The report analyzed 4,000 cases of alleged prosecutorial misconduct from 1997 through 2009 and found that in 707 of those cases there was a judicial finding of prosecutorial misconduct; 3,000 rejected the allegation; and 282 did not make any finding.
"It is not a judicial finding.
The N.C.A.A., in turn, has interpreted the action as if there was never a judicial finding.
The man, Victor Tyson, was exonerated on a judicial finding of innocence, in which a judge, regardless of a jury's decision, essentially acquits a defendant.
Was he making a judicial finding?
A year after all this was hashed out at a court hearing, a judicial finding is still awaited, lawyers for the battling lawyers said last week.
And I have directed the Attorney General to work with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court so that during this transition period, the database can be queried only after a judicial finding, or in a true emergency.
As a first step, he said, the Administration would limit the number of individuals that N.S.A. analysts can target when querying the Prism databases, and he asked the Attorney General, Eric Holder, "to work with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court so that, during this transition period, the database can be queried only after a judicial finding, or in a true emergency".
His Supreme Court appeal, Harris v. United States, No. 00-10666, theraises raises the important question that the Apprendi decision left hanging: if a judicial finding cannot be allowed to pierce the sentencing ceiling, can it logically be permitted to raise the sentencing floor, through the imposition of a mandatory minimum sentence?
"We now have a judicial finding that Megrahi was acting as an agent or employee for Libya and that the state is responsible for his actions". The suits were filed in U.S. District Court in New York in 1996 under a law allowing victims to sue nations for terrorist acts.
