Sentences with phrase «other evidence in this case»

Doug Burns, a former Eastern District prosecutor from Nassau County, said the «cardinal rule» in the government's use of a cooperating witness is «whether or not what they say can be backed up or corroborated by other evidence in the case.»

Maybe some of the other evidence in the case is weak.

A new trial based on newly discovered evidence should not be denied solely because other evidence in the case includes a confession and / or eyewitness identification.

This includes asking you «trick» questions to get you to contradict yourself, or the other evidence in your case.

A court is not obliged to adopt uncontradicted testimony if there is other evidence in the case that renders it unreasonable.

Not exact matches

The other phones, which were seized in a variety of criminal investigations, are involved in cases where prosecutors are compelling the company to help them bypass the passcode security feature of phones that may hold evidence, the Journal added.

While most of us think that making decisions rationally — with piles of statistics and numbers and other evidence to back us up — is the best way to go, in reality, this is often not the case.

Vestager, arguably the most powerful official in the EU due to her individual power to rule on competition cases across the 28 - nation bloc, makes no secret of her reliance on others at times to provide the evidence that can justify her inquiries.

He recalled that in the one case that perhaps came closest — the show - trial conviction of several influential military and intelligence officers for drug trafficking and other crimes in 1989 — there was even some circumstantial evidence that the illicit activities had been tolerated by superiors.

«Even beyond the trade secrets Waymo listed at the outset of this case, the new evidence indicates that there is other proprietary information, contained in the new documents, that made its way to Defendants,» Alphabet wrote in a new filing.

as to Shares deliverable on the exercise of Options or Stock Appreciation Rights, or in settlement of Performance Units or Restricted Stock Units, until the delivery (as evidenced by the appropriate entry on the books of Walmart of a duly authorized transfer agent of Walmart) of such Shares, give the Recipient the right to vote, or receive dividends on, or exercise any other rights as a stockholder with respect to such Shares, notwithstanding the exercise (in the case of Options or Stock Appreciation Rights) of the related Plan Award;

Backed by solid research evidence and case studies, Lisa translates her decades of experience in the communication field into proven strategies and practical, actionable plans to make genuine conversations, build lasting relationships, and influence others.

While the evidence suggests a split could help companies that are struggling, it also shows the step could hurt shareholders in many other cases.

This generally supports the case that Living Goods offers high quality products, but because our experience on the site visit may have been non-representative and there are many other potential factors that may affect the effectiveness of drug treatments aside from following storage procedures for drugs properly, we consider it to be only weak evidence in support of the quality of Living Goods» drug treatments.

In this case, as in all others, evidence matters, and citizens should demand politicians base their decisions on iIn this case, as in all others, evidence matters, and citizens should demand politicians base their decisions on iin all others, evidence matters, and citizens should demand politicians base their decisions on it.

In the case of yahweh, no evidence has ever been presented that it exists, other than the wishful hopes of people.

So in other words all you have is the bible and nothing more because if have actual evidence, you'd be the first and you should be sharing it with the world, unless of course what you consider evidence is simply your own personal stories in which case it is only evidence to you and does not pertain outside of your small mind.

In the case of Coach Bowden, the university found «no evidence that there [was] any «coercion» or «undue influence»... nor is there any evidence that there is any punitive or other negative consequences» for those who decline the coach's church invitation.

In the case of others, the evidence we have either is inconclusive or else hardly even seems relevant to the question of their truth or falsity.

Our criticism of ID is that itrestricts the evidence for Intelligence to only a certain class of cases for which no natural explanation is said to be discernable; in other words where there appear to be gaps in the fabric of natural causality.

They had their own courts in which they handled cases concerning marriage, divorce, inheritance, and other problems of Islamic law, evidence of the influence and power of Islam in China at that time.

I shall assume that the aim of an explication of «valid induction» is to find a numerical or comparative function c (h, e)-- the «confirmation of hypothesis h given evidence e» — which is a syntactic function of the statements h and e, and which has a high or comparatively high value in those cases where normally accepted or intuitive inductive methods would direct us to accept hypothesis h on evidence e, at least in comparison with other hypotheses having lower c - value.

What should happen in that case should be the pursuit of more evidence, not the bashing of the other side in a hateful manner.

[63] They cite the cases of Sweden, Norway and Quebec as instances where there is inconclusive evidence that bans have been successful (see the section later in this paper on what actions other countries have taken in relation to junk food advertising for more explanation of the regime in place in these countries).

I wonder whether you could confirm, if you know, that that is the case, that there was a differentiation between that and other existing provisions in the act which you have spoken about in your evidence today - that is, the purpose of certain conduct.

The only other variables are if they could show an intent to kill (upping the charge to attempted homicide) or an intent to maim or disfigure, or some kind of hate crime motivation but in this case, there's no evidence of that.

It may indeed be the case that the evidence is not convincing, and considering how new microbiome research is, I would be surprised if any of the research could be considered «convincing» other than to simply say that the microbiome seems to be a really important factor in health and disease.

However, in other cases, when AP courses are introduced without the necessary attention to student and teacher preparation, we found little evidence to indicate that the program contributes to student academic success.

After more than a decade (ending in 2011) of working with the Alaska Division of Public Health tracking local SIDS and sleep - related death cases, we were unable to find evidence that co-sleeping increased the risk of death when controlling for other factors.

We informed the ASA that this mother was not alone in reporting unsolicited emails from Pfizer / Wyeth, but the ASA said it could not consider the evidence from other mothers in this case.»

