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Topic: Trial of the Fourteen


  
  Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts
He contends that his trial attorney was ineffective for (1) failing to file a motion to suppress his statement to the police on the grounds that it was coerced and (2) failing to file a motion to suppress evidence that the police took from his garage without a search warrant.
On appeal, the defendant argues that the trial court erred in concluding both that her statement to law enforcement officers was voluntary and that the evidence against her was sufficient, as well as in allowing into evidence a videotape not produced to the defense.
He contends that trial counsel failed to provide information that was essential for him to make informed decisions in his case and failed to present an adequate defense at trial, and that the cumulative effect of the alleged deficiencies in counsel's performance was to prejudice the outcome of his case.
www.tsc.state.tn.us /OPINIONS/tcca/Cc2qtr2002.htm   (14539 words)

  
 The Unknown Candidate: Libby Trial: Day Fourteen
Trial evidence is normally public and all exhibits in Libby's case have been made public so far.
For the judge and jury, it is the Libby trial.
For America and American politics, it is the Dick Cheney trial and the stakes are far higher than reported in the media.
theunknowncandidate.blogspot.com /2007/02/libby-trial-day-fourteen.html   (746 words)

  
  STATE OF MICHIGAN
Trial testimony differed regarding whether the victim reported her own encounter to her mother at that time, but the victim's sister was taken immediately to the police to report the incident from the previous day.
The trial court ruled that the victim's reason for entering the FYI facility was not relevant to prove whether the victim was molested by defendant.
We agree with the trial court that the victim's reason for being at the facility is not relevant to the question whether defendant molested her.
www.michbar.org /opinions/appeals/2000/070700/7557.html   (1953 words)

  
 FABIO LÓPEZ-LÁZARO | "No Deceit Safe in Its Hiding Place": The Criminal Trial in Eighteenth-Century Spain ...
Trial hierarchy and ritual, part of that era's "due process," corresponded to the limits imposed on acceptable judicial arbitrariness by societal norms of governmental responsibility.
It is true that criminal trials maintained the dominant social groups' ideological power, but the popular use of courts as spaces in which to negotiate personal grievances overwhelmingly supports an interpretation of the court's role as an institution confirming the populace's sense of moral order.
Aspects of trial procedure criticized by nineteenth-century reformers, such as the length of trials, were in many cases the result of the legal guarantees of individual rights, the insistence on the private inception of criminal prosecution, and the wide latitude given legal counsel.
www.historycooperative.org /journals/lhr/20.3/lopezlazaro.html   (10477 words)

  
 THE GRENADA 17 TRIAL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Instead of using the courthouse, a special court was built in the grounds of the prison, and during the trial it was surrounded by armed soldiers.
Not only were the 17 unrepresented at the trial, for much of it they were detained in the cells for contempt, and therefore were unable to even hear the evidence being given against them.
The outcome of the trial was that fourteen Defendants, including all of the Central Committee members, were sentenced to death and three were given long sentences.
www.pipeline.com /~rougeforum/grenadapamphlet/Chapter5.htm   (2518 words)

  
 Progress of the United States Military Commission trial of David Hicks(1)
Fourteen other persons have also been declared eligible, although only four (including Hicks) have been charged and subject to pre-trial hearings.
However, in relation to the Hicks trial, Australia and the US have agreed that no evidence will be introduced that would require his exclusion, so it is unclear what implications this second part of the ruling has for Hicks.
The standard of proof is the same as for civilian criminal trials, that is, a Commission member must be convinced beyond reasonable doubt on the admitted evidence that the accused is guilty.
www.aph.gov.au /library/pubs/rn/2004-05/05rn33.htm   (3193 words)

  
 Kidd v. State (Brown, J.) CR97-586
Kidd first contends that the trial court erred in denying his motion for declaration of a mistrial because certain portions of his two statements to the detectives were highly prejudicial, irrelevant, and constituted proof of prior bad acts, all of which violated Rules 402, 403, and 404(b) of the Arkansas Rules of Evidence.
At trial, the trial court took a recess at the end of the first day of testimony after the conclusion of Detective Goodrich'sdirect examination, which included testimony about Kidd's two statements given on April 29, 1996, and June 19, 1996.
The trial court ruled that the comments were made by Kidd after a valid waiver of his rights and should not be deleted from his statements under Rule 402 or Rule 403.
courts.state.ar.us /opinions/1997b/971106/cr97-586.html   (2861 words)

  
 The Australian: 14 face trial on missionary murder (archived)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
THE trial in the murder of an Australian missionary and his young sons was adjourned today until next month after a series of hearings had to be postponed because defence lawyers were absent, Indian court officials said.
Fourteen men are being tried on charges of burning to death Graham Stewart Staines, an Australian Christian missionary, and his sons, Philip, 10, and Timothy, 8, as they slept inside their vehicle outside a church in eastern Orissa state on January 23, 1999.
Of the six days when hearings were scheduled this month, the trial was held only on April 15, as defence lawyers were absent on the remaining days.
www.theaustralian.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5744,4148560^1702,00.html   (178 words)

