Sentences with phrase «not judge and jury»

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.

I am not a judge and a jury.

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A federal jury found Edwards not guilty on one count of violating campaign finance rule, and the judge declared a mistrial on the five remaining criminal charges.

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

During two weeks of jury selection, Judge Samuel Feng repeatedly told prospective jurors that immigration, sanctuary cities, gun control and their political views should not enter into their deliberations.

Denton faces a judge and jury who are skeptical of, if not outright hostile to, his blog empire and philosophy of reporting the «story behind the story,» and some inside Gawker say that they expect the company to lose the case.

just because you're incapable of meaningful debate does not mean you can rise above it all and declare yourself the judge and jury.

Who hasn't felt ousted by community, felt the community turn into a mob, turn into the judge and jury, felt the community turn into the crowd that pushes you out?

But the judge and jury are not ready to accept the authority of Scripture.

The teaching of purity does not make any human being the judge and jury over others, nor does Deuteronomy, despite what this passage sounds like when you carve it out of the book.

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.

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.

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.

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

I don't think any judge or jury would accept your explanation, and as I learned, neither would God.

Absolutely, it does make sense to at least 6 billion people on earth including but not limited to professionals and the elite such as Doctors, Scientists, Juries, Judges, Magistrates, Politicians, even by the person who holds the highest position of the most powerful country of the world.

«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.

The jury failed to reach an agreement, and the judge entered a verdict of not guilty.

I'm condemning judge, jury and executioner courtesy of the lynch mob... You or I don't know their relationship....

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

The rights and positions of people with learning disabilities are not judged by juries of their peers but by systems where power is held by «lords» — commissioners, social workers, service providers, psychiatrists, judges and politicians.

Albany County Judge Peter Lynch ruled that Sen. Robert Ortt's rights weren't violated during the grand - jury process last month, which resulted in felony indictments against the Niagara County Republican and his predecessor, ex-Sen.

A list of the questions asked by the jury to the judge includes one example in which they asked if a juror can «come to a verdict based on a reason that was not presented in court and has no facts or evidence to support it».

The NYCLU — along with Public Advocate Letitia James, the Legal Aid Society, the NAACP and the New York Post — filed the appeal in the appellate division of New York Supreme Court to overturn a judge's decision not to release testimony from the grand jury.

Last week, as the jury first convened to deliberate, a juror sent a note to the judge, Valerie E. Caproni, asking to be excused from the case and saying she was «feeling pressured, stressed out... told that I'm not using my common sense, my heart is pounding and my head feels weird.»

The SC is not a trial court but an appellate one and should never constitute itself into a prosecutor, judge and jury and sit in its own cause as if it is the Chief's Palace where the accused is hauled before the Chief and his elders, tried, found guilty and ordered to present seventy - two rams and seventy - two bottles of schnapps to pacify the gods and ancestors in a constitutional democracy.

«The court notes that there was opinion testimony offered to the effect that (1) but for being asked by Henry Wojtasek, Synor probably would not have hired Meghan Ortt, (2) that she had a «no - show job,» and (3) that Synor was a conduit for funds to be paid to her,» the judge wrote of the grand jury testimony he inspected.

In his State of the State address in January, Cuomo announced plans to introduce an independent monitor, such as a retired judge to review police cases where an unarmed civilian is killed and the case is not presented to a grand jury.

Gary Gordon, who is not related to Jim Gordon, was in state Supreme Court Friday when the grand jury indictments were handed up to Supreme Court Justice Raymond Elliott, and his lawyer told the judge he was ready to turn himself in.

Silver's lawyers, while entering a not guilty plea for him on Tuesday before U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni, argued that Bharara broke rules about what prosecutors can say outside court and may have prejudiced the grand jury that indicted Silver.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Manhattan concluded, in light of the Supreme Court's narrower definition, that the jury instructions given by the judge in Mr. Silver's trial were erroneous and that a properly instructed jury might not have convicted him.

Another note also emerged from the jury room, asking the judge to clarify whether or not giving out New York State funds in exchange for something else is illegal — and whether there was a written code of conduct that addressed that issue.

Valerie E. Caproni, the presiding judge in Federal District Court, kept lawyers and prospective jurors at the courthouse late on Monday in order to ensure that jury selection did not take too long.

«I am not the judge, jury and executioner.

The judge took a moment to remind the jury that's not illegal, and no one is accused of wrongdoing when it comes to donating to a campaign.

Chicago, Illinois (CNN)- A federal jury weighing the fate of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich in his corruption trial told the judge on Thursday it has reached unanimous agreement on two of the 24 counts, but can not agree on 11 others and has yet to consider the rest.

«We have deliberated and have reached unanimous agreement on two counts and haven't been able to come to an agreements on the rest of the counts,» the jury told U.S. District Judge James Zagel.

But it was clear late on Thursday, with the parties and the judge seated around a conference table and the jury not present, that Mr. McDonald and Mr. Kry had critical roles as legal specialists in the case — «the law guys,» as several experts put it — a role the public rarely hears about.

Another indictment in the shooting death of Ramarley Graham in 2012 was tossed by a judge on technical grounds and a second jury voted not to indict.

A federal jury announced the guilty verdict on four counts of theft but could not reach a unanimous agreement on four additional counts of theft, fraud and conspiracy, leading Judge Frederic Block to declare a mistrial on those counts.

Programme managers act as judge, jury, and, if the research doesn't go well, executioner.

Most judges and juries are not persuaded by neurobiological evidence used to argue that a defendant was not fully responsible for his or her actions, as in Gunther's case, the analysis found.

After the judge dismissed the «jury» at the beginning of the trial (he actually didn't make us leave, the dismissal was for dramatic effect), he and the lawyers went through the procedures that would be undertaken in a real case to determine if evidence should be admitted for the jury to see.

The judge found the evidence admissible, and we the jury eventually found the defendant guilty, although of Murder 2 (not premeditated) instead of Murder 1.

At the end of the day, science is not at all the sort of final arbitrator which the law would wish it to be, and the weighing of truth comes down to the common sense of the judge and the jury.

Your rights will be determined by a NEUTRAL ARBITRATOR and NOT a judge or jury and your claims can not be brought as a class actiNOT a judge or jury and your claims can not be brought as a class actinot be brought as a class action.

Yet unlike those film's heroes, Richard is neither a Christ figure (in one scene he expressly denies that he is Jesus — or indeed the Devil), nor an agent of divine justice (the film's first line is «God will forgive them, He'll forgive them and allow them into heaven — I can't live with that»)-- and while there is no doubt that his judge - jury - and - executioner attitude towards vigilantism is entirely reactionary, both his morality and his sanity come to be called into question by the film.

We, the audience, are the judge and the jury, not you.

Gregory J. Cizek replies: Diane Ravitch herself acknowledges that it was Rudy Crew, not Edward Stancik, who acted as judge and jury.

«The SEMA Show can not be judge and jury.