Sentences with phrase «own judge and jury»

The series of hearings will determine whether he faces life in prison or the death penalty, a decision to be made after family and friends testify to judge and jury about their interactions with the mystery man.

Judges and juries end up having to apply such principles, among others, when discrimination cases reach court.

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?

In the case of these Catholic priests who did just that, they should be made to stand before a judge and jury for thier actions.

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

A theologian (like a lawyer) wants to prove a certain point to the judge and jury.

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.

If the judge and jury believe that murder is wrong and the murderer thinks that it is right should he be thrown in prison?

Most of the actual heresy trials, without judge and jury, were about matters of personal morals.

Who made you judge and jury?

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.

If Phelps and his co-defendants are liable for the intentional infliction of emotional distress in this case, what is to prevent another judge and jury from ordering monetary damages in a case against the owners of the proposed Islamic community center near ground zero for inflicting emotional distress on the families of 9/11 victims?

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.

As one dares enlightenment of another's wordage usages, one becomes such word's judge and jury and executioner.

We have a world of CEOs, police, judges and juries who are anything but colorblind.

ONLY GOD IS THE JUDGE AND THE JURY and for you to go against the first black president is one thing but the one that has been looking out for all blacks, whites and etc...

The judge and jury said otherwise, I realize.

Like christians who know nothing of atheism being judge and jury to the condemnation of atheists?

You all play judge and jury like a bunch of clowns.

I think DV is such a hit button issue as soon as an allegation arises everyone is judge and jury immediately.

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

Mr Speaker, — the regime we have set up means that the Chancellor is no longer judge and jury of their own fiscal rules.

Now they want banks to sit as judge and jury on the case and bar individuals from using debit cards to subscribe to overseas porn.

That determination is made by a judge and jury.

I am not a judge and a jury.

«I have the utmost respect for our judges and our juries and that's why I will be found innocent and my son will,» Dean Skelos said afterward.

Like ALL employees (in both the public and private sectors), there's nothing unusual about your boss being both the judge AND jury when it comes to disciplining employees.

Law is a nice construct, but in addition to the written words of the law, you need to consider this: Who is the judge and the jury?

Experts say the requests by former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, for no jail time resulting from their corruption convictions could run the risk of backfiring by being interpreted as essentially thumbing their noses at the judge and jury.

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.

Jones said lawyers, judges and juries certainly could benefit from scientific insights on such perennial legal questions as: Was the defendant responsible for the criminal behavior?

For judges and juries, the fundamental challenge has always been to figure out whether someone is telling the truth.

Numerous studies have shown that both judge and jury can harbour implicit biases that could swing a conviction and sentence (Current Directions in Psychological Science, vol 20, p 58).

Witness the current popularity of forensics and the confidence that judges and juries are placing on DNA evidence.

In our legal system, judges and juries have to assign responsibility for crimes and decide on appropriate punishments.

At times, judges and juries have also had to confront such ethically sticky questions: Is it right to kill one person to save many?

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.

Police, lawyers, the judge and jury had been contaminated by the certainty of Dr Skuse's conclusions that two of the men had handled explosives.»

Even today it holds almost magical power over judges and juries.

The scientists were judge and jury for all TSA security technology.

When it comes to making decisions about innocence and guilt, the human brain acts as both judge and jury.

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.

Now a study published in the journal Neuron shows that, just like in the courtroom, the brain's judge and jury sit in separate places.

In collaboration with judges and jury administrators in a Michigan courtroom, Sommers conducted mock jury trials with a group of real selected jurors.

In other words, judges and juries were sometimes sending people to jail based on bogus science.

Faced with a scientific controversy as complex as that now raging over cusum can lawyers, judges and juries be expected to decide between the scientific and the specious?

Get the narcissist out of your head as your judge and jury right now, and you'll find you feel significantly better, more optimistic, more creative, and happier.