Sentences with phrase «trial judges tell»

Many trial judges tell me that they just don't have the time to craft beautiful and elegant and varied sentences.

«While this court must take and does take the issue of abuse of a child very seriously,» the footnote said, «the fact that a trial judge tells parents that unless one of them «cops to an admission of what happened to the child» they are going to lose their child, flies in the face of not only the CPSL, but of the entire body of case law with regard to best interests of the child and family reunification.

A New Brunswick trial judge told me that the main determinant of the result of a trial is how the witnesses testify.

In his charge to the jury the trial judge told the jury to look especially carefully at the evidence of the defence witnesses, the appellant and the complainant because they were persons of unsavoury character.

Prior to giving their verdict the Trial Judge told the Jury that «From that evidence you are asked to draw inferences about how hard Mrs. Brideaux struck Mrs. Cahoon, and from those inferences you are asked to draw another inference about what injuries that impact caused to Mrs. Cahoon.»

Not exact matches

The judge in charge of the John Edwards trial is telling jurors to «go back to work» on deliberating the case, CNN's Jeffrey Toobin reported.

Recent Spanish media reports claiming Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo has been negotiating a deal to avoid prison due to his tax arrears are «just noise and smoke» rising now as the judge may be about to move the case forward to trial, a source at the Spanish tax authority has told ESPN FC.

Ex-lobbyist Todd Howe, likely to serve as the federal government's key cooperating witness in a wide - ranging corruption trial this fall involving past associates of Cuomo, «has obtained employment and a residence in the District of Idaho,» his attorneys told a judge.

U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni, openly frustrated by the pace of the trial's proceedings, said she plans on telling the jury first thing Thursday it's likely they won't begin deliberations in the trial until the week of March 5.

The jurors in the bribery trial of Joe Percoco and three other defendants, now in its seventh week, told the judge Tuesday that they are deadlocked, and that the only thing they can agree on is that they disagree.

Two others were also excused when they told Manhattan federal Judge Valerie Caproni that their hatred of corruption was so strong they wouldn't want themselves on the jury if they were on trial.

NEW YORK — Defense lawyers in the trial of Joseph Percoco and three business executives told a judge Wednesday they plan on bringing a full slate of witnesses in an effort to clear their clients — in a case that has brought scrutiny about the inner workings of the Cuomo administration.

At the resumed hearing of the case, counsel to the Federal Government, Mr Rotimi Jacobs, SAN had told the Judge that the case was slated for commencement of trial and that he was fully ready with his witnesses that will testify in the case.

But lawyer Richard Morvillo assured a federal judge that Howe will tell the truth when he takes the stand next week in the bribery trial of a former high - ranking state official and three business executives.

Federal prosecutor Catherine Mirabile told the judge Tuesday that the government anticipated the trial would last six to eight weeks.

Ex-lobbyist Todd Howe, likely to serve as the federal government's key cooperating witness in a wide - ranging corruption trial this fall involving past associates of Governor Andrew Cuomo, «has obtained employment and a residence in the District of Idaho,» his attorneys told a judge on June 15.

NEW YORK (AP)-- The judge at the bribery trial of a former top aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has told jurors to keep trying after they again...

But Manhattan federal Judge Valerie Caproni kept the trial on track by personally phoning the juror and telling her to come to court.

Several potential jurors at the federal securities fraud trial of Martin «Pharma Bro» Shkreli were excused after telling the judge they couldn't be impartial toward the flamboyant former pharmaceutical CEO because of his notoriety for raising the cost of a life - saving drug 5,000 percent.

Indicted state Sen. Malcolm Smith caught a big break when a federal judge shot down a bid by prosecutors to tell jurors at his bribery trial next month how he once offered to sell Albany votes like shares of stock.

A prosecutor at the Skelos trial told the judge that one of the defendants had sought to discuss a possible plea deal in the federal bribery and extortion case.

Indicted state Sen. Malcolm Smith caught a big break Thursday when a federal judge shot down a bid by prosecutors to tell jurors at his bribery trial next month how...

The second jury in the Black Sunday fire trial told the judge last night that they were deadlocked after three days of deliberation.

The upcoming trial of Councilman Larry Seabrook may be further delayed after his lawyer, Murray Richman (aka «Don't Worry Murray) told a judge that he - Richman - may have a conflict of interest with one of the witnesses.

U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni told jurors Tuesday there was «no way» the trial would be done before the end of next week.

Acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim, the head of the federal prosecutor's office in Manhattan, recently told the judge that breaking the case into two trials is fair in order to accommodate scheduling conflicts for defense lawyers as well as Ciminelli's health issues.

The presiding judge, Valerie E. Caproni of Federal District Court, told jurors at the outset of the trial that the government must prove that Mr. Silver knowingly participated in a scheme to defraud and «received things of value in the form of bribes or kickbacks, and that he knew when he accepted those things he was expected, in exchange, to take official action as the opportunity arose.»

The federal judge overseeing Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez's (N.J.) corruption trial told the senator's lawyer to «shut up for a moment» on Wednesday.

Chicago, Illinois (CNN)- A federal jury weighing the fate of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich in his corruption trial told the judge on Thursday it has reached unanimous agreement on two of the 24 counts, but can not agree on 11 others and has yet to consider the rest.

In the course of his trial, Lamido had through his counsel, Offiong Offiong, SAN told the court that the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, in transferring the criminal matter from Justice Adeniyi Ademola to Justice Quadri, had exceeded his powers.

Ex Cllr Ian Dolby has been told by a Judge to expect a custodial sentence, after he changed his plea to guilty part way through his trial.

When he met the judge on 5 October, he was told that the trial would not commence until 10 days later, says Fang.

The judge tells the lawyer that the speech was one of the most persuasive he had ever heard... but we don't hear it, or see anything of the trial.

Not so, like lawyers bringing up inadmissible evidence or points in trial and the judge tells the jury to ignore it, the damage is already done.

- also not that if you also want the jury to assess the fine if they find you guilty then you NEED to ask the judge to tell them to do that PRIOR to the start of the trial.

If they don't dismiss it and reschedule the trial (reset it), object to the judge telling him that you showed up ready for trial and it was a great inconvenience to you (maybe you took off work, or arranged child care) and that to reset it would be a burden to you, then ask for dismissal.

Deep within the data lies a story, whether it's a story to tell a judge at trial or to pitch to potential clients.

I can not tell you how I would have explained this trial Judge's Ruling other than to explain the appeal process and hope the client is patient.

Criminal defendant who pleaded guilty, then appealed his conviction based on his attorney's failure to tell him he would be deported, could not show he had been prejudiced by this failure because, (1) just before accepting his plea, the judge told him he would likely be deported, and (2) he could not show he was likely to obtain a more favorable result by going to trial.

In today's blog, high net worth family and divorce lawyer Lorne N. MacLean, QC,, reviews a recent BC Supreme Court decision where the judge commented on how assessing credibility in a trial involving the use of interpreters severely compromises a judge's ability to assess who is telling the truth.

In fact, Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin recently made a similar argument, telling the Toronto Star that ``... the difficulty we have with racial minorities, indigenous people is that we're just beginning this process of getting the judges in place on the trial benches and so on.»

After clerking with a state trial court judge for fourteen months, I can tell you it's been an amazing experience.

«I think the [Supreme] court reaffirmed the idea that... the oppression remedy is a broad remedy, [meant to be] applied flexibly by a trial judge, taking into account the particular circumstances of any case,» Douglas Mitchell of Irving Mitchell Kalichman LLP in Montreal and lead counsel for the respondent, told Legal Feeds.

His bias was significantly exposed during the trial and, as the judge said a number of times, he was exposed as someone who had not told the truth.

At a BC Supreme Court trial we direct the telling the story to a judge or jury stating all the facts about how car accident injuries impact a clients life.

Trial judges routinely tell officers on the witness stand that they may use their notes to refresh their memory and that they must also have an independent recollection of the events.

Referring to Mr. Lau's testimony, the Trial Judge awards $ 30,000 aggravated damages and states «I do not need medical evidence to prove that a false accusation of failing to tell the truth which is published can lead to mental distress».

The instructions, to be delivered by the judge at the outset of a trial and again before deliberations, tell jurors not to use the Web to conduct their own research about the case and not to use social media to talk about the case with anyone.

«He is frightfully smart and frightfully hard - working,» civil liberties lawyer Harvey Silverglate told the Globe, while Lee Gesmer at Mass Law Blog wrote, «This is a great nomination — Judge Gants is truly a superstar of the Massachusetts Superior Court — without question one of the best, if not the best, minds on the state trial court.»

Nowhere in para. 86 of the trial reasons are we formally told what «principles of causation» the trial judge used to make the findings of fact listed in para. 86.