Sentences with phrase «attorneys on defense»

We doubt that there is another New Jersey law firm that can say that every attorney on their defense team holds certifications in both the Alcotest and standardized field sobriety testing.

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On Oct. 23, Judge Nance allowed attorneys to question him regarding the impact of Trump's statements, and he ultimately delayed the sentencing until Oct. 25 so he could thoroughly consider the defense motion, the Associated Press reports.
Levitt, who is paid $ 450 an hour by the prosecution, also acknowledged under cross-examination by defense attorneys he speaks neither Arabic nor Russian and is not an expert on Islam.
A former assistant US attorney for the Southern District of New York, Hendon is a partner at Spears & Imes, a boutique firm focusing on white - collar criminal defense and civil litigation that has a staff of just 14 attorneys, according to its website.
«He certainly was not above putting on a good show,» said defense attorney Ricky Harris of Spartanburg in South Carolina's northwestern «Upstate.»
Defense attorneys are focusing their efforts not on proving Tsarnaev's innocence but on trying to spare his life by persuading the jury that Tamerlan bore the brunt of the blame.
Despite the rejections, Trump boosted his legal defense team with a little - know lawyer named Andrew Ekonomou, who will take on a more prominent role in communicating with Mueller's office following the resignation of former lead defense attorney John Dowd.
Defense attorney William Fick asked Swindon whether the files he discussed in court represented a «fly speck» of data held on the laptop, which was otherwise filled with files like homework assignments and pop music clips.
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 Committee on Foreign Investments has nine members, including the secretaries of the treasury, state, defense, homeland security, commerce and energy; the attorney general; and representatives from two White House offices (the United States Trade Representative and the Office of Science and Technology Policy).
[162] Corzine resigned as CEO on November 4, 2011, after having retained the services of defense attorney Andrew J. Levander.
More than four years later, Zambada — who currently resides in a federal prison in Milan, Michigan — still has not been tried, in part because of endless wrangling by prosecutors and defense attorneys on the size and scope of the pretrial legal discovery.
In returning its verdict Thursday afternoon on the sixth day of deliberations, the Superior Court jury also pronounced Jose Ines Garcia Zarate not guilty of assault with a firearm, finding credence in defense attorneys» argument that the shot that ricocheted off the concrete ground before piercing Steinle's heart was an accident, with the gun discharging after the defendant stumbled upon it on the waterfront on July 1, 2015.
Preliminary hearings ensued, and dismissals of charges, and trials and mistrials and retrials, and an acquittal, and two hung juries, and defections and elections of district attorneys, and the McMartin defense team carried on, until the list of defendants had dwindled to one, young Raymond Buckey, a surfer dude who had not seen the sun in years, whose charges were finally dismissed in 1990.
John Adams was the type of Christian a lot of Christians wouldn't understand (he was the defense attorney for the British soldiers who fired on civilians during the Boston Massacre.
«Mr. Jeffs, although presumed innocent, has now been incarcerated for more than four years on charges that, given the [Utah] supreme court's opinion clarifying the law in Utah, will be difficult if not impossible for the state to sustain,» defense attorneys wrote in the motion filed in Utah's Third District Court earlier this month.
In Lords of the Plain, a novel about cavalry actions in Texas, Max Crawford puts these words into the mouth of the defense attorney for Comanche braves on trial for the massacre of a wagon train:
In addition, in the event the criminal case went to trial, one of the defense attorneys would have spent a little time on the plaintiff being in a bar at age 18, «Tell me, miss, how did you get into the bar?
State prosecutors took over the case against Kerrick early on, when it came to light that Mecklenburg district attorney Andrew Murray had once been a law partner of a member of Kerrick's defense team.
Mass Audubon has submitted an amicus brief to the Berkshire Superior Court in support of the Massachusetts Attorney General's office for their defense against the Tennessee Gas Pipeline Connecticut Expansion, a proposed natural gas pipeline project that is trying to remove protections on state land designated for permanent conservation.
During Sheldon Silver's federal corruption trial, defense attorneys have now tried at least twice to suggest heavy handed tactics on the part of prosecutors to cajole witnesses into cooperating with their case.
Reached by phone following the ruling, Stephen R. Coffey, Ortt's Albany defense attorney, said he had no comment on the decision but indicated that he thought Ortt would be exonerated.
Restaurateur Harendra Singh on Thursday finished his testimony in the federal corruption trial of former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, his wife, Linda, and former Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto, after 13 days on the stand and as the prosecution challenged two crucial sets of evidence submitted by defense attorneys.
