Sentences with phrase «state court judges believe»

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ACCC Chairman, Rod Sims, stated that the ACCC believed «that there was sufficient evidence for the Court to find that Cussons had entered into an understanding» and that the appeal will allow the Full Court to «consider whether the trial judge should have inferred an understanding involving Cussons based on the uncontested evidence in this case.»

The State Bar Association believes Victoria Graffeo is «well - qualified» to be a judge on the Court of Appeals.car

Mayor Bill de Blasio today told the state's top judge that he believe the day is approaching when government will guarantee all citizens a lawyer in civil court cases — but said that the funding for the attorneys will have to come from the federal level.

«I did not believe one word that you said,» Lynch said, sounding more like tough - talking U.S. District Court Senior Judge Gary Sharpe or state Supreme Court Justice Thomas Breslin than a former defense attorney who carried the reputation of a prosecutor's worst nightmare after taking the bench in January 2013.

This is one of the reasons I believe every judge in every court in the country, state and federal, should be required to have to take a yearly polygraph test (lie detector) as a condition to remain as a judge.

A number of reasons have been suggested for this choice: because judges believe that the formulation of the rules is best left to the ABA, because the development of abstract rules is something judges are not comfortable doing (they are comfortable responding to concrete cases), because the state supreme courts do not have the resources to conduct legislative - like research and hearings,....

The Arkansas Supreme Court held that the canon was narrowly tailored to the state's interests in judicial impartiality and open - mindedness, and that White was inapplicable because the facts of the case and the details of the solicitation canon were distinguishable: «We do not believe anyone can seriously argue that a judge personally soliciting campaign contributions from attorneys having cases before him or her should be permissible.»

2 The test for committal under s. 548 (1) of the Criminal Code was settled by the Supreme Court of Canada a generation ago in United States v. Shephard (1976), 30 C.C.C. (2d) 424 (S.C.C.), where it was stated that a preliminary inquiry judge is required to commit an accused for trial when there is admissible evidence which, if it were believed by the trier, could justify a finding of guilt.

But last year a lower court judge dismissed the lawsuit, partly because the judge said he believed a court ruling requiring the state to adequately fund the public defense system would violate the separation of powers.

The judge also noted that Practice Direction 15B, para 1.3, stated that if, during the course of proceedings, «there is reason to believe that a party may lack capacity to conduct the proceedings, then the court must be notified and directions sought to ensure that this issue is investigated without delay».