Sentence examples for authorize appeals from inspiring English sources

Judges are usually reluctant to authorize appeals at an early stage of a case, so Goldman faces an uphill battle to get appellate review of the case.

One express purpose of 18 U.S.C. 3731 19766 ed). is to permit appeals from orders dismissing indictments "as to any one or more counts". A "count" is the usual organizational subunit of an indictment, and it would therefore appear that Congress intended to authorize appeals from any order dismissing an indictment in whole or in part.

Congress could not therefore authorize appeals to the Supreme Court in a case where its judicial power could not be exercised, where its judgment would not be final and conclusive upon the parties, and where processes of execution were not awarded to carry it into effect.

(Recall that the Judiciary Act of 1789 explicitly authorized appeals in removal cases).

By its plain terms, moreover, this second paragraph of § 3731 does not authorize this appeal, since the ruling excluding evidence occurred after the defendant had been put in jeopardy and before verdict.

This is because the Solicitor General has responsibility not only for representing the United States in the Supreme Court, but also for authorizing all appeals from federal trial courts to the courts of appeals, for all amicus filings in appellate courts, and for interventions by the government where the constitutionality of federal laws is drawn into question.

We have on several occasions observed that the jurisdictional statute authorizing Government appeals, 18 U.S.C. 3731 19766 ed)., was " 'intended to remove all statutory barriers' " to appeals from orders terminating prosecutions.

It was authorized in "appeals of murder", that is, retrials by private prosecution following an acquittal for murder.

Solicitor General Seth P. Waxman authorized an appeal this afternoon.

Since the Government is not authorized to appeal from all adverse rulings in criminal cases, it is especially important that it specify precisely what it claims to have been the appealable ruling.

Although section 16 of the Radio Act of 1927 (U. S. C. Supp. III, title 47, § 96 (47 USCA § 96)) authorized an appeal from the Commission's order to the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, it was conceded at bar that appellant took none.