Sentences with phrase «case gets to the trial»

The deficiencies in the case that were obvious to the judge ought to have been obvious to the Crown long before the case got to trial.

First, lawyers acting for defendants do not, generally speaking, have a vested interest in making sure the case gets to trial quickly.

In this tragic case, an alienator / father had already turned three out of four children against their mother by the time the case got to trial.

Not exact matches

So no matter if my client is ready to take the case to the mat or can't afford or does not want to move forward anymore, opposing counsel gets the same routine from me every time: «We can try to settle the case or just go to trial.

This in - depth profile gets deep into the details of the case and Levandowski's career, and the trial itself, when it actually begins in October, is going to be really something.

There's a whole process that's set up to ensure that the jury that finally gets impaneled is an objective group of people with no connection with anything going on in the case that might persuade them to cast a decision that's inconsistent with the evidence that's presented at the trial.

«But in a case like PRP's, where our capital needs kept getting greater the closer we got to clinical trials, we really needed to be increasing Dr. Chao's coverage.»

Johnstone said that while Chyna could take Kardashian all the way to a jury trial, most of these cases are settled before they get that far.

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?

After a failed NCAA attempt to get the case thrown out of California court and some fighting over the publicizing of case documents, it's going to trial on April 18.

I'm not sure any of it will ever be enough, because I've had to watch case after case of sexual assault victims in both Canada and the US go to some kind of trial, and then get destroyed.

Look at the high - profile cases and all you hear are stories about bail or no bail and EFCC arresting this and that but when you get to the real trial you don't get to hear anything because it would seem the proper investigation has not been done.

White Plains federal Judge Kenneth Karas got fed up with a politically connected lawyer's bid to delay the upcoming corruption trial of state Sen. Malcolm Smith over her pregnancy, suggesting in a ruling Wednesday that she lied about needing doctor - ordered bed rest when the case is scheduled to go to trial.

Indeed, a bid by Davis» lawyers to get the case dismissed before a trial was rejected by the judge.

«I would have asked that the defendants in this case be discharged and allow to go home pending the time the prosecution would get serious for their trial.

U.S. District Judge Gary Sharpe, who presided over Bruno's first trial, imposed a gag order on the lawyers, saying: «This case is going to get tried in the courtroom, not the press.

«It would be, I think, irresponsible not to spend some time talking about what those things, what those trials, have taught us, and what those cases may mean for how everyone can get good government,» he told the NY Times.

Tanski's attorney, William J. Dreyer, said they will fight the charges and go to trial if they can not get the case dismissed.

Prosecutors had claimed more than # 100,000 from Huhne, who pleaded guilty last February on the first day of his trial, after months of denials and protracted attempts to get the case against him thrown out.

The former energy secretary, who denied his guilt for two years, failed in attempts to get his case dismissed, only pleading guilty on the first day of trial while economist Pryce, 60, was convicted after a retrial.

I have no idea where the CJ would get the authority not just to reach down and expedite a pending appeal but to order that cases in varying states of disarray (and maybe some have not even been filed yet) resolved at the trial level and the first appellate level and brought up to the Court of Appeals, IF the top court even has jurisdiction over each distinct dispute, within a fixed time.

While this isn't a huge investment (a full - page ad set him back several thousand dollars), this move was described by two different people as a «pre-emptive» strike by the Democratic councilman — just in case anyone hasn't yet gotten the message that he intends to run, either for Sen. Carl Kruger's seat, assuming Kruger 1) is convicted of a felony in his corruption trial, which is scheduled to start Jan. 17, or 2) resigns as part of a plea deal; or for the so - called «super» Jewish district Senate Republicans are dreaming of having tailor - made for Fidler's former Council colleague, Simcha Felder.

What might have been the biggest case got away in 2010 when the Obama administration dropped plans to bring five Guantánamo Bay detainees, including Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, to Manhattan for a civilian trial on charges of plotting the Sept. 11 attacks.

Such wiretapped exchanges are expected to play a central role when the Skeloses go on trial in federal court in Manhattan starting Monday in a case that is at its core about the stunning lengths a father will go to help his son, alleging that one of New York's most powerful men «monetized» his office in a bid to get his child's career on track.

