If a defendant has been convicted and can prove that his lawyer did not adequately handle his case and that there is a reasonable probability that the result of the trial would have been different had the lawyer given competent representation, he is entitled to a new trial.

If the defendant pleads guilty, an evidentiary hearing usually follows.

If the defendant pleads not guilty, a date is set for a preliminary hearing or a trial.

If no excuse can be found or produced, the silence of the books is an authority against the defendant, and the plaintiff must have judgment.

If the defendant moves for a mistrial, there is no bar to retrial, unless the prosecutor acted in " bad faith ," i. e. goaded the defendant into moving for a mistrial because the government specifically wanted a mistrial.

If a defendant could not reasonably have foreseen that someone might be hurt by their actions, there may be no liability.

If Parliament is not in session, then the trial is conducted by a " Court of the Lord High Steward " instead of the House of Lords ( even if the defendant is not a peer ).

If there is no charge for which a two-thirds majority of the senators present vote " guilty ", the defendant is acquitted and no punishment is imposed.

If the plaintiff brings onlyclaims which are equitable, but the defendant asserts counterclaims which are of law, then the court will grant a trial by jury.

If the defendant waives a jury trial, a bench trial is held.

If the defendant asserts his right to remain silent all interrogation must immediately stop and the police may not resume the interrogation unless the police have " scrupulously honored " the defendant ’ s assertion and obtain a valid waiver before resuming the interrogation.

If the defendant does reinitiate contact, a valid waiver must be obtained before interrogation may resume.

If the defendant meets the procedural requirement, the motion will normally be considered by the judge outside the presence of the jury.

# Before any custodial interrogation began did the government agents properly advise the defendant of her Miranda rights? If “ Yes ” go to 6 ; If “ No ”, go to 18 ..

# Did the defendant waive her rights? If “ Yes ” go to 7 ; If “ No ”, go to 18.

# Did the defendant assert either or both of her rights? If “ Yes ” go to 10 ; If “ No ”, go to 18.

# Did the defendant assert her right to remain silent? f “ Yes ” go to 11 ; If “ No ”, go to 13.

# Did the defendant assert her right to counsel? If “ Yes ” go to 14 ; If “ No ”, go to 18.

If a newer software version cannot save files that can be read by the older version, it is not backward compatible with the older version, although it may provide an irreversible upgrade capability for the old files.

If these relations are stored physically as separate disk files, completing a database query that draws information from several relations ( a join operation ) can be slow.

If sending pictures or other easily readable files, most mail clients will display them inline ( unless otherwise specified with the " Content-disposition " header ).

If MPlayer is linked against libmng, as it usually is, MPlayer and thus all graphical front-ends like KMPlayer and Gnome MPlayer can display MNG files.

If the required font files do not exist on the machine where the SVG file is rendered, the text may not appear as intended.

If the check in operation succeeds, then the version numbers of all files involved automatically increment, and the CVS-server writes a user-supplied description line, the date and the author's name to its log files.

If a plaintiff files suit in state court in such a case, the defendant can remove the case to federal court if a timely request is made to do so.

* Shorten FAQ ( note: If looking for software to play. shn files, you will probably be better served by the etree software page, as the Shorten FAQ has many broken and outdated links.

If the work is to be distributed electronically, the final files are saved as formats appropriate to the target operating systems of the hardware used for reading.

If a CD is read and ripped perfectly to FLAC files, the CUE file allows later burning of an audio CD that is identical in audio data to the original CD, including track order, pregaps, and CD-Text.

If I can display my medical files and x-rays and prove my airplane accident and heart attack, then the millionaires in the Christian media, who seemed to have implied that I'm a liar, can buy me the defibrillator which I need to help me stay alive.

If the claim is denied, then the claimant ( or policyholder or applicant ) files a lawsuit with the courts and becomes a plaintiff.

If the sender's and recipient's versions of the file have many sections in common, the utility needs to transfer relatively little data to synchronize the files.

If a fileserver supports both AFP and NFS, then clients using NFS will store files in AppleDouble format, whereas AFP users will use AppleSingle format ( resource forks are stored natively ).

If plaintext is stored in a computer file ( and the situation of automatically made backup files generated during program execution must be included here, even if invisible to the user ), the storage media along with the entire computer and its components must be secure.

* If the body of source code is changed more fundamentally then and the files need to be changed and all subsequent steps also followed.

If an error occurs during compaction and messages are lost, the < tt > DBX </ tt > files can be copied from the recycle bin.

If there are any matches for the user's search string, the next step is to request those files from the server.

If no files are specified, the standard input will be uncompressed to the standard output.

If given, uncompress will not prompt for overwriting files.

If the input files contain lines beginning with the separator character, the output columns can become ambiguous.

If the lines in the files are not both collated in accordance with the current locale, the result is undefined.

If a judge or magistrate were to refuse to hear such a plea, or obviously fail to properly consider it, then the sentence would, without doubt, be overturned on appeal.

If administrative appeal is available, no appeal to the judicial system may be made.

If one is convicted at the district court, the defence can make an appeal on procedural grounds to the supreme court.

If art was to appeal to sensibilities, Dada was intended to offend.

If an application is denied by one judge of the FISC, the federal government is not allowed to make the same application to a different judge of the court, but must appeal to the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review.

If the non-governmental party loses, the constitutional issue may form part of the appeal.

If that judgment goes to appeal, the appellate court will have the opportunity to review both the precedent and the case under appeal, perhaps overruling the previous case law by setting a new precedent of higher authority.

If the request for plea bargain is accepted by the court, the accused stands convicted but neither is sentenced if in trial nor undergoes any sentence previously pronounced by a lower court if in appeal.

If each is able to gather one million votes on their own, but together they were able to appeal to 2. 5 million voters, their synergy would have produced 500, 000 more votes than had they each worked independently.

If one is aggrieved by the judicial outcome of an action and wishes to appeal, he may be forever barred from doing so if he fails to meet the deadline by which his appeal may be filed.

If ever such an appeal was out of place, it was in a high-minded notification ceremony.

If the member considers the punishment to be unjust or to be disproportionate to the misconduct committed, he or she may appeal the NJP to a higher authority.

The Simpsons episode " Catch ' Em If You Can ", aired 25 April 2004, alluded to the snob appeal of The Economist in an exchange between Homer and Marge Simpson while they are travelling first-class aboard an airplane:

If one of the litigants is unsatisfied with the decision of the lower court, the matter may be taken up on appeal ( but an acquittal in a criminal trial may not be appealed by the state due to the Fifth Amendment protection against double jeopardy ).

If still unsatisfied, the litigant can appeal to the highest appellate court in the state, which is usually called the state supreme court and is usually located in or near the state capital.

If we are going to appeal to force, if force is to be the arbiter to which we appeal, it would at least make common sense to try to make sure beforehand that we have got it, even if you accept that abysmal logic, that decadent point of view. We are in fact in the position today of having appealed to force in the case of a small nation, where if it is appealed to against us it will result in the destruction of Great Britain, not only as a nation, but as an island containing living men and women.

If an attorney failed to " take an exception " immediately after the court's ruling on the objection, he waived his client's right to appeal the issue.

If seeking to avoid rejecting the laws of thought, the solipsist may easily appeal to the Problem of Induction.

If the fielding side believes a batsman is out, the fielding side must appeal, by asking " How's that?

English film critic Mark Kermode, a dissenting voice amongst Showgirls positive critical reevaluation, has stated, " If Showgirls had any appeal at all, it was that it was so spectacularly vulgar and crude ," and " I still think it's just rubbish, and I like Paul Verhoeven.