Sentences with phrase «defendant in a murder trial»

If I am ever a defendant in a murder trial, I hope you are on the jury.

While representing the defendant in a murder trial he re-enacted the shooting to prove it was possible the victim could have accidentally shot himself.

Not exact matches

All three defendants in a trial involving members of a North Tonawanda motorcycle club have been found guilty of charges relating to two murders in 2014.

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).

Two years later, Gazzara played arrogant murder - trial defendant Lieutenant Manion — the one with the «irresistible impulse» — in Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder, slyly stealing scenes from the film's «official» star, James Stmurder - trial defendant Lieutenant Manion — the one with the «irresistible impulse» — in Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder, slyly stealing scenes from the film's «official» star, James StMurder, slyly stealing scenes from the film's «official» star, James Stewart.

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.

Judges review evidence during the murder trial of seven defendants accused of killing sea turtle conservationist Jairo Mora in 2013.

A Superior Court judge in the U.S. Virgin Islands, D'Eramo, 49, was found hanging in his St. Croix condominium Monday morning, just minutes before he was to begin jury selection and trial in a high - profile murder case in which one defendant is a former police sergeant.

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A sensational Toronto murder trial this week is drawing attention to the issue of self - represented defendants in the court and their ability to cross-examine witnesses in sensitive circumstances.

Imagine, if you will, a murder trial where the defendant is charged with shooting the victim at point - blank range in broad daylight with multiple witnesses present.

These include: United States v. Resendiz - Ponce, which presents the question whether the omission of an element from a federal indictment can constitute harmless error (9th Circuit says no); Global Crossing Telecommunications, Inc. v. Metrophones Telecommunications, Inc., on whether a provider of pay phone services can sue a long distance carrier for alleged violations of the Federal Communications Commission's regulations concerning compensation for coinless pay phone calls (9th Circuit says yes); Cunningham v. California, a sentencing case involving whether whether California's Determinate Sentencing Law violates the 6th and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution by permitting California state court judges at sentencing to impose enhanced sentenced based on their determination of facts neither found by the jury nor admitted by the defendant; and Carey v. Musladin, reviewing the 9th Circuit's decision to overturn a murder conviction of a defendant who claimed he was denied a fair trial because the victim's relatives appeared in court wearing buttons with the deceased's picture on them.

Cross» murder conviction — a rarity in vehicular death cases — came after a two - week jury trial, which included testimony from the defendant and witnesses who were at the site.

The Ontario Court of Appeal is hearing its first case on this issue this fall, in which three defendants convicted of murder are seeking a new trial.

Addressing this issue, particular value should be attached to those cases where the defendant provides evidence in the form of a witness statement or is prepared to give evidence at any subsequent trial, and does so, with added force where the information either produces convictions for the most serious offences, including terrorism and murder, or prevents them, or which leads to disruption to or indeed the break up of major criminal gangs.

The Law Commission suggests that in these circumstances the trial judge should have the power to order a medical examination of the defendant following conviction for murder.