Sentence examples for overriding verdict from inspiring English sources
Yet when The Independent decided to get the public's overriding verdict on Hopkins - the former The Apprentice star who was reported to police this week for alleged racist remarks - it turned out most people think the notorious commentator actually gets a bad reputation.
The decision comes two weeks after a circuit judge declined to order a new trial over the verdict, which was awarded by a Montgomery state court jury on Nov. 14, and refused to override the verdict against the energy giant.
And yet an anonymous group of men and women in suits have taken it upon themselves to override this verdict.
In March the court of appeal ruled that Grieve acted unlawfully two years ago when he issued a veto to override the verdict of the three judges in a freedom of information tribunal.
Of the 34 states that allow the death penalty, Alabama is the only one where judges are permitted to override jury verdicts and impose a death sentence.
Another would be for Congress to pass a law overriding the Supreme Court's Quill verdict, but Congress has no appetite for a federal-versus-state-government turf war, particularly if it might end up being blamed for "taxing the Internet to death .Many policymakers feel they have time on their side.
A 2011 study from the Montgomery based Equal Justice Initiative identified Alabama as "the only state in the country where judges can override jury life verdicts without meeting a strict standard".
He said judges who consider advisory verdicts involving more than one aggravating factor, or who contemplate overriding a recommendation against a death sentence, would face more difficult legal questions.
Third, moral judgment is overriding.
But his ambition has been overriding.
