Speaking only for myself, I think that if I were ever mistakenly sent to Syria to be tortured for a year, only to be greeted, upon release, by the United States government's refusal to acknowledge, rectify, or apologize for their error, I should hope I'd have at least one sharp-tongued judge probing the matter in depth!
Not every gathering needs to be a concours d'élégance where white-gloved judges probe the undersides of pristine Duesenbergs in search of a historically incorrect hose clamp, however.
France's AMF stock market regulator said on Tuesday it handed over documents about possibly illegal share buybacks made by media company Vivendi Universal to French judges probing the matter.
Three appellate judges probed for explanations of the agency's rationale for withholding records concerning a deceased undercover CIA officer named George Joannides whose role in the events of 1963 remains unexplained.
But after the leaking in September of an explosive report from this unit detailing cost overruns totalling hundreds of millions of dollars, kickbacks and illegal donations to political parties, Mr Charest relented.On October 19th he said that he had asked France Charbonneau, a superior-court judge, to probe financial ties between construction firms and political parties dating back 15 years.
At the prime minister's request, the judge had probed Fleet Street's sordid corners: the phone-hacking, the bullying of celebrities and crime victims, the too-cosy relations with police and politicians.
It has been easier for politicians to override the recommendations of Lord Justice Leveson, a judge who probed press misbehaviour, because he had little media expertise.The inquiry into child abuse has run into another problem.
It depends on the honesty of prosecutors and the willingness of trial judges to probe the reasons for excluding particular jurors.
We judged a probe pair to be functionally related, if the GO terms of the corresponding genes of the probe sets share one or more common GO terms.
Accordingly, chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) experiments (N = 5 independent experiments) reproducibly showed a clear enrichment of the SAGA proteins Gcn5 and Spt20 on a non-centromeric reporter plasmid (pYB1670/CEN-), as judged by probing for the autonomous replication sequence (ARS) and two non-coding sequences of bacterial origin.
