Also appearing to work in Microsoft's favor is the very public record of the judge on the original trial.
At a preliminary hearing on Wednesday, a judge said they should go on trial charged with resisting arrest, looting and carrying explosive materials.
She spend six years as a trial judge on the U.S. District Court, and would replace Justice Souter as the only justice with experience as a trial judge -- a perspective that would enrich the judgments of the court.
Judge Burr said Mr Thorley was not on trial for acting inappropriately or inadvisably and a jury properly directed by a judge could not safely convict on eight of the charges.
In May, an Italian judge committed her for trial on charges of offending Islam, but this has served only to reinforce her self-image as a wronged Cassandra.
This story was amended on 25 March, 2013 to clarify that in evidence it was heard that Ian Winter QC gave advice to his client based on the original trial judge's comments.
He was New Hampshire's attorney general and a trial judge who later sat on the state's supreme court.
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Michael Vick's lawyers will go before a Virginia judge today to set a trial date on state dog fighting charges.
The basic question was whether the defense could put the war on trial, and the judge said look, that's a political question.
Judge Andrew Bright QC stopped the trial on Thursday following legal argument.
The retired Scottish judge, who sat on the Lockerbie bombing trial, said a criminal sentenced to two years in prison should serve the full term rather than being released early on parole.
On Friday, the judge in the trial ordered Ramirez to turn over the status messages within 10 days or face contempt of court charges, which could include fees or prison time, reports the Sacramento Bee.
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It was the trial judge who acquitted Rosenthal, on the ground that the transaction in question was not a crime.
The judge will rule on what evidence is admissible at trial.
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In December, on the advice of a panel of independent experts, a judge in Oregon excluded from a trial all expert testimony linking impants to auto-immune disorders, on the ground that it was scientifically dodgy.
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In the early days of the trial, Judge Ito said he hoped it would end with the lawyers on such friendly terms that he could have a post-trial dinner with all of them.
Once the inquiry has finished sifting through a great mass of evidence, the judge is expected to decide on what shape a criminal trial will take - who will be charged and with what, says the BBC's Alan Johnston in Grosseto.
He declined to give evidence at his trial - a decision on which judge Charles Byers told the jury it could draw an adverse inference - but his defence counsel, Oliver Saxby, said his client suffered from two psychiatric conditions which meant he had been "a severely disordered individual at the time of the killing".
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The appeals court reversed the ruling over decisions the trial judge made regarding evidence Roche could put on.
The judge set aside 12 days on her calendar for the jury trial, which is scheduled to begin on September 10.
The recording prompted the judge to ask why Mr. Azimi wasn't on trial, said Afghan and U.S. officials who have seen a videotape of the proceedings.
At 9.30am on June 30th, thanks to an immunity law passed by a parliament in which he has a majority, Mr Berlusconi's trial on charges of having bribed a judge was suspended indefinitely.
The judge agreed to an adjournment but said the trial would resume on 24 April.
Tracy Cameron was allowed to address the judge in the case of her son Grant, who is on trial for drug offences.
Judge Rutland put a temporary ban on reporting the death while the trial continued and kept it from jurors until after it had concluded.
Following his conviction, Foye's defence lawyer appealed against the way trial judge Lady Smith had arrived at her decision on the minimum jail term to be served.
On April 21, the High Court judge presiding over the trial ruled that Mahathir needed not testify, setting aside a defense application that the prime minister appear in court.
This is the line adopted by Esmail Nasseri, a respected former judge who is defending most of the 13 Iranian Jews currently on trial in Shiraz for spying for Israel.
And last month, after a judge had thrown out two additional charges, his trial began on four counts: failing to ensure that a financial stability group delivered the required results, failing to take action to reduce the size of Iceland's banking system, failing to verify the move of accounts from Landsbanki bank's Icesave program, and failing to focus more Cabinet meetings on the crisis.
The judge said Loughner's fair-trial rights were no longer on the line now that his criminal case has resolved.
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