Sentences with phrase «from defense lawyers»

Based on information collected from defense lawyers statewide, the Texas Indigent Defense Commission recommended guidelines on the number of cases attorneys can handle, saying it would help ensure that court appointed lawyers have enough time to devote to each client.

Field resigned from the district attorney's office in August after a State Bar judge found he violated a host of ethical rules in four criminal cases, ranging from disobeying judges» orders to hiding crucial evidence from defense lawyers that could have helped people accused of crimes.

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. is taking it on the chin these days for accepting campaign contributions from defense lawyers who represented high profile clients — including two of President Donald Trump's adult children and disgraced ex-Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein — against whom he declined to bring criminal charges.

The commission committee that approved this proposal on a 6 - 1 vote in January heard well - founded criticisms from defense lawyers, public defenders and even the Police Chiefs Association.

Gorsuch has received praise from defense lawyers and other legal experts for often intrepreting laws in favor of defendants, a tendency similar to that of the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

Interestingly, there was one contribution Flaherty didn't want — $ 500 from defense lawyer Thomas J. Eoannou.

Not exact matches

The HBO series spent time focusing on Durst's wealth — though he remains estranged from his family — and his ability to hire top - notch defense lawyers.

Even those who demand their own sartorial freedom from symbolism would not hire a defense lawyer who wore pajamas (which would serve the practical function of covering the body as well as a suit) to court, or submit to an operation by a brain surgeon who wore a Dracula sweatshirt in his consulting room.

Lawyers from the Becket Fund and the Alliance Defense Fund plan to speak at some of today's rallies, organized by the Pro-Life Action League and Citizens for a Pro-Life Society.

Defense lawyers and jury will question why you continued to trust your provider and receive care from them only to sue them later.

Nutrition professionals should not act like defense lawyers for fast food companies, especially at a time where the average American could seriously benefit from eating less fast food.

The names are included on a questionnaire for potential jurors, to help prosecutors and defense lawyers assess whether jurors have any relationships with the people named that could prevent the jurors from being impartial.

Defense lawyers have sought to make the trial into a referendum for jurors on Howe; his name came up hundreds of times over the past two days of closing arguments by lawyers from the four defenseDefense lawyers have sought to make the trial into a referendum for jurors on Howe; his name came up hundreds of times over the past two days of closing arguments by lawyers from the four defensedefense teams.

In court, Silver's defense lawyers cited letters from people in the community and supporters who said he had a lifetime of public service, which should be taken into account.

* Forbid using campaign funds to pay criminal defense lawyers and ban convicted felons from pocketing their campaign accounts.

IBT also reported that Vance received more than $ 42,000 from lawyers at a criminal defense firm whose clients received plea deals from Vance's office that let them avoid prison, including another high profile sexual assault case.

Zhou told jurors that defense lawyers purposely sought to confuse them over the past month - and - a-half in what he said, in the end, is a «simple case» of a top government official allegedly selling his position of power in the Cuomo administration to executives whose companies allegedly got millions of dollars» worth of insider help from Percoco with everything from stalled government payments for a Syracuse construction project to help with an Orange County gas - fired power plant development.

Defense lawyer Paul Shechtman told the Court of Appeals it was never proven that the money John Haggerty was convicted of stealing actually came from Bloomberg.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is using money from his $ 35 million campaign war chest to pay for a criminal defense lawyer in a federal probe of his office.

Prosecutors and defense lawyers proposed a cornucopia of possible solutions, ranging from finishing the trial with just 11 jurors to replacing a current juror with an alternate — a move that would require the newly constituted 12 - member jury to restart deliberations entirely.

Ex-lobbyist Todd Howe put up little resistance as Percoco defense lawyer Barry Bohrer laid out a litany of stiffed creditors — from mortgage lenders on million - dollar houses to HVAC and kitchen contractors to tutors, nurseries and a succession of his own lawyers who got bad checks and then had to sue and garnish his wages.

Defense lawyers complained Friday that prosecutors have been too slow to turn over documents and other evidence, including more than 2 terabytes of data from seized cellphones, computers and other electronic devices.

Trying to distinguish their clients from the broader political culture of Albany has been a challenge for defense lawyers in corruption trials.

But in one new matter Thursday, defense lawyers questioned Howe about five different incidents in which he rented cars from different companies — Hertz, Avis, Budget — that ended in disputes about whether they had been returned, only to be found days or weeks after they were due back.

