Sentences with phrase «state witness against»

Not exact matches

A statement to commit violence against a vulnerable person or group such as «heads - of - state, witnesses and confidential informants, activists, and journalists» counts here too.

«We are witnessing an existential and genocidal threat against Christians in at least 60 countries,» stated Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, in response to the killing of four nuns in Yemen last week.

We have witnessed, within our own lifetimes, the legal battle to nullify state laws against miscegenation and the gradual change in social attitudes toward toleration and even acceptance of interracial couples in public.

I watched as quarterback Kirk Farmer broke his leg after getting pushed out of bounds during Homecoming against Iowa State; I was on the hill on the north side of the stadium with my parents, so unlike most of the student section on the east side, I apparently missed witnessing him screaming, throwing up, and passing out.

From the 1960s, he witnessed the great imports Baumgartner, Jaros, Ninaus and Campana fill grounds in the NSW State League against local heroes Johnny Warren, John Watkiss and Brian Smith.

On Rivers» general electoral anarchy: «Shocking cases of cold blooded killings and beheading, obstruction of votes, arson, voter intimidation, ballot snatching, missing result sheets, presenting of fake ballot papers, multiple thumb - printing, campaigning at polling units, compromise of ad - hoc staffs, absence of level playing environment, violence against media personnel and impunity were witnessed in different magnitude across the length and breadth of the state.

«I would not go into a conspiracy to bear false witness against a nominee as suggested by Chairman of the Appointment Committee of Parliament Joe Osei - Owusu when he appeared before Parliament with regards to bribery allegations,» he stated.

David Paterson's security chief to pressure a witness not to file an assault charge against a key aide; and a secret attempt to slip huge pay raises for police brass into the state's deficit - plagued budget.

A Queens Supreme Court judge threw out two of the assault charges against state Sen. Hiram Monserrate (D - East Elmhurst) Tuesday as his legal team called their first witness.

The former President said he had witnessed a lot of negative actions during the Kufuor, Mills and Mahama eras, stating that had some of the negative actions against him come from the NPP he would not have been surprised but coming from his own people was difficult to take.

Alleged Corruption: How Dariye Diverted N204m to Own Company - Witness The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has presented more evidence against a former governor of Plateau State, Joshua Dariye, who is being prosecuted on a 23 - count charge bordering on money laundering and diversion of funds, before Justice Adebukola Banjoko, of the Federal Capital Territory, -LSB-...]

Bonomo, who was a star government witness against corrupt former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, was largely sidelined as CEO of Physicians» Reciprocal Insurers, the state's second - largest malpractice insurer, according to a January report by the Albany Times Union.

Dorego is a key witness in the trial of former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and figured prominently in the case against former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who was convicted on Monday of extortion, money laundering and fraud.

Attorneys for former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, are again seeking to impugn a cooperating witness who testified against them in their first trial.

City Court Judge William Carter can not force Albany County DA David Soares to call witnesses against four Occupy Albany protesters arrested last year — and can not hold his office in contempt if he refuses, a state judge ruled.

Former State Senate leader Dean Skelos got a split result Thursday in his bid to subpoena damaging information about two key witnesses against him in his upcoming retrial on corruption charges in Manhattan federal court.

A renowned Columbia University Medical Center oncologist who has been lauded for a career spanning nearly a half - century is the key witness in the multimillion - dollar bribery and kickback case against state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, sources said Thursday.

Lawyers for G. Steven Pigeon are demanding that state prosecutors reveal the identify of a secret witness who has negotiated a plea agreement with federal authorities in the bribery and extortion case filed against the political operative.

Calls on the Commission, by the end of 2013, to submit a legislative proposal establishing an effective and comprehensive European whistleblower protection programme in the public and in the private sector to protect those who detect inefficient management and irregularities and report cases of national and cross-border corruption relating to EU financial interests and to protect witnesses, informers, and those who cooperate with the courts, and in particular witnesses testifying against mafia - type and other criminal organisations, with a view to resolving the difficult conditions under which they have to live (from risks of retaliation to the breakdown of family ties or from being uprooted from their home territory to social and professional exclusion); calls also on the Member States to put in place appropriate and effective protection for whistleblowers.

