Liebeck's attorneys argued that McDonald's coffee was " defective ", claiming it was too hot and more likely to cause serious injury than coffee served at any other establishment.

During the case, Liebeck's attorneys discovered that McDonald's required franchisees to serve coffee at.

Stella Liebeck's attorney argued that coffee should never be served hotter than, and that a number of other establishments served coffee at a substantially lower temperature than McDonald's.

) Liebeck's attorneys argued that these extra seconds could provide adequate time to remove the coffee from exposed skin, thereby preventing many burns.

Liebeck's attorney, Reed Morgan, and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America defend the lawsuit by claiming that McDonald's reduced the temperature of their coffee after the suit.

A large portion of the film covered Liebeck's lawsuit.

Arguments of the parties to the appeal are presented through their appellate lawyers, if represented, or " pro se " if the party has not engaged legal representation.

Turkish courts have no jury system ; judges render decisions after establishing the facts in each case based on evidence presented by lawyers and prosecutors.

In extreme circumstances where the relationship between the lawyers, parties, and / or witnesses has totally broken down, the court may require the use of a discovery referee who will have authority to sit in on depositions and rule immediately on objections as they are presented, or may order that all further depositions take place in court in the presence of a judge.

R. William Ide III, president of the American Bar Association, paid tribute to the way Burr's Perry Mason presented lawyers " in a professional and dignified manner " and helped " to educate many people who previously had not had access to the justice system.

Although the document's authors were non-Japanese, they took into account the Meiji Constitution, the demands of Japanese lawyers, the opinions of pacifist political leaders such as Shidehara and Yoshida Shigeru, and especially the draft presented by the Constitution Research Association ( Kempo Kenku-kai ) under the chairmanship of Suzuki Yasuzo ( 1904-1983 ), which had been translated into English in its entirety already at the end of December 1945.

Reverend Samuel Houston ( not to be confused with the later governor of Tennessee and Texas ) had presented a draft constitution which restricted the election of lawyers and other professionals.

The accusation was dropped after Mr. Gigante's lawyers presented reports from psychiatrists that he was mentally unfit to stand trial.

The actual legal defense that White's lawyers used was that his mental capacity had been diminished, and White's consumption of junk food was presented to the jury as one of many symptoms, not a cause, of White's depression.

These books variously criticize the police for allowing the crime scenes to become contaminated, Lindbergh and his associates for interfering with the investigation, Hauptmann's trial lawyers for ineffectively representing him, and the reliability of the witnesses and physical evidence presented at the trial.

In 1989, he and a group of lawyers presented a counter-draft to the government's Travel Bill, which authorised mass public demonstrations.

Mr. Claiborne served as a U. S. Deputy Solicitor General from 1962 to 1985, presented oral argument in over 70 cases to the United States Supreme Court and is regarded as " one of the single most important lawyers in environmental law's formative years in the Court.

He worked on the history of the Exchequer, and presented to Burghley a history of the court of requests " to defend it against the slights of the common lawyers ".

These books variously criticize the police for allowing the crime scenes to become contaminated, Lindbergh and his associates for interfering with the investigation, Hauptmann's trial lawyers for ineffectively representing him, and the reliability of the witnesses and the physical evidence presented at the trial.

The principle includes the rights of a party or his lawyers to confront the witnesses against him, to have a fair opportunity to challenge the evidence presented by the other party, to summon one's own witnesses and to present evidence, and to have counsel, if necessary at public expense, in order to make one's case properly.

Defence lawyers representing the seven accused presented their final submissions.

The case of Iraq war resisters clearly became more than a legal issue when Canadian government lawyers entered the situation and presented arguments to the Immigration and Refugee Board adjudicator just prior to this precedent-setting hearing.

In comparison, the legal term law refers to a rigid set of behavioral proscriptions, a theory is presented by a lawyer in an effort to convince a judge or jury, and facts are assertions that lawyers make and attempt to prove to the court.

