Sentence examples for sympathetic trial from inspiring English sources

recent insider trading prosecutions," and suggested that Bharara's lawyers had attempted to place their insider-trading cases with a sympathetic trial judge in the Southern District — of judge-shopping, in other words.

Justice Anthony M. Kennedy seemed sympathetic to trial judges called on to sentence defendants under the old law.

"You get a perfect storm of sympathetic plaintiffs, trial lawyers and anti-globalization activists working together to bring these suits," said William A. Reinsch, the president of the National Foreign Trade Council, an industry group based in Washington.

Mr. Shapiro mentioned the exposure at a hearing in which he successfully argued for the appointment of a mitigation expert, who will look for evidence that might make Mr. Muhammad seem more sympathetic if his trial proceeds to sentencing.

He said there would be difficulty in getting a case to court because Savile was dead, but the "evidence stacking up" meant courts were likely to be sympathetic to a trial.

Mr. Bartlett argues that the Washington press corps has been far less sympathetic to the trials of managing a bioterror attack than the public has been -- and many agree.

Even in Queens, a borough that defense lawyers say is relatively sympathetic to prosecutors, the trial "stands out" as unfair, Nathan Dershowitz said recently.

Based in part on the notoriety of the mock trial, academics sympathetic to the view that Plummer was innocent, petitioned the Montana Board of Pardons and Parole to grant Plummer a pardon.

Thus, it appears that DCM provides a good trial-by-trial quantification of sympathetic activity and links peripheral psychophysiology to the underlying generative neural processes.

He is also sympathetic to strictly monitored trials of heroin prescribing.

To some extent, Boies and Olson got lucky; they drew sympathetic judges at both the trial and appellate level.