Sentences with phrase «argument for the defense»

As the judge pointed out, is going to be a very important argument for the defense — one of many important arguments.

Closing arguments for both defense and prosecutors took place Monday in the Silver corruption trial.

This decision provides defendants with a stronger argument for defense against motions to certify classes in instances where the communications in question include solicited communications.

He understands every facet of the criminal justice system in Illinois — including how to build successful arguments for the defense of your criminal charge.

The results of our investigation and legal analysis will be merged to create a persuasive legal argument for your defense.

Not exact matches

However, on the other hand, the argument could be made that parodies in the adult context would qualify for a fair use defense, as with other parodies.

A majority of the judges on a federal appeals court seemed skeptical of the government's defense for President Donald Trump's executive order restricting travel, during courtroom arguments Monday.

Preet Bharara, the former US attorney for the Southern District of New York, called House Speaker Paul Ryan's defense of President Donald Trump on Thursday «silly,» and he offered a counterpoint to Ryan's argument.

The show has thrust the criminal defense attorney into the national spotlight and his eloquent and impassioned arguments in Avery's trial even inspired something of a cult following for the Wisconsin lawyer (with some even deeming Strang the show's «sex symbol»).

In his superb defense of freedom of thought and opinion, Matthew J. Franck does not carry through his unblinking realism in analyzing the arguments for same - sex marriage to his conclusion, where he evinces a Pollyannaish hope that the «strategy pursued by the advocates of same - sex marriage will be self - defeating.»

Gallagher, the President of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, is quite simply the most effective spokesperson making public arguments in defense of marriage today.

Philosophers themselves distinguish between a defense of the existence of God (for instance) and an argument for the existence of God: While the latter actually sets out to prove that God exists, the former lays out evidence which fits the picture of a God - created universe.

Man and Woman: A Defense by Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson, and Robert P. George Encounter, 168 pages, $ 15.99 No argument is more effective in promoting gay marriage than the insistence that its rejection offends our sense of justice and equality, especially as concern for the....

Though he verbally defended the old New England idea, it is interesting that he defended it more on the basis of reason and human rights than on the basis of Scripture, and this defense of congregational independence later provided arguments for advocates of the revolution against England.

St. Paul gives us deeply moving arguments in defense of our need for reason in the life of faith.

William Lane Craig has authored a well - informed historical account and sophisticated modern defense of the cosmological argument for God's existence which has its origin in the medieval Arabic practitioners of kalam (sometimes translated «scholastic theology»).

As for the argument of «self - defense,» that's lame, too.

The next 10 nations argument is moot... a lot of those countries rely on the USA for thir defense, and our adversaries don't pay their military as well as us.

Neuhaus had a missionary zeal, a fervor for argument and conversation in defense of the faith he loved so passionately.

So, to use the argument that being «intrinsically attracted» is NOT a defense for sin.

«As an argument against this way of thinking, this kind of idolatry, I turn to the work of Walter Brueggemann, who, in an interview last year with Krista Tippett for On Being, explained the reason for the abundance of metaphors we find for God in the scriptures this way: «The Biblical defense against idolatry is plural metaphors.

Instead of detailing his many and manifold sins, he launched into a reprise of his argument against birth control coverage in U.S. health plans, and criticized President Obama along the way for coming to Fluke's defense.

Despite Hertzberg's attempted defense of Israel on ethical grounds, his real argument for Israel is «the continuity of community.»

As more and more secular intellectuals became aware that they could not offer a philosophical defense of the liberalism that they cherished, an opening was created for substantively different arguments.

Sir Karl's The Open Society and Its Enemies has become by now a classic argument for rationalism, as eloquent a defense of scientific tolerance as most believers in the law of noncontradiction are likely to want.

It was the basis of his argument for eloquent sermons as a counter-force to the malevolent uses of rhetoric: «While the faculty of eloquence, which is of great value in urging either evil or justice, is in itself indifferent, why should it not be obtained for the uses of the good in the service of truth if the evil usurp it for the winning of the perverse and vain causes in defense in iniquity and error?»

Musacchio was a brick wall in Milan's defense, shutting the Romanian side down for the majority of the game and he rightfully earned our MOTM, though a solid argument can be made for Rodriguez and Kessie as well.

Also, some another reason not to do it - there is arguments for it, Pakistan have nuclear weapons, and have tensions with India, so India do it for defense.

