Candidates are recommended by an advisory panel composed of the chief justice of British Columbia, the chief justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, the chief judge of the Provincial Court, the president of the Law Society of British Columbia, a Law Society member appointed by the benchers ( directors ) and the deputy attorney general.

The committee, headed by California attorney H. Rowan Gaither, recommended that the foundation become an international philanthropy dedicated to the advancement of human welfare and " urged the foundation to focus on solving humankind's most pressing problems, whatever they might be, rather than work in any particular field ...." The board embraced the recommendations in 1949.

The standard total cost for using the services of a trademark attorney to handle the filing of an application in one class is HK $ 4, 300 ( the professional component of this fee is recommended by the Hong Kong Law Society ).

While not convinced that her husband was in a current sexual relationship with Ford, Sharon Lee Willing, alleges her husband and Ford had a sexual relationship during their time together on The Hollywood Barn Dance in the mid-1940s ; that Ford had a proprietary interest in her husband, often phoning him in the middle of the night ; and that her husband recommended his own attorney to Ford to handle her divorce, but that the lawyer eventually resigned as Ford was always drunk, often obstinate, indecisive and forgetful about details in their meetings.

Their attorney recommended a legal separation and sent a letter proposing the separation to Byron.

Almost twenty years after the murder, Los Angeles district attorney Buron Fitts concluded there wasn't any evidence for an indictment of Shelby and recommended that the remaining evidence and case files be retained on a permanent basis ( all of these materials subsequently disappeared ).

( Perhaps her attorney recommended that the cases be separated after she filed her initial petition above.

Hiring an attorney who specializes in reproductive law is strongly recommended.

About 17 % of State inmates and 5 % of Federal inmates submitted either an Alford plea or a no contest plea, regardless of the type of attorney.

His attorney interviewed several witnesses who led him to believe Alford was guilty, and that Alford would probably be convicted in a trial.

* The issue of competency is whether a defendant is able to adequately assist his attorney in preparing a defense, make informed decisions about trial strategy and whether or not to plead guilty or accept a plea agreement.

In many cases, the threat of a RICO indictment can force defendants to plead guilty to lesser charges, in part because the seizure of assets would make it difficult to pay a defense attorney.

A well known civil rights attorney, Francis Heisler, had volunteered to defend the arrested persons, advising them to plead " no lo contendre ", as an alternative to pleading either guilty or not-guilty.

Prominent Little Rock attorney George Rose wrote a letter to outgoing Governor Thomas McRae requesting that he find a way to release the remaining defendants if they agreed to plead guilty.

In other situations, the defense attorney may decide to have the defendant plead not guilty by reason of insanity.

However, the court commissioner in California recalled this warrant on March 19, 2008, after the actor ’ s attorney arrived a day late to plead not guilty on LaBeouf's behalf, and a pre-trial hearing was set for April 24, 2008.

* Revised Code of Washington 9. 12. 010: " Every person who brings on his or her own behalf, or instigates, incites, or encourages another to bring, any false suit at law or in equity in any court of this state, with intent thereby to distress or harass a defendant in the suit, or who serves or sends any paper or document purporting to be or resembling a judicial process, that is not in fact a judicial process, is guilty of a misdemeanor ; and in case the person offending is an attorney, he or she may, in addition thereto be disbarred from practicing law within this state.

Since he was insolvent, Ponzi served as his own attorney and, being as persuasive as he had been with his duped investors, the jury found him not guilty on all charges.

:: Example: The Court indirectly recognized as much when it stated in McMann v. Richardson, supra, 397 U. S., at 770, 771, 90 S. Ct., at 1448, 1449, that a guilty plea cannot be attacked as based on inadequate legal advice unless counsel was not “ a reasonably competent attorney ” and the advice was not “ within the range of competence demanded of attorneys in criminal cases .” See also Cuyler v. Sullivan, supra, 446 U. S., at 344, 100 S. Ct., at 1716.

* Edgar Steele, attorney found guilty of a murder for hire plot ( from the nearby town of Sagle )

In September 2011, former county attorney Scott Tidwell was found guilty of Misuse of Official Information, Retaliation and Official Oppression, sentenced to 120 days in jail and fined $ 6000.

At her trial, Bobbitt's defense attorney argued that she was not guilty by reason of temporary insanity.

The FBI, United Airlines and the district attorney wanted Graham tried, found guilty, and executed promptly as a deterrent to others who might plan copycat murders ," Amole wrote in a column published in the Rocky Mountain News on Sunday, October 29, 1995.

The American Federation of Labor hired noted trial attorney Clarence Darrow to represent the brothers, who eventually pleaded guilty.

On March 16, 2011, Minkow announced through his attorney that he was pleading guilty to one count of insider trading.

When Beverly brings this to the attention of her own attorney, he dismisses the comment, and claims that Beverly is not guilty by reason of insanity.

Fletcher did not appear at his arraignment on June 9 because he was on vacation in Florida ; his attorney entered " not guilty " pleas to all three charges on his behalf.

His attorney, Mark Kaplan, entered a plea of not guilty on Dillon's behalf in a January appearance in Orange County Court in Chelsea, and also appeared in court on February 25, 2009.

After a highly publicized trial in which Jim was represented by his old friend and lawyer Michael Kennedy ( by then a prominent Park Avenue attorney ), the jury rejected a murder charge and found him guilty of voluntary manslaughter.

* Sergei Magnitsky, Russian attorney, whose death in a Moscow jail sparked international outrage and sanctions against Russian officials allegedly guilty in his death ( Magnitsky Act ), born 1972, died 2009

Bridges pleaded not guilty to the charges and was represented by the high-profile defense attorney Johnnie Cochran.

