The Court has not given any sound, principled justification for permitting the Court of Appeals to thrust itself into the trial process in this case.
He had done so because of frustration over lengthy delays in the trial process.
The dry catalogue of trial results Straw envisages will not expose bad judges and magistrates, nor faults in the trial process, nor sheer injustice.
In one session, even the stenographers employed by the Freedom of the Press Foundation as a way of injecting public accountability in the trial process struggled to keep up with Lind as she read.
The cost-effectiveness of house arrest is dependent on a number of conditions, including where in the trial process it is being used, how it is implemented, what types of offenders are deemed eligible, and whether they recidivate.
One political analyst who has been strongly supportive of the investigation, Oral Calislar of the newspaper Radikal, said that whatever failings there might be in the trial process, they are products of the military's distorting influence.
"It is not an easy power struggle to reach an end anytime soon, when the military tries to maintain its power and the government remains somewhat involved in the trial process," said Rusen Cakir, a columnist with Vatan, a daily newspaper.
The second class of constitutional error we called "structural defects". These "defy analysis by 'harmless-error' standards" because they "affec[t] the framework within which the trial proceeds," and are not "simply an error in the trial process itself". Id., at 309 310.4 See also Neder v. United States, 527 U. S. 1, 7 9 (1999).
"There was a fundamental irregularity in the trial process, because the accused was not arraigned in the presence of the jury panel as required," said lawyer Paul Galbally.
Since it's early in the trial process, Payne's ruling is a just minor setback for Rambus, and not the wide-ranging defeat investors seem to think it was.
