Sentences with phrase «evidence police and prosecutors»

Our Fairview, Texas drug crimes attorneys will meticulously examine all of the evidence police and prosecutors have gathered in your case, as well as evidence you provide that the police and prosecution may have ignored, to find the weaknesses in the prosecution's case and use it to obtain an acquittal at trial or as leverage to seek a reduction in charges.

Not exact matches

«The US government acted as police force (identifying the foreign government's crime), prosecutor (making the legal arguments), jury (ruling on the evidence), and judge (sentencing the foreigner to US retaliatory punishment),» Chad Bown, a senior fellow at the pro-free trade Peterson Institute for International Economics, wrote in a memo about Section 301's history earlier in August.

thefinisher1 Are prosecutors, police and juries stubborn spoiled brats for accepting what DNA, fingerprint, video, and all kinds of other evidence indicate about who committed a crime rather than having the faith to just take the accused word that they didn't do it?

Prominent police chiefs and prosecutors fear that the new administration is out of step with evidence that public safety depends on building trust, increasing mental health and drug addiction treatment, and using alternatives to prosecution and incarceration.

Liberty argues new measures should be introduced to make it easier for police and prosecutors to collect sufficient evidence to bring criminal prosecutions against terror suspects.

But Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said his top prosecutors stated there wasn't enough evidence to prove a crime, a view police and some legal experts have challenged.

Enrico Moriconi, a veterinarian who served as a consultant to the prosecutor and reviewed evidence gathered by the police, says that 6023 dogs died at the center between 2008 and 2012, compared with 98 in the 2 - year period that followed the animals» seizure in 2012.

The prosecutor and police have already lined up a case against you including police reports, witnesses, computer logs, and other evidence.

We will assist you and your team with obtaining and reviewing police reports, identifying and interviewing witnesses, and working to uncover any exculpatory evidence that law enforcement or prosecutors may be withholding.

The police, prosecutor, and district attorney have already spent quite a bit of time lining up a case against you including fine tuning police reports, locating witnesses, coaching the accuser, and developing other evidence.

As eWeek reports this week in its story, Search Terms Are a Witness for the Prosecution, the case illustrates how police and prosecutors now routinely hunt for evidence among a suspect's online searches.

There was simply no evidence whatsoever of murder; the original police investigation and prosecutors determined as such and nothing ever contradicted it.

«What will clean up the system is if prosecutors themselves are obligated to find favorable evidence and disclose it, and police officers will be sanctioned — or certainly sued — if they fail to disclose it,» Scheck says.

New York's current laws allow prosecutors to withhold key evidence, including witness names, police paperwork and prior statements by witnesses, until immediately before the prosecutor delivers an opening statement.

In cases such as drug crimes, prosecutors tend to rely heavily on the evidence collected by police during a search and seizure.

That said, the police and prosecutors must be satisfied that they have sufficient evidence that a conviction is a possibility.

Proper interview techniques and procedures by police and prosecutors are essential to ensure the reliability of identification evidence.

The prosecutor and police have already spent considerable time investigating, gathering evidence, and preparing a case against you before you were charged with murder or manslaughter.

Police and prosecutors had failed for 18 months to disclose the exculpatory evidence to Porter's defense team — another flaw in the system that should be fixed through stronger disclosure rules.The victim's twin brother also insisted that Porter was innocent and that someone else, who is in prison for manslaughter and had a stronger motive and more opportunity, was the real murderer.

Both lawyers saw the evidence available to police and prosecutors, including all the photographs and, in Clifford's case, more than five hours of video that the 47 - year - old Williams shot during his brutal murders of Jessica Lloyd and Marie - France Comeau.

Laws and policies on proper evidence preservation help police and prosecutors solve cold cases, and they give inmates a chance — often the only real chance — to prove their innocence.

These cases have exposed and challenged critical legal and evidentiary practices, including undercover police surveillance of civil rights organizations, the exclusion of prospective jurors based on previous political activities, the use of post-arrest psychiatric examinations by prosecutors when seeking the death penalty, and the exclusion of evidence of third party guilt by courts in capital cases.