I was trying a murder case when the judge asked, "Mike, ever think of applying to be a judge in the Criminal Court?" I had no political connections.
Two Minneapolis detectives search for a kidnapped judge who has been trying a murder case. 3 3 6 THE 5TH HORSEMAN, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro.
Diane Polan, a New Haven defense lawyer who tried a murder case with Mr. Donovan a few years ago, said many lawyers recognized the challenges he faced when he agreed days after the crime to step into the Cheshire case.
Tarver appealed the judge's override on the grounds of racial bias and incompetent counsel — his lawyer had never tried a murder case and was a friend of the victim.
Tarver appealed the judge's override on the grounds of racial bias and incompetent counsel his lawyer had never tried a murder case and was a friend of the victim.
The makeshift military-commission system set up by Bush to handle terrorism cases has never tried a murder case, let alone one as complex, or notorious, as that of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who will face the death penalty for the murder of nearly three thousand people.
"A judge who has engaged in an intimate, extramarital, sexual relationship with the prosecutor trying a capital murder case before her has a conflict of interest and must recuse herself," the brief from the ethics experts said.
In one case, as reported by Mr. Glaberson, Bronx prosecutors did not try a defendant accused of murder until five years after the crime.
The Bronx district attorney's office announced on Wednesday that Mr. Blair would be tried on a murder count, among other charges.
Now on French soil, however, he is being tried on a murder charge in Paris, where he and his accuser, both weak with age, face each other in a windowless courtroom.
