Sentences with phrase «request than a defendant»

An expert on Freedom of Information Law is saying the City of Buffalo has more to gain in complying with a Freedom of Information Law request than a defendant has to lose in a federal civil rights case.

Not exact matches

On April 12, 2018, in a telephone conference to discuss the letter he submitted the day before, defendant Patrick McDonnell requested that the court extend the deadline for answering the CFTC's complaint so that he may confer with the Federal Pro Bono Clinic, rather than simply letting the case go into default.

in a case in which a witness's identification of the defendant is at issue, and the identifying witness and defendant appear to be of different races, a trial court is required to give, upon request, during final instructions, a jury charge on the cross-race effect, instructing (1) that the jury should consider whether there is a difference in race between the defendant and the witness who identified the defendant, and (2) that, if so, the jury should consider (a) that some people have greater difficulty in accurately identifying members of different race than in accurately identifying members of their own race and (b) whether the difference in race affected the accuracy of the witness's identification.

The article, by Randal S. Olson, a «computer programmer turned computational biologist,» demonstrates that a judge is significantly more likely to grant a defendant a parole request right after a meal (breakfast, a snack, lunch) than right before a meal.

They did not take away his public defender, his public defender asked with withdraw and the defendant indicated he would rather retain new counsel than request that the PD not be allowed to withdraw, or to request a new PD Be assigned.

Generally speaking, except for serious crimes which the law punishes with capital punishment, life imprisonment, and imprisonment for more than three years, a defendant can request the prosecutor to initiate a plea bargaining procedure for negotiating the scope of the sentence with the prior consent of the court.

Subpoenas (said suh - pee - nas) are requests for documents from people other than the defendant.

Given that the damages sought in these cases is relatively small and the cost would be paid by the party requesting the jury, opponents of the bill pointed out that injured individuals would be much less likely to request a jury trial than a corporate defendant, who could have used the proposed law to avoid judges felt to be too plaintiff oriented.

The Defendant requested the Plaintiff to attend a 2 day Functional Capacity Assessment less than 84 days before trial.