Sentences with phrase «chance of a fair trial»

Without high - quality legal defense, you stand virtually no chance of a fair trial.

The wry judicial litotes balanced against the desperation of the layman facing the same dense statutory provisions might lead the independent bystander to doubt the chances of a fair trial.

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The leader of the Commons, Harriet Harman, said Mr Cameron should not be speaking about the cases at all - as his comments could affect the chances of the accused MPs getting a fair trial.

Therefore, in light of European case law, the SCC concludes that the absolute content of the right to a fair trial does not require that a person convicted in absentia has the chance of applying for retrial if the right has been voluntarily and unequivocally waived and the person was duly summoned and defended at trial by counsel.

It has become more and more difficult to get a fair chance at trial due to the anti-employee bias of many federal judges, including the evermore difficult standards required to get past summary judgment.

Similarly, if you were convicted of murder after a fair trial and presented the live body of the victim as newly discovered evidence, there is a good chance that you could have the original conviction vacated.

This process of information sharing and synthesis provides the parties with an opportunity to formulate a more complete view of the conflict and gain enhanced insight into the relative strengths and weaknesses of their case, weigh the chances of success at trial and explore the potential ingredients needed to fashion a fair and reasonable negotiated outcome.

Fair or not, the perception of the Federal Circuit among some practitioners is that a trial court's claim construction only has a 50/50 chance of being affirmed on appeal.