Sentences with phrase «material witnesses in the case»

Based on a real - life murder committed by the dissolute genius Lucien Carr, a member of the Beats» inner circle (both authors were arrested as material witnesses in the case), this is told in a hard - boiled voice but without any other trappings of a crime novel.

Not exact matches

As David Joselit points out in his short 2015 essay, «Material Witness,» «With regard to the [Eric] Garner case, as well as our own affairs in the art world, we need to be more skeptical of the ideological promises of representation.»

The approach to analyzing documentary evidence, interviewing clients and witnesses, discovering adverse parties and trying cases for ordinary people is highly lawyer - intensive without there having been material changes in productivity over the decades [7].

As described here, in the Higazy case, the 2nd Circuit revised a lawsuit brought by an Egyptian student detained as a material witness after the Sept. 11 attacks.

The last expression has been treated restrictively by the courts, to the extent that it has been held not to apply, for example, in the case of material being released to the police for the purposes of their enquiries, including interview of the parent or other witnesses.

We recommend that this review body have investigative power so it may have complete and full access to any and all documents and materials required in any particular case, and that it have coercive power so witnesses can be compelled to provide information.

Once in a while I could see in the facts of a case details of the time and place, and it seemed to me that out of such material the century and a half during which the U.S. has been a nation could be written up, not from the standpoint of an individual, as in diaries, nor merely from the angle of the unusual, as in newspapers, but from every standpoint — as many standpoints as were provided by the witnesses themselves.

In this case, the court determined that the expert witness testimony presented by the insurance company gave rise to a material issue as to whether the plaintiff's continued medical care was a result of the accident.

Rules 24 and 25 of CrimPR 2015 now cover the circumstances in which written witness statements (and other written material in the case of a written guilty plea in the magistrates» court) must be read aloud in court.

These do not have to be material to the case: just showing the witness is inconsistent in general is helpful.

Courtrooms in the UK and Singapore have shown that existing tools can be deployed to conduct trials with little or no paper and provide opposing parties, attorneys, judges and witnesses with secure, electronic access to all relevant materials for the life of a case.

As a practice note, the President also criticised the manner in which the case below was presented, in that on a strike - out application, the Judge should have regard only to what is in the pleadings (ET1), rather than extraneous material in witness statements or counsel's submissions.

First, it is critical to understand this one fact about jurors: while they do not particularly like or trust expert witnesses, they do like people who can help them understand the material in a case.

In the final rule, we expand the circumstances under which limited information about suspects, fugitives, material witnesses, and missing persons may be disclosed, to include not only cases in which law enforcement officials are seeking to identify such individuals, but also cases in which law enforcement officials are seeking to locate such individualIn the final rule, we expand the circumstances under which limited information about suspects, fugitives, material witnesses, and missing persons may be disclosed, to include not only cases in which law enforcement officials are seeking to identify such individuals, but also cases in which law enforcement officials are seeking to locate such individualin which law enforcement officials are seeking to identify such individuals, but also cases in which law enforcement officials are seeking to locate such individualin which law enforcement officials are seeking to locate such individuals.

Conservative and Liberal members of the committee want a 5 - year extension of the provisions of the Act that allow preventive arrests and investigative hearings for material witnesses in terror cases.

As Justice O'Loughlin noted in the case of Cubillo v Commonwealth6 litigation brought by members of the Stolen Generations will also often have a number of inbuilt barriers to success, including lack of availability of critical evidence; difficulties in establishing the required onus of proof with the passage of time; the prejudice to the defendant given the frailty, illness and death of key witnesses; and the loss and or destruction of records and material documents.