Sentences with phrase «men on trial»

Mr. Percoco is one of four men on trial in Federal District Court in Manhattan on corruption charges; Mr. Howe, an inside - the - Beltway veteran who also once ran an Albany lobbying firm, has pleaded guilty and is cooperating with the government.

Howe, who already pleaded guilty and awaits sentencing, will provide the key testimony against Percoco and three other men on trial.

The men on trial asked for a discussion recess.

In 1841, defending African men on trial for rebelling against slavetraders who had abducted them, John Quincy Adams said: «In the Declaration of Independence, the Laws of Nature are announced and appealed to as identical with the laws of Nature's God» and as the foundation of all obligatory human laws.»

Only the most desperate of whining children would try and equate a man on trial for multiple murders with the pro-life stance.

It could» t possibly dawn on them that America would put a man on trial and convict him and sentence him to the death penalty on unsubstaniated evidence and recanted testimony.

In the 1957 film by Sidney Lumet, 12 Angry Men, 12 mostly white jurors deliberate the fate of an hispanic man on trial for stabbing his father.

Edward Woodward stars as the title character, a man on trial for war crimes in 1902 with two of his fellow soldiers.

The attorney for a New Jersey man on trial for murder is employing a rather weighty and certainly novel defense.

One witness said she told her husband that «she would get the last word» and that the man on trial before her «would get the death penalty...»

Not exact matches

BERLIN — A Vietnamese man charged with involvement in the kidnapping of a former Vietnamese oil executive in Berlin went on trial Tuesday in the German capital.

Before, during, and after the trial, Shkreli has cultivated a reputation as America's most hated man, increasing the price of a life - saving drug by 5,000 %, holding an anticipated Wu - Tang album hostage, harassing women on Twitter, and for his smug court appearances.

Parker was acquitted in the rape case more than a decade ago and Celestin had his sexual assault conviction overturned on appeal (a higher court deemed his trial attorney ineffective), but the two men have come under fire once again as the media reports troubling details from the case, which included accusations that Parker and Celestin, then both 19, had sex with a Penn State freshman while she was unconscious after a night of heavy drinking.

On the second day of trial earlier this month the Shoreline man pleaded guilty to drug trafficking, money laundering and witness intimidation.

«That Sudan continues to prosecute these men, and without even allowing them free access to their legal team, makes a mockery of the judicial process and is a clear violation of fair trial principles, as articulated in Article 7 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR) and Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), to which Sudan is a party.

fine, here is the Law, you are on trial now, and man became blamefull.

You quote a man who delivered babaies and then murdered them, (as well as a mother in one case) and has been universally condemned as a monster and is on trial for eight cases of murder, and then you PRETEND that these actions are supported by pro-choicers?

At Jesus» trial, the high priest, on behalf of the Jewish people, rejected the application of the title to Jesus, whereas at his crucifixion, a Roman centurion, on behalf of the gentile world, declared, «Surely, this man was the Son of God.»

According the Bible, Jesus was on the earth and was to experience every trial of man.

With the battle raging between the Little Sisters of the Poor and the Federal government on the HHS Mandate, some writers have likened their case to the trial of St. Thomas More as seen in Robert Bolt's play A Man for All Seasons or Fred Zinnemann's famous film adaption.

Despite his depiction of God as creatively involved in the historical struggle, his limitation of freedom to strictly moral decisions, where each person was on trial to prove his worthiness, raises serious questions about the God - man relationship.

One man in how many, after fulfilling the above prophecies, when he is oppressed and afflicted and is on trial for his life, though innocent, will make no defense for himself?

Here was a black man obviously involved to some degree in the theft of church funds and the murder of a white man in a southern city, now on trial in «the Man's» court before an all - white middle - class juman obviously involved to some degree in the theft of church funds and the murder of a white man in a southern city, now on trial in «the Man's» court before an all - white middle - class juman in a southern city, now on trial in «the Man's» court before an all - white middle - class juMan's» court before an all - white middle - class jury.

the government should move immediately to suspend the church's tax exempt status until they cough up every single pedophile priest — and every bishop or grand poobah or whatever they call the guys who consistently protect these priests — so they can face a very public trial and hard time in federal prison, where they can have all the man - on - man they want.

She'd fallen hard for David Kamper, then a doctoral student in anthropology, «a sweet and soulful Jewish man from my California hometown: a man who saw no enmity in me, a man who would never put me on trial, a man who would never audit my heart for heresy,» she says in her memoir.

Tension was great because two men, Rev. Messrs. McNemar and Thompson, were on trial as revivalists who, in the excitement of the camp meetings, had preached erroneous doctrines.

