Sentence examples for evidentiary burden from inspiring English sources

In agreeing to the payout, the government did, for the first time, impose a greater evidentiary burden.

Any Australian entering these areas is subject to a 10-year prison sentence (unless they have a valid excuse, the evidentiary burden for which lies on the accused).

Mr. Weissmann said that he objected to the sentence because it was the only one in the charge that was not balanced by another possibility; that is, that the jury should convict if the government did meet its evidentiary burden.

The watchdog group's brief to the Supreme Court called the law "an indispensable weapon in the prosecutorial arsenal for fighting government corruption" since it offers "a much easier evidentiary burden" than bribery law.

Consequently, the evidentiary burden it places on the government before granting a warrant is far from onerous, and the government retains a 72-hour grace period in which to conduct surveillance before applying for a Fisa warrant.

This is especially true, they say, in the wake of the Hamdan decision, which will likely result in Al Qaeda suspects being tried under more conventional rules, where the evidentiary burden is high.

See also Katz v. City Metal Co., 87 F.31 26, 31st1st Cir. 1996); Mandel v. Boston Phoenix, Inc., 456 F.3d 198, 208 (1st Cir. 2006) (citing Cook only in its discussions of evidentiary burdens).

Given the evidentiary and burden-of-proof requirements of our criminal justice system, it is obvious that any special prosecutor would face exactly the same problem.

iii) There is growing interest in RTIP; global actors in health and transport are increasingly targeting policymakers through policy reports that act as guides and an evidentiary basis for implementing evidence-informed policy interventions to reduce the burden of road traffic injuries [ 27- 30].

The consequences of evidentiary exclusion differ for plaintiffs and defendants because plaintiffs have the initial burden of presenting evidence.

The question is not "What would you do in the future?" but "How would you have voted then?" Sara Rosenbaum, professor at George Washington University's Milken Institute School of Public Health: What are your views on fundamental freedoms and what burdens individuals should be asked to bear and what evidentiary standards you would demand?