Sentences with phrase «defense counsel made»

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US prosecutors have asked the court to «make a strenuous inquiry into whether the defendant is financially unable to afford counsel» in order to prevent taxpayers from «needlessly» paying for the defense of man reputed to be worth billions.

Sol Wisenberg, a defense attorney who was a deputy independent counsel during the Starr special counsel investigation into President Bill Clinton, said the comment «obviously increases the president's exposure to potential campaign finance violations, but it also makes him look terrible.»

He was latter considered on bail on the 3rd of September 2014 by Chief Magistrate, Basiru after his defense counsel A. O Sanusi made an oral application.

«It obviously increases the president's exposure to potential campaign finance violations, but it also makes him look terrible,» said Sol Wisenberg, a defense attorney who was a deputy independent counsel during the Starr special counsel investigation into President Bill Clinton.

And our academic case management system assigns a staffer to every HCZ student from fifth grade up to not just solve problems but prevent them; to make sure they get what they need, whether it's grief counseling, chess lessons, or a weight - loss regimen — a Zone defense, so to speak.

American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) California Community College Chancellor's Office Center for Innovation in Education (CIE) College Board College Transition Collaborative Colorado Department of Education ConnectEd Del Lago Academy Digital Promise EdImagine EdInsights Education First EducationCounsel Envision Learning Partners Farmington Public Schools Great Schools Partnership Harvard Innovation Lab Hillsdale High School Internationals Network for Public Schools Irvine Foundation Ithaca College James Graham Brown Foundation Jobs for the Future June Jordan School for Equity Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Learning Policy Institute Los Angeles Unified School District Lumina Foundation Maker Ed Making Caring Common Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Mastery Transcript Consortium Microsoft Montpelier School District NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) National Urban League New Haven Academy New York Performance Standards Consortium Oakland Unified School District Pomona College Raikes Foundation Riverdale Country School San Francisco International High School Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Smith College Southern New Hampshire University Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity (SCALE) Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE) Stuart Foundation Summit Public Schools The City University of New York The Education Trust The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Trovvit UC Riverside UNCF University of California, Office of the President University of Florida University of Michigan University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill University of Southern California University of Texas, Austin University of Washington Virginia Beach City Public Schools

Technical Answer: «If a claim is made or a suit is brought against an insured for damages because of bodily injury or property damage... we will pay up to our limit of liability for the damages for which the insured is legally liable... and provide a defense at our expense by counsel of our choice even if the suit is groundless, false, or fraudulent.»

«According to the defense motion, filed by attorneys at Moore & Riemenschneider, Piccolo (plaintiff) testified she had a Facebook account and was asked at deposition if the defense counsel could send a «neutral friend request» to Piccolo so that he could review the Facebook postings Piccolo testified she made every day.»

If the court or DA would have insisted upon a drug test had it not been waived by defense counsel, and the defendant would have failed it if they had insisted, even if the defense lawyer made a mistake, it was probably a harmless error, and relief would not be available.

Nevada's Indigent Defense Commission is tasked with making sure that the state's system for providing counsel to criminal defendants who can not afford to retain their own lawyers is adequately staffed and running as smoothly as possible.

Even a very incomplete list gives an impression of the large number of significant opinions he has written: seminal administrative law cases such as Chevron v. NRDC and Massachusetts v. EPA, the intellectual property case Sony Corp v. Universal City Studios (which made clear that making individual videotapes of television programs did not constitute copyright infringement), important war on terror precedents such as Rasul v. Bush and Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, important criminal law cases such as Padilla v. Kentucky (holding that defense counsel must inform the defendant if a guilty plea carries a risk of deportation) and Atkins v. Virginia (which reversed precedent to hold it was unconstitutional to impose capital punishment on the mentally retarded), and of course Apprendi v. New Jersey (which revolutionized criminal sentencing by holding that the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial prohibited judges from enhancing criminal sentences beyond statutory maximums based on facts other than those decided by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt).

The lawyers in our White Collar Defense & Regulatory Enforcement Group recognize that decisions made by counsel at the outset of a case can reduce the risk of such charges and damage.

He added, «Unlike many other states, the Massachusetts system provided through CPCS has been lauded as «the best statewide indigent defense program in the country», it has often been a model to which other states turn when they are looking to improve their systems, and we continue to work tirelessly with the help of both the Legislature and the Court to make certain that we protect the right to counsel and provide the highest quality, zealous representation possible to our clients.»

Instead, if settling the dispute is the goal, then defense counsel should not be openly dismissive of the plaintiff's injuries, but instead make the plaintiff feel heard by employing the tactics discussed above.

When criminal defense attorneys file papers against the state as a whole saying that the state made a mistake, it is the attorney general's office that has to act as legal counsel for the state and step in to defend them.

... The fact that defense counsel may have made mistakes does not warrant imposing sanctions — particularly where the plaintiffs now have full access to the server imaging.

At most, the plaintiffs offered evidence of mistakes made during defense counsel's 2012 manual review of the electronic files.

1 For attempts to measure the effect of advocacy quality through other means, see, e.g., Banks Miller et al., Leveling the Odds: The Effect of Quality Legal Representation in Cases of Asymmetrical Capability, 49 Law & Soc» y Rev. 209 (2015)(finding that high quality representation evened the odds for asylum applicants and that asylum seekers fared better when unrepresented than when represented by a poor lawyer); Mitchell J. Frank & Dr. Osvaldo F. Morera, Professionalism and Advocacy at Trial — Real Jurors Speak in Detail About the Performance of Their Advocates, 64 Baylor L. Rev. 1, 38 (2012)(finding statistically significant correlations in criminal cases between jurors» perceptions of closing argument persuasiveness and jury verdict, and finding statistically significant correlations in civil cases between perceptions of defense counsel's closing argument persuasiveness and defense verdict); James M. Anderson & Paul Heaton, How Much Difference Does the Lawyer Make?

The Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, (of which I am a proud member) is making efforts to be sure its members have state of the art technological tools and skills to better try cases and persuade juries.

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

The trial court ruled that no expert would be required if it took judicial notice that the dictionary was a learned treatise, to which defense counsel again made proper objection and moved for a mistrial, which was overruled.

Although plaintiffs» lawyers were twice as likely to make a mistake (determined by getting a judgment less than the final settlement offer), defense counsels» errors were vastly more expensive for clients — the average costing $ 43,000 on the plaintiff side versus $ 1.1 million for the defense.

Vancouver Criminal Defense Lawyer Emmet J. Duncan persuaded Crown that the police officer made NUMEROUS errors including: FAILING to observe an adequate waiting period before administering the «roadside screening device» (or «ASD»); failing to respect Client's right to consult with COUNSEL OF CHOICE; and improperly observing Client before the breath samples to protect her from having MOUTH ALCOHOL lead to a false positive result on the BAC Datamaster C (the Breathalyzer) instrument.

As revealed throughout Part II, prosecutors, probation officers, and judges have many official and unofficial opportunities to make discretionary decisions that directly impact federal sentencing outcomes, and these decisions can be greatly influenced by the efforts of defense counsel at every stage of the federal sentencing process.

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