The prosecutors' office has given steady "no comments" when asked why Assistant District Attorney Ann Rundle did not use a peremptory challenge to send Mr. Guber packing.
Not even the peremptory chopping off of part of Mr. Shin's middle finger — an event that warrants only two paragraphs in Mr. Harden's parade of horrors — was enough to set Mr. Shin's escape plans in motion.
We will not make any peremptory decisions, nor will we take actions that might impact negatively on Rockefeller research in the long term.
As citizens, we are members of the normative community whose values the law purports to express: if it is to address us as citizens, and as responsible agents, it must speak to us not in the peremptory, coercive voice of a sovereign who commands our obedience, but in the rational, normative voice of values which demand our allegiance as the values of our polity.
These duties are not articulated as peremptory duties that companies "must" engage in, but as actions they "should" undertake.
It is true that Abramson was not necessarily any more peremptory or erratic than male predecessors like Raines or A. M. Rosenthal.
Iraqis familiar with Grand Ayatollah Sistani's temperament and pronouncements are already referring to the statement as a hukm, which is a peremptory ruling not to be trifled with.
But there is no mistaking the visceral power of Hunter's performance: small, sensual and peremptory, she not only has the rolled-up sleeve quality of the working artist but also hints at the appetite for self-destruction of the reckless visionary.
The Court noted race-based peremptory challenges not only violate a defendant's constitutional rights, but in "denying a person participation in jury service on account of his race, the State also unconstitutionally discriminates against the excluded juror".
While a defendant is not obliged to use peremptory challenges to cure a trial court's erroneous denial of a defendant's for-cause challenge, if the defendant does so, the defendant may not rely on the error for automatic reversal.
