Instead of letting the voters' verdict settle the matter, the new Ukrainian rulers staged a show trial.
Speaking on Wednesday, Mr Cameron suggested the British public would be asked to "give their consent" to any changes that emerge from future negotiations and their verdict would "settle the issue once and for all".
Last night, James A. Cohen, a professor of criminal law at Fordham University School of Law, said the verdict did not help settle the historical record.
In "Anatomy of a Murder," the conclusion of the trial settles nothing — the verdict is announced, but we still don't know if the wife was violated.
So the judges settled for the verdict that Mr Taylor "aided and abetted" the rebels instead.
Jackson's scathing decision does not constitute a final verdict, but offers Microsoft one more chance to settle the case, according to computer law expert Jack Russo.
Barry used to say, 'If you are not ready to try a case, you'll never be able to settle it.' " "The Verdict" (1980), a story of a down-and-out Boston lawyer who wins justice for the family of a seriously disabled girl, was made into a film starring Paul Newman, James Mason and Charlotte Rampling in 1982.
(Gawker, which published the video, made this case to a Florida jury, but the jury was not convinced, awarding Hogan a hundred and forty million dollars in damages. Gawker said that it would appeal the verdict, but ended up settling the case, for thirty-one million dollars).
Scalia's death creates a vacancy on a nine-person supreme court that has often split five to four to the conservative side in recent years; not least in the Bush v Gore verdict in 2000 that settled the occupancy of the White House.
(The verdict was later overturned on appeal, and G.M. settled the case and three others).
