To give you a sense of how important such concerns can be, a handbag has produced the first notable dispute of the trial -- aside from the judge's eyebrow-raising decision to question jurors in a back room, away from public view.
There was, by contrast, precious little space given over to the phone hacking trial, which (aside from the Guardian), got short shrift.
We used a standard k-fold cross-validation testing regime (Duda et al., 2001) wherein k equaled the number of experimental trials, with the data from each trial set aside in turn as the test data, and the remaining data used as the training set (on each fold, the feature selection step was performed using only data from this training set).
Did an "error" cause a new trial that set aside the death penalty?
Since the state Supreme Court's disciplinary committee sued Mr. Clinton on Friday to strip him of his license to practice law, four judges assigned to the trial have stepped aside, citing ties to the president.
A federal judge overseeing a high-profile terrorism trial put decorum aside on Wednesday, shouting at the government informer who is the key witness in the case: "I'm tired of your playing games with the questions".
If the judge refuses to step aside, the trial will almost certainly go forward under his oversight.
Lawyers for the league filed motions today asking the trial judge to set aside the verdict or, failing that, reduce the award.
The lead prosecutor, James Hammer, denounced Judge Warren -- a grandson of Earl Warren, a former chief justice of the United States -- in court for disregarding 19 grand jurors and 12 trial jurors in setting aside their charge and conviction.
Now the firm is using similar legal tactics, led by Summy, to secure lucrative fees from MTBE litigation: stretching product liability theories; lobbying Washington; elbowing aside rival trial lawyers; fighting, if need be, with a client; and relying on shaky scientific evidence.
Galloping horses aside, the trial of the anti-government protesters who claimed ownership of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge for 41 days hasn't yet turned into the full-blown circus some expect it to become.
