Sentences with phrase «public trial where»

In R.v. Skogman [1984] S.C.J. no. 32 (S.C.C.) Estey J., writing for the majority, observed at p. 6: The purpose of a preliminary hearing is to protect the accused from a needless, and indeed, improper exposure to public trial where the enforcement agency is not in possession of evidence to warrant the continuation of the process.

Its purpose is also «to protect the accused from a needless, and indeed, improper, exposure to public trial where the enforcement agency is not in possession of evidence to warrant the continuation of the process.»

Not exact matches

The seven women and five men weighing the trial evidence had given no public sign of where they stood in their review of the evidence before they delivered the mixed verdict.

Every day of my working week in my early 20s I was reminded how incredibly fortunate I was, to live in a country with a democratically elected government, where legal representation and a public trial were the rights of everyone.

the government should move immediately to suspend the church's tax exempt status until they cough up every single pedophile priest — and every bishop or grand poobah or whatever they call the guys who consistently protect these priests — so they can face a very public trial and hard time in federal prison, where they can have all the man - on - man they want.

Cox, who made an appearance earlier in the day the federal courthouse where the Percoco trial is being held, also criticized Cuomo for not making any public comments about the case.

Former State Senate Leader Dean Skelos was stone - faced and silent as he left a federal courthouse where a jury found him and his son Adam guilty of public corruption charges today, after a four - week trial and just about eight hours of deliberations — but attorneys for both men said they would pursue legal challenges to the verdict.

In a statement following Tuesday's ruling, federal prosecutors in New York's Southern District said they will seek a second trial «where we will have another opportunity to present overwhelming evidence of Dean Skelos and Adam Skelos's guilt and again give the public the justice it deserves.»

The state GOP committee released a statement analyzing the events laid out at the trial and Cuomo's public schedule and where things intersected.

«The question in these difficult cases is not whether a local prosecutor, including one with understandably close ties to his or her fellow local law enforcement officers, is capable of setting aside any personal biases in deciding whether to, or how vigorously, to pursue the case,» Schneiderman wrote, adding, «the question is whether there is public confidence that justice has been served, especially in cases where homicide or other serious charges against the accused officer are not pursued or are dismissed prior to a trial by jury.»

Prior to serving as public administrator, Catalano was an assistant district attorney on Staten Island where he prosecuted over 40 felony trials.

«Rather, the question is whether there is public confidence that justice has been served, especially in cases where homicide or other serious charges against the accused officer are not pursued or are dismissed prior to a trial by jury,» he added.

To get around that problem, this study used the Bradford Hill criteria: a standard tool for assessing the impact of broad - based public health interventions where it is ethically not feasible or operationally impractical to conduct randomized controlled trials.

The results of the randomized, controlled trial are important because some public health departments in places where Zika and dengue viruses are endemic do not necessarily monitor for insecticide resistance.

Locked in on Vega's radiance, Lelio follows Marina through the trials of public grief, the abusive streets of Chile, and the back rooms of her imagination, where escape can be a kaleidoscopic memory or a full - blown dance number.

Society has collapsed inside the walled city of Chicago, where Evelyn (Naomi Watts), leader of the Factionless army and mother of Dauntless badass Four (Theo James), has wrested control and is holding public trials of those who did the bidding of now - dead Erudite leader Jeanine.

But for at least a subset of charter schools, researchers can come fairly close to running a clinical trial where some applicants are enrolled at charters and others are left in the public system purely by chance.

Both men have also advanced the field through their numerous public service activities and participation on expert panels at the local, state, and federal level, where they have advocated for controlled trials of prevention and treatment approaches.

Here a stay will be granted where the court concludes that in all the circumstances a trial will offend the court's sense of justice and propriety... or will undermine public confidence in the criminal justice system and bring it into disrepute...»

Terrie Best points to a website, www.Fija.org (Fully Informed Jury Association) where the public is encouraged to read about jury nullification, its history and why our forefathers set up the jury of twelve peers trial system in order to protect against tyranny of government.

Her other memberships include the American Association for Justice (AAJ), where she served as a Chair of the Product Liability Section, Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, and the Attorneys Information Exchange Group, an organization specializing in automotive product liability cases.

