Paul G. Cassell, a former federal judge who teaches at the University of Utah college of law, said most judges choose to allow disturbing evidence into trial.
Baseball's biggest dramas on Monday happened away from the actual games, with Andy Pettitte's backtracking testimony in Roger Clemens's trial disturbing enough that CBSSports.com's Jon Heyman believes it hurts his Hall of Fame credentials.
For an area that many find one of the most demanding aspect of critical care medicine the lack of consensus is disturbing, but this trial is a significant step in the right direction.
Samer Muscati, a Middle East researcher for the New York-based Human Rights Watch, said that one "disturbing element" of the trial was the way in which "the government is waging a public relations campaign against these activists and using them as an example".
After three weeks of disturbing testimony in the trial of a man accused of fatally shaking his 2-month-old daughter in 2007, the defendant's lawyer stood before the jury and began his summation with an oddly sentimental recollection about his own childhood.
The trial painted a disturbing picture of the Madison Square Garden corporate culture and gave ample indications of a hostile environment for some women.
Americans eager to try the newest cures and willing to trust their doctors' judgment might have second thoughts about seeking experimental treatments given the disturbing results of a clinical trial of a new brain procedure.
I explain that I found the experience of reading through victim statements relating to his trial to be disturbing, and that I can't bring myself to believe that he is innocent of the acts for which he was convicted.
For two weeks, Harper, a graduate of Penn State and a juror in Sandusky's trial, heard in disturbing detail how one of his alma mater's most famous graduates had preyed on and molested 10 boys as he was simultaneously building a charity and a reputation as a pillar of a tight-knit community where football and family were highly valued.
Even more disturbing was that most new trials ended up with clinically non-relevant designs, which meant that these trials were unable, regardless of the results, to generate important new knowledge and thus to considerably change clinical practice.
