Sentences with phrase «appealed the case because»

Mr Mahama Haruna said they will file a stay of execution and will definitely appeal the case because the judgment did not take the accounts of the defense properly.

Mr. Grose appealed the case because of the trial court's error.

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And we settled the case, because no one wanted a three - year appeal that would result in a new trial four to five years from the date of the current trial.

«When those cases are appealed up to responsible bodies of lawyers, judges and administrators, a vast number and even a sizable majority of them are thrown out, because these authorities are trained to examine evidence and to evaluate it.

There is literally no way that anyone can prove that anyone who claims to be acting on God's commands isn't — you can't even appeal to the Bible to tell you it must be wrong because god said in there not to do it, because even on the Bible he routinely commands people to do things in specific cases that are otherwise forbidden.

On the other hand, I would concur with James Felt that the thesis has a prima facie appeal to it because in that case one would be able to consider «the perceptual unities of ordinary experience as ontological unities» (PS 10:59).

In all honesty, I was hoping that the green layer would be a little more vibrant and just a little more enticing, but after multiple attempts to make it brighter, I will settle with the murky green I got instead because taste trumps visual appeal in this case.

The ACCC has announced it will appeal the Air Cargo cartel decision; the case failed at first instance because the Court found there was no relevant «markt in Australia».

My case was widely reported because it was the first time that the British Court of Appeal had accepted that British relocation law relegated the harm done to children.

Some NPP people are married to NDC people, so we can not be disclosing those who [appealed], but it is true they appealed for me to drop the case because Dr Bawumia would not be able to produce any evidence, it would be too much of an embarrassment but I insisted on going to court due to the possible repercussions of his action».

When asked by the host to mention the names of the NPP members who appealed to him to drop the case, he said: «They [NPP members] came to appeal to me to drop the case because they are our friends.

Giving the lead judgement, master of the rolls Lord Dyson found the rules governing the appeals process under fast - track were «systemically unfair and unjust» because «the time limits are so tight as to make it impossible for there to be a fair hearing of appeals in a significant number of cases».

A spokesman for the Home Office said that they believed the deadline for Qatada to appeal his case had passed, saying that he had «no right to request to refer the case to the grand chamber [of the court] because the three - month deadline passed at midnight on Monday».

A department spokesman said the agency could not comment on a specific individual's case because any related appeal of an enrollment decision would go before the education commissioner.

Former state Assemblyman William Boyland Jr. has asked a federal appeals panel to set him free because last year's Supreme Court decision narrowed the reach of federal anti-corruption laws in a case involving former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday threw out the 2015 conviction of former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on honest services fraud because the charge to the jury did not comport with the Supreme Court's 2016 decision in the case of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, which narrowed the definition of an «official act.»

He said in cases like this, an attorney should consider every plausible defense because even if they are denied, it allows for them to be reconsidered should there be an appeals process.

Court officials said the display focused on a mix of civil and criminal cases in which the appeals court made new law, and was tilted toward convictions because appeals generally occur in a criminal case after a conviction.

Romney also seeks to make the case for Astorino's electoral appeal by noting, «He was twice elected [executive] in Democratic Westchester County because he effectively governs in a bipartisan way.»

It is particularly damaging because it was May's decision to pursue the case through the British courts rather than appeal the original European court of human rights ruling.

For example, an absolute threshold in the number of votes (e.g. requiring a certain proportion of the whole population or of registered voters to be elected rather than a plurality of the vote) can seem intuitively appealing but has never, to my knowledge, been implemented for a national election, precisely because leaving an important office unfilled is a problem (unless, of course, you subscribe to radical small - government ideas, in which case the question seems moot and you might just as well do away with elections or democracy itself).

He says the judge dismissed the case because of a procedural issue, and he is now in the process of fixing the issue and plans to continue his appeal.

The first tier relates to situations where the complainant in the FOIL lawsuit was victorious because the agency failed to respond to a request or appeal, in which case the court would still have discretionary authority to award attorneys» fees.

The U.S. Supreme Court dismissed an appeal in one of the cases challenging President Trump's efforts to limit travel to the United States, calling an earlier version of the ban moot because it has expired.

