Sentence examples for errors of legal from inspiring English sources
APPELLATE courts are charged with correcting errors of legal interpretation in lower-court rulings; they are not supposed to meddle with the facts.
He is the editor of The Yale Book of Quotations (Yale University Press), the Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations, and Trial and Error: An Oxford Anthology of Legal Stories.
Despite an appeals committee's reversal of that decision in late April, because of legal errors in the original verdict, her case is not over.
Jeffrey Kessler, the players' lawyer, said O'Toole's decision would be one of "a number of legal errors" that will be used to appeal the verdict.
The four-judge majority cited a series of legal errors they said Judge Sauls made, including accepting the ballots into evidence but then presenting Mr. Gore "with the ultimate Catch-22" by refusing to look at those ballots.
And federal judges have rejected scores of the Queens rulings in recent years, complaining of legal errors, "combative" hearings and a tone that one court called "brusque, intemperate and unhelpful".
Rivera was convicted of murder in 1993, and again in 1996 after his first conviction was reversed for a host of legal errors.
Nevertheless, because of legal errors a new trial was ordered; and because of the passage of 18 years convictions would have been unlikely.
I almost instantly identified with the infinitely quotable comedy of legal errors, seeing shades of myself in Elle Reese Witherspoonn) ― she was upending the expectations of what a blonde should be, as I was unsuccessfully attempting to integrate pink into my strict middle school dress code.
In 10 other cases he joined a majority of the court in reversing because of legal error.
"The system puts prisoners in the position of investigating new facts and presenting claims of legal error, which is a little tough if you're on death row".
