to her name. She presented this project about a transsexual running away from the city to his childhood home at a fishermen’s island after murdering a policeman. He must face his father whom he hasn’t seen in fifteen years and who doesn’t want anything to do with his transsexual ...
The grand juryreport, released on April 3, is wrought with similar findings in the recent review of the murder of 5-year-old Harmony Montgomery.Details of the girl’s murder and the state of New Hampshire’s inability to account for her whereabouts for two years gripped the nation. It was...
These very things (and ethics in a legal environment) have been much on my mind for two weeks — having been called up for jury duty with the San Francisco City & County Superior Court. It's been a very odd experience.Last week, I was almost empaneled on a jury for a man accused ...
Judicial hostility to jury nullification goes well beyond the stone wall of silence erected around the jury box. Case after case has approved jury instructions actually designed to imply that jurors do not have such power at all, or to "instruct the jury on the dimensions of their duty to th...
One day in January, Judge Finesilver appeared in the grand jury room. Silver-haired and imposing, he had been a judge for many years, first in the state courts, then on the federal bench after his appointment by President Richard M. Nixon. He was a Republican from an old, established ...
The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。 His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。 16 prosecutor n.起诉人;检察官,公诉人 参考例句: The defender argued down the prosecutor at the court.辩护人在法...
I'm 33 years old and have never been summoned for jury duty. I hear my friends complain about it from time to time. It doesn't seem like it's the most exciting thing in the world to most people. I personally think it might actually be sort of interesting, and I'm still hoping th...