On Monday, Mangano's defense attorney, John Carman of Garden City, suggested that her statements to Spence could be interpreted in ways other than as lies or fabrications.
The arrest comes after Howe admitted during a cross-examination by a defense attorney on Thursday that he lied to his credit card company about a supposed stay by him at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York back in 2016.
Afternoon can be tough on prospective jurors, who came back from lunch break to sit and wait for decisions from prosecutors and defense attorneys on who would stay and who would go.
On Monday, the prosecution did not pursue the testosterone subject further after Mangano's defense attorney, Kevin Keating of Garden City, objected and the lawyers met with U.S. District Judge Joan M. Azrack for several minutes out of earshot of the jurors and others in the courtroom.
«Despite improvement in some geographic areas, our indigent criminal defense system still relies on overworked and underfunded defense attorneys
On Tuesday, Venditto's defense attorney, Marc Agnifilo of Manhattan, sought to highlight that the main town contact for both Hoffmann and Crowley was not Venditto but then - Deputy Town Supervisor Leonard Genova.
Former state Senator Carl Kruger, for example, faced one of the costliest legal battles, and spent $ 1.7 million from his war chest on defense attorneys.
On Tuesday afternoon, Venditto's defense attorney, Marc Agnifilo of Manhattan, began his cross-examination of Singh.
Singh, on the stand for the 11th day in Edward Mangano's federal corruption trial, made the admission under questioning by Linda Mangano's defense attorney, John Carman, who presented as evidence several email exchanges between his client and Singh employees.
Defense attorney William Keahon, a former Suffolk prosecutor, responded when asked whether he had been on the boat: «When you tell me who told you that, I'll give you an answer.»
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.
Assemblyman Daniel J. O'Donnell, a Manhattan Democrat and former criminal defense attorney, said he never knew about the statute, which is known as «50 - A,» until he attended a state committee meeting a few years ago where Robert J. Freeman, executive director of the state Committee on Open Government, called for its repeal.
Terence L. Kindlon, a veteran Albany defense attorney, knows firsthand the task of taking on the federal government in court.
Silver is a partner in Weitz and Luxenberg, Senator Sampson, a defense attorney, recently signed on with one of the state's largest personal injury law firms, Belluck and Fox.
Garcia has a long career as a prosecutor and defense attorney at both the federal and state level, including his recent work on behalf of Republicans in the State Senate as they faced inquiries from the Moreland Commission established by Cuomo.
«He asked me what was going on, and I relayed to him what was going on,» Rechler said under questioning by Michael Critchley, Kelly's defense attorney.
O'Donnell, a former public defense attorney, who often visited clients in New York City's jails, also in the letter expressed concern that the newest corrections officers are placed on the 3 to 11 PM shift, when most of an unusually high number of incidents involving assaults occur.
Defense attorneys on Tuesday questioned former Town of Oyster Bay Attorney Leonard Genova, seen in Oyster Bay on May 24, 2016.
Percoco's defense attorney acknowledged during the trial that both Percoco and Cuomo were in the same Manhattan office on some days.
Defense attorneys focused on the lack of a stated arrangement between the senator and Adam's employers, suggesting that the majority leader was simply an attentive father trying to look after an adopted son who had struggled professionally.
Defense lawyers said Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan, made prejudicial statements on Mr. Silver.
Manhattan federal Judge Valerie Caproni rejected five prospective jurors after prosecutors and defense attorneys objected to answers they gave on questionnaires they filled out earlier in the week.
Wood also tossed out Skelos defense attorney motions to bar wiretap evidence gathered from Dean and Adam's phones, rejected their request for a hearing on whether prosecutors leaked grand jury information, and denied their motion for a more detailed description of the charges.
Mr. Meguin, a defense attorney and former advisor to county judges, ran unsuccessfully for Southold supervisor on the Democratic line last fall, losing to Republican incumbent Scott Russell.
This week on the Campbell Conversations host Grant Reeher continues his conversation with Dean Strang, one of the defense attorneys for Steven Avery profiled in the Netflix documentary series «Making a Murderer.»
He hired full - time immigration lawyers to advise assistant district attorneys and defense lawyers on the deportation consequences of engaging immigrants in plea deals — which in some cases can trigger deportation proceedings.
(WBEN) Frank Miller, the attorney hired by the Buffalo Board of Education to try and help them oust Carl Paladino from the school board, turned the tables at hearings on Paladino's removal during his closing statements on Tuesday, For the past four days, Paladino's defense has argued that the...
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