Sentences with phrase «defense against charges»

Five keys to reducing fair housing liability Ensuring that your company provides equal service standards and encouraging sales people to keep careful records demonstrating that those standards were implemented equally to all prospects provides a strong defense against charges of fair housing violations.

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We have a well - earned reputation for aggressive, successful courtroom defense against charges of marijuana possession.

Fairfax DUI defense and DWI defense throughout Virginia often also includes defense against charges of unreasonably refusing to submit to a breath or blood test for blood or breath alcohol content (BAC)...

«Senator Skelos and his son, Adam, can then begin their vigorous defense against these charges, as is their right.»

The best defense against that charge is an equally vocal concern for all the threats to marriage, and all varieties of sterile sex.

In particular, it is a defense against the charge of inconsistency or contradiction.

Thornton's defense against the charge that he denies Christ's humanity is not wholly convincing:

Plantinga's famous «Free - Will Defense», Griffin points out, is by Plantinga's own admission not a theodicy — an attempt to explain the existence of evil — but rather simply a defense against the charge that «A good God exists» and «Evil exists» are logically incompatible.

«Such delegates are the best defense against the charge that a convention will open Pandora's Box and threaten our constitutional values,» the wrote.

We may be able to utilize your permit as a defense against the charge that you are facing.

It will be a matter for a trier of fact, a jury or a judge, to determine if the use of force was reasonable and if, therefore, the level of force used was justifiable as an affirmative defense against the charge of murder.

Not exact matches

Mr. Siegal is perhaps best known for his victory in defense of high - profile private equity financier Benjamin Wey against federal criminal and civil securities fraud and money laundering charges.

Unlike Serial, which explored how a suspect's race and religion might have been held against him, The Jinx riveted viewers by exploring the role of privilege and how Durst's high - priced legal defense team could manage to help him evade the most serious criminal charges against him even when, in one case, he'd actually admitted to having dismembered a person's body.

(CNN)- As I have read recent neoconservative diatribes against President Obama's nominee for secretary of defense, former Sen. Chuck Hagel - including charges that he is an anti-Semite and a full - page advertisement attacking him in The New York Times on Thursday - I have asked myself, «What would George Washington do?»

A traditional defense by evangelicals against the charge of theological inconsistency and contradiction has been to classify all disputed theological areas as adiaphora, i. e., «things indifferent» to Scripture and thus of secondary importance.

Then, in its July / August 2001 issue, NOR published a defense of Neuhaus by Janet Holl Madigan which made serious charges against Vree and against NOR itself.

7:14, and the naming of Mary's son by Joseph, are the chief tactics in Matthew's defense against the Jewish charge that Jesus was the illegitimate son of Mary.40

(Again: I'll accept arrogance here because surely that's what it looks like; though I tell myself «you're really being humble & humiliating here, Sam,» there's no defense against an arrogance charge.

The loss is obviously a huge blow for Luck and an offense that is going against a charged - up Ravens defense in the final home game for Ray Lewis.

The only element of a felony assault charge that his defense might be able to argue against was intent to cause physical injury but unless they go for an incapacity defense that's going to be a hard sell to a jury because only a total retard would believe that hurling a heavy metal dolly through a glass bus window wouldn't likely result in harm to someone.

The defense motions have included asking the judge to drop some charges, and give each defendant a separate trial to avoid having the case against one prejudice the others.

Percoco's defense against the federal bribery charges — that one has to be a state employee in name, if not in fact, in order to act as a public official — troubles good government groups.

The New York Constitution gives the governor power to remove a district attorney at any time, so long as the governor gives the DA a «copy of the charges against him or her» and «an opportunity of being heard in his or her defense.»

Percoco's defense against the federal bribery charges — that one has to be a state employee in name to act as a public official — troubles good government groups.

«The problem here is that in some ways what this is based on is the idea that you can violate state law and state prohibitions on using government resources during a campaign as a defense against federal bribery charges,» Kaehny said.

