Sentences with phrase «words of the criminal lawyers»
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Clearly, the definition allows for fraud to be wrongful without rising to the level of criminal, so Steyn's lawyers can argue that he used the word based on the first definition..
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Starting December 1, lawyers filing briefs with the Texas Supreme Court, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and the state's 14 intermediate appellate courts must contend with a new rule that limits the filings by the number of words.
The experience and expertise of a criminal lawyer are derived from understanding criminal procedure, forensic analysis, cross-examination and persuasion, the instinctive ability to react to and control a dynamic environment — where cases can be won or lost in a split second based on a single word.
In other words, a top criminal defense lawyer in Joliet likely is not the best choice for you if you are charged with burglary in Waukegan unless that lawyer goes to that court location all of the time.
So far, only three published studies have analyzed the association between brief readability and case outcome, 50 and no studies have analyzed that association in the trial courts, where most lawyers practice.51 Long and Christensen sampled 882 appellate briefs from the Supreme Court, federal appellate courts, and state supreme courts.52 Their dependent variable was the outcome of the appeal (affirmed or reversed), while their independent variable was readability measured by the Flesch Reading Ease score as calculated by Microsoft Word.53 For federal appellate and state supreme court briefs, the researchers coded control variables for federal or state court, standard of review, presence of a dissenting opinion, and readability of the opinion deciding the appeal.54 For United States Supreme Court briefs, the researchers coded control variables for constitutional issue, criminal or civil case, presence of a dissenting opinion, and opinion readability.55 They found no statistically significant correlation between readability and outcome in the briefs in their study.56