A judge ruled that Purdue could not shift the venue for the trial, and so Richard Sackler flew to Louisville.
Mesereau wanted to shift the focus of the trial away from his eccentric client and on to the morals and scruples of a family he described as actors, practised con artists and grifters.
The burden is the Government's, not to be shifted to the trial judge, to decide whether the public prejudice of allowing the crime to go unpunished is greater than that attendant upon the possible disclosure of state secrets and other confidential information in the Government's possession.
The BBC's Milton Nkosi says it is as if tectonic plates are shifting at the trial as the prosecution moved towards getting permission from the judge for Mr Pistorius to be mentally assessed.
The delay allowed the shifting of the trial to the church courts, which Henry opposed.
Kunstler had effectively shifted the focus of the trial from the Indians to the federal government.
In view of the overall performance difference between attend-to-face and attend-to-house trials subjects responded significantly faster when attending to faces than houses these results indicate that subjects did indeed shift attention on the trial immediately following a shift cue because the difference in performance was immediately apparent on these trials relative to the preceding go trials.
Abu Khattala's trial shifted the Benghazi inquiry away from partisan politics.
A1 Enron Figure Will Cooperate The former chief accounting officer of Enron, Richard A. Causey, agreed to cooperate with the government in its case against the two leading executives in the scandal over the company's collapse, significantly shifting the dynamics of a trial that is scheduled to start late next month.
Like many talented criminal-defense attorneys, he excels at shifting the focus of his trials from the behavior of his clients to the misbehavior of police and prosecutors.
Moreover, at the same time that companies have been funding a larger share of research, they have shifted the job of conducting trials away from nonprofit academic hospitals to for-profit "contract research organizations". Critics say that with this change, corporate bias is less likely to be challenged.
