Sentences with phrase «testify in his defense»

Both Dean and Adam Skelos said that they had thought long and hard about their decision not to testify in their defense in the trial.

Stanford University economist Eric Hanushek, a fellow at the libertarian Hoover Institute, has been making this argument for three decades in academic papers, op - eds and courtrooms, where he is often called to testify in defense of unequal school funding schemes in which rich towns receive disproportionate state aid compared with their high - poverty peers.

Recently Hansen testified in defense of students who defaced a coal facility in England.

And I had testified in defense of others who had broken the law.

Ezra Levant testified in his defense in his libel suit.

It includes expenses your insurer incurs to subpoena witnesses, conduct depositions, and hire experts to testify in your defense.

Not exact matches

In contrast, a psychiatrist testifying for the defense said Routh had schizophrenia and had described seeing neighbors and friends turning into pig - human hybrids.

The question of whether Tsarnaev will testify in his own defense is a complicated one.

Gonzalez said defense witnesses will testify that it was set in hair - trigger mode and had no safety device, and that trained law enforcement officers had accidentally fired the same model firearm.

But though Article 2 of the Charter sought to outlaw any use of armed force between or among states except in defense against aggression, it did not clearly define what counted as aggression — a matter that remains unsettled, as the recent debate over what counts as legitimate preemption testifies.

One expert witness testified for the defense that the photograph of a penis with a finger inserted into it «was a very ordered, classical composition» and that another photograph, of an arm in an anus, was formally similar to the photograph of a flower.

«Many [lay midwives] shy away from breech births,» Anne Frye said, testifying for the defense at the trial of a midwife charged in the death of a stillborn breech infant.

Testifying in his own defense, Halloran admitted taking the cash, but said he considered the money payment for consulting services and never procured any public funds for the real estate developers / FBI agents.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio won't be called to testify in an ongoing Long Island corruption trial, one defense lawyer said.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand greets panel members from the military and the Defense Department testifying on Capitol Hill on March 13 before the subcommittee's hearing on sexual assault in the military.

Kerry Kennedy testified in her own defense in her drugged driving trial, saying she wished she had checked the label on her pill bottle before she took it.

Those assertions, made in pre-sentencing prosecution papers cited in a defense memo, said the amount of money the former party leader illegally took was more than $ 400,000, and that he obstructed justice by attempting to get three potential witnesses to falsely testify in favor of his defense.

Aiello and Gerardi could testify as soon as Friday in their own defense, but their attorneys said they want to know first see if the judge will allow them to be asked questions about the upcoming «Buffalo Billion» federal corruption case, in which both men are also charged.

A number of witnesses were to testify in favor of a marriage equality plank in the platform: Marc Solomon, national campaign director for Freedom to Marry; Allison Herwitt, legislative director for the Human Rights Campaign; Army Chief Warrant Officer Charlie Morgan, a lesbian New Hampshire guardsman with stage - four incurable breast cancer and a plaintiff in Servicemembers Legal Defense Network's lawsuit against the Defense of Marriage Act; Michael Macleod - Ball, the American Civil Liberties Union's chief of staff for the Washington Legislative Office; and Aaron Zellhoefer, a gay delegate to the Democratic National Convention representing the National Stonewall Democrats.

In the coming week, Silver's attorneys must decide if they will mount a defense and if their client will testify.

The findings of the investigation by state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office of the fatal Troy police shooting of a 37 - year - old black man could undermine jurors» confidence in officers testifying in future cases, defense lawyers said.

Meanwhile, lawyers on Wednesday confirmed that they expect Smith to take the stand during the trial and testify in his own defense.

Everett testified in his own defense, recounting his actions that day when signatures were collected for his petitions.

TROY — The findings of the investigation by state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office of the fatal Troy police shooting of a 37 - year - old black man could undermine jurors» confidence in officers testifying in future cases, defense lawyers said.

The feds also accuse Dean Skelos of misrepresenting the kind of work he did for his law firm, and say they plan to use that against him at trial if he testifies in his own defense or tries to call character witnesses.

Chicago Tribune: Blagojevich plans to take witness stand at his corruption retrial, sources say Rod Blagojevich's retrial on corruption charges has been mostly a scaled - back repeat of last summer's first installment, but that could soon change dramatically if the former governor testifies in his own defense and calls Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel among his first witnesses.

After the last prosecution witness had ended their testimony, U.S. District Court Judge Valerie E. Caproni addressed Silver, «You have a constitutional right to testify in your own defense.

BY ANDY HUMM Abel Cedeno, 18, the bullied gay Bronx student who said he defended himself with a knife against an attack from classmate Matthew McCree September 27 in front of their fellow students and two teachers, testified in his own defense on Tuesday morning before a Bronx grand jury, and the second - degree murder charge -LSB-...]

