Sentences with phrase «death penalty trial»

Most notably, Ms. Gasiorowski represented one of the two capital defendants who avoided an execution sentence in the federal death penalty trial of individuals involved in the bombings of American Embassies in Tanzania and Nairobi, Africa.

... would you participate in a death penalty trial, knowing that, for the rest of your life, with the turn of a tide of public opinion you could be prosecuted for making what you believed to be the right decision?

Lyle explains the arguments being made by defense counsel, and opposed by prosecutors, for the possible «trifurcation» of Moussaoui's death penalty trial.

Neuroimaging is now increasingly used in the courtroom, including at a 2009 death penalty trial for Brian Dugan, a Chicago prisoner already serving a multiple murder sentence and who was later convicted of the 1983 rape and murder of a 10 - year - old girl.

Death is prescribed as the punishment for a host of crimes including murder, treason, kidnapping, idolatry, blasphemy, false prophecy, witchcraft, breaking the Sabbath, rape, adultery, incest, perversion, uttering a curse, striking a parent, bearing false witness in a death penalty trial.

Stubbs: «We see that death penalty trials are infected from the beginning to the end w / racial bias both in who is charged we know overwhelmingly that prosecutors are far more likely to seek the death penalty when the victim is white.

Thomas P. Matthews prosecuted over Thousands of cases, including death penalty trials, during his 26 years as a Criminal Defense Attorney in San Diego.

Not exact matches

The penalty phase of the trial, which will decide whether Dzhokhar gets put to death, will begin next week.

Most death penalty cases, from trials to appeals, rack up a large bill for multiple state agencies.

His brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, is being held at a prison hospital west of Boston awaiting trial on charges that carry the possibility of the death penalty.

According to the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), state prosecutors argued for the death penalty against Lim in Wednesday's 90 - minute trial at the nation's supreme court, reportsThe New York Times.

It could» t possibly dawn on them that America would put a man on trial and convict him and sentence him to the death penalty on unsubstaniated evidence and recanted testimony.

Book Review: The Death Penalty on Trial: Crisis in American Justice.

According to background information from LifeNews, Gosnell could face the death penalty, which prosecutors are pursuing when a second jury is impaneled «to determine sentencing under the penalty phase of the trial.»

Because it focuses on a single case, Bloodsworth is more effective than The Death Penalty on Trial, which does not allow for the same depth of reader engagement.

Bill Kurtis, CBS correspondent and anchor of Cold Case Files, launches The Death Penalty on Trial with the statistics that convinced former Illinois governor George Ryan to declare a moratorium on executions in his state in 2000 and, three years later, to commute all death senteDeath Penalty on Trial with the statistics that convinced former Illinois governor George Ryan to declare a moratorium on executions in his state in 2000 and, three years later, to commute all death sentedeath sentences.

Jury selection, conduct of the trial, and the appeals process become extremely time - consuming and elaborate when death is a possible penalty.

«The Chinese authorities» list of human rights abuses is as long as your arm - torture, forced labour, internet repression, unfair trials, and of course the death penalty.

But soon it will run into real problems: the trials in Iraq will likely finish before the team even starts its work, and the UN will rightly be unable to hand evidence they gather over to Iraqi courts because of their deeply flawed trials and use of the death penalty.

Like the Casey Anthony trial, Grace wants the death penalty for Arias; and would like to broadcast her death on her show.

Kindlon — a Marine who was shot in the head during the Tet Offensive in 1968 and was awarded a Purple Heart — has worked death penalty cases and some of the most recognizable trials in the region.

«Medical ethicists challenge court ruling on lethal injection in Alabama case: Ruling in death penalty case would have a chilling effect on physicians» willingness to serve as experts in capital punishment trials.»

fMRI brain scans have been introduced previously in the sentencing phase of a murder trial (to indicate that the defendant had a brain disorder and should be spared the death penalty).

There had been a rush to judgment at the time of the trial which had the boys tried and convicted in the court of public opinion by everyone from Mayor Koch to Donald Trump who called for the death penalty in a full page ad in the New York Times.

