Sentences with phrase «evidence in a court of law»

The report of another person's words by a witness, usually disallowed as evidence in a court of law.

Until that day, fMRI data should not be admissible as evidence in courts of law.

Finally, if registration occurs within 5 years of publication, it is considered prima facie evidence in a court of law — meaning, it's enough to establish that you're the owner of the work.

Registration is required for certain actions, such as filing a copyright infringement lawsuit or using the copyright as evidence in a court of law.

For example, in the US, Benford's law, a law of mathematics, can be used as evidence in a court of law.

Giving providers assurance that guidelines can be used only in their favor may be an important step toward gaining their support; but allowing such one - sided use of evidence in a court of law raises disturbing questions of fairness and of validity under the U.S. Constitution's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments» due process and equal protection mandates, and under state constitutional principles as well.

The FDsys data set includes digitally signed Federal Register PDF files, which may be relied upon as evidence in a court of law.

The only practical application of transactions outside the consensus is to serve as evidence in a court of law.

Compiled and delivered full analytical analyses reports and submitted to US EPA used as evidence in court of law suit.

Not exact matches

«But every assault should be taken care of in a court of law, and to accuse — no matter who it is, a man or a woman — without evidence, it's damaging and it's unfair.»

In any good court of law (which is based off of logic and evidence), the accuser bears the burden of proof.

The historical evidence is undeniable and it can stand in any court of law even today.

Second, the discipline of critical history, as Martin himself acknowledges, depends upon bringing forth publicly accessible evidence and employing modes of reasoning that are commonly accepted in everyday life: in newspapers, law courts and inquiries of many different sorts.

«Attempts now to rewrite the story of this hate crime appear to be based on untrustworthy sources, factual errors, rumors and innuendo rather than the actual evidence gathered by law enforcement and presented in a court of law,» the spokesperson said.

The criminals were convicted in a court of law with plenty of evidence.

He can claim all he wants to the God «told him» to do this, but I think that's called hearsay evidence, and it does not normally stand up well in a court of law.

In the United States, the Louisiana state Supreme Court ruled last year that state law does not require a priest to notify authorities after hearing evidence of child abuse from a child making a confession.

My point, or question, I hoped to convey, and it would seem I failed, was how is it visible and invisible evidence is weighed in a court of law, but outside the courtroom we thumb our nose at it?

I know that none of us believed that he was proved guilty as charged beyond a reasonable doubt, to the point of moral certainty, by the evidence presented to us in court, construed as the law provides and as the judge instructed.

After conferring, they announced that it didn't matter whether or not the «evidence» would stand up in a court of law».

They had their own courts in which they handled cases concerning marriage, divorce, inheritance, and other problems of Islamic law, evidence of the influence and power of Islam in China at that time.

It is not even trusted in a court of law as conclusive evidence.

What would you do if something was proven in a court of law, and evidence, and scientific scrutiny..

There are priests who can not be prosecuted in a court of law because of insufficient evidence.

The justices on the current Court will do the real work of jurisprudence if they draw on the briefs, take the time to set forth the evidence, and show why the state or the federal government has a compelling case for casting around infants in the womb the full protection of the law.

«Attempts now to rewrite the story of this hate crime appear to be based on untrustworthy sources, factual errors, rumors and innuendo rather than the actual evidence gathered by law enforcement and presented in a court of law.

An exception to this rigorous rule might have been the duty to give evidence in court concerning a crime which a priest learned about in the confessional; but as the civil law of evidence developed, it included a privilege for the priest against being compelled to reveal anything told to him under the «seal of the confessional.»

«The appropriate forum in which to respond to the Senator is a court of law, where the Attorney General will prove all facts according to the rules of evidence.

The Electoral Commission at the last hearing prayed the court to allow it prove it was in the process of implementing the law, but failed to provide enough evidence to that effect.

But he said the 2016 Supreme Court McDonnell decision narrowing federal corruption laws — and the «difficulty in proving criminal intent in corruption schemes where there is no evidence of personal profit» — made prosecuting inappropriate.

«Connecticut and Indiana have demonstrated the effectiveness of allowing police to work through the courts to temporarily reduce access to guns when there is strong evidence that someone is at risk of violence, while California and Washington State have taken the critical step of extending their laws to enable family members of someone who may be in crisis to initiate this process.

Attorney Steven Molo notified the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan on Thursday that he'd like to ask the high court to review last week's ruling, which wiped out the conviction but also provided the government with assurance that there was sufficient evidence to convict Silver if a jury is properly instructed on the law and decides to dCourt of Appeals in Manhattan on Thursday that he'd like to ask the high court to review last week's ruling, which wiped out the conviction but also provided the government with assurance that there was sufficient evidence to convict Silver if a jury is properly instructed on the law and decides to dcourt to review last week's ruling, which wiped out the conviction but also provided the government with assurance that there was sufficient evidence to convict Silver if a jury is properly instructed on the law and decides to do so.

