Sentences with phrase «defense at the trial»

In a tweet Monday, Cuban said, «Their media advertising, content and distribution dominance will be a defense at trial.

«Many [lay midwives] shy away from breech births,» Anne Frye said, testifying for the defense at the trial of a midwife charged in the death of a stillborn breech infant.

The US Probation Department had recommended 6 1/2 to 8 years of prison for Halloran, who tried to claim insanity as a defense at trial and is a «prince» in a pagan order that includes public floggings.

Oscar - nominated actress Farmiga («Up in the Air») is attached to play Rowe's first wife Mary, whom he kills, while two - time Golden Globe nominee Wood («The Wrestler») will play his second wife, with whom he starts a new life after avoiding a prison sentence by pleading the insanity defense at trial.

If the hockey stick were valid and Mann had been vindicated, then there should have been dozens of amicus briefs filed in his defense at the trial (including, one would have thought, briefs from Messrs. Tet and Zorita).

Norm Pattis and The Pattis & Smith Law Firm legal defense team have a nationally recognized reputation for what the Hartford Courant calls «Brilliant and Audacious» defense at trial which necessarily causes prosecutors to reevaluate their case against you.

Not exact matches

At trial in San Francisco federal court in 2012, the jury deadlocked on Google's fair use defense.

His case illustrates the difficulty of succeeding with such a defense at a time when a Colorado court is preparing to hear similar arguments in the trial over a movie theater shooting in which 12 people were killed.

«Requiring the banks to pay treble damages to every plaintiff who ended up on the wrong side of an independent Libor ‐ denominated derivative swap would, if appellants» allegations were proved at trial, not only bankrupt 16 of the world's most important financial institutions, but also vastly extend the potential scope of antitrust liability in myriad markets where derivative instruments have proliferated,» the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York said in the ruling.A U.S. appeals court on Monday revived private antitrust litigation accusing major banks of conspiring to manipulate the Libor benchmark interest rate, in a big setback for their defense against investors» claims of market - rigging.

Ulbricht may have been able to obtain a lighter sentence had he pled guilty, but he instead went with a far - fetched defense strategy at trial that claimed that he had started the site, but that someone else was the real Dread Pirate Roberts.

Everyone charged with a penal offense has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defense.

When the Nazi officials on trial at Nuremberg argued in their defense that they had merely obeyed the laws of the state, public opinion quickly agreed that there ought to be a law proscribing such crimes against humanity.

He is betrayed by his defense attorneys, his brother, and even the judge at his trial.

Coghlan thrived with the Cubs after a miserable showing in Oakland, and while his defense at third was shaky in a limited trial, I can't think of a way to end this sentence that would support my point.

In addition, in the event the criminal case went to trial, one of the defense attorneys would have spent a little time on the plaintiff being in a bar at age 18, «Tell me, miss, how did you get into the bar?

Today's testimony at the corruption trial of a former top aide to Cuomo, Joe Percoco, has been canceled due to the illness of a defense lawyer whose questioning last week led to the arrest of the prosecution's star witness, Todd Howe.

During Sheldon Silver's federal corruption trial, defense attorneys have now tried at least twice to suggest heavy handed tactics on the part of prosecutors to cajole witnesses into cooperating with their case.

Silver's defense argued at trial that everything he did was par for the course.

For the first time in the trial, Mangano left her seat at the defense table to gather, with other lawyers, in front of Azrack.

A crooked restaurateur who claims to have bribed Mayor de Blasio boosted his own ego by showering Hizzoner with campaign cash, a defense lawyer told jurors at a Long Island corruption trial on Wednesday.

One of the state's most powerful politicians badgered companies reliant upon his legislative support to funnel more than $ 300,000 to his son, a prosecutor told a jury at the start of a corruption trial Tuesday as defense lawyers countered that she was trying to criminalize a typical father - son relationship.

The governor also wants to require prosecutors to give defense lawyers evidence they plan to use at trial before the trial actually begins.

Kevin Keating, defense attorney for former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, got his first crack Tuesday at former Oyster Bay Deputy Supervisor Leonard Genova during the federal corruption trial of Mangano, his wife, Linda, and former Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto.

At that point, defense attorneys are expected file a Rule 29 motion, allowed in any criminal trial, in which they will argue that the prosecution failed to present enough evidence to prove its case.

She cautioned defense attorneys they'd run the risk of a mistrial and financial sanctions if the topic came up in front of jurors, but she said they could explore at trial «everything» Singh said about interactions with de Blasio and his administration.

