ways that climate change could become a catalyzing force for positive change — how it could be the best argument progressives have ever had to demand the rebuilding and reviving of local economies; to reclaim our democracies from corrosive corporate influence; to block harmful new free trade deals and rewrite old ones; to invest in starving public infrastructure like mass transit and affordable housing; to take back ownership of essential services like energy and water; to remake our sick agricultural system into something much healthier; to open borders to migrants whose displacement is linked to climate impacts; to finally respect Indigenous land rights — all of which would help to end grotesque levels of inequality within our nations and between them.

«Aipac Judge Orders Open Arguments on Government Proposal»: The New York Sun today contains an article that begins, «A federal judge in the trial of two former lobbyists for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee said yesterday that a government proposal for keeping classified information out of the public record has «no precedent,» and he ordered open arguments on the matter.&raOpen Arguments on Government Proposal»: The New York Sun today contains an article that begins, «A federal judge in the trial of two former lobbyists for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee said yesterday that a government proposal for keeping classified information out of the public record has «no precedent,» and he ordered open arguments on the matteArguments on Government Proposal»: The New York Sun today contains an article that begins, «A federal judge in the trial of two former lobbyists for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee said yesterday that a government proposal for keeping classified information out of the public record has «no precedent,» and he ordered open arguments on the matter.&raopen arguments on the mattearguments on the matter.»

Remember, the judge will instruct the jury at the beginning and end of the case that the opening statement and closing arguments of the lawyers are not evidence to be considered in the case.

Although you do not want your reply brief to be a mere reiteration of your initial brief arguments, you almost always will want to start with a quick recap of the arguments advanced in your initial brief — preferably a single opening paragraph before you begin your reply.

So Google's argument is really that while Amazon has a commanding early lead with specific skills, what it's really trying to do is build the beginnings of an entirely new kind of AI - assisted internet that's more open than Alexa or Siri — though not nearly as open as the web itself.