Eric Corngold, now a prominent white collar criminal defense lawyer, served as deputy attorney general for economic justice from 2007 to 2009 when Cuomo was state attorney general.

On Wednesday and Thursday, defense attorneys hammered Howe for his years of misdeeds, including for embezzlement committed against his former employers, the Albany - based law and legal firm Whiteman Osterman & Hanna, to stiffing a long list of creditors ranging from lawyers and home contractors to a health club and even his family's dog walker.

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. on Monday said his office will ban campaign contributions from criminal defense lawyers with clients before his office after taking heat for not pursuing...

The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers filed a joint brief Thursday supporting the indicted but still politically connected former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, despite objections from the government.

When lawyer Ampaw was about to give more graphical mind - blowing revelations from the printed chats, the trial judge asked him to hold it for Sarah to tender all the chats when she open her defense.

Former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos spent another $ 427,000 from his election war chest on criminal - defense lawyers who helped get his corruption conviction overturned, according to campaign - finance filings.

More than 100 prospective jurors filled out questionnaires yesterday, as prosecutors and defense lawyers sought to identify potential bias or conflicts that might disqualify people from serving next week in the corruption trial of ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

As for the payments that came from the Syracuse developers, defense lawyer Barry Bohrer has said in legal filings that the money came during a period when he was not a state employee.

In a Feb. 3 filing that updated his investigation and the discovery process, Bharara submitted a filing to the judge noting that more than 1.7 million pages of various emails, phone records and forensic evidence from 22 electronic warrants have been made available to defense lawyers.

Maggiuli's withdrawal from the race to succeed Judge Stephen Herrick leaves City Court Judge William Carter, a former state trooper, prosecutor and defense lawyer who has the party's backing, and former Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney Cheryl Fowler to face off for the Democratic line.

Defense lawyers presented witnesses over three days to refute a month of evidence from prosecutors aimed at convincing jurors in Manhattan federal court...

Moreover, the lawyers argue that the defendants all live and work in the Buffalo area and that they will be calling numerous defense witnesses from Western New York, whose travel expenses, to be paid for by the defense, will soar if the trial is held in Manhattan.

Despite getting flak from civil rights advocates over his decision to veto bills that would have legalized specific kinds of pocket knives and offering more state funds to compensate lawyers designated by the court to represent defendants who don't make enough money to afford a lawyer for defense in a criminal case, people roared in applause throughout Cuomo's speech.

Mayor Bill de Blasio won't be forced to testify about claims he accepted bribes of campaign cash from a crooked restaurateur, a defense lawyer said Wednesday.

In court Monday, Singh got testy while sparring over the reliability of his memory with defense lawyer John Carman, who suggested it was «obviously flawed to some degree,» a remark that the judge struck from the record.

The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers filed a joint brief Thursday supporting the indicted but still politically connected Silver, despite objections from the government.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is using money from his $ 35 million campaign war chest to pay for a criminal defense lawyer in a federal probe of his office.

Trey Smith, a defense attorney and former Rensselaer County prosecutor, said juries in the county won't have to hear directly about the French case from lawyers.

The Court presided over by Justice Aboagye Tandoh instead resorted to expeditious trial issuing a stern warning not to tolerate any excuses from both prosecution and defense lawyers.

The decision by U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni came shortly after lawyers from four separate defense teams rested their case Monday in the corruption trial of Percoco and three business executives.

NEW YORK — Defense lawyers want to whack references to «The Sopranos» from Joe Percoco's corruption trial.

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Defense lawyers argued that Percoco — assigned temporarily away from his top state job to serve as chairman of Cuomo's re-election campaign in 2014 — was not a government official during a period when some of the alleged bribery scheme occurred.

Eric Schneiderman's defense lawyer expressed confidence Thursday that he wouldn't be prosecuted over the assault claims that forced him from office — but vowed to fight «vigorously» if he gets...

The Espadas» defense lawyer, the Daily News reports, is claiming the men assumed their use of taxpayer funds from the Soundview Health Clinics they controlled — to pay for things like sushi restaurant tabs and birthday party pony rides — were legal because the expenses were approved by an accounting firm.

In a 90 - minute closing argument, Christopher P. Conniff, a defense lawyer, told jurors that the case against State Senator Dean G. Skelos and his son, Adam, amounted to little more than distractions, snippets of conversations taken out of context, and self - serving lies from two central witnesses.