Counsel for respondent immediately objected but the court at the time did not admonish the prosecutor or tell the jury to disregard the statement, though it did cover the matter later in its general instructions.
He asked the judge, Alfred A. Delucchi, in the trial in Redwood City to tell the jury to disregard the statements.
Roberts v. Russell, therefore, must stand for the proposition that as a constitutional matter, the risk that a jury will not follow instructions to disregard the statements of one codefendant against another is too great to tolerate in a criminal trial.
Nevertheless, the methodology to calculate confidence intervals for NNTs is described and explained in the statistical as well as in the medical literature [ 12, 22- 27], so that the unusual scale of NNTs should be no argument to disregard the CONSORT statement.
Nevertheless, Judge Urbina found that "in their zeal to bring charges," investigators and prosecutors had extensively used those statements, disregarding "the warning of experienced, senior prosecutors" that "the course of action threatened the viability of prosecution".
But they said that Mr. Berger told the administrator to disregard the Bear Stearns statements because they only represented a small portion of the fund's actual holdings.
But in its own statement it called the former employees' assertions "offensive" and a "violation of policies we have in place to safeguard against abuses". Attorneys for Wells Fargo and its board members are seeking to have the case dismissed and argued in court filings this week that Judge Curtis Karnow should for now disregard the employees' statements.
Disregarding the type-token distinction.
"Yes, ladies and gentlemen please disregard the witnesses' last statement," Judge Sherry Stephens told jurors.
For example, when a trial witness answers a question with an unresponsive and highly prejudicial response, it is commonplace for the judge to strike the answer and admonish the jury to disregard the witness's statement.
I quite frankly think that they hope that you find him guilty of something a little less than first-degree murder.' There is no evidence of that whatsoever, of course, you are instructed to disregard that statement made by the District Attorney.
