They can each object to 10 others more or less arbitrarily -- the so-called peremptory strikes.
This was the pattern in the jury selection of the former Credit Suisse First Boston star as the defrocked banker's lawyers used most of their so-called peremptory challenges yesterday.
Attorneys are also given a number of so-called "peremptory strikes," which typically allow them to eliminate jurors without needing to explain why.
That case, decided one year before Foster was convicted, established that the Constitution prohibits lawyers from using so-called "peremptory strikes" to shut out potential jurors on account of their race -- the rationale being that no citizen can be denied an opportunity to serve on a jury.
So I agree that peremptory dismissals are a bad idea.
Urban environments can certainly elicit involuntary attention (honking horns in Times Square), but they do so in a harsh, peremptory way that requires voluntary attention to override.
He knows just when to be cryptic, peremptory, encouraging, and so on.
Pinkish purple Wim Duisenberg, in the rough ReprintsHow, in any event, could Mr Jospin repatriate so many people, given his peremptory ban on charter flights?
The counter argument of course then and now, is that these core crimes -- genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity -- are so grave that they're considered peremptory or customary law.
Further, if it is true that the government of Lon Nol did not know in advance about the American & South Vietnamese offensive, the attack clearly appears to be a violation-or, at best, a peremptory alteration-of the so-called "rules of engagement".
