Thus literate lay defendants often also claimed the right to benefit of clergy ; furthermore, as the Biblical passage used for the literacy test was always Psalm 51 ( Miserere mei, Deus ...-" O God, have mercy upon me ..."), an illiterate person who had memorized the psalm could also claim benefit of clergy.

If the companies had instead sued for copyright infringement, defendants could have claimed estoppel or implied license because machinima had been unaddressed for a long time.

During one of the lawsuits defendants demanded copies of the " medical " studies and Choudhury claimed he could not find them.

The plaintiffs claimed the defendants had misrepresented the asset value of Subway Sandwich Shops ( a leasing company used by Doctor's Associates for franchising purposes ) while negotiating a 1985 lease agreement.

* In the 1998 murder of university student Matthew Shepard, the defendants claimed in court that the young man's homosexual proposition enraged them to the point of murder.

* A transgender variation of the gay panic defense was also used in 2004 – 2005 in California by the three defendants in the Gwen Araujo homicide case, who claimed that they were enraged by the discovery that Araujo, a transgender teenager with whom they had engaged in sex, had male genitalia.

Youthdale also claimed their reputation was damaged as a result of various actions by the named defendants, which Youthdale alleged included the creation of websites and blogs containing complaints against Youthdale, including alleged accusations of unlawful administration of psychotropic medications.

If the defendant who claimed benefit of clergy was particularly deserving of death, courts occasionally would ask him to read a different passage from the Bible ; if, like most defendants, he was illiterate and simply had memorized Psalm 51, he would be unable to establish the defence and would be put to death.

Supporters of the five defendants again claimed their confessions had been coerced.

Patterson claimed the threats had been made by guards and militiamen while the defendants were in the Jackson County jail.

The coalition claimed Holder's decision gave alleged war criminals the same rights as American citizens ; it also said trying the defendants in New York City would endanger the citizenry.

The trial proceedings were closed to the public after the defendants claimed that the Qatari police had tortured them in the first days after their arrest, when they had been held incommunicado ; the two Russians alleged that they had suffered beatings, sleep deprivation and attacks by guard dogs.

During the appeal against the conviction of the Bridgewater Four, the forensic linguist examined the written confession of Patrick Molloy, one of the defendants — a confession which he had retracted immediately — and a written record of an interview which the police claimed took place immediately before the confession was dictated.

The three claimed officials all the way up to the state government were trying to cover up defendants in the case because they were white.

In 2008 the defendants announced uniform price increases for concrete and cement, bringing their prices to the same level at the same time, the lawsuit claimed.

The movie studios claimed that all three defendants, by making available DeCSS, were ' trafficking in circumvention devices ', an illegal act under the DMCA.

They also agreed with Corley that the DMCA was properly subject to intermediate scrutiny, but said that the specific facts of the suit barred them from considering the question of the constitutionality of the DMCA's effect on fair use, because the defendants had not claimed to be engaging in fair use.

The prosecution claimed that after a BUF meeting, Mosley and the other defendants had marched around Worthing, threatening and assaulting civilians.

The complaint filed by Texas claimed ownership of the bonds and requested that the defendants turn the bonds over to the state.

complaint, the defendants ’ broadcast ads, print ads, and Web sites claimed that persistently elevated levels of cortisol, the “ stress hormone ,” are the underlying cause of weight gain and weight retention and also claimed that CortiSlim effectively reduces and controls cortisol levels and thereby causes substantial weight loss.

The FTC alleges that the defendants claimed that CortiSlim: ( 1 ) causes weight loss of 10 to 50 pounds for virtually all users ; ( 2 ) causes users to lose as much as 4 to 10 pounds per week over multiple weeks ; ( 3 ) causes users to lose weight specifically from the abdomen, stomach, and thighs ; ( 4 ) causes rapid and substantial weight loss ; ( 5 ) causes long-term or permanent weight loss ; and ( 6 ) causes weight loss.