Firstly, the Supreme Court in Mentuck held that once information has entered the public domain of the courtroom, access to disseminate this information should be denied only where its publication would present a real and substantial risk to the proper administration of justice (e.g. a risk to the accused's section 11 (d) Charter right to a fair trial), and where the salutary effects of denying access outweigh the deleterious effects.

Look no further than the example of Akin Gump partner Michele Roberts, who spent the first eight years of her career at the D.C. Public Defenders» office, where she was counsel in over 40 jury trials.

He rose from public service as a prosecutor with the Cook County State's Attorneys» office to the partnership rank of highly respected Chicago litigation firms where he was the lead trial attorney in numerous multi-million dollar cases including large catastrophic fire and explosion cases.

After graduation from the University of Oregon School of Law, where he tried his first case as a student with the local Public Defender, he was awarded a judicial clerkship with a state trial court judge.

John ascended to the elite Major Trials Unit, where he first - chaired homicide, rape and public corruption cases.

Hurrell - Harring v. New York would have been the first time any state stood trial for its public defense failures, calling attention to a nationwide criminal justice crisis where poor, or indigent, defendants are too often effectively denied the right to counsel, creating a two - tiered system of justice.

Trial courts, where the essential findings of fact and drawing of inferences are done, can only be held properly to account if the reasons for their adjudication are transparent and accessible to the public and the appellate courts.»

He completed his law degree at the University of Toronto, where he also received the top prize in Trial Advocacy and the top prize in Public International Law.

From Ghomeshi's public Facebook message, where he pre-emptively suggested that he enjoyed rough sex, to the perhaps long - forgotten cyberdiaries of his victims, the trial was a condemnation of the lack of discipline in cyberspace.

Madame Justice Abella, in dissent, argued that «such communications can only be disclosed in a civil case where they have already been made public in a criminal trial, or where the targets of the interception have either consented to the disclosure or otherwise waived their privacy interests.»

Won a plaintiffs» judgment on all claims after trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court on behalf of the CEO of a large, public company in a wrongful death case where the plaintiff's daughter died of a drug overdose after defendant failed to summon medical care.

Hitherto the two guiding principles have been that a court should be very reluctant to question a prosecutorial decision, especially where it has been reached on policy or public interest grounds, and second that once the prosecution has framed its indictment the trial judge has no power to «go behind» it and enquire why it is presented in the way that it is.

Relevant factors include the public interest in putting defendants on trial where there is sufficient evidence to justify doing so and the offence is a serious one.

Moreover, the «lawful purpose» branch of the test creates a scenario where the first time a C.I. may learn that their identity has been compromised is in a very public trial.

[at para 38] Also by dint of his former life as a police officer Barros recognized something perhaps a little less obvious to the layperson: when a C.I.'s cover is blown, crown and police will often choose to stay proceedings against an accused rather than continue on to trial where the informant's identity will become public subjecting them to considerable risk of harm.

Thus, in Oscanyan v. Winchester Repeating Arms Co., 103 U. S. 261, it was held that, where it was shown by the opening statement of counsel that the contract on which the suit was brought was void as being either in violation of law or against public policy, the trial court might properly direct the jury to find a verdict for the defendant.

The total size of the vehicle commitment isn't exactly known as of yet, but FCA has already supplied Waymo with 500 vehicles in total at least, and now that number will cross into the «thousands» as Waymo prepares for its public launch, and for the expansion of said service beyond its initial target launch market of Phoenix, where Waymo has been conducing its first pilot trial involving members of the public as passengers and customers.

A horrific incident at Northwick Park Hospital in 2006 that left clinical trial lists critically ill not only shocked the British public, it coincided with a shift change in the type of subjects happy to take part in certain kinds of drug trials and, more pertinently, where those trials are now held.

Public officials have invested in the nurse visitor program in light of replicated evidence of its effectiveness from randomized trials.52 Economic analyses have been conducted in the first trial of this program, where its cost to government was recovered with dividends when focused on higher risk families, 14,53 and this undoubtedly has influenced public invesPublic officials have invested in the nurse visitor program in light of replicated evidence of its effectiveness from randomized trials.52 Economic analyses have been conducted in the first trial of this program, where its cost to government was recovered with dividends when focused on higher risk families, 14,53 and this undoubtedly has influenced public invespublic investment.

The one RCT of this program — showing positive effects as described in our evidence summary — was a multi-site trial conducted in the real - world public school settings and conditions where this program is normally implemented (41 high - poverty elementary schools across 11 states).