Silver recently had a bid rejected to get the Supreme Court to hear his case, pushing the matter back for a re-trial before U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni, who presided over his 2015 trial.

The worst case scenario would be to rush the next trial and get a negative result because the trial was too short.

While their argument got approved to go to trial in New York, the judge did refuse to certify a nationwide class - action lawsuit, citing that there were too many differences in the laws of individual states in regard to this particular case.

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Their characters react to the news by traveling from their native Virginia, where interracial marriage was still outlawed in 1958, and getting hitched in Washington, D.C.. From there, though, they experience arrest, trial, forced exile across state lines, kids and, finally, a return to Virginia and their case being heard before the Supreme Court.

Ben Gazzara (who passed away earlier this year) is the defendant, a hot - headed army officer arrested for murder, and Lee Remick, Arthur O'Connell and Eve Arden co-star, with rising star George C. Scott getting a «featuring» credit for a small role and a brilliant performance as a big - city attorney who steps in to take over the state's case late in the trial.

Tired of having to slog through menial office work for a successful law firm, he finagles his way into earning himself an open - and - shut battery case, in which he wins using his charm, wit, and energy during the trial — and a few unethical things that could get him disbarred if revealed.

As readers are aware, I'm tired of having the stench of DC «justice» on my clothes day after day, and am anxious to get to trial and put my case to twelve good men and true (yes, yes, women, transitioning, questioning, persons of gender fluidity, the more the merrier).

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.

I declined to join them on the grounds that, as the previous impenetrable sentence suggests, the DC court system had made such a procedural train wreck of the case that we might as well get on with the trial the fraudulent Mann claimed to want, and be done with it.

In order to prove their case for copyright infringement at trial, Gaye's lawyers needed to show that i) Williams and Thicke had access to «Got to Give it Up», and ii) that the two songs were substantially similar.

When I began my own career as a district court judge, I made it a point to meet with every jury in any case I tried so that I could answer their questions and get their impressions on the trial process and their role as a jury.

An accused who was previously eligible for a lenient sentence or who had racked up considerable pre-sentence custody could throw in the towel and make peace with Her Majesty but is now encouraged to take a shot at trial even where he assesses his own chances of winning the case as poor — if you're getting slammed by a mandatory minimum whether you plead guilty or not, you may as well spin the wheel of justice and see what happens.

The day after the jury decided the case, the presiding judge called me to say that it was his practice to meet with juries after they finished their deliberations and get their feedback on the trial, the judge, and the lawyers.

If the money goes directly to a law firm to fund case expenses, Trial Funder investors get between 10 % to 25 % of any recovery, after the initial investment has been repaid.

The Crown should ask the trial judge to reconsider the Corbett ruling so that the jury (or trial judge in a judge - alone trial) gets a fair and complete picture.209 Similarly, in a jury case, a defence strategy centred on an attack on the credibility of the victim can affect an accused's successful Corbett application, potentially opening up his or her entire criminal record to cross-examination for credibility purposes.210

A California insurance defense associate had two thoughts about what opportunity looked like for her: «If you're not given increasingly greater responsibility, challenges and chances to do all aspects of a case (i.e., mediation, arguing motions, and trial), then an associate will look elsewhere to get those things.»

Also, probably at least 10 % of acquittals are of people who were factually guilty, because juries get it right something on the order of 90 % of the time when cases go to trial.

That forces Quinn Emanuel to cast the wary eye of an investor on potential cases, in search of the ones that can strike gold, and it's unafraid to use litigation's nuclear option — a jury trial — to get outsize results.

Where budgets are required, litigants have to cost all proposed work until trial, attend a case management conference to get the budget agreed, keep the budget under review and make applications for amendment if necessary.

The case took ten years to get to trial and was successful.

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It's difficult for young lawyers to get that experience today, partly because fewer cases are going to trial and partly because some insurers don't want to pay for junior lawyers to sit second chair in the courtroom, says McCarthy, a partner at McCarthy Bouley Barry & Morgan in Waltham, Massachusetts.

The court's own schedule (for instance, whether other cases are in trial or whether judges are on vacation) may also impact how long it takes to get a divorce.