Sentences with phrase «made prejudicial»

Defense lawyers said Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan, made prejudicial statements on Mr. Silver.

Feb. 24: Silver pleads not guilty to the charges, and his attorney accuses Bharara of making prejudicial statements in the press and asks to have the case thrown out.

Not exact matches

The prejudicial trend makes an appearance on other location - based services too.

It is the kind of ignorance that perceives the partial and proclaims it to be the whole; that is unaware of its own subjectivity and therefore makes and repeats false and prejudicial assumptions; that can not separate the truth of experience from the interpretation of that experience.

Dahl then zeroed in on television coverage: «Voters are asked to make judgments about the character of the candidates — without real discussion, with advertising and sound bites that trivialize their differences and give limited and prejudicial information.

The admirable humility with which she made amends for her clumsiness could not prevent this from being prejudicial to the order and regularity which must always reign in a community.

Douglas Hogg, another Tory, has tabled a series of amendments with the Liberal Democrat David Heath also calling for the inquiry to wind up by the end of next month, but his proposal would make allowance for the report to be redacted so as to leave out any material prejudicial to the Green investigation.

(Reuters)- Lawyers for once - powerful former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver asked a judge on Tuesday to throw out federal corruption charges against him because a top prosecutor made «prejudicial» public statements about his guilt.

Steven Molo, Silver's attorney, said that he will aim to have the charges tossed because of prejudicial statements made by Bharara to the press, in a speech and in a television interview before his indictment by a grand jury last week.

«In light of ongoing investigation, therefore, we do not want to pre-empt the outcome by making statements prejudicial to the efforts of the law enforcement agencies.

«In any event, the leak is certainly a highly prejudicial and perhaps politically - motivated act, which is contrary to both your non-partisan, independent function and to the bi-partisan charge of the agency by which you are employed — that is, if you or your office was responsible, directly or indirectly,» Laufer wrote to Sugarman in a letter made public.

Never intend to make assumptions or act in a prejudicial way.

Even though herpes sites are not prejudicial, you still have to make sure the site itself is reputable.

It is extremely damaging and it stunts those who make these insulting and prejudicial comments — not to mention the damaging effect it has on the children victimized by school funding inequities.

Terms in the Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA) allow an artist to disclaim a work if it is damaged or modified in a manner that makes it «prejudicial to his or her reputation,» but Prince seemed to suggest that the artist's own whims should be license enough, regardless of the state of the work.

However, anyone who makes their way in the commercial world should have the self - esteem and strength of character to avoid such unkind and prejudicial insults to people who choose a different career.

On appeal, the hospital argued that the trial court abused its discretion, since it called for the jurors to make a medical diagnosis, and given that the jurors can not do so, the prejudicial effect outweighed any probative value.

Similar to the «flagpole» approach, with one difference: the lawyer hopes that if he / she makes enough arguments, whatever their merits, perhaps the judge will «give him one» so as not to appear prejudicial against him.

More specifically, the trial court might well have proscribed extrajudicial statements by any lawyer, party, witness, or court official which divulged prejudicial matters, such as the refusal of Sheppard to submit to interrogation or take any lie detector tests; any statement made by Sheppard to officials; the identity of prospective witnesses or their probable testimony; any belief in guilt or innocence; or like statements concerning the merits of the case.

First, the court declined to address an errant statement made by the plaintiff's counsel during closing arguments that the defendants considered prejudicial.

There is usually an exemption to the requirement to obtain a direction from noteholders where the trustee is of the opinion that the relevant waiver, modification or amendment is (i) proper to make and not materially prejudicial to the interests of the relevant noteholders, (ii) to correct a manifest and proven error or (iii) formal, minor or technical.

There are several prejudicial disclosures (such as the U.S. «on sale doctrine») which could make it impossible for you to obtain patent protection.

Harris» attorney, Washington solo practitioner Steven Kiersh, also argued this morning that the government's case was weak and that the prosecutor made unfairly prejudicial comments during closing arguments.

This form of litigation attack is made by way of affidavit and is often merely a tactic by a wealthy litigant to harass the other, as it must be met, or to insert into the Court file material prejudicial to the other litigant and not necessarily lost on the eventual trial judge, who may wish to peruse the Court file before the hearing.

While victims» accounts regarding the effect of the crime provide relevant information for a sentencing judge, allowing victims to make a specific sentence recommendation seems unfairly prejudicial to the defendant and irrelevant, and the SJC's reasoning in this case does not go far enough in addressing these concerns.

Section 248 the Ontario Business Corporations Act states that: «Where, upon an application under subsection (1), the court is satisfied that in respect of a corporation or any of its affiliates, (a) any act or omission of the corporation or any of its affiliates effects or threatens to effect a result; (b) the business or affairs of the corporation or any of its affiliates are, have been or are threatened to be carried on or conducted in a manner; or (c) the powers of the directors of the corporation or any of its affiliates are, have been or are threatened to be exercised in a manner, that is oppressive or unfairly prejudicial to or that unfairly disregards the interests of any security holder, creditor, director or officer of the corporation, the court may make an order to rectify the matters complained of.»

that is oppressive or unfairly prejudicial to or that unfairly disregards the interests of any security holder, creditor, director or officer of the corporation, the court may make an order to rectify the matters complained of.

R. v. Jackson, 2014 SCC 30 (35622) Abella J.: «The trial judge made no error in determining... the minimal probative value of the proposed evidence... substantially outweighed by its prejudicial effect».

With regard to the Cawthorne matter, the decision not to grant a mistrial was within the military judge's discretion: he made a reasonable attempt to remedy the error through two instructions, one immediate and another mid-trial; in his mid-trial instruction, he instructed the panel to disregard the evidence because it was both «unreliable and prejudicial»; nothing suggested to the judge that the panel was unwilling or unlikely to follow his instruction.

C.A., Oct. 17, 2013)(35622) Judgment rendered Apr. 23, 2014 Abella J.: — ``... [no] basis for interfering with the reasons of Gillese J.A. and, in particular, with her conclusion that the trial judge made no error in determining that the minimal probative value of the proposed evidence was substantially outweighed by its prejudicial effect».

There is a further reasoned order in the same case made on the 5th October 2016 (i.e. without the expense of a hearing) in which Roth J. dismissed the Defendant's application to adduce late expert evidence, since this would be prejudicial to the Claimant.