hearing. 2.A procedure that ascertains effectiveness, value, proper function, or other quality: assay,essay,proof,test,tryout. 3.An operation employed to resolve an uncertainty: experiment,experimentation,test. 4.A trying to do or make something: ...
in Soviet law, a stage of criminal procedure that follows the institution of proceedings and ends either with submission of the case with a conclusion to indict to the procurator or with dismissal of the case. The purpose of the preliminary investigation is a detailed, full, and objective eluci...
If dismissal is proposed by Duffy, under Vermont law, Swanson is entitled to a hearing before either the Village Trustees or a Vermont Superior Court judge. Fraas said before the hearing last week that she hoped it would not get that far. If it does, Swanson will ask for an open hearing...
Rather controversially, Willis wrote to La Trobe immediately following the committal hearing but prior to the bushrangers’ trial, noting that should the death sentence be passed, “it would have a much more effectual example were that sentence carried into execution within a very short period inst...
These twelve thousand persons are thus fully committed to the Union and to perpetuate freedom in the State--committed to the very things, and nearly all things, the nation wants--and they ask the nation's recognition and its assistance to make good this committal. Now, if we reject and ...
Baby in microwave as a joke ; Committal hearing for man charged with the murder of his sonEmma McBryde
Secondly, because of the publicity surrounding Adams' committal hearing, the law was changed to allow defendants to ask for such hearings to be held in private. Finally, although a defendant had not been required within recorded legal history to give evidence in his own defence, the judge ...
when she was out of hearing, carried out her terrible purpose. Every link is now in its place and the chain is complete. The papers may ask why the mere was not dragged in the first instance, but it is easy to be wise after the event, and in any case the expanse of a reed-fille...
We do know that, in relation to sections 4 and 5, their Lordships seem to have been influenced by the defence argument that Swift J’s misdirection had been pivotal in Woolmington being found guilty because, by way of contrast, the ‘properly directed’ Taunton jury hearing the same evidenc...
6 as found by a special select panel last Congress. The committee vowed to hold additional hearings throughout the year, beginning Tuesday with a hearing on the unsolved case of two pipe bombs left at the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee that day, and produce a ...