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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.
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If the defendant files an appeal arguing that he should not have to pay any money, then the plaintiff might file a cross-appeal arguing that the defendant should have to pay $ 200, 000 instead of $ 50, 000.
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 and who
If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;
If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.
If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.
If he had been `` liquidated '' in some way, he would have become a martyr, a rallying point for people who shared his ideas.
If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??
If the barn-burner's family produces a Flem Snopes, who personifies commercialism and materialism in hyperbolic crassness, the Compson family produces a Jason Compson 4.
If Hammarskjold had not wanted the list disposed of in this manner, and if Bang-Jensen had not wanted it -- who had ordered it??
If it proclaims that the best is yet to be, it always arouses, at least in the young, either a suspicious question or perhaps the exclamation of the Negro youth who saw on a tombstone the inscription, `` I am not dead but sleeping ''.
If the would-be joiner asks these questions he is not likely to be duped by extremists who are seeking to capitalize on the confusions and the patriotic apprehensions of Americans in a troubled time.
If this practice should take root and spread, the man who submits a manuscript to a publisher will find himself reviewed before he is accepted and publication will become a sort of post-mortem formality.
If you are unable to sign the request, because of illness or other good cause, another person who stands in close personal or business relationship to you may sign the request on your behalf, stating the reason why you are unable to sign.
If you have a full-time doctor now, can he be replaced with a part-time doctor or one who serves on a fee-per-case basis only??
If a litigant chooses to enforce a Federal right in a State court, he cannot be heard to object if he is treated exactly as are plaintiffs who press like claims arising under State law with regard to the form in which the claim must be stated -- the particularity, for instance, with which a cause of action must be described.
If goodness and badness lie in attitudes only and hence are brought into being by them, those men who greeted death and misery with childishly merry laughter are taking the only sensible line.
If the master of scops who was most responsible for the poem ever used kennings that were traditional, he was at least partly deprived of free will and not inclined towards shrewd and sophisticated misuse of speech elements.
If one wishes to discuss a literary figure who uses folklore in his work, the first thing he must realize is that the literary figure is probably part of this ignorant American public.
If Bridget did get any bundles of cash, the last person who would have rewarded her for services rendered would have been Lizzie Borden.
If this trade should be resumed, the habitants who had come to be farmers or artisans, and soldiers discharged from the army, must be hardened to the severe life of coureurs de bois.
If Mrs. Black was who he thought she was, Mr. Black's Peerless selling days might well be over.
If the Orioles are to break their losing streak within the next two days, it will have to be at the expense of the American League champion New York Yankees, who come in here tomorrow for a night game and a single test Sunday afternoon.
If there had been, he would have found a loophole, because Arnold is one golfer who knows the code as thoroughly as the man who wrote the book.
( One big question: If Colmer was to be purged, what should the House do about the other three senior Mississippians who supported the maverick electors??
If Bultmann's own definition of myth is strictly adhered to ( and it is interesting that this is almost never done by those who make such pronouncements ), the evidence is overwhelming that he does not at all exaggerate the extent to which the mythological concepts of traditional theology have become incredible and irrelevant.
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