  
 Western Resistance: Holland: Islamist Hofstad Group On Trial
Today, fourteen men went on trial, accused of plotting attacks and for being members of a terror network, states Reuters, and also Expatica.
Reuters states that this trial will be seen as a "key test" of a new terror law, which prohibits "membership of a criminal organisation with terrorist intent." This law, if broken, can carry a maximum sentence of 15 years.
Reuters states that today, on the first day of the trial Malika Chabi refused to speak, but a statement which she had earlier handed to police was read out in court.
www.westernresistance.com /blog/archives/001170.html   (484 words)

  
 Real.com - Terms and Conditions of the RealMusic Trial
Free trial access begins at trial sign-up and expires fourteen days following trial sign-up.
You will NOT be charged during your trial period.
To avoid the monthly £8.50 RealMusic membership fee after your trial has expired, just call to cancel any time within the 14-day trial period.
www.real.com /terms/trial_terms_intl_realmusic.html?country=GB&language=EN&pdvr=1   (170 words)

  
 Welcome to Owyhee County, Idaho
if the jury trial is cancelled, there will sometimes be information on the recording moving you to a new date, usually the next scheduled jury trial.
But, if you call in and the recording states that the jury trial is going forward, you need to plan to attend the next day usually between 8:30 a.m.
Between fourteen and twenty-four jurors will be randomly selected and the judge will begin Voir dire followed by the prosecutor, and the defense attorney.
www.owyheecounty.net /index1.php?jurorinfo   (664 words)

  
 Ivanhoe's Medical Breakthroughs - Do Clinical Trials Improve Treatment?
This is a benefit known as a "trial effect." However, researchers from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston say that may not be true.
Fourteen studies showed some evidence that trial participants had better outcomes, but only nine of the trials were designed to compare the outcomes of the participants with those non-participants who would have been eligible for the trials.
"Clinical trials are critical to the advancement of cancer care, but it is important that people who enroll in a study understand that their participation is intended primarily to benefit future patients," says Jeffrey M. Peppercorn, M.D., M.P.H. Fewer than 5 percent of adults with cancer are enrolled into clinical trials.
www.ivanhoe.com /channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=7869   (327 words)

  
 Sky News: Terror Trial Underway
Fourteen men, including the jailed killer of a Dutch filmmaker, deny charges relating to planning terrorist attacks on politicians and belonging to a militant Islamist network.
One of the main witnesses on the trial's first day, 17-year-old Malika Shabi, refused to acknowledge a statement police said she had given to them beforehand.
The trial of the men, who are mostly of Moroccan origin, is a key test of a new Dutch law.
news.sky.com /skynews/article/0,,30000-13474599,00.html   (267 words)

  
 The St. Petersburg Times - Top Stories - Manhunt on for Oblast Jailbreakers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Fourteen suspects escaped from the police building in the town of Gatchina and another six from Volosovo.
In Russia, a remand prison - or temporary detention unit, sometimes located in a police station - is used to hold those under arrest, awaiting trial or already convicted, as opposed to the glass boxes in police precincts where suspects are held if not formally charged.
If you are willing for your comment to be published as a letter to the editor, please supply your first name, last name and the city and country where you live.
www.times.spb.ru /index.php?action_id=2&story_id=4181   (768 words)

  
 Dnaas, Sefko Alomerovic - Trial as Extended Crime, 2/22-23/01
The immediate reason is the most recent manipulation with the trial of Nebojsa Ranisavljevic that, as well as everything else in connection with this case, took place on the eve of the forthcoming elections and the visit of the Chief Prosecutor of the Hague Tribunal, Ms.
At the first hearing, the trial was adjourned until autumn of 1998, but in October 1998 the president of the court Dr. Vukoman Golubovic, on his own (without a hearing) postponed the trial until 1999, allegedly due to an ongoing investigation in the Republic of Srpska.
Certainly the trial of Ranisavljevic should be viewed within the context of the fact that you also failed to do anything, both as the Prime Minister and later as the President of the Republic of Montenegro, against the identified organizers and executors of the abductions carried out by the Montenegrin Police in May 1992.
www.ex-yupress.com /danas/danas78.html   (1305 words)

  
 ASA : Marijuana Eases HIV-Related Nerve Pain
Pre-clinical research findings suggest that cannabis-like compounds may be effective for treating neuropathic pain, Dr. Cheryl Jay of the University of California, San Francisco and colleagues noted this week at the 11th Annual Retrovirus Conference.
In a trial, 16 HIV-infected subjects with neuropathy were given three marijuana cigarettes each day for seven days.
A trial with participants randomized to receive marijuana or an inactive placebo has now been started, she added, and 20 out of 50 participants have been enrolled so far.
www.safeaccessnow.org /article.php?id=840&printsafe=1   (270 words)

  
 Pre-Trial Detention
Additionally, the California legislature has determined that expediting trials is essential and therefore requires that, if any continuances of a criminal proceeding including the trial date are required, then the detainee must be provided with written notice and written affidavits explaining the continuance.
California law also allows a detainee to waive his or her speedy trial right if he or she wants to allow the attorney more time to prepare a case on his or her behalf.
There appear to be four levels of "pre-trial measures" to which the potential criminal defendant might be subjected under the law: a written promise by the detainee not to leave, a posting of security similar to a bail bond, submission to house arrest, or a pre-trial arrest.
www.abanet.org /ceeli/publications/assessments/lithuania/pretrialdetention.html   (2521 words)

