Sentences with phrase «as judge and jury»

The police essentially act as both judge and jury.

Boyle suggests that if a CO is responsible for order and discipline in general then he would not be able to provide the required impartiality and independence to act as judge and jury when dealing with summary matters.

DETROIT - General Motors will ask consumers to serve as judge and jury over nine vehicles that are scheduled to be unveiled on the 2000 auto - show circuit starting in January.

DETROIT - General Motors will ask consumers to serve as judge and jury over nine vehicles that are scheduled to be unveiled on the 2000 auto - show circuit starting in January.The automaker believes that it is far better - and certainly less costly - to have the public give a thumbs down to a concept car than a production model.

«The government will still be left as judge and jury over whether local authorities meet its criteria to run schools,» she said.

Gregory J. Cizek replies: Diane Ravitch herself acknowledges that it was Rudy Crew, not Edward Stancik, who acted as judge and jury.

Get the narcissist out of your head as your judge and jury right now, and you'll find you feel significantly better, more optimistic, more creative, and happier.

When it comes to making decisions about innocence and guilt, the human brain acts as both judge and jury.

Now they want banks to sit as judge and jury on the case and bar individuals from using debit cards to subscribe to overseas porn.

«However, I intend to do so before an independent Tribunal, not before yourselves acting as a judge and jury in your own case.

Not exact matches

The judge in the case, William Alsup, and the jury that has yet to be selected have a difficult task ahead of them as they eventually work to determine whether Uber is guilty of misappropriating trade secrets.

«The US government acted as police force (identifying the foreign government's crime), prosecutor (making the legal arguments), jury (ruling on the evidence), and judge (sentencing the foreigner to US retaliatory punishment),» Chad Bown, a senior fellow at the pro-free trade Peterson Institute for International Economics, wrote in a memo about Section 301's history earlier in August.

The citizens of the USA judge every day as noted by the US Supreme Court, State Supreme courts and analogous judicial / jury venues across this great land.

As one dares enlightenment of another's wordage usages, one becomes such word's judge and jury and executioner.

I don't think any judge or jury would accept your explanation, and as I learned, neither would God.

Most obvious is the discretion in sentencing where if a crime has a State penalty of 10 to 15 years and it's up to the judge or jury as to the actual sentence handed down then the intent of the crime is often debated and used in the decision.

Absolutely, it does make sense to at least 6 billion people on earth including but not limited to professionals and the elite such as Doctors, Scientists, Juries, Judges, Magistrates, Politicians, even by the person who holds the highest position of the most powerful country of the world.

Kane acted after Superior Court Judge Eugene Kelly, who has been sitting and will continue to sit in Hartford as a special one - man grand jury, heard testimony on widespread corruption in the sport.

I think DV is such a hit button issue as soon as an allegation arises everyone is judge and jury immediately.

The judge in the case noted that Silver took a «number of official acts — most obviously passing legislation and approving state grants and tax - exempt financing — as part of a quid pro quo, but there remained a «substantial question» on whether the court's jury instructions were valid in light of the McDonnell ruling.

After the third count was read, Gail began shaking her head, and later sobbed loudly as the judge thanked the jury for their service.

Last week, as the jury first convened to deliberate, a juror sent a note to the judge, Valerie E. Caproni, asking to be excused from the case and saying she was «feeling pressured, stressed out... told that I'm not using my common sense, my heart is pounding and my head feels weird.»

Note that there is no relationship (at least legally) between the death penalty and use of weapons by police force; even in countries with death penalty police follows the same Rules of Engagement (use weapon as self - defense or when other people are in danger), death penalty is stablished by a jury or judge (police is a law enforcement agency, sentences are issued by judges or juries)

Experts say the requests by former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, for no jail time resulting from their corruption convictions could run the risk of backfiring by being interpreted as essentially thumbing their noses at the judge and jury.

The SC is not a trial court but an appellate one and should never constitute itself into a prosecutor, judge and jury and sit in its own cause as if it is the Chief's Palace where the accused is hauled before the Chief and his elders, tried, found guilty and ordered to present seventy - two rams and seventy - two bottles of schnapps to pacify the gods and ancestors in a constitutional democracy.

In his State of the State address in January, Cuomo announced plans to introduce an independent monitor, such as a retired judge to review police cases where an unarmed civilian is killed and the case is not presented to a grand jury.

He and his lawyers are expected to provide details of their appeal of the case as well as ask the trial judge to override the jury's conclusions and retroactively acquit Silver.

A federal judge seated a jury of six women and six men Monday in the federal corruption trial of former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and former Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto — as Mangano maintained he would be exonerated.

