Sentences with phrase «ensure trial fairness»

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Among other benefits for the district attorney offices across the city, the funding will provide Bronx County with a vertical integration system which proposes delegating every stage of the prosecution to a single assistant district attorney in order to eliminate delays and backlogs in trial cases, a Rikers Island prosecution bureau and a Conviction Integrity Unit to review past convictions and ensure the fairness of tried cases.

«This comprehensive package - the most progressive set of reforms in the nation — will guarantee fairness for the accused by reshaping New York's antiquated bail system, ensuring access to a speedy trial, improving the disclosure of evidence in the discovery process, transforming asset forfeiture procedures and implementing new initiatives to help individuals transition from incarceration to their communities.»

In a statement by the President's Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, Buhari said the government had not mistreated those standing corruption trials in any ways, adding that the administration would continue to ensure justice and fairness to all.

For this reason, lawyers at the firm belong to organizations such as the Orange Country Trial Lawyers Association, American Association for Justice and Consumer Attorneys of California — groups that work to ensure the American people's right to live in a society predicated on a fundamental sense of fairness, honesty and accountability.

However, if the principle of complementarity is to be applied, states must ensure that their own judicial systems and trials are consistent with international standards of independence and fairness, the ICC must be willing to actively support, embrace, and implement the principle, and the international community must provide the financial, technical, and professional resources that many struggling states need in this endeavour.

The applicable rules of evidence exist to ensure the fairness and integrity of the trial process.

The language of s. 105 of the CJA and Rule 33 is not clear and precise language intended to remove the inherent jurisdiction of the court to prevent abuse and to ensure fairness in the trial process.

In an effort to ensure fairness at trial, the plaintiff, Preeti Kapoor, is asking the trial judge for the following:

However, the trial judge also has an obligation to ensure that there is fairness to the other party to the proceedings.

[36] The rules regarding the proper content of opening statements have evolved over the generations and are designed to ensure the fairness of the trial process.