In the Caldwell case, the Court of Appeals implicitly recognized the possibility of a case arising in which a showing could be made of 'prejudice to the defense of such a nature as would necessarily render a subsequent trial unfair to the accused.' 92 U.S.App.D.C. 355, 357, n. 11, 205 F.2d 8818821882, n. 11.
A summary judgment in the copyright case would render a full trial unnecessary and leave Napster facing potentially bankrupting monetary damages.
No important high-profile trial has had to be abandoned because pre-existing media-inspired publicity has rendered a fair trial impossible.
In these circumstances, the Court readily found actual prejudice against the petitioner to a degree that rendered a fair trial impossible.
We employed a stepped-wedge cluster-randomized trial design [ 22] because current evidence on misoprostol use and postpartum haemorrhage would render a placebo-controlled trial unethical [ 19, 22– 25] and all facilities ultimately get the intervention.
A California conviction will not be reversed on grounds of ineffective assistance of counsel except in the extreme case where the quality of representation was so poor as to render the trial a 'farce or a sham.' People v. Ibarra, 60 Cal .2d460, 34 Cal.Rptr.
It can halt a trial, render a scientific question unanswered, and waste precious resources--most critically the time, effort, and health of participants.
In 1984 the Supreme Court said that the lawyer for a criminal defendant "has a duty to bring to bear such skill and knowledge as will render the trial a reliable adversarial testing process".
In line with Anne's views, Sacheverell was convicted, but his sentence suspension of preaching for three years was so light as to render the trial a mockery.
The effectiveness of the placebo rendered our trial a comparison between a 1-log filter and a 3-log filter.
In one experiment, two kinds of shadow juries watched a trial and rendered a verdict.