Has it turned out that a young man termed unstable by some Western newsmen who spoke with him in Australia, before he sold the London Times the pictures and story of Israeli nuclear capability — and who is now on trial — did what he did because of his radical politics, his conversion to Christianity, or his desire for money?

I am terrified that the axiomatic principles that my life is founded on are actually a collection of man - made tennets of morality amalgamated over thousands of years of trials and tribulations within formative civilized society.»

The day before the race he took lunch at his hotel in the town of La Chartre - sur - le - Loire, 30 miles south of Le Mans, and looked at the trial times while mechanics worked on the cars in a Renault garage across the street.

The men's and women's team time trials will commence on Sunday, Sept. 17.

The forward was billed as the big hope for US football, the man to put North America on the footballing map, and the DC United youngster had trials at the likes of Manchester United and Real Madrid.

Lynch, who will turn 17 at the end of August, is one of the biggest buzz topics of the men's swimming world after his performance at the National Swimming Championships and World Championship Trials in Indianapolis on June 27.

This is trial and error spending on an unprecedented scale — christ, if they can't put a decent team on the field now then Man U should pack it in and call it a day.

This is 3 defenders out of six and the only time we may have 5 in the field will be depend on the game... where we are defending a slim lead and need to shut out an opponent (mostly that happens about 30 closing minutes in the game... The issue about Man United's LvG trial should not scare anyone from looking at our own strengths and playing through them — We are faster, we are younger, we are more technically adept and maybe we can implement this best... Remember guys a wingback is also a defender when the need arises and the questions we should be asking is if Walcott, Ox, Podolski and Carzola can really learn to track back when played in the wing back roles...

No and no this is 3 defenders out of six and the only time we may have 5 in the field will be depend on the game... where we are defending a slim lead and need to shut out an opponent (mostly that happens about 30 closing minutes in the game... The issue about Man United's LvG trial should not scare anyone from looking at our own strengths and playing through them — We are faster, we are younger, we are more technically adept and maybe we can implement this best... Remember guys a wingback is also a defender when the need arises and the questions we should be asking is if Walcott, Ox, Podolski and Carzola can really learn to track back when played in the wing back roles...

Alex Dowsett acknowledged that his busy year finally caught up with him after missing out on a top - ten finish in the elite men's time trial at the Road World Championships in Richmond, USA.

Four champions crowned at the time trials at the HSBC UK National Road Championships on the Isle of Man.

James Ball and Pete Mitchell, who claimed silver on day one of the Commonwealth Games during the Men's BVI 1000m Time Trial, will compete in the Men's B&VI sprint.

Britain's hopes for a men's 60m medal now rest on former world indoor champion Dwain Chambers, who won silver behind Dasaolu at the world indoor trials in Sheffield, and Richard Kilty, the UK indoor bronze medallist.

The Men's Individual Time Trial will begin at 1:00 am (UK time) and 10:00 am (Oz time) on Tuesday 10th April, where Pete Kibble will represent Wales.

Change may be on the horizon though as scientists have completed a successful trial on monkeys for a special gel that can be injected into a man's testicles (yea oww, but I bet it's not as bad as childbirth guys!).

The trial of Corey R. Krug, the Buffalo police officer caught on videotape striking a man with his nightstick, is being put off until next year.

«But to make this man wait for two years and spend $ 2 million, it just seems to me, in a land where we really prize a speedy trial, that it has gone on way too long.»

Moscow is prepared to offer a trial on Russian soil for the man Britain suspects of killing former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko, politics.co.uk understands.

But the gravity of being denied anything close to a fair trial reached new depths on Friday, when the men were placed before a firing squad.

Jurors heard opening statements today in the trial of four of the five men accused in connection with the death of Cuomo aide Carey Gabay, who was one of the hundreds running for cover, when gunfire rang out on Sept. 7, 2015 and a bullet struck him in the head in the crossfire.

Had Silver's lawyers made any attempt to portray Silver as a man of character at the trial, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara would have undoubtedly seen to it that the Sheldon E. Silver farce had made it into the court record, probably during the testimony of Michael Whyland, Silver's spokesman who led the media attack on the Times story.

It was the final shoe to drop in the federal corruption trial of Sheldon Silver, the man who was once the most powerful Democrat in New York State, who looked haggard and forlorn in a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday.

The jury drama in the corruption trial of former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver continued on Monday, as Juror No. 11, an African - American man from the Bronx, asked to be dismissed over a conflict of interest.

«Yaw Anokye Frimpong, the men and woman elected to decide your trial, having found you guilty of murder, you are hereby sentenced to death by hanging and may God have mercy on your soul,» Mrs Justice Wood said.