Seconding the minister of sport Denis Howell, Arlott's was a mesmerising denunciation of the motion (overturned dramatically by 334 votes to 160) which had been proposed by Ted Dexter and Wilf Wooller.
Yet Mr. Mays never told Mr. Smith that he should take the plea deal, the judge concluded, based on testimony from Mr. Mays and Mr. Smith at a hearing on the motion to overturn the conviction, filed by Ronald L. Kuby, Mr. Smith's new lawyer.
In a Dec. 8 hearing on the motion to overturn Judge Walker's decision, the 9th Circuit panel seemed deeply skeptical that Judge Walker's ruling should be thrown out because of his orientation and relationship status.
"And if the motion is overturned?
Park's lawyers struck a defiant note in their first comments since the impeachment vote, saying the motion should be overturned by the constitutional court, which has 180 days to review it.
As a result, Mr. Chais cannot adequately defend himself against the trustee's lawsuit and a similar civil case by the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to the motion, which seeks to overturn the trustee's actions.
On Thursday, Judge Young denied Roche's motion to overturn the jury verdict.
Nonetheless, petitions were circulated at the meeting that asked Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, to join a motion to overturn the convictions.
For his part, Mr. Morgenthau has said that he would have "no hesitation" about joining a motion to overturn the convictions if the evidence warranted it.
But she put off a decision on Cordis's motion to overturn the second infringement verdict in that case until this week.
