Lord Justice Scott Baker: The fourth coroner to be appointed to preside over the inquests, he was the man to finally preside over them in court.
Even Sergeant Bales himself, finally pressed by the presiding judge, Col. Jeffery Nance, to explain more deeply what happened, seemed baffled.
Finally, in April of 2005, the presiding judge, Leonie Brinkema (who by all accounts conducted the case in an exemplary manner), accepted his pleas.
Finally congressman Steve Womack, the temporary presiding officer, took to the stage to call for a voice vote on the party rules, with partisans on both sides loudly screaming.
* Barack Obama, meanwhile, continues to draw the support of former President Bill Clinton, who is no doubt enjoying that Mr. Obama has finally started crediting him with presiding over a booming economy.
Together they paint a picture of a President who finally did the right thing after presiding over years of failure and calling it success.
When Judge Eugene H. Nickerson, who is presiding in the case, finally rose to the bench at 4 50 p.m., the courtroom was as silent as stone.
Otto Wernicke plays pudgy police inspector Lohmann, and Gustaf Gründgens is Schränker, the crime overlord who will finally sit in judgment on Beckert, presiding over something between a kangaroo court and a revolutionary tribunal.
The sonnet was handed around the courtroom, and finally fell into the hands of the presiding Judge Roseman.
With the opening of the Mariinsky II, the conductor is finally realizing his long-held goal of presiding over a St . Petersburgarts complex with the scope and versatility of Lincoln Center, where Mr. Gergiev has been a frequent presence.