The Principal witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Nneka Ararume in the N400million arms scam against Olisa Metuh has stated before the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja how she helped the embattled National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, -LSB-...]

During closing arguments in the corruption trial against state Sen. Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, a lawyer for the younger Skelos told jurors that the government's case against the former majority leader relies on burdening the jury with heaps of emails, phone calls and witness testimony to distract jurors from the lack of a supposed smoking gun.

A prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of Mr. Waripamo - Owei Dudafa, on Monday testified against the former aide to ex-President, Jonathan, stating how he changed millions of dollars to naira for the accused.

Guldi states in those papers that he learned of the alleged payments from a witness who is expected to testify against him in the trial.

In a 90 - minute closing argument, Christopher P. Conniff, a defense lawyer, told jurors that the case against State Senator Dean G. Skelos and his son, Adam, amounted to little more than distractions, snippets of conversations taken out of context, and self - serving lies from two central witnesses.

Directed by he Georg Mass and starring Juliane Kohler, Liv Ullman and Ken Duken, the film is about Katrine, the child of a Norwegian woman and a German WWII occupation soldier who refuses to serve as a witness in a trial against the Norwegian state.

Meanwhile, Cambodia has recently witnessed a geopolitical realignment of sorts, as even though it still maintains decent, if not robust relations with neighboring Vietnam and the United States, Hun Sen has dramatically increased ties with China, not only economically but diplomatically as well.For example, at the 2012 ASEAN summit held in Phnom Penh, the Cambodian government blocked the drafting of a joint communiqué that condemned Chinese actions against Vietnam in disputed areas of the South China Sea.

Under the banner «Never Again», these courageous young people organised high - profile rallies and protests, and then stood witness in the gallery as their state legislature continued to vote against control of assault weapons and high - capacity magazines.

She has also contributed to tobacco control through her work as an expert witness in the State of Minnesota's lawsuit against the major tobacco companies.

This is the auditorium of Rockville Centre's South Side High School on Jan. 13, where approximately 120 students, teachers and education advocates witnessed the latest front in what has been an all - out war against Common Core, the education reform created by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers and financed with more than $ 4 billion of «Race to the Top» funds as part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

One person she cites several times is Henry Morgenthau, Sr. (1856 - 1946), who was the United States Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1913 to 1916, and as such bore witness to actions the Turkish government took against its Armenian citizens and did everything in his power to make sure those in the United States knew exactly what was taking place..

Represented South Africa at the Venice Biennale 1959 Solo exhibition of woodcuts at Wittenborn Gallery, New York Represented SA Touring exhibition, South and North America Painting and Sculpture, National Arts Club, New York Represented South Africa at Sao Paulo Biennale Represented on The National Arts Club International Exhibition of painting and sculpture, New York 1960 Represented South Africa at Ljubljana, Yugoslavia International graphic exhibition Exhibition of incised woodblock paintings at the Egon Guenther Gallery, Johannesburg 1961 Large mural, the Apocalypse, in Our Lady of the Rosary Roman Catholic Church Motsethabong, Welkom, Orange Free State Represented South Africa at Sao Paulo Biennale Made Stations of the Cross for Our Lady of Lourdes Roman Catholic Church, Rivonia, Sandton 1962 Guest Artist of the year at the Transvaal Academy Exhibition of Rock Faces, Egon Guenther Gallery, Johannesburg Designed tapestry St. Anne, woven by Marguerite Stephens, and carved the Stations of the Cross for St. Anne's Anglican Church, Piggs Peak, Swaziland 1963 Appointed President of South African Council of Artists in succession to Walter Battiss Principal witness against State at the Harold Ruben blasphemy trial Represented South Africa at International Conference of Plastic Arts at UNESCO, New York Became founder member of the Amadlozi Group consisting of Eduardo Villa, Sydney Kumalo, Cecily Sash and Guiseppo Cattaneo.