Although both the prosecution and defense have now concluded their presentations, one critical step remains for jurors: a specific charge from Judge Valerie Caproni on the exact standards against which they should match the evidence with the law.

ALBANY — U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara today asked a federal judge to temporarily hold in abeyance a new defense motion to dismiss corruption charges against three former LPCiminelli executives.

Judge Caproni denied a defense motion to dismiss the charges but said certain comments by Mr. Bharara could have been interpreted to reflect his «personal views as to Silver's character or guilt with respect to the charges filed against him.»

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has asked a federal judge to temporarily hold in abeyance a new defense motion to dismiss corruption charges against three former LPCiminelli executives.

Brooklyn federal prosecutors told appellate judges they should get another shot at showing that former Senate Majority Leader John Sampson embezzled about $ 400,000 from foreclosure sales — but the defense said no charges against the disgraced ex-pol should stand.

Daniel C. Oliverio, Ciminelli's defense attorney, argued to the judge along with the other defense attorneys for a quick turnaround for the defendants» next court appearance, saying they are eager to defend against the charges.

(Cuomo has spent $ 100,000 on a criminal defense attorney to represent him in the ongoing federal probe that yielded charges against Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos.)

Unidentified supporters set up a «Skelos Family Legal Defense Fund» in an effort to fight off federal corruption charges against the lawmaker and his son, Adam.

But Mr. Silver's defense attorney Steven Molo said the government simply disapproved of the entirely legal fact that Mr. Silver and other state lawmakers can hold outside employment and, instead of trying to change such laws — which he said will present «inherent conflicts of interest» — the government was «leveling false criminal charges against one of the senior legislative officers, senior government officials in this state.»

Defense attorneys sought before the trial to keep the entire episode about 329 Broadway out of the trial, arguing it had nothing to do with the charges against the defendants.

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. is taking it on the chin these days for accepting campaign contributions from defense lawyers who represented high profile clients — including two of President Donald Trump's adult children and disgraced ex-Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein — against whom he declined to bring criminal charges.

But she says if a politician is using campaign donor money to pay for a legal defense against criminal charges, then it would be better to set up a separate fund for that.

New Jersey prosecutors have dropped manslaughter charges against the son of a former top de Blasio administration aide over botched evidence that backs up his self - defense claim, lawyers said Thursday...

«Importantly,» the defense says, both official misconduct charges against Abelove are brought pursuant to a part of

It's a charge against which Cuomo hasn't figured out a good defense, and one that will fester for an undetermined future.

Without indicating what action he might take in the Ivy case, Soares insisted he was working to prevent a defense attorney from raising a potentially disastrous legal argument against any district attorney who might bring charges in a case that falls into what Soares characterized as the executive order's ample ambiguities.

BY ANDY HUMM Abel Cedeno, 18, the bullied gay Bronx student who said he defended himself with a knife against an attack from classmate Matthew McCree September 27 in front of their fellow students and two teachers, testified in his own defense on Tuesday morning before a Bronx grand jury, and the second - degree murder charge -LSB-...]

On the macro level, the high profile nature of the charges against Rangel and his spirited defense create a potential hypocrisy problem for House Democrats in the eyes of voters.

Majok can not face trial until he's deemed competent to understand the charges against him and assist in his defense.

The defense plans to ask a Bergen County judge Friday to dismiss the remaining charges of weapons possession and hindering apprehension against Noerdlinger.

As to sports, (in particular, an area of special concern with regard to supervision), courts in the United States regularly apply the defense of assumption of risk against negligence charges.

Instead of fighting the charges directly, the company dissolved, pleaded «no contest,» and argued that no assets could be seized to make restitution to the Hawaiian Humane Society because, defense attorney Jason Burks contended, «In a criminal case against a corporation, the sentences are limited to probation, fines and restitution, and then the court can prohibit the corporation from owning animals.

When in - court arguments began, Atari pressed two separate lines of defense against Nintendo's charge that the Tetris rights they claimed to own were ill - gotten.