Sentences with phrase «judge and jury in»

Ron practices Insurance Defense in Texas, and frequently finds himself in front of a judge and jury in Central Texas.

If a hearing that the party has specified is held before a judge and jury in an area named in Schedule 1, the jury shall consist of persons who speak English and French.

If the Crown elects to proceed by Indictment then the accused can choose (or elect) to have his trial heard by a Judge or by both a Judge and Jury in Supreme Court.

Our skilled, battle - tested trial attorneys provide a strong voice for your goals before judge and jury in practice areas of business, real estate, probate and trust litigation, in addition to courtroom strategies that resolve contested and high net worth divorce disputes.

Though most of his cases involve complex scientific issues, Larkin enjoys the challenge of condensing the technical issues in a case and presenting them to judge and jury in a simple, direct, and forceful manner.

The experts can assist the judge and jury in understanding the nuances of a case.

What you fail to understand again and again is that you are not the judge and jury in regards to scientific evidence and the scientific method.

But the trick is to explain the case - particularly one with as convoluted a backstory as Mann's hockey stick - to your lawyer in a way that he can grasp in order to be able to explain it to judge and jury in a way that they can grasp.

Maybe its not entirely your fault... using the academic journal - based system to investigate a potentially complex problem is organisationally bonkers, and letting the IPCC to be judge and jury in its own case was insane.

They are judge and jury in relation to your credit file / credit score.

«However, I intend to do so before an independent Tribunal, not before yourselves acting as a judge and jury in your own case.

Though I won't credit all my whining about the need for the Supreme Court to start addressing all the important issues left unresolved by Blakely and Booker (see, e.g., here and here), I will celebrate the big news coming from Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSblog that the Court today granted cert in «a significant sequel to its series of rulings on the roles of judges and juries in criminal sentencing» by accepting for review «the issue of whether a violation of the jury's role in sentencing can ever be excused as «harmless error.»»

Judges and juries in courts are «generalists» who are less subject to institutional capture than arbitrators (especially specialist arbitrators).

Mr. Jensen has conducted numerous high tech trials before judges and juries in cases ranging from impaired driving to major frauds and murder.

Award - winning San Diego personal injury attorney John Gomez and his associates have appeared before judges and juries in both state and federal courts all over the country, and have delivered extraordinary results time and time again.

I have practiced almost exclusively in the area of personal injury and mediation for 23 years, and have extensive experience trying cases before judges and juries in Washoe County courtrooms.

Attorney Thompson also handles product liability and wrongful death claims and has vast experience before judges and juries in all types of personal injury cases.

Ms. Brooks is a master storyteller, and paints pictures with words to explain the complex technologies that she handles to judges and juries in a way that is both understandable and compelling, and will be remembered throughout the trial.

Manufacturers must therefore ensure that they are operating in compliance with any new regulatory standards, show that past testing and confidentiality practices reflected a corporate commitment to safety and «playing by the rules,» and then communicate all this to judges and juries in a compelling and comprehensible manner.

Not exact matches

The series of hearings will determine whether he faces life in prison or the death penalty, a decision to be made after family and friends testify to judge and jury about their interactions with the mystery man.

Stockley, who left the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department in 2013 and was arrested lastyear, had waived his right to a jury trial, allowing the judge to decide.

Circuit Court Judge Pamela Campbell has ruled that only the jury may see it, and not others in the courtroom or watching online.

The judge presiding over the trial of Barminco co-founder Peter Bartlett and Ausdrill managing director Ron Sayers today ordered the jury to keep deliberating in a bid to reach a verdict.

In March, two judges ruled Liss - Riordan's Uber and Lyft cases will go to a trial by jury.

In his all - out fight against Herbalife, is the activist investor assuming the role of judge, jury, and executioner?

The judge in the case, William Alsup, and the jury that has yet to be selected have a difficult task ahead of them as they eventually work to determine whether Uber is guilty of misappropriating trade secrets.

«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.

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One of the most inspiring parts of the day was during judging of the student awards, when the jury called in the top contenders — students from Brigham Young University in Utah and Filmakademie Baden - Wurttemberg in Germany.

Broward Circuit Judge Ilona Holmes has the authority to reject the jury's recommendation and impose a term of life in prison.

In the Brock Adams case, the Seattle Times was prosecutor, judge, jury, and executioner.

judge, jury, and defendant all in one.

In the case of these Catholic priests who did just that, they should be made to stand before a judge and jury for thier actions.

So anyone who sits on jury and condemns someone to death, the judge that imposes the sentence, the guards working in the jail and anyone else who is involved in executing prisoners is going to hell?

I can't speak for others, but if I was ever on a jury judging a child that was forced to endure this nonsense who then decided to disembowel one of these clowns and use his entrails to make haggis, I could not in good faith ever vote to convict him of anything.

I am sure that if anyone were charged with a crime, or is on trial, I am sure that if any of those lines were used in the presence of a police officer, judge, jury, etc., that person would be ticking off that person and hurting his own case.

If the judge and jury believe that murder is wrong and the murderer thinks that it is right should he be thrown in prison?

John Kennedy repeatedly appointed segregationist judges to the federal bench in the South, and the civil rights case that Robert Kennedy most vigorously prosecuted involved charges brought against Albany, Georgia, activists for violating the rights of a white storeowner by boycotting his business because he had served on a jury that cleared the sheriff who had shot a black man three times in the neck at point - blank range.

No doubt Mr. bin Ladin will dearly pay for his merciless and heinous acts in this life, but we are not to be judge and jury and consign him or anyone to hell.

If Phelps and his co-defendants are liable for the intentional infliction of emotional distress in this case, what is to prevent another judge and jury from ordering monetary damages in a case against the owners of the proposed Islamic community center near ground zero for inflicting emotional distress on the families of 9/11 victims?

Modern Christian's with their nit - picking exegesis, their discourse microscopes, their myriad alternative interpretations, are not repentant sinners seeking God, but the judge and jury with God in the dock.

Maybe justice and the good society are brought about precisely by lawyers and judges sending the jury out of the courtroom while they decide whether to admit the testimony of an old black woman who has been listening in on the whole trial of her son.

Zealous prosecutors claimed to be stamping out an epidemic of abuse, child - abuse experts coached and coerced young children to tell tall tales, psychologists peddled fantastic theories to juries, and judges caved in to pressures to «protect the children.»

Unfortunately, that has been flouted, generating reactions like that of Imran Khan, a former Pakistan cricket celebrity and current head of a new political [Justice] party in Pakistan: «No country has the right to be judge, jury and executioner....

Most obvious is the discretion in sentencing where if a crime has a State penalty of 10 to 15 years and it's up to the judge or jury as to the actual sentence handed down then the intent of the crime is often debated and used in the decision.

When he was tried in Charlotte, North Carolina, in August on multiple counts of fraud and conspiracy, I judged him guilty long before the jury had, and when Judge Bob Potter gave him 45 years in prison and a half - million - dollar fine, my instinctive reaction was, good, he deserved it.

«The bishop certainly is not a shepherd to the shepherds in that structure where he really becomes the judge, jury and, by and large, the executioner,» he said.

Kane acted after Superior Court Judge Eugene Kelly, who has been sitting and will continue to sit in Hartford as a special one - man grand jury, heard testimony on widespread corruption in the sport.

How could McLain have gotten a fair trial, Levine asked, when the judge had allowed jurors to stand in the jury box, eating food and drinking coffee during testimony?

Don't put them in the position of being judge and jury.