The FTC also alleges that the defendants claimed that the effectiveness of CortiSlim and its ingredients is demonstrated by over 15 years of scientific research.

The defendants claimed that the late William P. Compton, Mary's husband, had already spent the money.

A lone pro-Hearst voice from New York City was that of William Devery, who had been expelled as a Tammany leader but still claimed strong influence in his own district.

Potemkin's Army of Ekaterinoslav, totaling, it was claimed, 40,000 regular troops and 6,000 irregulars of the Cossack Corps, had invested Islam's principal stronghold on the north shore of the Black Sea, the fortress town of Oczakov, and was preparing to test the Turk by land and sea.

He claimed in his attacks that Woodruff, with scurrilous underhandedness, had deliberately written an ambiguous bid that had so confused the honest members of the legislature that they had awarded him the contract without knowing what they were doing.

When, in March, 1640, the two towns were united under Coddington, Gorton claimed the union was irregular and illegally constituted and that it had never been sanctioned by the majority of freeholders.

He claimed to be visiting the waterfront saloon at the crossroads to play cards and drink with his cronies, but Kate had not smelled brandy on him since Mrs. Lattimer's funeral.

Its ground for this recommendation was that, while petitioner claimed before the local board August 17, 1956 ( as evidenced by its memorandum in his file of that date ), that he was devoting 100 hours per month to actual preaching, the headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses reported that he was no longer doing so and, on the contrary, had relinquished both his Pioneer and Bible Student Servant positions.

John had claimed her from the stag line, a young man a year out of Dartmouth with skiing crinkles still around his eyes.

The hermit also claimed he had heard the demons complaining of the efficacy of the prayers of the faithful, and especially the monks of Cluny, in rescuing their victims.

On March 30, 2010, a spokesman for the Egyptian Culture Ministry claimed it had unearthed a large red granite door in Luxor with inscriptions by User, a powerful adviser to the 18th dynasty Queen Hatshepsut who ruled between 1479 BC and 1458 BC, the longest of any woman.

Murphy had opposed the idea that an individual mind with personality as an entity would survive, instead he claimed the mind and all of its memories would merge itself into a larger field of consciousness.

During the Tsarist times, the Ainu living in Russia were forbidden from identifying themselves as such, since the Imperial Japanese officials had claimed that all the regions inhabited by the Ainu in the past or present, are a part of Japan.

Historian Elizabeth Eisenstein claimed that the fall of Constantinople in 1453 had threatened the importance and survival of Greek scholarship, but publications such as those by the Aldine Press secured it.

Adrian Hilton, writing in The Spectator in 2003, defended the Act of Settlement as not " irrational prejudice or blind bigotry " but claimed that it was passed because " the nation had learnt that when a Roman Catholic monarch is upon the throne, religious and civil liberty is lost.

From the Medieval Arabic king lists of both African states, allegedly copied from earlier lists in ancient Near Eastern languages it appears that the state founders claimed to be deportees of the Assyrian empire who had fled from Syria and Samaria after the defeat of the Egyptian-Assyrian army at Carchemish in 605 BCE.

Insofar as it carried railroad trains under a city street, some have claimed it be the world's first subway tunnel, though, unlike a modern rapid transit subway, it had no stations.

Kirk had long been researching fairies, and the book collected several personal accounts and stories of folk who claimed to have encountered them.

This had been the most important writing that Alexander had claimed, and had been the earliest in genre.

Years later on Inside the Actor's Studio, Goldie Hawn claimed that Capp had sexually propositioned her during her auditions for the 1964 New York World's Fair.

The calls also indicated that one of the men had tied a box around his torso, and claimed there was a bomb inside ; it is not known which hijacker this was.

The calls also indicated that one of the men had tied a box around his torso, and claimed there was a bomb inside-it is not known which hijacker this was.

The mother later claimed that her son had watched one of the fire-related segments shortly before he burned down the home, although, according to an article in the March 24, 1994 issue of Rolling Stone, neighbors claimed that the family did not have cable television.