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At a sentencing hearing, the burden of proof is now preponderance of the evidence, not proof beyond a reasonable doubt and hearsay is allowed.
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At his death penalty sentencing hearing, Echols ' psychologist reported that months before the murders, Echols claimed that he obtained super powers by drinking human blood.
At the level of the manor this might be a fairly mundane matter of agricultural policy, but also included sentencing by the lord for criminal offences, including capital punishment in some cases.
At his sentencing hearing, Dahmer expressed remorse for his actions, and said that he wished for his own death.
At Soliah's 2002 sentencing hearing on the bombing, police officer John Hall, who had been in the car on top of the bomb described a little girl who stood feet away with her family:
At her sentencing hearing, Olson's teenage daughter Leila, her pastor, and her husband spoke in her defense, while Olson's mother claimed on the stand that Olson had never been a part of the SLA and spoke against prosecutors and police she asserted had harassed the family.
At Milken's sentencing, Judge Kimba Wood told him:
At the urging of his wife, Ponzi pleaded guilty on November 1, 1920 to a single count before Judge Clarence Hale, who declared before sentencing, " Here was a man with all the duties of seeking large money.
At his sentencing hearing on September 14, he again addressed the court, and his speech has become a classic.
At time of sentencing, Ebbers was 63 years old.
At the federal level, highlights have included contributing to the adoption of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, which reduced the sentencing disparity between crack cocaine and powder cocaine offenses, and changes to the federal sentencing guidelines which reduced crack cocaine offense levels as well.
At the sentencing, Judge Gordon stated that each life lost was valuable ; he strongly asserted that the law made no distinction of age for the crime and that the maximum sentence should be imposed.
At the sentencing, Judge Donald E. Belfi called Ferguson a " selfish, self-righteous coward ".
At his sentencing, fourteen other victims or relatives gave statements, including the widower of Alice Hawthorne.
At the Home Office he was responsible for criminal justice, sentencing and law reform, and annoyed some of his fellow lawyers by suggesting that their fees were too high.
* At sentencing the judge can grant offenders who receive a short-term sentence ( two years or less ) leave to apply for home detention.
At sentencing, Abbie Hoffman recommended that the judge try LSD, offering to set him up with a dealer he knew in Florida.
At Chong ’ s sentencing, Assistant U. S. Attorney for Western Pennsylvania, Mary McKeen Houghton stated in her sentencing arguments that Tommy Chong " used his public image to promote this crime " and marketed his products to children.
At the time of Dobson's sentencing, The Independent described the Lawrence killing – despite having happened more than 17 years previously – as " one of the highest-profile unsolved racially-motivated murders ".
At his formal sentencing by a judge, Davis provoked national outrage by taunting his victim's family.
At that time, Krupskaya was still awaiting sentencing in Siberia.
At least part of the philosophy behind this kind of sentencing is that providing a service to the community is more beneficial than punishment for its own sake.
At her sentencing hearing Moore stated: " Am I sorry I tried?
At and hearing
At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;
At his trial, petitioner sought to secure through subpoena duces tecum the longhand notes of the Department's hearing officer, Evensen, as well as his report thereon.
At a February 2, 2010 congressional hearing, Senator John McCain read from a letter signed by " over one thousand former general and flag officers ".
At the end of the hearing the lords vote on the verdict, which is decided by a simple majority, one charge at a time.
At the age of 9, Konstantin caught scarlet fever and became hard of hearing.
At such a hearing, the defendant may be assisted by counsel ; in U. S. jurisdictions, there is a right to counsel at the preliminary hearing.
At that very night everyone realizes that Luigi is his singing his heart out whilst the storm is still in full rage, and he is able to because the storm was so noisy but even this doesn't stop the crowds hearing.
At the court hearing, Vangelis set up synthesizers in the courtroom and played for the judge to demonstrate his compositional process.
At the end of 1971, a custody hearing in Houston went against Cox.
At a council held in the Lateran, he could get no hearing, and a formula representing what seemed to him the most carnal view of the sacrament was offered for his acceptance.
