Sentences with phrase «prosecutor in a criminal trial»

If the prosecutor in a criminal trial failed to convince the trier of fact (the judge or jury) that no reasonable doubt existed as to the defendant's guilt, a plaintiff may nevertheless be able to show that it was more likely than not (the definition of a preponderance of the evidence) that the defendant committed the child abuse alleged in a civil trial.

Not exact matches

Updated 3:26 p.m. The criminal assault trial of Kevin S. Parker, a state senator from central Brooklyn, was thrown into turmoil on Thursday, as a judge granted the Brooklyn district attorney's office's request to have two special prosecutors appointed — one who would take over the case, and another who would investigate possible improprieties by an assistant district attorney not directly involved in the proceeding.

A March 8, 2016, story reported that attempts to investigate Suffolk County Conservative Party leader Edward Walsh «were thwarted at every turn by Spota and others,» according to a filing by federal prosecutors a week before jury selection in Walsh's criminal trial was set to begin.

During their opening statements today in the criminal corruption trial of former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, prosecutors and Silver's defense attorneys painted sharply different images of the elected official at the center of the case.

In closing arguments at his obstruction of justice trial, a Brooklyn federal prosecutor called state Sen. John Sampson a crook who instinctively relied on criminal tactics to avoid law enforcement...

It is those «hung» counts that prosecutors now plan to retry at a second criminal trial in Brooklyn federal court.

In an unusual move designed to make criminal trials fairer, state Court of Appeals Chief Judge Janet DiFiore issued a new rule requiring judges to forcefully order prosecutors to search their files and disclose all evidence favorable to the defense at least 30 days before major trials.

During their opening statements Tuesday in the criminal corruption trial of former state Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver, prosecutors and Silver's defense attorneys painted sharply different images of the elected official at the center of the case.

Power, along with Luis Moreno - Ocampo, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court; former Nuremberg Trials prosecutor, Ben Ferencz; and Emmanuel Uwurukundo, a survivor of the massacres in Rwanda who now oversees U.N. camps for refugees from the genocide in Sudan, are all shown in the film, continuing Lemkin's struggle for justice.

Instead, since the vast majority of criminal cases result in plea agreements, what you need most is a lawyer skilled at negotiating such agreements, who can help you decide whether you should accept the prosecutor's deal or take your chances at trial.

As a prosecutor, Earl served in county courts, juvenile courts, and district courts as both a trial lawyer and a supervisor, handling many criminal and juvenile trials with excellent success.

As a prosecutor, Earl served in county courts, juvenile courts, and district courts as a trial lawyer, handling many criminal and juvenile trials with excellent success.

Exhibit A: Emails sent by lawyers on trial in the Dewey & LeBoeuf criminal fraud case which mentioned things like «fake income,» «accounting tricks,» «cooking the books,» and deceiving a «clueless auditor» first ended up in the indictment and have been trotted out by prosecutors at every opportunity.

Whether conducting internal business investigations to identify, confront and resolve criminal activity, or defending and advising businesses or business professionals through government investigations, our team of former prosecutors, trial attorneys and investigators can assist you in protecting your interests through this process.

At Surovell Isaacs & Levy PLC, our Fairfax DWI blood test contest attorneys have decades of experience providing effective and aggressive criminal representation with the skills necessary to defuse the power of the prosecutor's most important piece of evidence in a DUI trial.

To be held Sept. 13 and 14 in Andover, Mass., the conference is to be named in honor of Justice Robert H. Jackson, who in 1945 took a leave of absence from the Supreme Court to serve as chief prosecutor in the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi war criminals.

What with courtroom deputies, judges and prosecutors all bearing arms in Texas, defense lawyers and their clients may be the only unarmed people present in a criminal trial.

If they would not give evidence, dangerous criminals would walk free and both society and the administration of justice would suffer; (ii) it was settled law that the paramount object had always been to do justice and that if, in order to do justice, some adaptation of ordinary procedure was called for, it should be made, so long as the overall fairness of the trial was not compromised; (iii) recent case law supported the adoption of protective measures; (iv) the Strasbourg jurisprudence, properly understood, did not condemn the use of protective measures; and (v) the defendant was protected from the risk of unfairness by the prosecutor's duty of disclosure.

I have worked in the New York criminal justice system for more than 34 years, first as a prosecutor and then as a criminal defense trial lawyer.

Prior thereto, David served on active duty in the United States Navy as a Judge Advocate where he tried misdemeanor and felony level criminal cases as a prosecutor and defended the Department of the Navy in complex civil cases in trial and appellate courts across the country.

The modern realities of the trial penalty (where defendants get 10 + more years for a crime because they go to trial), and the fact that 95 % of all convictions are from pleas, shows in another way how our justice system has become a (prosecutor - controlled) inquisitorial system of criminal justice.

1) Question: I'm a defendant in a serious criminal trial, and I'm pretty sure one of the jurors deciding my fate has a crush on the prosecutor!

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.

(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the justice may, at any stage of a preliminary inquiry, with the consent of the accused and the prosecutor, order the accused to stand trial in the court having criminal jurisdiction, without taking or recording any evidence or further evidence.

Limited preliminary inquiry (1.1) If the prosecutor and the accused agree under section 536.5 to limit the scope of a preliminary inquiry to specific issues, the justice, without recording evidence on any other issues, may order the accused to stand trial in the court having criminal jurisdiction.

L. Rev. 267, 291 (2010)(finding that skill of defense attorney made no difference in the outcome of non-celebrity criminal jury trials, but that skill of prosecutor played a significant role in the outcome); see also Emily S. Taylor Poppe & Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, Do Lawyers Matter?

With more than 19 years of litigation and appellate experience as both a former New York City homicide prosecutor and a criminal defense counsel in the United States Army, Mr. Smith has served as lead counsel on more than one hundred trials on charges to include murder, manslaughter, vehicular homicides, armed robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, drug distribution, rape, child molestation, child pornography, rape and aggravated sexual offenses, grand larceny, embezzlement and fraud on the...

It's unethical for a prosecutor to put a witness on the stand in a criminal trial when he or she knows in advance that the witness is going to take the Fifth Amendment and refuse to testify at all.

Vancouver Criminal Defence Lawyer Emmet J. Duncan successfully persuaded Crown counsel that it was unnecessary to proceed to trial, particularly as the cross-examination of the complainant would be vigorous and would focus on various inconsistencies in statements the complainant had made to police and prosecutors.

The Academy is a group of truly elite trial lawyers representing both sides of the Bar: prosecutors and defense lawyers in criminal cases, and plaintiffs» and defense counsel in civil litigation (including business and personal injury cases).

Prior to joining Baker McKenzie in 2011, Mr. Burkett was an Assistant Crown Attorney, where he was the lead prosecutor on numerous criminal trials; including serious commercial fraud prosecutions.

Norman Thomas» experience as a prosecutor and judge in Virginia provided him with a wealth of experience in criminal matters involving constitutional law, trial evidence, procedural rules and more.

The Prime Minister has a law and order constituency that might look with favour on the appointment of someone like David Watt, a former crown prosecutor and judge noted for his strict and careful implementation of the criminal law in murder trials.

The German Code of Criminal Procedure allows victims of an offence, or their survivors, the right to participate in the trial as intervenors or private prosecutors.

More on Judge Kozinski's recent ideas on criminal justice reform (sample: let defendants choose jury or bench trial, study exonerations in depth, go after bad prosecutors) from Eugene Volokh and Radley Balko.