Sentences with phrase «own defense team»

Bergdahl's defense team filed a last - minute motion on Oct. 23 to completely dismiss the case against him, citing past statements in which Trump had referred to the sergeant as «a no - good traitor who should have been executed» during his presidential campaign.

But Nance had also assured Bergdahl's defense team that they could raise the issue again if Trump commented publicly on the case.

Being charged will now allow his defense team to have access to the case files, which they haven't seen so far, and «have the opportunity to answer these unfounded accusations,» according to the statement.

The defense team hired jury consultant Jo - Ellan Dimitrius.

Ida - Gaye Warburton, who worked on Malvo's defense team while a law student at Washington & Lee University, said being able to track down both expert and character witnesses, who knew Malvo independently of Muhammad, was key to the defense.

She says she is «very confident» in the defense team's strategy.

When it comes to managing e-mail, small businesses have more at stake because they don't have the deep pockets that a large corporation has to hire a defense team and do records searches should they be sued.

Despite the rejections, Trump boosted his legal defense team with a little - know lawyer named Andrew Ekonomou, who will take on a more prominent role in communicating with Mueller's office following the resignation of former lead defense attorney John Dowd.

Tsarnaev's defense team rested their case barely 24 hours later, calling only four witnesses.

Tsarnaev's defense team is expected to lay out a «Svengali» defense for their client, a strategy named after a character in a 19th century novel and meaning, in a legal context, the defense of a criminal who was «a pawn of a more influential mastermind.»

Strang's partner on Avery's defense team also seems to have no shortage of new fans in the wake of Making a Murderer's massive popularity.

Johnnie Cochran was part of the Simpson defense team, and he provided the trial with its most memorable rhyming couplet — «If it doesn't fit, you must acquit.»

Unlike Serial, which explored how a suspect's race and religion might have been held against him, The Jinx riveted viewers by exploring the role of privilege and how Durst's high - priced legal defense team could manage to help him evade the most serious criminal charges against him even when, in one case, he'd actually admitted to having dismembered a person's body.

Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz on Friday waived his constitutional right to a speedy trial, giving his defense team more time to prepare his case.

Hogan's defense team argues that Gawker could have reported on the existence of the tape without posting video from the sex tape.

Rudolph Giuliani, the former mayor of New York and an unofficial White House advisor, is joining President Trump's personal legal defense team.

Wearing a prison jumpsuit, he kept his head down and didn't appear to make eye contact with the judge or others in the courtroom, though he responded briefly to someone on the defense team.

It was announced that Giuliani, also hailing from Greenberg Traurig, is joining Trump's legal defense team.

By comparison, Purdue's defense team comprised all - stars, including Mr. Giuliani, Mr. Connolly and Mary Jo White, a former United States attorney in New York.

Preliminary hearings ensued, and dismissals of charges, and trials and mistrials and retrials, and an acquittal, and two hung juries, and defections and elections of district attorneys, and the McMartin defense team carried on, until the list of defendants had dwindled to one, young Raymond Buckey, a surfer dude who had not seen the sun in years, whose charges were finally dismissed in 1990.

In addition to his clerk's duties, Sandidge busied himself during the trial making sure that reporters were supplied with press packets — prepared, of course, by the defense team.

The conference was spearheaded by Michael Davidson, a man of God who came out of the homosexual life many years ago and heads up a group called Core Issues Trust («a non-profit Christian ministry supporting men and women with homosexual issues who voluntarily seek change in sexual preference and expression») and by Andrea Williams, dynamic barrister and CEO of Christian Concern (an organization that seeks to be «a strong Christian voice in the public sphere») and the Christian Legal Centre (a legal defense team for British Christians persecuted for their faith).

The allegation that Ray did this, again, is one the defense team denies.

But the middle ground was virtually lost in the larger debate when Clarence Darrow took over as the head of Scopes» defense team.

The success of next matches in 2 months (12 games) will be decided by the fitness of defense team.

They're efficient scorers who can also play off the ball and they play excellent defense that has been rewarded by All - Defense team selections.

After such a slovenly win, the old Jimmy Johnson would have icily pointed out the slipshod defense his team had played and that for the fifth straight game his club had received at least seven penalties.

The Cavaliers, on the other hand, are an awful transition defense team.

With a healthy Luck and and a few more good players on offense and defense this team should be competing for a Superbowl next year.

When you play against every defense team he is good because he have the time for the nice Pass

Mike Leach is pretty much the best air raid coach ever, and even he's seemed to peak at like 8 - 9 wins with blowout losses against every half decent defense his team faces

He also can't attract a top player anymore, as it is clear as the day that he actually is a fraud and a clueless manager, that got eaten by bunker defense teams season after season, and that's just one example of his bad managing skills.

You used the fact that we were the best defense team in the second half of the season.

The best pass defense team, New Orleans, is replaced by Kansas City, and the second best, Philadelphia, is replaced by Pittsburgh.

State prosecutors took over the case against Kerrick early on, when it came to light that Mecklenburg district attorney Andrew Murray had once been a law partner of a member of Kerrick's defense team.

Sam Houston State will be the best defense the team has faced during these playoffs.

Defense lawyers have sought to make the trial into a referendum for jurors on Howe; his name came up hundreds of times over the past two days of closing arguments by lawyers from the four defense teams.

This court is minded not to prolong the issue, especially since they (the defense team) did not state which court it wants the matter to handle its case.

According to a pool report, Caproni, prosecutors from U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office and Silver's defense team conferenced with the juror for over an hour.

Things seemed to be going off schedule when Paladino's defense team spent all day Thursday grilling School Board President Barbara Seals Nevergold.

The defense team also portrayed the prosecution's star witness and disgraced former lobbyist Todd Howe as unreliable.

In its statement, McDonnell's defense team, led by Hank Asbill, John Brownlee and Noel Francisco, said it believed that the Justice Department «brought this case in good faith based on its view of the law as it existed at the time.»

Prosecutors say they expect some unspecified «changes» in the testimony, while Silver's defense team says that ambiguity remains at the core of their strategy — to try to convince jurors that Silver's receipt of legal outside income was separate, and his official behavior was based on the merits of legislation and grants rather than a «quid pro quo» for a bribe.

Cohen's defense team will of necessity try to pursue various angles to have evidence from the search invalidated, but this will most likely be on procedural and technical grounds («this phrase here is too vague») rather than constitutional ones (this is already settled precedent).

For example, Ahok's defense team presented evidence that Willyudin Abdul Rasyid, a secretary of Bogor Islamic Forum, forced the Bogor Police Officers to file his report on Ahok's alleged blasphemy law or he would have called on thousands of Muslims to raid the police station.

Vacco said Shechtman, had argued (apparently successfully) that the jury in this case was never adequately instructed as to who victim was — the Independence Party, as Haggerty's defense team mantained — or Bloomberg himself.

The New York Times has reported that Paul Grand — the Morvillo Abramowitz lawyer who worked on the Trump defense team — did not meet directly with Vance about the case.

Attorneys for Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's office have been sharing information with former lieutenant Joseph Percoco's defense team about the governor's contacts with federal prosecutors in advance of Percoco's upcoming corruption trial, according to a new government filing in court.

However, there is no record that shows Vance returned Abramowitz's $ 10,000 contribution that came during the DA's investigation into the Trump Organization — despite Abramowitz's firm being involved with the defense team.

Judge Pamela K. Chen of the Federal District Court in Brooklyn ordered a postponement of the Republican congress member's criminal trial until Feb. 2 to give his defense team time to examine evidence gathered by the prosecution, including tape recorded conversations with potential witnesses.