Sentences with phrase «often than defendants»

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R - Rochester, said a study shows Wisconsin defendants fail to show up in court more often than defendants in states that have private bail bonds.

Not exact matches

Among defendants who didn't go on to commit more crimes, blacks were flagged by COMPAS as future criminals more often than whites.

White defendants were mislabeled as low risk more often than black defendants.»

The defendants often refused to provide refunds or returned substantially less than what people paid.

«If the case goes bad, rather than risking that information coming to light, the government can often, in effect, bribe defendants through advantageous plea deals,» Natapoff says.

I failed to make the point that a pro se creating on his / her own, a clear written motion will be much better prepared to argue that motion before a judge than attempting to «wing it» thereby often proving to a judge that indeed the defendant or a petitioner in civil court has the ability to proceed as a pro se.

The report indicated that claimants more often won cases than defendants, 25 percent compared to 7 percent.

Put simply, these trial courts are faced with lengthy dockets with the pressure of trying to complete them in a sitting, often litigated by unrepresented defendants with little experience or knowledge of the substantive and procedural law, some quite upset about the perceived injustice in their case, in a crowded courtroom with perhaps less than ideal staffing or facilities.

And indeed, because firms often use pro bono as training, Skadden may have double - or triple - staffed the case where fewer attorneys might have been necessary (in fact, defendants challenged Skadden's bill for three attorneys at trial, rather than just two, the same number that the defense had).

Therefore, defendants and their insurers often feel pressure to provide an appropriate settlement for a case rather than taking it to trial.

Too often this valuable tool is used for the defendants or insurance companies to gain an edge on plaintiff attorney's or injury victims, but despite the questionable tactics, the underlying product and concept of structured settlements is probably MORE valuable to injury victims now than ever before.

It is a common tactic of a defendant to offer a lower than acceptable offer; often swaying a cautious plaintiff to accept the offer due to the risk of failing to beat the offer in court.

Civil lawsuits for sexual assault often name more than just the alleged offender as a defendant.

The American criminal justice system is far from being sufficiently enlightened, starting by too many presumed - innocent people caged without bond pending sentencing, moving to Virginia's crabbed criminal discovery system, continuing to Virginia's system that allows prosecutors to scare defendants to plead guilty by their refusal to waive a jury that in many instances and locations can mean more racist jurors than judges on top of the jurors often being more wild cards than judges for sentencing, continuing to the many judges who choose judicial efficiency over a fair trial, continuing to the brutal capital punishment system, cntinuing to excessive mandatory minimum and guideline sentencing, and continuing to the slew of innocent convicted people (many of whom plead gulilty rather than risking a worse fate), and continuing to frequently excessive sentences and excessive probation violation sentences.

Additionally, there are often multiple defendants involved since liability can be attributed to more than one party.

In our federal court sample, defendants moving for summary judgment succeeded more often (77 %) than plaintiffs moving for summary judgment (61 %).

Similarly, Cecil et al. found that defendants moving for summary judgment were awarded summary judgment in full 64 % of the time, whereas plaintiffs moving for summary judgment were awarded summary judgment in full only 39 % of the time.90 In a subsequent study of all federal district court summary judgment activity in 2006, Cecil and Cort found that moving parties succeeded more often (57 %) than non-moving parties (43 %), as was the case for moving parties in federal court in our sample (73 % to 27 %).91 Although success rates in our sample were higher than success rates in the Cecil study and the Cecil and Cort study, a higher success rate is expected given that we excluded motions seeking partial summary judgment from our sample.

Sarah has dealt with a wide range of compensation claims, often involving more than one defendant.

The breathalyser procedure is video - recorded and often the prosecution will maintain that the defendant is deliberately being obstructive or pretending they can not produce a specimen rather than having actual difficulty due to illness.

Therefore, the majority opinion left open the possibility that many future defendants could short - circuit cases by proving no duty existed to a judge - an often easier and by far much less expensive task than proving no proximate causation existed to a jury.

When jurors believe the defendant must pay all the verdict out - of - pocket, they often award the victim less than the full damages.

[48] Second, in medical malpractice cases, the defendant is often in a better position than the plaintiff to determine the cause of the injury (p. 322).

Businesses very rarely — if ever — bring lawsuits and instead play the role of defendant more often than they would like.

As patent lawsuits are often much more expensive for defendants than for plaintiffs, defendants have an incentive to settle, allowing the threat to remain next time around.

Discovery is often very expensive for defendants in patent infringement cases; it's one of several factors that can make patent litigation much more costly for the defendant than for the plaintiff.

Instead, the patent troll often tries to extract a settlement (or a license) that costs less than what litigating would, leaving many potential defendants to simply settle the matter.