In a case in which no witness testified directly to knowledge of an illegal quid pro quo, how Judge Valerie E. Caproni tells jurors to interpret the evidence as it relates to the law could sway deliberations — a fact certainly not lost on the government or the defensIn a case in which no witness testified directly to knowledge of an illegal quid pro quo, how Judge Valerie E. Caproni tells jurors to interpret the evidence as it relates to the law could sway deliberations — a fact certainly not lost on the government or the defensin which no witness testified directly to knowledge of an illegal quid pro quo, how Judge Valerie E. Caproni tells jurors to interpret the evidence as it relates to the law could sway deliberations — a fact certainly not lost on the government or the defense.

Ganesh Ramsaran testified in his own defense Thursday during his murder trial in Chenango County Court in Norwich.

Neuropathologist Jan Leestma of Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, who testified for the defense in the Woodward case, has come to a different conclusion.

Now the launch of the test orbiter (overseen by NASA) is delayed until April 2009 and the first replacement is pushed to 2012, NOAA and Defense Department officials testified before the House of Representatives science committee in November.

Further training as a forensic scientist usually includes specific modules, such as training to testify in court facing a hostile defense lawyer, as well as specialist - material courses, such as the in - depth paint chemistry course I took as part of my training to become a forensic paint expert.

Dr. Greger has lectured at the Conference on World Affairs, the National Institutes of Health, and the International Bird Flu Summit, testified before Congress, appeared on The Dr. Oz Show and The Colbert Report, and was invited as an expert witness in defense of Oprah Winfrey at the infamous «meat defamation» trial.

In the original, it's an attorney who testified against Cady, but the remake brilliantly switches it to Cady's defense attorney (Nick Nolte) who made the decision to bury some information that might have helped his client.

Peyser is a named defendant in the Massachusetts school finance case, and both Peyser and Costrell testified for the defense.

So while he testified on behalf of the state, he also testified he was not necessarily in favor of the consequences being attached to the state's teacher evaluation output, even if as currently being positioned by the defense as «low - stakes.»

A 30 - year veteran of teaching in California school districts testified for the defense today in Vergara v. California, saying state laws protecting teacher employment are critical to maintaining teacher effectiveness in the classroom.

While the district withdrew as a defendant in the case before the trial started, she was called by the defense in an effort to impeach the testimony of a plaintiffs» witness, Nicholas Melvoin, a former LA Unified teacher at Markham Middle School in Watts, who had testified last month that teacher layoffs in 2009 resulted in effective teachers being dismissed and morale at the school eroded.

Curiously, VAM advocate Tom Kane testified, but he did so in a way the made it unclear whether he saw himself as a witness for the defense or the plaintiffs.

The American Prospect's Rachel Cohen interviewed Jesse Rothstein, the former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor and a current public policy and economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who testified during the Vergara trials in defense of California's teacher tenure and seniority statutes.

We are introduced to La Rochefoucauld when he is about to testify in the trial of an accused war criminal and collaborator — for the defense.

The defense brought in art experts from across the country to testify about Mapplethorpe's technique.

Michael Oppenheimer, of Princeton University, who frequently testifies before Congress in favour of urgent action on climate change, was the Environmental Defense Fund's senior scientist for nineteen years and continues to advise it.

Today, in federal district court in Wichita, Judge Monti Belot is holding a hearing, at which a government expert will apparently try to convince the judge that two defense witnesses should be precluded from testifying at trial, as «Rwandan witnesses are inherently unreliable because they're controlled by the government of the African nation.»

Now, it's quite clear that there is nothing improper about a defense attorney calling her client to testify, even if she does not believe his testimony (as in Delchev).

In order to prove your case in court, your attorney may need to hire certain experts who can testify to certain facts of the case, give their expert opinions to the court, and refute inaccurate testimony given from the defensIn order to prove your case in court, your attorney may need to hire certain experts who can testify to certain facts of the case, give their expert opinions to the court, and refute inaccurate testimony given from the defensin court, your attorney may need to hire certain experts who can testify to certain facts of the case, give their expert opinions to the court, and refute inaccurate testimony given from the defense.

Mr. Collins, who testified in his own defense that he was kept in the dark about more than $ 2.4 billion in debt hidden by top officials at the financial services firm, bowed his head and closed his eyes in pain as the jury foreman recited the guilty verdicts before Southern District Judge Robert P. Patterson.

Alan Crotzer to Testify Before Congressional Subcommittee on Indigent Defense Florida Man Spent 24 Years in Prison for Someone Else's Crime On Thursday, June 4, Alan Crotzer will join two other members of the National Committee on the Right to -LSB-...]

If the victim refuses to testify, then they can not prove this in a way that the accused's defense can not pick apart.