Either way, one could make a fair argument that it was unequivocally time for Silver to step aside after 20 years as Speaker, and focus instead on his defense.

Defense lawyers have sought to make the trial into a referendum for jurors on Howe; his name came up hundreds of times over the past two days of closing arguments by lawyers from the four defenseDefense lawyers have sought to make the trial into a referendum for jurors on Howe; his name came up hundreds of times over the past two days of closing arguments by lawyers from the four defensedefense teams.

Six weeks into the trial of Percoco and three executives accused of allegedly bribing the former Cuomo adviser in exchange for government favors, prosecutors and defense lawyers spent all day Tuesday giving closing arguments to a case that could have sweeping implications for its sister case — the Buffalo Billion trial expected to start in June in the same courtroom.

Keating is expected to wrap up his closing argument Wednesday and defense attorneys for Venditto and Mangano's wife, Linda, also are set to make their closing cases to the jury.

Former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto «traded their office for money,» a federal prosecutor said Tuesday in the 10 - week - old corruption trial's closing arguments while Mangano's defense attorney countered that the government's star witness «desecrated the oath» by lying repeatedly on the stand.

But defense lawyers repeatedly called him an irredeemable liar — an argument bolstered considerably in early February, when he was arrested midway through his testimony for admitting to trying to defraud his credit card company.

In its counter-letter to the judge, Kim said the defense is cherry - picking cases on which to base their arguments for dismissal.

A defense lawyer for the man accused of blowing up a bomb in Chelsea last year all but conceded that her client committed the crime, instead focusing her closing arguments to jurors — and claims of innocence — on a second, unexploded device found four blocks away.

He also rejected the defense's argument that an internal debate, between Board of Election officials about whether campaign filings for payments to a payroll company require the identification of the ultimate recipient, was a basis for dismissal.

Ignoring covert operations (as requested), an argument can be made for the Vietnam War, as the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution authorized the President to assist «any member or protocol state of the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty», which was then used by Johnson to say «hey look, we need to defend South Vietnam now!»

During closing arguments, prosecutors compared the case to a Shel Silverstein poem, and defense attorneys argued that «There is absolutely nothing wrong for a father to be involved and concerned for his son.

This whole argument is particularly fascinating since Saujani, who has successfully put her experience raising cash for Democrats like Hillary Clinton to work on her own campaign, has a Wall Street background and was one of the few Democrats (along with Gov. David Paterson and former Democrat Mayor Bloomberg) to speak out in defense of the financial industry, highlighting its importance as the state's economic engine.

After a month of testimony from government witnesses outlining an alleged bribery and corruption scheme that they said was carried out by one of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's former top aides, the defense quickly rested on Monday, setting the stage for closing arguments that will begin on Tuesday.

Although she refused a defense request to dismiss charges, the judge added, «The U.S. attorney, while castigating politicians in Albany for playing fast and loose with the ethical rules that govern their conduct, strayed so close to the edge of the rules governing his own conduct that defendant Sheldon Silver has a nonfrivolous argument that he fell over the edge to the defendant's prejudice.»

You can work on your thesis for 100 years, and professors will still question some of your arguments during your thesis defense.

And you know that most jurors have little patience for criminal - defense arguments based on such notions as «temporary insanity.»

Details on the motions, and the defense and prosecution arguments for and against them, are available at the Chemical & Engineering News blog, The Safety Zone.

Revesz, for one, calls this argument «literally preposterous,» while David Doniger, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council's climate program, dismisses it as «a dishonest fiction.»

If you like to take your time and require to get to know singles well, you can take your time basically exchanging emails with possible online dating service for adults as long as you require Forget arguing about body shape and expense in your defense against my argument here, it doesn't wash.

Bruce Greenwood is well cast as former defense secretary Robert McNamara, a close friend of Graham's who, according to Graham's Pulitzer Prize - winning memoir, helped fashion the newspaper's argument for publishing the Pentagon Papers.

Autodefensa has elements of a populist uprising, and the grisly sights of such things as heads of decapitated victims lined up like ducks in a shooting gallery or a woman's story about the barbarous murder of a little child can not help but win sympathy for their argument for self - defense — especially when the Mexican government is, at best, ineffective when it comes to protecting its citizens.

Responding to a hypothetical question posed by Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Julius L. Chambers of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund conceded that if his argument won the day, orders in such cases could conceivably remain in force for 100 years or more if the effects of segregation persisted that long.