Sentence examples for prejudicial that from inspiring English sources

But he added that pretrial publicity has not been so prejudicial that it will taint the proceedings.

The rulings, the banks argue, are so "gravely prejudicial" that the firms had no choice, a step that was not "taken lightly".

"This error falls within the category of rare cases where a single error in an otherwise competent defense is so egregious and prejudicial that it deprived defendant of a fair trial," Justice Marvin wrote.

J. Thomas Menaker, one of the defense attorneys, said of the Dept.'s action, "It it highly irregular & potentially very prejudicial that the govt. is attempting to publicize evidence that may not be admissible at trial".

A divided State Supreme Court upheld the conviction, but the dissenting minority said the drawings of mayhem and mutilation were so prejudicial that Mr. Masters had perhaps been convicted "not for what he did but for who he is".

The protective principle, which is included in the hostages and aircraft-hijacking conventions and the Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel (1994), can be invoked by a state in cases where an alien has committed an act abroad deemed prejudicial to that state's interests, as distinct from harming the interests of nationals (the passive personality principle).

Simpson vowed to pursue "as my primary goal in life" the killer or killers responsible for the murders, concluding: "I only hope someday that--despite every prejudicial thing that has been said about me publicly, both in and out of the courtroom--people will come to understand and believe that I would not, could not and did not kill anyone".

Such "protective" or "curative" instructions are used to advise the jury to erase from its collective consciousness a prejudicial event that has occurred during the trial that may likely distort its deliberations and verdict.

He is able to make people believe that a fundamentally flawed and prejudicial argument that demeans minorities is actually for their uplift.

In a letter sent on Friday to Judge Shira A. Scheindlin, the lawyer, Albert Y . Dayan wrote that "the verdicts were tainted by extraneous prejudicial information that came to the attention of a juror or jurors".

As Maribel Hastings of America's Voice put it, writing in Spanish: "Millions of undocumented people see in the pope a defender and intermediary who can change hearts … At least many people hope that the pope will somehow tackle the poisonous and prejudicial atmosphere that now grips the Republican race for the presidential nomination".