But activists reveal a flaw, that due to the absence of sentencing guidelines in what constitutes " rarest of the rare ", in some less gruesome murders, the lower courts have awarded death sentences possibly due to poor defence presented by the lawyers of the economically backward.

That settlement took the form of an " agreed statement of facts " jointly presented to the Federal Court by Vizard's and ASIC's lawyers, and Vizard agreeing the court should impose penalties for a breach of his duties as a director.

The Kach lawyers presented what they claimed was a kind of " mirror image brief ", in which they asserted that Kach had no objection to the democratic character of Israel, but asserted that that character must be interpreted as subject to Israel being a Jewish State — i. e., the democratic character of Israel could not mean any infringement of the pre-eminent position of Jews in all spheres of Israeli life, since such infringement would mean that Israel was not a Jewish state ( at least, not what Kach regarded as " a Jewish state ").

The British defending lawyers, who today increased from three to four, demanded to know if they could make the information involved seem of little value to a jury, the chances of their clients would improve.

As part of the defense, McVeigh's lawyers showed the jury the controversial video Waco: The Big Lie.

Parties, lawyers, and witnesses are not allowed to speak with a member of the jury.

Usually, a court-martial takes the form of a trial with a presiding judge, a prosecutor and defensive counsel ( all trained lawyers as well as officers ) and ( in some cases ) a panel of officers ( and sometimes enlisted personnel ) acting as jury.

Some contend that Judge Leval's instructions to the jury over what constituted " actual malice " to prove libel convinced Westmoreland's lawyers that he was certain to lose.

There is no jury and usually no lawyers.

Any prejudice on the part of the lawyers, the judge, or jury members threatens to destroy the court's credibility.

Some lawyers use a shadow defense to get information entered into the record that would otherwise be inadmissible hoping that evidence will trigger a jury nullification.

Despite his lawyers ' and psychiatrists ' claims that he had been legally insane for more than 30 years, the jury convicted him on all but the murder charges, which would have mandated a life sentence without parole.

When Henry II reformed English civil procedure in the Assize of Clarendon in 1166, trial by jury became available, and lawyers, guarding the safety of the lives and limbs of their clients, steered people away from the wager of battle.

In USA and in Europe and many other countries referring to the law traditions of Europe, the area in front of the barrage is restricted to participants in the trial: the judge or judges, other court officials, the jury ( if any ), the lawyers for each party, the parties to the case, and witnesses giving testimony.

Henry Brougham considered this to be one of Erskine's finest speeches: " It is justly regarded, by all English lawyers, as a consummate specimen of the art of addressing a jury ".

Jefferson's lawyers have promised to appeal, a gesture which New Orleans former U. S. attorney Harry Rosenberg told the Times-Picayune may work in Jefferson's favor because the jury failed to convict him on all sixteen of the indictment counts.

Thereafter, while a bench verdict ( that is, a verdict by a judge sitting without a jury ) was pending, he solicited and received from the lawyers appearing before him illegal gratuities in the form of cash and other things of value " thus depriving " the public of its right to his honest services ".

Her defense lawyers argued to the jury that the word popped does not have the same meaning as in American English.

After Kathryn's closing statement and a single summation from the three defense lawyers, the jury deliberates for a long time, asking several times for Ken's testimony to be reread to them.

A police log timed at 3: 26 am on 7 August ( see image, right ) was entered as evidence at the trial, but it was not shown to the jury, or seen by Bamber's lawyers until at least 2004.

Defense lawyers filed numerous unsuccessful appeals that challenged the conduct of the grand jury, the contempt fines, the execution of the search warrants and various trial procedures.

Joe Gutmann, the prosecutor in Batson's 1982 trial, has said that the Supreme Court's decision was " a good one " because it prevents lawyers from discriminating in jury selection.

After deliberating only 15 minutes, a jury in his home town acquitted him after defense counsel cleverly whipped up local jury resentment against New York lawyers who were assisting the prosecution.