While the lawyer won her case, Judge Lefkow suggested to the judges and lawyers in the room that unseemly clothing in court was the kind of issue that should be the subject of quiet conversation in law firms.
"Up until that date neither Connery nor his wife had received any communication from the judiciary or the police that legal proceedings against them were going to be initiated," Paxman wrote, suggesting to the judge that the couple be notified immediately.
Last week the government suggested to the federal judge overseeing the reunification process — Judge Dana Sabraw in San Diego — that it was the ACLU's responsibility to find the deported parents.
Turner's father lamented his son's potential punishment, calling it a "steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action," and suggested to the sentencing judge that his son exhibited the appropriate degree of contrition because he had lost his ability to enjoy a good rib-eye steak on the grill.
In South Australia gay panic defense can still be argued, but the original trial judge suggested to the jury that it no longer should be.
Alia Awada: When an [unmarried] girl is raped and the case is presented in court, the judge will suggest to the girl and her family that she should marry her rapist to protect her honor.
Lawyers for immigrants in some of the closed proceedings said the secrecy suggested to immigration judges that clients had been tied to terrorists even without evidence.
The effect of this sort of reiteration, which is to be expected of the Journal-American but not of the Herald Tribune, may well be, as Congressman Walter suggested, to intimidate any judge who in the future presides over a similar trial, or a retrial of the Hiss case.
"The real challenge is to ferret out latent prejudices, so it's extremely important for lawyers to suggest questions to the judge beyond those the judge would use to elicit obvious biases," said Mark Zauderer, a partner at Flemming Zulack Williamson Zauderer in Manhattan.
Ms. Hobson's disclosure led Mr. Bout's lawyer, Albert Y. Dayan, to appeal the verdict, suggesting to Judge Shira A. Scheindlin of Federal District Court in Manhattan that Ms. Hobson was unduly influenced by the movie.