  
 Al Jazeera English - Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Fourteen people have gone on trial over three terrorist attacks in Cairo which killed two French tourists and an American.
The 14 defendants, including two women, all pleaded innocent to charges on Saturday that included collaborating in the April 2005 attacks, the unlicensed possession of weapons, ammunition and explosives, harbouring fugitives, and belonging to a banned group.
After the charges were read and the pleas given, the trial was adjourned until October 21.
english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/B3EC9EFA-71F8-43DC-BB43-788054990F19.htm   (381 words)

  
 New Page 1
Fourteen months later DA Lacy impaneled a Grand Jury and on April 15, 2005 that body doubled the charges against Richard Hamlin to 18 felonies.
Testimony introduced at trial provided evidence that Susan Hamlin had not shown any signs of spousal abuse until just before her confession to child abuse which she retracted two days later when El Dorado County Sheriffs arrested Richard Hamlin and turned the case over to the District Attorney for prosecution.
The hardworking jury, shielded from knowing the potential sentences allotted to each charge, will be asked to bring back a verdict of guilt of innocence on each of 18 felonies never realizing the impact of their verdict in terms of the years taken from a man's life.
www.newsmakingnews.com /vm,hamlin,violence,or,torture,12,29,05.htm   (3507 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | Dutch put 'terror group' on trial
Fourteen men have gone on trial in the Netherlands charged with belonging to a radical Islamist terror network.
The trial, the first to come to court under new anti-terror legislation, is being seen as a test case.
The trial started on Monday morning in a high-security court in Amsterdam known as "the bunker".
news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/europe/4498472.stm   (451 words)

  
 Court of Appeals erroneously dismisses certification appeal for late filing of notice of appeal (00-2-07)
At the conclusion of the hearing, the trial court waived its jurisdiction over the cause and transferred D.J.W. to the criminal district court.
The notice of appeal or the motion for new trial, however, was due to be filed May 13, 1998.
D.J.W. responded, stating that he "contends that he is entitled to an appeal of his juvenile certification because the juvenile trial court did not invoke the proper jurisdiction over him," and that "he would be entitled to any jurisdictional error in his transfer process" in his appeal of the conviction in the criminal district court.
www.tjpc.state.tx.us /publications/reviews/00/00-2-07.htm   (740 words)

  
 Jury Frequently Asked Questions
The number of jurors that are selected depends on what type of case it is. For a civil trial, six to eight jurors may be selected.
For a criminal trial, twelve to fourteen may be selected.
The night before your trial date, please call 1-800-827-5879 or click here to check the status of the case online(link to case status page) to see whether or not you are needed for service.
www.insd.uscourts.gov /FAQ/jury_faq.htm   (2534 words)

  
 Best Bakery trial court to decide prosecutor today- The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
As both the governments had staked their claim over the issue on the last occasion, the trial court asked them to resolve the impasse by July 5, failing which the matter would be referred to the supreme court for its ruling.
The supreme court had, on April 12, ordered the Bombay high court to set up a special court for the re-trial of 21 accused in the case, who were acquitted by a fast track court in Gujarat after the witnesses in the case turned hostile.
Fourteen people, most of them from the minority community, were killed in a carnage at the Best Bakery in Vadodara on March 1, 2002, in the wake of the post-Godhra communal riots.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/765063.cms   (382 words)

  
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At trial, the trial court took a recess at the end of the first day of testimony after the conclusion of Detective Goodrich's direct examination, which included testimony about Kidd's two statements given on April 29, 1996, and June 19, 1996.
This issue is resolved by Rule 504(b) of the Arkansas Rules of Evidence, which provides that "[a]n accused in a criminal proceeding has a privilege to prevent his spouse from testifying as to any confidential communication between the accused and the spouse." As this court stated in Halfacre v.
In Halfacre, which involved the appellant's conviction for aggravated robbery, we held that the marital privilege did not render the appellant's arrest illegal, when his wife contacted police officers and told them that the appellant had just stated to her that he robbed a local hotel.
courts.state.ar.us /opinions/1997b/971106/cr97-586.txt   (2797 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Indonesian general put on trial
Fourteen soldiers are on trial in connection with the killings
Thirteen other people are also currently on trial in connection with the killings.
The tribunal is the same legal body which recently completed a series of trials in connection with the violence which marred East Timor's independence vote.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/3206955.stm   (344 words)

  
 SudanTribune article : Ethiopia’s Mengistu convicted of genocide after 12-year trial
The trial focused on Mengistu’s alleged involvement in the killing of nearly 2,000 people during a 1977-78 campaign known as the Red Terror.
Fourteen died during trial and 25 were tried in absentia.
Mengistu’s trial, which began in 1994, was slowed by requests from both sides for long breaks.
www.sudantribune.com /spip.php?article19228   (708 words)

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