To arrogate to itself the powers to simply dump people in jail indefinitely is, to say the least, uncivilized and barbaric; to hang serious allegations against a person without proof of evidence, as the judge noted in the case of Senator Bala Mohammed, is malicious, callous and unacceptable; and to constrain citizens with brazen impunity, in defiance of court orders, is to send a wrong signal to Diaspora Nigerians and other foreign investors who, paradoxically, our President and his ministers, have been courting assiduously, that the law can not protect both they and their investments.

The way to resolve this is by way of a new wild mammals welfare law that would address such situations and any accusations of causing unnecessary suffering would then be tested in court on the basis of evidence, rather than prejudice or ignorance.

The High Court has ordered the Electoral Commission to produce evidence of concrete steps it is taking to implement a law — the ROPAA (Representation of the People (Amendment) Act, 2006 [Act 699]-- allowing Ghanaians abroad to vote in national elections.

Making reference to the Courts Act of 1993 (Act 459), Mr Justice Ofoe said Section 31 (2) holds that «an appellate court, on hearing an appeal in a criminal case, shall allow the appeal if the appellate court considers (a) that the verdict or conviction or acquittal ought to be set aside on the ground that it is unreasonable or can not be supported having regard to the evidence, or (b) that the judgement in question ought to be set aside as a wrong decision on a question of law or fact, or (c) that there was a miscarriage of justice, and in any other case shall dismiss the appeal.»

«The purpose of our consultation is to ask how, in a modern, internet - connected society, the law of contempt can continue to support the principles that criminal cases should be tried only on the evidence heard in court,» Professor David Ormerod, who is leading the consultation, said.

«What the court has done and has to do is to act in accordance with the law of the land and on the basis of the evidence that it hears.»

Recordings of another, unnamed state senator and two other officials yielded «evidence useful to law enforcement,» prosecutors said in court papers.

In a widely circulated article released over the weekend, Dr. Atuguba cites what he calls the voting pattern of justices who sat on the Supreme Court panel that decided the 2012 Election Petition in favour of President John Mahama as evidence of how Ghanaian Justices have historically allowed their personal politics to decide matters of law in their courtIn a widely circulated article released over the weekend, Dr. Atuguba cites what he calls the voting pattern of justices who sat on the Supreme Court panel that decided the 2012 Election Petition in favour of President John Mahama as evidence of how Ghanaian Justices have historically allowed their personal politics to decide matters of law in their courtin favour of President John Mahama as evidence of how Ghanaian Justices have historically allowed their personal politics to decide matters of law in their courtin their courts.

On Friday, prosecutors said in court papers that Ms. Huntley's recordings of a senator and two other elected officials «did yield evidence useful to law enforcement authorities.»

The phrase «balance of evidence» was used deliberately to suggest the (English) common - law standard of proof required in civil as opposed to criminal courts: not as high as «beyond reasonable doubt».

Judge Denise Casper didn't accept that argument, but she also didn't prevent them from returning to court with their allegations later, says Paul Rothstein, a professor of torts, evidence, and civil litigation at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. «The court is plainly telling these people to raise all their arguments in the administrative proceeding that is still ongoing,» he says.

In June 2016, the US Supreme Court ruled in Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt that two provisions of HB 2 were unconstitutional because there was no evidence of any health benefit derived from the law but substantial evidence of negative effects on women's access to carIn June 2016, the US Supreme Court ruled in Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt that two provisions of HB 2 were unconstitutional because there was no evidence of any health benefit derived from the law but substantial evidence of negative effects on women's access to carin Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt that two provisions of HB 2 were unconstitutional because there was no evidence of any health benefit derived from the law but substantial evidence of negative effects on women's access to care.

My job was to provide evidence - based research data to support policy making in the judicial council in the areas of family law and juvenile delinquency and dependency court administration.

Historical and even scientific truth can be merely the consensus agreed upon by those who presently have the power and influence to determine public opinion, or it can be based on evidence that has been tested in the laboratory, in debate, or in a court of law.

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Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant had ordered L.A. Unified to show that it was using test scores in evaluations by Tuesday after ruling earlier this year that state law required such data as evidence of whether teachers have helped their students progress academically.

Bloodhounds are such accurate trackers that they have produced evidence that has been accepted in a court of law.

CAPS works closely with federal, state, and local government agencies to ensure that all documentary evidence gathered is trustworthy and admissible in a court of law.