Sentences with phrase «compelling evidence against»

If there is compelling evidence against you, I will go into negotiation mode with the prosecutor.

If the state has compelling evidence against you, I will negotiate with the prosecutor to obtain a favorable plea bargain.

Providing apparently compelling evidence against the possibility of laboratory contamination, a number of the patients were shown to have mounted an immune response against XMRV.

«An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.

In fact, these flaws are sufficient to not only invalidate the most compelling evidence against the hot hand, but even to vindicate the belief in streakiness.

Not exact matches

Many of us see these identical dynamics being used against Julie, and the evidence seems quite compelling, overwhelming in fact.

On the contrary, I believe there is far more compelling evidence for the existence of God, than against.

The evidence is compelling that U.S. officials consciously chose terrorists and terrorist tactics to carry out a war of aggression against Nicaragua:

I grew up an atheist, but when I studied it, I found the evidence FOR God to be more compelling than against.

An exception to this rigorous rule might have been the duty to give evidence in court concerning a crime which a priest learned about in the confessional; but as the civil law of evidence developed, it included a privilege for the priest against being compelled to reveal anything told to him under the «seal of the confessional.»

Now a University of Colorado Cancer Center study published online ahead of print in the journal Oncogene offers compelling evidence explaining this failure and offering a possible strategy for the use of retinoic acid or other retinoids against some breast cancers: Because early clinical trials are often offered to patients who have already tried other more established therapies, breast cancer cells may have been pushed past an important tipping point that offers retinoic acid resistance.

To conclude, Zagorsky said, «This study provides compelling evidence that there shouldn't be any discrimination against blondes based on their intelligence.»

Such districts should be held to account — but only if OCR can identify compelling evidence that their officials intended to discriminate against certain groups of students.

I view CO2 as one of the essential ingredients of life, in no way a pollutant; I find the thermostat hypothesis compelling, such that claims against it must be considered extraordinary — requiring extraordinary evidences; and I knew nothing of Lew's survey and didn't participate.

Unlike your ideologically fuelled and baseless smears against climate scientists, Wegman's case involves clear and compelling evidence of misconduct.

In this work, Diamond provides compelling evidence for how diseases unknown in the New World decimated whole populations, facilitating European invasion and setting the scene for appalling crimes committed against native populations from the silver mines of Potosi to Tenochtitlan.

I sit on the fence (I have not seen compelling evidence for or against human induced climate change), thus I have no opinion as to who (or what) has caused what, if anything.

«In fact, the draft report concludes that there are strong arguments against the cosmic ray theory, while there is compelling evidence that greenhouse gas emissions are driving the unequivocal rise in global average temperature,» he said.

This amounts to the ordinary rule of privilege against self - incrimination: that no - one can be compelled to provide evidence for a case against them.

Sections 13 of the Charter and 5 (2) of the CEA are treated as offering the same protection and both provide that prior compelled evidence is inadmissible against an accused, including to challenge credibility, unless the prosecution is for perjury or if the accused is giving contradictory evidence.

Therefore, the Fifth Amendment would not be violated by the fact alone that the papers, on their face, might incriminate the taxpayer, for the privilege protects a person only against being incriminated by his own compelled testimonial communications... The taxpayer can not avoid compliance with the subpoena merely by asserting that the item of evidence which he is required to produce contains incriminating writing, whether his own or that of someone else.

Returning to the Mediation Directive, Art 7 represents, no doubt, the outcome of a committee - based compromise, by seeking to impose a broadly based privilege for mediators (and others «involved in the administration of the mediation process») against being compelled to give evidence in civil proceedings arising out of or in connection with a mediation process, subject only to two very narrowly drawn exceptions, which would not appear to recognise any of the established exceptions to the without prejudice principle, save indirectly perhaps the fourth.

In particular, as regards the impact on related criminal proceedings, the protections afforded to criminal defendants are not available to witnesses in a public inquiry, who may be compelled to give evidence or disclose documents that may breach the privilege against self - incrimination that would be available to them in the criminal proceedings themselves.

A lawyer can't be compelled by the prosecution to give evidence against you.

The evidence against Oswald was compelling.

In addition, several statutes have articulated the parameters of the civil compulsion and conditional secondary privilege, providing that such compelled evidence including information, admissions, and findings should not form part of any criminal prosecution against a defendant facing criminal charges.

However, one of the aspects of the peer review process, per section 8 of that statute, is that the investigations, proceedings and records of the peer review panel, a committee of a hospital board, disciplinary board, government board or agent of one of these «shall not be subject to discovery or introduction into evidence in any civil or administrative action against a provider of professional health services arising out of the matters which are the subject of evaluation and review...» In other words, if you file a medical malpractice lawsuit against a Florida doctor, the records contained in these peer review files — even if relevant — can't be compelled.

The accused may not be compelled as a witness against himself in criminal proceedings, and therefore only voluntary statements made to police are admissible as evidence.

The reason is simple: as per White, where police action compels or coerces an individual to furnish evidence later used against them, inclusion of such evidence will offend the principle against self - incrimination.

Given that violence against adults, animals, and criminals to change their behavior is illegal, Gershoff questions why violence against children to change their behavior should be socially sanctioned, especially without clear and compelling evidence that it results in desirable outcomes.

Against a national backdrop of policymaking that often appears to willfully ignore clear and compelling data, it is important to note that 17 states have laws on abortion that match at least five of 10 major categories of restrictions that conflict with scientific evidence.