Yet, like Judge Walton in Libby's trial, the federal judge in this case, Steven McAuliffe, gave instructions to the jury that virtually demanded a guilty verdict.
The judge at Hoyt's trial asked the IRS to let duped investors settle for back taxes, with interest and penalties wiped out.
Lord Justice Pitchford, announcing the ruling of the three Appeal Court judges, said the judge at Halliwell's trial had been "entitled" to reach the decision she had when setting the minimum term.
With issues around the ex-soldier's vulnerability while being held at the Castlereagh interrogation centre in Belfast, his barrister argued that the trial judge's comments had been misinterpreted.
He was New Hampshire's attorney general and a trial judge who later sat on the state's supreme court.
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Last week, a judge postponed Mr Ajami's trial for the fifth time.
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But Lord Chief Justice Sir Declan Morgan, who heard the appeals with Lord Justices Higgins and Girvan, backed the trial judge's handling of the issues.
The barrister claimed the Secretary of State made an error in law by persistently interpreting the trial judge's conclusions as identifying no serious police default.
Lord Chief Justice Sir Declan Morgan held that Michael Stokes' subsequent legitimate success in the theory test helped "ameliorate" the trial judge's concerns about letting unqualified drivers onto the roads.
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.
That would mean California would be required to establish same-sex marriage, but the laws of no other state would change, and no court elsewhere would be obliged to follow the trial judge's precedent.
Rajaratnam, and the trial will be conducted by U.S. District Judge Richard Holwell, who predicts the trial will last ten weeks.
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Lohan, who was not required to attend Tuesday's arraignment, must be in court January 30 when the judge and lawyers prepare for next month's trial.
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.
The record label said in a statement that it would be appealing the High Court judge's decision: "With great respect to the trial judge, we consider he has reached the wrong conclusion, " said Neil Aspinall, manager of Apple Corps in a statement.
The judge said Loughner's fair-trial rights were no longer on the line now that his criminal case has resolved.
While clearing Clegg of the murder charge, the judge upheld an earlier trial's guilty verdict of attempting to wound the driver of the car.
The judge has adjourned Ms Hussein's trial until September to reassess whether she should indeed benefit from diplomatic immunity, despite having quit her job.
The signs did not look promising at the start of Mr Nuon Paet's trial: the judge told reporters that she believed the proceedings could be wrapped up within half a day.
"This ambiguity clearly played an important part in the trial, the judge's summing up and the verdict, " the commission said.
General Pinochet returned to Chile in March from London where he spent 16 months under house arrest while fighting a Spanish judge's efforts to extradite him for trial over human rights abuses.
The judge in the American government's antitrust trial of the software behemoth ruled not only that it used its monopoly power to stifle competition and innovation in the computer industry, but also that Microsoft's business practices during the 1990s harmed consumers.
Patients with drug-coated stents get clots at the rate of 1 per 500 patients per year, to judge from outside analyses of the company's trial results.
Steubenville, Ohio (CNN) -- The attorney for one of two teenagers charged with rape in a case that has consumed a small Ohio town wants a judge to postpone and move his client's trial, he said Sunday.
Consequently, they are asking Virginia's Prince William County Circuit Judge LeRoy Millette Jr. to toss out Muhammad's conviction or order a new trial.
The proposal was disclosed because the pre-trial judge had asked the tribunal's appeals chamber to define the crime of "criminal association".
The minor league stand-up comedy routine during Mr. Gupta's insider-trading trial has featured Judge Rakoff and Mr. Naftalis, who have been friends for decades.
Last October 12, Denver trial judge Richard Matsch denied McVeigh's request for further review and gave him 60 days to seek permission to appeal.
The judge in the trial called Guidant and Cook's agreement a "sham, " saying it violated a 1997 agreement that Boston Scientific and Cook signed with Angiotech Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: ANPI - news - people ).
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