Sentence examples for excused for cause from inspiring English sources

Additionally, trial judges control who is excused for cause, and often reflect both their own and the system's biases.

Someone with a criminal background is vulnerable to being excused for cause by the judge, particularly in criminal cases, as is a person who has been a victim of a crime, has a family member in prison, or has a bias against police or law enforcement.

Outside observers could be excused for thinking little is required to cause uproar in Scottish football circles, but the unveiling of Maurice "Mo" Johnston from Nantes to Rangers in 1989 seems to be the daddy of all JFK moments.

In this way ignorance can be a legitimate excuse for causing unjustified harm.

However, since Aristotle, theorists have recognized that ignorance is only a legitimate excuse for causing unjustified harm when we are not responsible for our ignorance, i.e., when the ignorance is non-culpable (Nichomachean Ethics, Bk III).

The trial judge failed to conduct a voir dire sufficient to impanel an unbiased jury and improperly failed to excuse several jurors for cause.

Students will get a two-hour reprieve on lateness or be excused altogether for absences caused by a strike disruption without harm to their attendance rolls, he said.

Yet Trump's own inability to explain what should fill that great void provides neither excuse for inaction nor cause for despair.

A lot of lads here have been looking for any excuse to cause trouble.

In its most evil form, the cellphone excuses the injuries we cause others, for we cannot see their bleary, dew-dropped eyes when we deliver bad news or worse, no news at all.

At the moment of supreme tenderness, both reader and protagonist engage in an act of reinterpretation, "whereby she suddenly and clearly sees that the behavior she feared was actually the product of deeply felt passion... Once she learns to reread his past behavior and thus to excuse him for the suffering he has caused her, she is free to respond warmly to his occasional acts of tenderness".