At a congressional hearing Rickover testified that:
At present there are two such hearing aids on the market ; the Baha 3 by Cochlear BAS and the Ponto by Oticon Medical.
At the age of 12, George ( Bobby Anderson ) saved his younger brother Harry ( George Nokes ), who had fallen through the ice on a frozen pond, though George lost the hearing in his left ear in this effort.
At times, the lady could be a princesse lointaine, a far-away princess, and some tales told of men who had fallen in love with women whom they had never seen, merely on hearing their perfection described, but normally she was not so distant.
At the preliminary hearing, Stilwell and Spence were able to provide several witnesses who supported their alibis.
At his confirmation hearing, he told the Armed Services Committee of the U. S. Senate that the limited objective of the U. S. was to guarantee to the people of South Vietnam the right of self-determination.
At the hearing, District Attorney Thomas Mara ( Jerome Cowan ), whose wife accused him of " persecuting " ( rather than prosecuting ) Santa Claus, gets Kris to assert that he is in fact Santa Claus and rests his case, believing he has prima facie proven his point.
At the same time, he was hearing of The Beatles ( whose first American tour would commence in February 1964 ), and wondering how Beatlemania might affect folk music.
At and burden
At first, they did not live together, though later Rousseau took Thérèse and her mother in to live with him as his servants, and himself assumed the burden of supporting her large family.
At this time he commented on the readmission of the confederate states: " The burden of proof rests on each of them to show whether it is fit again to enter the federal circle in full communion of privilege.
At her death, she left him with three young children to take care of ; to take up the burden, he remarried in August of that year to François Marguerite Olympe Braconnier, a woman ten years younger than himself.
At this point she could hardly bear the burden of her father's unborn child.
At this point, Bradman felt that the burden of captaincy would prevent him from touring England again, although he did not make his doubts public.
At the same time, income taxes were reduced proportionally so that the total tax burden remained constant.
At most the defendant has the burden of producing sufficient evidence to raise the issue.
At the time, Thailand had acquired a burden of foreign debt that made the country effectively bankrupt even before the collapse of its currency.
At Gambala on 24 September, Burke decided to load some of the provisions onto the camels for the first time, and to lessen the burden on the horses ordered the men to walk.
At the same time, the NYC also carried a substantial tax burden.
At the heart of the heat is a question about the reach, benefit, and burden of copyright law.
At first, the writ of summons was regarded as a burden and interference, but later, when Parliament's power increased, it was seen as a sign of royal favour.
At the time, there was opposition among many within the Qing government toward the annexation of Taiwan, arguing that its maintenance would become an economic burden on the empire.
At first he views his wife as a burden whom he is obligated to take care of.
) At this time, many DOS game developers had already adopted Middleware audio packages ( such as Miles Audio Design ), to remove them from the burden of writing low-level audio routines.
At least 4, 500 of those people must prove their citizenship to regain their right to vote, but opponents say that could be an impossible burden to meet.
At times, his reputation is more of a burden than a blessing.
At most mines, progressive reclamation over the life of the mine is used to reduce the reclamation burden at closure.
At the same time, the group transferred the engagements of the Scottish Nith Valley Co-operative Society which, while trading profitably, was suffering a burden with its pension fund commitments.
At the end of this allegory, Plato asserts that it is the philosopher's burden to reenter the cave.
At her funeral on February 7, former President Bill Clinton described her children's responsibility to carry on their father's legacy as " a terrible burden " and asked the audience to pray for them.
" At the same time, Corbinian's bear, as God's beast of burden, symbolizes the weight of office that Benedict now carries.
At the outbreak of the Civil War the Union was depending upon hand-to-mouth borrowing to meet expenses and with the beginning of hostilities at Fort Sumter in April 1861 the burden of funding the war effort and paying employees, including soldiers in the field, offered no small challenge.
At face value it appears to be a rhetorical command to white men to colonise and rule other nations for the benefit of those people ( both the people and the duty may be seen as representing the " burden " of the title ).
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