Sentences with phrase «speedy trial of»

The overriding objective favoured a speedy trial of issues and a court should not discipline lawyers at the expense of justice being achieved between the parties.

«The trial court may take aggressive action to safeguard the public interest and preclude a speedy trial violation... and the District Attorney has the authority to dismiss the death penalty notice, if that will make adequate funding available to the defense and allow for a speedy trial of this case,» Nahmias wrote.

«And with the withdrawal from the cases by counsel, there is no way the trial of the accused persons can start earlier than 2012 when it is obvious that one of the trial judges has fixed a week for speedy trial of Bankole and Nafada.»

Among others, lawmakers want to insulate the anti-graft agency from the influence of the Presidency, enhance its financial autonomy, prescribe tougher penalties for stealing public money and create a special court for speedy trial of cases.

The learned silk further argued that separation of the trial as canvassed by the applicants would further delay the speedy trial of the joint charge stressing that the prosecution was fully prepared to prove the case against the defendants within a reasonable time.

In his submission for bail, Mike Ozekhome, counsel to Sen. Melaye prayed the court for a speedy trial of the matter.

The Chief Judge promised to continue to support the course of speedy trial of inmates with a view to decongesting the prison and mitigate security concerns usually associated with managing suspects in custody

Not exact matches

Fagen asked for a speedy trial — citing Redstone's poor health — and asked Judge George Phelan to order a thorough evaluation of Redstone to help determine whether he made the decision to remove Dauman and Abrams.

In this culture / country we have a set of principles that empowers duly authorized agents to apprehend, present the alleged perpetrator for fair and speedy trial, with representation and a verdict rendered by a jury of peers.

The most explicit statement of these limitations is in the Constitution's first ten amendments — the Bill of Rights — which guarantee freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition, the right to bear arms, protection against the obligatory quartering of soldiers, security from unwarranted search and seizure, the right to a grand jury, protection against double jeopardy and self - incrimination, the right of due process, just compensation for private property taken for public use, and speedy public trial by jury without excessive fines or bail.

Also the lack of habeous corpus for prisoners and speedy trials.

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State...

I phrased that response within the context of your question, but your question is incoherent by mentioning «the right to health care» and «the right to a speedy trial.»

The proposals include the elimination of pretrial detention for low - level offenses; setting a speedy trial requirement to keep people from being held in jail for months awaiting trial; and changing discovery rules to allow defendants access to all evidence before making a plea.

In addition, political patronage and a «culture of adjournment» collude to prevent speedy trials against elected representatives.

With criminal cases languishing for years, a plague of delays in the Bronx criminal courts is undermining one of the central ideals of the justice system, the promise of a speedy trial.

He wants to fight to end cash bail and pass speedy trial reform, two issues that contribute to the continued mass incarceration of communities of color.

«The decision was taken due to the ongoing Roundtable Discussion involving CCT and other critical stakeholders within and outside the country, to develop the Code of Ethics and Practice Directions for the Code of Conduct Tribunal to ensure fair and speedy trials, sponsored by European Union (EU) and implemented by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, (UNODC).»

Mr. Cuomo also plans to introduce a bill aimed at another stubborn problem in the justice system: constant delays in bringing a person to trial that often make a mockery of the speedy trial provisions in state law and the United States Constitution.

«At his state of the state address this year, Governor Cuomo told me personally he would ensure passage of bail reform, speedy trial reform, and discovery reform,» said Akeem Browder, a criminal justice activist and Kalief Browder's brother, in a statement.

«With the inauguration of this court, there shall now be speedy trials in matters relating to children's welfare and protection, specifically from undue exposure and exploitation.

The plan will also update the bail system, improve a defendant's access to a speedy trial and competent court - appointed defense attorneys, require that all police interrogations be recorded and raise the age of criminal responsibility to 18.

Cuomo, ahead of his 2018 «State of the State» address this afternoon, said his reforms would overhaul antiquated laws governing bail, discovery, the right to a speedy trial and the forfeiture of assets.

Just this past year, legislative changes show New Yorkers can make a difference: by raising the age of criminal responsibility, enacting bail reform, ensuring access to a speedy trial, improving witness identification procedures and requiring video - taped police interrogation for serious offenses.

While she alluded to the speedy - trial issue in an interview with the Troy Record, for now, Donnelly seems somewhat loath to critique her prospective opponent in detail, at least at this early stage of the campaign.

«This comprehensive package - the most progressive set of reforms in the nation — will guarantee fairness for the accused by reshaping New York's antiquated bail system, ensuring access to a speedy trial, improving the disclosure of evidence in the discovery process, transforming asset forfeiture procedures and implementing new initiatives to help individuals transition from incarceration to their communities.»