It's appropriate for the state's highest court to take the case because of the significant issues presented and the likelihood that it would end up there anyhow, the 4th District Court of Appeals said.

Lawyers representing Dean Skelos appealed his criminal conviction Thursday, arguing the former New York state Senate majority leader should get a new trial because a U.S. Supreme Court case had changed the definition of some public - corruption offenses.

Two of Sampson's former legislative colleagues, one - time Senate leader Dean Skelos and former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, both contend they should remain free pending appeal because their corruption convictions are likely to be overturned under the new rules established by the McDonnell case.

This court will also decongest the High Court because several cases can now be filed in the Customary Court of Appeal».

If, as appears to be the case, the New Rochelle Police Department hushed up Latimer's car crash to shield her from unwanted attention on her relationship with Latimer you start to raise questions about ethical behavior by a sitting judge in New York State and conflicts of interest because one of three ways a Judge can be removed from the bench is to be impeached by a majority vote of the assembly then removed by a two - thirds vote a special court made up of judges of the court of appeals.

But, Wing continued, «we couldn't convince the jury that Dr. Nickerson's real motivation was because of Mercedes's accent,» and the case also failed on appeal.

Although this may have been the case years ago, most firms are now making the purely technical track an appealing career choice as well with the dual - career ladder, developed because scientists often feel «pushed» into management.

The Supreme Court is also likely to consider one of several cases involving conceal carry rights in the future because of conflicting rulings from intermediate courts of appeal, Donohue said.

Because U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor sat on an appeals court which heard one of the lawsuits, she will likely recuse herself, leaving the real possibility that the case will receive a 4 - 4 decision.

Such trials in the case of statins are appealing because these drugs are relatively low cost, can easily be matched against a placebo, and would allow for enrollment at the time of an already necessary antibiotic prescription.»

This is especially the case for young people, because alternative health books belong to a paranoid subculture that naturally appeals to person just beginning to learn that authority figures can be totally wrong.

Feature Case XX - Tang Stamp Chart: Case dating system also adds to the appeal and collectibility because the knives can be easily identified and dated.

Actually, make that eight, since Justice Thurgood Marshall (Danny Glover, «Mandela») recused himself because he was the Solicitor General when the case was first appealed to federal court.

The case went to appeal, Judge Murray Herbert Tobias reversed that decision, essentially because the noted that the school's inspection of the playing fields «was extremely ad hoc» and «very much a hit and miss system.»

The case was under appeal after Judge John Dietz's lower court ruling that the Texas school finance system is unconstitutional because it «fails to provide an adequate, suitable education.»

The case eventually made it to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, which determined that the district would not be required to reimburse the family because it had met the standard of providing «some educational benefit,» which the 10th Circuit said was consistent with the standard established in 1982 in the Supreme Court's Board of Education of Hendrick Hudson School District v. Rowley (Rowley) decision.

In nearly half of cases this year when an infant class was lawfully expanded, it was because of an appeal decision.

Seven years earlier, the ninth Circuit Court of Appeals similarly ruled, in the Mendez vs. Westminster case, that Mexican American children could not be denied a quality education because they were Mexican American.

This isn't a bad thing as self - publishing offers many advantages, and in a lot of cases, successful self - published authors are offered contracts with publishers because of their existing author platforms as they've proven their appeal.

Making the situation even less appealing, any upside, in the case of liquidation proceeds exceeding the company's initial estimate (not uncommon) is limited by the ownership structure because of reverse leverage.

This isn't a case of the game being simple to jump in to, because that's covered above, but it's about presenting the world as something that appeals to people who don't even call themselves gamers.

A previous trial had ended in acquittals all around, largely because of missteps by investigators and prosecutors, but an appeals court sent the case back for retrial.

The case was decided against them and is now on appeal, Michael Mann is a recognized intevenor because of his status in the matter.

The case is basically frozen, procedurally, because the bad guys got a stay during an appeal of two rulings against them that would otherwise have allowed Dr.Mann to begin discovery and preparation for trial.

The High Court gave Friends of the Earth and Help the Aged permission to appeal because the case raised difficult and novel legal questions.

Their lawsuit contends that the new decision to look at trophy hunting on case - by - case basis should be thrown out because it goes against a recent federal appeals court ruling requiring a public comment period on new rules.