Sentence examples for in the absence of counsel from inspiring English sources

The very fact that extended interrogation in the absence of counsel may break a subject's will is one reason that the right to counsel is guaranteed in the criminal law.

The court first announced this rule in McNabb v. United States (1943), in a decision that nullified two second-degree-murder convictions because they were based almost entirely on confessions made after the defendants were subjected to three days of police questioning in the absence of counsel.

The absence of counsel at initial bail hearings also helps to explain the grossly disproportionate racial and class composition of today's pretrial jail population.

"We harbor no doubt that in the absence of the independent counsel statute the allegations surrounding the Clintons, Madison Guaranty and Whitewater would have been similarly investigated and prosecuted by the Department of Justice," the panel wrote.

Later that summer, the Trial Chamber sought submissions about the role that counsel could take in ensuring the fair presentation of the defence case, in particular in the absence of Milošević's cooperation with counsel or his refusal to give them instructions (Prosecutor v. Milošević 6 August 2004).

In the absence of leaks from the special counsel's office, the public is left to listen to the clothes, which are equally reticent, which is their elegance.

"In the absence of leaks from the special counsel's office," Troy Patterson wrote in the New Yorker, "the public is left to listen to the clothes, which are equally reticent, which is their elegance".

In the absence of ultrasound technology, participants were counseled to estimate their last menstrual period from which gestational age was approximated, or for the 6%% (n = 7/114) of women unable to estimate their last menstrual period, gestational age was estimated from the first available fundal height according to standard clinic procedures.

Diplomats from Sweden, which represents the US in North Korea in the absence of diplomatic ties, had been providing counsel to Mr Pae, reports said.

It was found that Choor Singh had two private contacts with a material witness in the course of the disciplinary proceedings, even though it is a well-established rule that a decision-maker should not have contact with any party to the proceedings or any of his witnesses in the absence of the other party or his counsel.

With the CPS struggling for cash, Edis offered to pay for it out of his own pocket, and, in the absence of CPS manpower, two junior crown counsels had to create the index themselves.