Sheldon Silver broke out the Passover defense at his corruption trial Thursday, as his lawyer focused on the shows of friendship — including gifts of handmade matzoh — that the...

Former Syracuse Mayor Tom Young is likely to testify at the federal corruption trial of two Cor Development executives if a judge allows defense lawyers to present arguments about Cor's positive effects on the community.

During their opening statements today in the criminal corruption trial of former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, prosecutors and Silver's defense attorneys painted sharply different images of the elected official at the center of the case.

«That may make you uncomfortable,» Mr. Silver's defense attorney Steven Molo argued in his opening statement at his client's ongoing corruption trial.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Former Syracuse Mayor Tom Young is likely to testify at the federal corruption trial of two Cor Development executives if a judge allows defense lawyers to present arguments about Cor's positive effects on the community.

During his ninth day on the stand at Mangano's corruption trial, Singh, during questioning by the defense, said, «I raised a lot of money for [former Oyster Bay Town Supervisor] John Venditto, Ed Mangano and Bill de Blasio.»

However, Caproni said she wouldn't allow the last piece introduced into evidence, and admonished the defense for bringing the issue up at such a late stage in the trial.

In an unusual move designed to make criminal trials fairer, state Court of Appeals Chief Judge Janet DiFiore issued a new rule requiring judges to forcefully order prosecutors to search their files and disclose all evidence favorable to the defense at least 30 days before major trials.

During their opening statements Tuesday in the criminal corruption trial of former state Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver, prosecutors and Silver's defense attorneys painted sharply different images of the elected official at the center of the case.

«I think it's a defense attorney's dream to be able to have an informant testify at a trial first and find out all the skeletons and motivations and bad things about the informant right up front,» he said.

Caproni's succinct style kept the trial's pace moving at a healthy clip, and she found more than a few reasons to castigate Silver's defense team, too — especially Molo, whom she admonished for arguing, talking over witnesses and editorializing during cross-examination.

Nigro testified for the defense at Bruno's trial as a character witness for the former senator.

The feds also accuse Dean Skelos of misrepresenting the kind of work he did for his law firm, and say they plan to use that against him at trial if he testifies in his own defense or tries to call character witnesses.

Wood, who expects the trial to last three to five weeks, had asked potential jurors if they had a family member or close friend with a developmental disability, a hint at a potential defense strategy painting Adam Skelos in a more sympathetic light.

NEWARK, N.J. — During defense attorney Michael Critchley's cross-examination of David Wildstein at the Bridgegate trial in federal court this morning, the witness said that it was his «understanding» that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo agreed to what would later become Port Authority deputy Bill Baroni's legislative testimony about the George Washington Bridge lane closures.

The defense has argued that prosecutors produced no evidence at trial that a quid pro quo existed.

The two lawyers had largely disappeared during Mr. Silver's three - week trial in Federal District Court in Manhattan; James M. McDonald sat quietly at the end of the prosecution table, while Robert K. Kry, a defense lawyer, did not even show up in court.

A juror asked to be dismissed from the Sheldon Silver trial again on Monday, leading us to believe that either the position is cursed exactly like the Defense Against the Dark Arts professorship at Hogwarts, or it's otherwise triggering a corruption - inspired allergic reaction among the people forced to listen to days of testimony about the state legislator's extracurricular activities.

I had never really sat through any kind of trial before; I have seen some real trials on TV, but I have never been [to] one in person, and I was really taken aback at how ill - prepared the defense attorney seemed to be when confronted with an expert witness of the caliber of Ken Miller.

This clinical trial is a collaboration between WRAIR and Crucell Holland B.V., one of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies, with funding from the Joint Vaccines Acquisition Program at the Department of Defense's Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense.

Dr. Greger has lectured at the Conference on World Affairs, the National Institutes of Health, and the International Bird Flu Summit, testified before Congress, appeared on The Dr. Oz Show and The Colbert Report, and was invited as an expert witness in defense of Oprah Winfrey at the infamous «meat defamation» trial.

The ensuing trial provides a peek at the British legal system, but the most interesting sub-plot... the young son of the accused terrorist... is minimized in favor of the generic romance between two legal defense attorneys (Bana and Hall).

Bana and Hall are lawyers — and ex-lovers — who find themselves put at risk after they join the defense team for an international terrorist's trial.

The judge would have had to conclude that plaintiffs did not even make a plausible claim, which would have been an extraordinary ruling at this point in the trial — before the defense put on any evidence.

You should then run the trial a couple of times, so that every student participates at least once as either judge, jury, prosecution, or defense.