However, in February 2007, federal prosecutors dropped charges against the reporters after a Colorado attorney, Troy Ellerman, who once represented Conte and another executive of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, admitted to leaking the testimony and pleaded guilty to federal charges of unauthorized disclosure of grand jury testimony.

As Civil Rights Commission attorney Bernard Quarterman put it during testimony in Miami on February 16, " They were guilty until proven innocent ".

Defendants could be found guilty on the basis of ` popular repute .` The concept of defense attorney was dismissed as a ` Western absurdity .` A charge that was widely applied against defendants but unfamiliar to some was ` sowing corruption on earth ` ( mofsed-e-filarz ).

At the advice of his attorney, Rogowski pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and rape, thus avoiding the death penalty or life without chance of parole.

The general perception was that a person who had been found guilty by two juries of murdering a baby had ' got off ' on a ' legal technicality ' The Queensland premier Peter Beattie stated that ' there was an injustice done in this case ', the New South Wales premier Bob Carr began a law reform process and the Victorian attorney general, Rob Hulls canvassed the possibility of legislative change.

He repeatedly refuses to play the " race card " even when baited to do so by several reporters, is clearly much more politically conservative than an attorney arguing such a case at the time might have been expected to be, and is shown to be in sharp contrast with Lucien on such matters, as well as with Ellen, to whom he expresses his strong support for the death penalty ( just not for Carl Lee ) and his contempt for the ACLU and, to a lesser extent, the NAACP.

Levin prevailed in his lawsuit, but settled for a lesser amount of damages, rather than continue with expensive litigation, since the Hacketts decided to appeal the verdict, but Levin still obtained no right to have his version of the play performed, as he had signed that away, under pressure by Myer Mermin, an attorney for Otto Frank, of the law firm Paul, Weiss.

A descendant from a line of lesser nobility, Charlevoix ’ s father held the post of deputy attorney general, and ancestors had served in positions in “ great trust and high responsibility ” such as legal officers, aldermen, and mayors.

The Eau Claire district attorney, a Republican, refused to dismiss the attempted adultery charge.

The attorney tells him that he can prepare a brief for K., but since the charge is unknown and the rules are unknown, it is difficult work.

* Cost — While a mediator may charge a fee comparable to that of an attorney, the mediation process generally takes much less time than moving a case through standard legal channels.

Noted attorney Clarence Darrow offered to defend Sanger free of charge, but, bowing to public pressure, the government dropped the charges in early 1916.

This may have been a response to three important events that had shaken investor confidence in the stability of the country: the aforementioned Zapatista uprising, the assassination of PRI presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio, and the assassination of José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Salinas ' former brother-in-law who was also the Secretary General of the PRI, and whose murder was never solved during Salinas ' presidency, even when Mario Ruiz Massieu ( Francisco's brother ) was the attorney general in charge of the investigation.

Will Wilson, a former conservative Democratic attorney general of Texas who switched to the Republican Party to support Nixon, was named United States Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division.

Some coroners hold office by virtue of holding another office: in Nebraska, the county district attorney is the coroner ; in many counties in Texas, the Justice of the Peace may be in charge of death investigation ; in other places, the sheriff is the coroner.

A Free Soul is a 1931 Pre-Code film which tells the story of an alcoholic defense attorney who must defend his daughter's ex-boyfriend on a charge of murdering the mobster she had started a relationship with ; a mobster whom her father had previously got an acquittal for on a murder charge.

Tone drew up a memorandum for Jackson on the state of Ireland, which he described as ripe for revolution ; the memorandum was betrayed to the government by an attorney named Cockayne, to whom Jackson had imprudently disclosed his mission ; and in April 1794 Jackson was arrested on a charge of treason.

An experienced attorney who specializes in trademark registrations typically will charge $ 800. 00 to $ 1500. 00 for preparing and filing an application for trademark registration.

According to the National Security Archive and Italian attorney general Giovanni Salvi, in charge of former DINA head Manuel Contreras ' prosecution, Stefano Delle Chiaie met with Michael Townley and Virgilio Paz Romero in Madrid in 1975 to plan the murder of Bernardo Leighton with the help of Franco's secret police.

The local district attorney elected not to present the charge to the grand jury, which would have been a prerequisite to any trial or punishment for the offense.

However, he could not accept that appointment because U. S. Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings appointed him as a special assistant attorney general to take charge of condemnation of property needed for the expansion of the upper Mississippi River channel.

In 1859, Stanton was the defense attorney in the sensational trial of Daniel E. Sickles, a politician and later a Union general, who was tried on a charge of murdering his wife's lover, Philip Barton Key II ( son of Francis Scott Key ), but was acquitted after Stanton invoked one of the first uses of the insanity defense in U. S. history.

The prosecuting attorney himself moved for the dismissal of the charge, and the jury rendered its verdict accordingly.

In U. S. states which have these offenses, the prosecuting attorney has discretion in deciding which category to charge the defendant.

A charge of conspiracy to commit murder was dropped after Blackburn's attorney reminded the court that such a charge could only be made if the accused had made an attempt on the life of a head of state.

During World War II, Wechsler served as assistant attorney general in charge of the War Division.

In other Canadian provinces, an attorney may collect a percentage of recovery in case of a victory but must charge an hourly fee otherwise.

Balmain had left D ' Arcy Wentworth, whom he had first met on Norfolk Island, in charge of his affairs in the colony, including selling his remaining rum stocks, taking over his private agency, and acting as attorney on his investments.

On May 15, 2009, the El Paso County, Colorado Assistant District attorney dropped the attempted murder charge against the alleged shooter due to lack of evidence and conflicting statements by Chapman, his son Leland, and bail bondsman Bobby Brown.