The United States» dual pledge to implement the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and to support legislation that would stop U.S. states from allowing secretive front companies to be set up represents an important step forward in the global fight against corruption and corporate secrecy, said campaign group Global WiStates» dual pledge to implement the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and to support legislation that would stop U.S. states from allowing secretive front companies to be set up represents an important step forward in the global fight against corruption and corporate secrecy, said campaign group Global Wistates from allowing secretive front companies to be set up represents an important step forward in the global fight against corruption and corporate secrecy, said campaign group Global Witness.

Witness, for example, the current action against the Clean Power Plan here in the US brought forward by two dozen state attorneys general.

Global Witness's (1) October 2006 report «Heavy Mittal» (2) warned that the agreement is heavily weighted against the Liberian government, ceding important sovereign and economic rights to Mittal - almost creating a state within a state.

Recent UN Security Council resolutions have called on governments to take measures against those sourcing minerals from armed groups in eastern Congo, but so far member states have shied away from placing any companies or individuals under UN sanctions, despite abundant evidence published by the UN Group of Experts and Global Witness.

Global Witness is calling on the Honduran state to crack down on an online smear campaign against groups working to protect land and environmental defenders in Honduras

The latest in the salacious saga of Michigan Judge Wade McCree has been making the law blog rounds this week (via Jonathan Turley, Above the Law), with the release of McCree's answer to the state Judicial Tenure Commission's complaint against him over a series of alleged ethics violations related to his sexual relationship with a complaining witness in a child support case.

It should be noted that the SFO has repeatedly and publicly criticised the tendency for companies to claim privilege over the accounts of witnesses, making clear in relation to DPAs that it views the «free supply of relevant information», including «the account of any witnesses spoken to by those conducting the enquiry» to be «the hallmark of cooperation».10 This approach is also codified in the DPA Code of Practice, which states that the SFO will take into account whether a company has disclosed relevant witness accounts as a public interest factor tending against a prosecution.

Mr Sabou appealed against the decision and claimed during the procedure before the Supreme Administrative Court that the information obtained against him had been acquired illegally, since he had not been informed of the requests for information and not been able to take part neither in formulating the questions to the foreign tax authorities nor to take part in the examination of witnesses in the other Member States.

As California Labor and Employment Lawyers, we boast an extensive knowledge of the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), and other state and federal laws that protect employees who have either suffered or witnessed workplace harassment and discriminatory practices and have been retaliated against.

Despite its net positive effect on the lives of millions of Floridians and visitors to the state, an unintended consequence [of the Americans with Disabilities Act] has been the proliferation of frivolous lawsuits aimed primarily at racking up attorney and expert - witness fees against Florida businesses and property owners.

This phrase refers to the Fifth Amendment, which states that nobody can be forced to provide evidence or bear witness against themselves in a criminal case.

Among Mr. Born's recent significant litigation matters are representation of various European entities in the Holocaust Assets and Forced Labor litigations, representation of a major US petroleum company in defending against efforts to enforce purported foreign judgments in the United States and testimony as an expert witness in a number of proceedings in Swedish, English, US, Japanese and other courts.

At the remedy hearing S relied upon a witness statement in which he stated that he had applied for more than 576 interviews and only secured 6 interviews, and had experienced difficulties in explaining the reason for his dismissal and his claim against the Respondent trust.

Obtained an injunction against the United States government against its threat to disclose the identity of a person guaranteed anonymity under the federal witness protection program.

102, 527 S.E. 2d 898 [3](2000), which states: [l] n order for statements in medical records to be utilized as a prior inconsistent statement against a witness when the medical provider who recorded the witness» statements in the medical record is not present at trial, the trial court must be able to reasonably infer from the face of the records that the witness was the actual source of the statements at issue if the witness denies having made the statement.

Defense attorneys warned against the change, saying the preliminary hearing helps winnow out weak cases and prompt plea bargaining when the state's evidence and key witnesses appear strong.

Dr. Garber has served as an expert witness in a number of states, and his experience includes international Hague Convention matters, Daubert arguments against «parental alienation syndrome,» the critique and review of Guardian ad litem, and as a custody evaluator.

Commissioned by MA State Licensing Board as an expert witness (to investigate complaints against other home inspectors) and contributed to the book — 21 Things Home Inspectors Should Know.