And Socrates — who in the Crito refused to escape Athens to avoid the death penalty — had argued in his trial that he did not deserve punishment at all, but rather deserved to be treated like an Olympic hero!

As a trial attorney, he handled all sorts of criminal cases in state and federal court and he has represented approximately 30 people charged with homicide, including several who have faced the death penalty.

Which side has failed to stop its partisans from calling for crimes - against - humanity trials and even the death penalty?

Trials should be bifurcated with one jury panel for determining guilt, and the other deciding whether to impose the death penalty.

Mr. Lenamon has defended clients in 20 first - degree murder trials and eight death penalty cases.

One witness said she told her husband that «she would get the last word» and that the man on trial before her «would get the death penalty...»

From small claims court to death penalty appeals, our lawyers have handled a wide variety of pro bono matters and are often called upon by local judges to take over pro bono matters on the eve of trial.

It also includes legislation on police, prisons, the right to a fair trial, and the death penalty.

The appeals court ruled that Alabama's death penalty was, indeed, constitutional and ordered that capital punishment should be allowed for consideration as a sentence during the defendants» trials.

36 The result has been that the courts have pronounced on a wide range of value - laden subjects historically reserved for the people's elected representatives, including but certainly not limited to abortion, private health care, the death penalty, assisted suicide and prostitution — and all through a provision of the Charter whose accepted original meaning was simply that accused individuals be entitled to a fair trial.

«If you had enough money to pay» for a top - tier criminal defense attorney at trial, he said at the time of Whitley's execution, «you're not going to get the death penalty.»

Many of the judgments against Turkey have been leading judgments in their field, contributing valuable principles to the corpus of international human rights law in areas as diverse as torture, killings, disappearances on the one hand and freedom of expression, the banning of political parties, the destruction of villages, expropriation of property, fair trial and the death penalty on the other.

The trial judge may not be the finder of facts that the death penalty is warranted in a particular case.

The trial judge can not increase the jury - recommended sentence of life in prison with a death penalty sentence.

In Alabama, unlike any other State in the Union, the trial judge has unbridled discretion to sentence the defendant to death — even though a jury has determined that death is an inappropriate penalty, and even though no basis exists for believing that any other reasonable, properly instructed jury would impose a death sentence.

The trial judge may reduce a jury - recommended sentence from the death penalty to life in prison without parole.

The only target of a DCP sentence is the previously convicted terrorist — someone for whom a death penalty has already been determined appropriate by a court of law at the conclusion of a fair trial and the expiry of all appeals.

Much like the example in many American states, the trial would then turn to a penalty phase where prosecutors would have to convince a Judge to impose the death penalty.

That death penalty case, by the way, does not appear to be the Aurora theater shooting trial that is currently in the national spotlight.

She began her career as a trial attorney with the Office of the Public Defender for the State of Maryland in 1988 and has handled numerous felony trials including several death penalty cases.

«The trial court may take aggressive action to safeguard the public interest and preclude a speedy trial violation... and the District Attorney has the authority to dismiss the death penalty notice, if that will make adequate funding available to the defense and allow for a speedy trial of this case,» Nahmias wrote.

In an opinion that once again raises concerns about the state's shortage of funds for indigent capital defense, a divided Georgia Supreme Court has sent a death penalty case back to the trial court to determine if a systemic breakdown in the state's public defender system deprived the defendant of counsel.

In 1999, MacDougall began a professional collaboration with the renowned South Carolina defense lawyer, Bill Nettles, that has changed the face of trial practice in death penalty cases in that state and across the nation.

Death penalty debate peripheral to Keller trial Austin American Statesman By Chuck Lindell AMERICAN - STATESMAN STAFF, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2009

The Minister issued a surrender order conditional on receipt of formal assurances from India, including assurances regarding death penalty, fair trial and the Respondents» health and safety in Indian custody.

Boston Government Investigations & White Collar Defense partner Brian Kelly discusses the jury's death penalty decision in the Tsarnaev trial.