It has been estimated that 5 % to 10 % of infants who die from SIDS have novel mutations in the cardiac sodium or potassium channel genes that result in long QT syndrome as well as in other genes that regulate channel function.44 A recent report described important new molecular and functional evidence that implicates specific SCN5A (sodium channel gene) β subunits in SIDS pathogenesis.47 The identification of polymorphisms in genes pertinent to the embryologic origin of the autonomic nervous system in SIDS cases also lends support to the hypothesis that a genetic predisposition contributes to the etiology of SIDS.

In the worst case, they could be totally partisan and routinely declare that the party or faction they favor is right and the other party is wrong and have all their political opponents thrown in jail, without even bothering to look at the actual evidencIn the worst case, they could be totally partisan and routinely declare that the party or faction they favor is right and the other party is wrong and have all their political opponents thrown in jail, without even bothering to look at the actual evidencin jail, without even bothering to look at the actual evidence.

On the other hand, the fact that the case is already so far in the public domain might be evidence that arguments used by m» learned friends to try and stuff it back into the obscurity from which it sprang are little more than legal tosh and nonsense.

The BHA was called to give evidence to the Commission's inquiry into whether there should be a change in law to legalise assisted dying in the UK and made the case that there are good ethical reasons not to limit legal assisted dying only to terminally ill people but to others who are incurably suffering, and to permit voluntary euthanasia as well as assisted dying to maximise autonomy of patients who wish to end their lives but are unable to do so themselves.

But other prosecutors in the Justice Department believe there is enough evidence to move forward with a case, the New York Times reported.

But the motion added that any failure to prosecute de Blasio in other jurisdictions is «evidence of nothing» in this case.

In motions filed Friday night, attorneys for most of the defendants said they want separate trials for their clients to avoid the chance of unrelated evidence against one or two defendants tainting the others» cases.

A prima facie case is the establishment of a legally required rebuttable presumption, and a cause of action or defense that is sufficiently established by a party's evidence to justify a verdict in his or her favour, provided such evidence is not rebutted by the other party.

To arrogate to itself the powers to simply dump people in jail indefinitely is, to say the least, uncivilized and barbaric; to hang serious allegations against a person without proof of evidence, as the judge noted in the case of Senator Bala Mohammed, is malicious, callous and unacceptable; and to constrain citizens with brazen impunity, in defiance of court orders, is to send a wrong signal to Diaspora Nigerians and other foreign investors who, paradoxically, our President and his ministers, have been courting assiduously, that the law can not protect both they and their investments.

In the instant case, no material evidence of fraud, irregular allocation of plots of land among others is placed before this court.

Mixed race suspects were more likely to be sent to court than given a police disposal; Black and mixed race defendants were more likely to be remanded in custody prior to their hearing date; Black defendants had a higher chance of being acquitted than white ones, suggesting that different standards of evidence may be applied to cases involving different groups of defendants; Mixed race teenagers were more likely than others to be given a (more serious) community sentence than a (less onerous) first tier penalty or referral order.

Making reference to the Courts Act of 1993 (Act 459), Mr Justice Ofoe said Section 31 (2) holds that «an appellate court, on hearing an appeal in a criminal case, shall allow the appeal if the appellate court considers (a) that the verdict or conviction or acquittal ought to be set aside on the ground that it is unreasonable or can not be supported having regard to the evidence, or (b) that the judgement in question ought to be set aside as a wrong decision on a question of law or fact, or (c) that there was a miscarriage of justice, and in any other case shall dismiss the appeal.»

A federal grand jury in Manhattan has begun hearing evidence in the case, which focuses on two de Blasio fund - raisers — Jona Rechnitz and Jeremy Reichberg — with investigators trying to determine if the two men benefited from some type of favorable municipal action, or the promise of some action, in exchange for their donations, their fund - raising or some other gesture.

Smith, a Rensselaer County attorney appointed special prosecutor by a Supreme Court judge who reviewed evidence in the case last year, informed Herrick on Wednesday that seven others, including the several elected officials, have voluntarily submitted or agreed to give DNA samples to State Police investigators.

They can do it in terms of planting evidence, and in the most extreme cases they can do it in terms of killing people,» Clarkson added, referring to police - involved shootings and other fatal incidents.

If Sugarman had attempted to bring a case against the state party or most of the other incidents of party activity that have been heavily scrutinized in recent years, most of the evidence she brought while making her case against the county parties would be inapplicable.

The evidence at trial and publicly filed documents in the case established that, among other things, Sampson, as an attorney practicing in Brooklyn, embezzled funds he held in escrow from the sale of real estate properties.

In other evidence Boyland was shown asking for money in exchange for political favors, including a request for $ 250,000 to pay for his legal fees resulting from the first court case in which he was found not guiltIn other evidence Boyland was shown asking for money in exchange for political favors, including a request for $ 250,000 to pay for his legal fees resulting from the first court case in which he was found not guiltin exchange for political favors, including a request for $ 250,000 to pay for his legal fees resulting from the first court case in which he was found not guiltin which he was found not guilty.

Eastern District Assistant United States Attorneys Lara Treinis Gatz and John Durham said in the letter that the strength of the government's case «is overwhelming and consists of dozens of witnesses... fully corroborated by numerous sources of evidence... including telephone call detail records, cell site records, photographs, financial records... and other documentary evidence.»

Umar, in his lead ruling, had exonerated Saraki of all the charges on, among other grounds, the failure of the prosecution to obtain Saraki's statement and make it part of the proof of evidence in the case.