But it was clear late on Thursday, with the parties and the judge seated around a conference table and the jury not present, that Mr. McDonald and Mr. Kry had critical roles as legal specialists in the case — «the law guys,» as several experts put it — a role the public rarely hears about.

Jones said lawyers, judges and juries certainly could benefit from scientific insights on such perennial legal questions as: Was the defendant responsible for the criminal behavior?

Programme managers act as judge, jury, and, if the research doesn't go well, executioner.

Most judges and juries are not persuaded by neurobiological evidence used to argue that a defendant was not fully responsible for his or her actions, as in Gunther's case, the analysis found.

You may as well let the judge decide and save three people from jury duty.

Faced with a scientific controversy as complex as that now raging over cusum can lawyers, judges and juries be expected to decide between the scientific and the specious?

Your rights will be determined by a NEUTRAL ARBITRATOR and NOT a judge or jury and your claims can not be brought as a class action.

Before criminal trials start to rely on the newer features of dating apps, such as sexual health history and HIV status categories, we need to come up with a way to ensure judges and juries understand how nuanced this evidence might be.

Paulina acts as jury and judge.

The ensemble drama will follow a team of Judges — futuristic cops invested with the power to be judge, jury, and executioner — as they deal with the challenges the future - shocked 22nd century throws at them.

It will be an ensemble drama about a team of Judges — futuristic cops invested with the power to be judge, jury, and executioner — as they deal with the challenges the future - shocked 22nd century throws at them.

Who: Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, Lena Headey and Wood Harris What: In a futuristic city where the police have the authority to act as judge, jury and executioner, a cop and his trainee take down a gang that deals a reality - altering drug.

Opening in September: Kirsten Dunst and Isla Fisher take a turn in the comic bridesmaid well in «Bachelorette» (Friday); Bradley Cooper is an author whose stolen work becomes a hit in «The Words» (Friday), a thriller co-starring Jeremy Irons and Dennis Quaid (see story on Page 17); Pixar adds another dimension to one of its most popular films in «Finding Nemo 3 - D» (Sept. 14); Milla Jovovich returns for one more zombie slaughter in «Resident Evil: Retribution» (Sept. 14); Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña are Los Angeles cops in «End of Watch» (Sept. 21), which aims for a realistic look at inner - city law enforcement; Elizabeth Shue and Jennifer Lawrence are mother and daughter, discovering a horror - tinged secret in «House at the End of the Street» (Sept. 21); Karl Urban plays «Dredd» (Sept. 21), a helmeted avenger who cleans up the futuristic Mega City as its judge, jury and (wait for it...) executioner; In the animated «Hotel Transylvania,» Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) struggles to cope with his daughter's new non-vampire love interest (Sept. 28).

Years after Sylvester Stallone mucked the waters with 1995's gawdawful Judge Dredd, director Pete Travis returned to the iconic British comic with more successful results — particularly in the casting of Karl Urban as a futuristic judge, jury and executiJudge Dredd, director Pete Travis returned to the iconic British comic with more successful results — particularly in the casting of Karl Urban as a futuristic judge, jury and executijudge, jury and executioner.

None on the international jury of this year's festival, which included Frances McDormand, Bent Hamer, and Alex de la Iglesia, seems ready to retire, and I can think of worse tasks than judging films in the elegant Basque city of San Sebastián, known as Donostia to the locals.

Jordan is Guy Montag, a rising star «fireman» who acts as judge, jury and human torch, finding citizens who are hiding forbidden literature, and making them examples on the Nine, a new government - run internet that seems to operate on old Facebook code.

Serving as a judge on film juries for the International 48 Hour Film Project and the Chicago International Children's Film Festival provides her with a personal sense of gratification and the promoting of the arts.

«Dredd,» based on John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra's classic «2000 AD» comic «Judge Dredd,» tells the story of hard - nosed future cop Judge Dredd, who has the ability to act as judge, jury and executioner in the dystopian Mega-CityJudge Dredd,» tells the story of hard - nosed future cop Judge Dredd, who has the ability to act as judge, jury and executioner in the dystopian Mega-CityJudge Dredd, who has the ability to act as judge, jury and executioner in the dystopian Mega-Cityjudge, jury and executioner in the dystopian Mega-City One.

The plan is to make the series an ensemble drama about a team of Judges — futuristic cops invested with the power to be judge, jury, and executioner — as they deal with the challenges the future - shocked 22nd century throws at them.

The character is a man who's spent his entire life killing people, protecting his own, or destroying the lives of others, as he became a judge and jury on his own time.

Based on the famous comic book character who debuted in 1977, this law enforcer (now played by Karl Urban) acts as judge, jury, and executioner when unleashing justice.

Once students are confident with the terminology, we create our own courtroom in the classroom and role - play the stages of hypothesis testing with students acting as the jury, prosecution, judge and defence.