Launch the «New York Promise» Agenda to Advance Social Justice and Affirm New York's Progressive Values - Reforms of the Criminal Justice System including «overhauling New York's antiquated bail system, ensuring access to a speedy trial, raising the age of criminal responsibility, improving witness identification procedures, recording police interrogations for serious offenses, and extending the Hurrell - Harring settlement reforms statewide.»

«We failed to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana... we're not seeing sentencing reform in here and we are no seeing funding to try to work on the speedy trial crisis in this state.»

«The speedy trial bill, Kalief's Law, should be a no - brainer,» said gabriel sayegh *, the Co-Executive Director of Katal, an organization fighting mass incarceration.

«With an eye toward a significant reduction in the jail population, including increased use of community - based diversion programs, and policing, bail and speedy trial reform, the #CLOSErikers Campaign is advocating for a much smaller, less expensive, fairer and more humane public safety system in NYC,» Martin said.

«This comprehensive package of criminal justice reforms places a spotlight on the current system's flaws and the need for strong reforms to New York's criminal discovery, bail and speedy trial statutes.

Luckily, most tracks within Trials Evolution can be completed in a mere matter of minutes — with the sole exclusion being the antithetical Gigatrack which spans a good dozen or so of minutes and really kills the otherwise refreshing speedy pace.

The spread of the Great Mortality (Bubonic plague, or as it was later known, «The Black Death») inspired all manner of medical trial and error, as Europe struggled to stay ahead of the speedy and deadly epidemic.

As the volume of cases in the system grew and the quantity of disclosure ballooned, Crown offices were struggling to ensure that the administrative requirements of organizing such cases kept pace with constitutional demands for speedy trials.

If you can't, and you don't want to go forward, a public defender will move to waive your right to a speedy trial and seek a continuance until you can get your counsel of choice there.

A trial in a misdemeanor case must be held within thirty days of your arraignment if you are in custody and within forty - five days of your arraignment if you are out of custody, unless you waive your right to a speedy trial.

On Monday, Alito wrote the opinion in Zedner v. United States, a case in which the Court sided unanimously with a criminal defendant in a dispute over interpretation of the Speedy Trial Act.

Two years after Askov, even as the Supreme Court backpedalled on speedy trial rights in the case of Morin, the eight - to 10 - month limit on institutional delay was endorsed.

Ask us about filing a bond reduction motion, an examining trial, a speedy trial motion, or a writ of habeas corpus.

Missouri: legislator wants impeachment investigation of judge in child sodomy case; judge dismissed charges due to speedy trial violation

On a speedy trial motion in a case reported as R. v. Caines, 2010 ABQB 646 the applicants argued that delay was caused by the Crown's late disclosure of information respecting how the police had implemented the wire tap authorizations.

Freedom of choice is also an important element of a democracy and this is why mediation, like a speedy and affordable trial, should matter to all of us.

The purpose of summary judgment motion is to obtain a just, speedy, and inexpensive resolution by avoiding a trial in cases where there is no genuine factual dispute.

In a narrow 4 — 3 decision, the New York Court of Appeals held that the motion court's conditioning the defendant's plea on the withdrawal of his constitutional speedy trial claim did not run afoul of the Court's long - standing precedents in People v. Blakley, 34 N.Y. 2d 311 (1974) and People v. White, 32 N.Y. 2d 393 (1973).

He was counsel at the Supreme Court of Canada in R. v. Askov et al, a case that successfully established a constitutional guarantee to a speedy trial, and incidentally resulted in tens of thousands of cases being stopped for unconstitutional delay by the prosecution;

He is regularly involved in all stages of a claim, from initial advice and pleading, interim applications, mediations to speedy trials and appeals.

The Supreme Court of Canada commented in R v Jordan, [2016] 1 SCR 631 on the culture of complacency that had overwhelmed the right to a speedy trial in Canada.

As such, you have the right to a speedy trial by a jury of your peers.

If the lower court finds that there was a systemic breakdown affecting this particular defendant, an indigent Vietnamese immigrant who allegedly killed another Vietnamese man and his 2 - year - old son and severely injured the man's wife in execution - style, back - of - the - head shootings, Justice Harold D. Melton wrote for the majority in the 4 - 3 decision, then that determination must be factored into an analysis of whether the defendant's speedy trial rights were violated.

What is striking about the majority opinion in Vassell is the failure to analyze the purpose of the speedy trial right.