Sentences with phrase «judge at oral arguments»

Raj Rajaratnam asked the Second Circuit on Monday to toss five of 14 insider - trading counts for which he is serving an 11 - year sentence, but a judge at oral arguments said his latest bid for a shorter prison term did not look like something a prisoner who has exhausted his direct appeal would argue in support of a finding of «actual innocence.»

Barry «is a very active judge at oral argument, which is usually a sign a judge has already read the briefs and is very actively thinking about the case,» said David Fine, an appellate lawyer based in Harrisburg, Pa. «She is very polite in questioning and at the same time also direct.»

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Oral arguments were held before Judge Eugene Devine this morning, with the attorney for the nine Senate Republicans involved involved in the suit arguing that a law requiring prisoners to be counted at their last - known address rather than where they are incarcerated is unconstitutional.

So my three co-defendants went ahead without me, and at the end of November the troika of DC judges finally got around to hearing oral arguments on the matter.

The judge, Robert Castellani, had, at oral argument, expressed surprise that Reed would actually dispute the existence of such a right, according to an October article in the Fulton County Daily Report.

You'll see what's compelling at oral argument and in briefs, and you'll get a chance to peek behind the scenes and see how judges actually decide cases.

He volunteers annually as a judge for the Marshall - Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project, which includes an appellate advocacy competition for high school students, and as a judge at Drexel University Thomas E. Kline School of Law for first - year oral arguments in Legal Methods.

The Judge also directed which evidence would be used at the Trial, and set strict time limits for cross-examinations and for oral argument.

The Commonwealth conceded at oral argument that the judge did not rely on, nor refer to, the Commonwealth's assertion that the defendant's several motions for appointment of new counsel were intended to manipulate or obstruct the orderly procedure of the court.

I was clerking for Judge Luttig at the time, and my co-clerks and I went up to the court to watch oral arguments.

Asylum petitioner's voluntary withdrawal of petition for review following en banc reargument in the Ninth Circuit «threatens the integrity of our processes by inviting manipulation by parties unhappy with the questions at oral argument and fearful of the result they believe the court is going to reach»: So asserts Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski in an interesting dissent joined by three other judges on the fifteen - judge en banc pJudge Alex Kozinski in an interesting dissent joined by three other judges on the fifteen - judge en banc pjudge en banc panel.

1) Fresh evidence: Generally, an appeal judge only reviews the evidence and oral arguments that were presented at the lower court trial.

Before the graded oral argument, I invite students to join me in our school's moot courtroom — either alone or in small groups — sometimes just to take a tour of the empty courtroom, to practice standing at the podium, and to sit on the bench and see the courtroom from the judges» perspective.

While today you don't have to travel hundreds of miles by dogsled to hear cases as your predecessor judges based in Alaska once did, you probably now have the most grueling commute of any federal appellate judge to arrive at the locations where your court regularly hears oral arguments.