"I defy anyone," he said, "to locate a single state senator or member of the Assembly who voted for the death penalty legislation who would suggest that Cahill was not the type of defendant they had in mind".
The pattern she outlined is clear: a certain type of defendant, whose case probably won't elicit public attention, isn't cut the same slack as Mr. Blagojevich and other white-collar defendants.
Mr. Rothman said that if not for Mr. Chambers's celebrity, Ms. Kovell was the type of defendant who "normally" would be given probation and assigned to a drug treatment program.
For example, say a certain type of defendant would normally be rated as high risk but our research indicates that behavioral health assistance, like a drug treatment program, could lower their risk factors.
Newspapers have been split over the Leveson deal but Black's bid to get amendments on exemplary damages removed will have the unanimous support of national newspapers – which have received legal advice from top barristers saying that the creation of a special class of punishment for one type of defendant would be contrary to Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
The justices left unsettled what types of defendants -- individual, corporate, state -- can be sued.
Substantive briefing is completed in Aeterna, which invites the Third Circuit to clarify the type of evidence defendants must present, including the burden of proof they must meet to rebut the presumption of reliance and whether statistical evidence rebutting the presumption must meet a 95% confidence threshold.
A researcher needs the skills to look up relevant information by the topic, case name, type of case, defendant or plaintiff.
Alternately, Mr. Moussaoui's court-appointed legal advisers and some outside legal scholars sat a decision against Mr. Moussaoui -- barring him from interviewing Mr. bin al-Shibh and others -- would be a serious blow to his case and create troubling limitations on the right of other types of criminal defendants to seek out testimony or evidence that might prove their innocence.
Capital punishment lawyers from around the country have said the Suffolk County case is providing New York with its first example of a type of death penalty defendant that has troubled judges around the country: so-called volunteers, who tie the system in knots by essentially challenging the courts to put them to death.
