A little later the district attorney woke up, emerged from under the couch, looked at his watch, and realized he had an engagement that very hour to address a meeting of the Culture Forum on `` The Civic Spirit of the Southland '', in the Byzantine room of the hotel where his wife, as president of the forum, was to preside.

Three weeks later, following his recovery, armed with a writ issued by the Catskill justice on affidavits prepared by the district attorney, Cook and Russell rode to arrest Martinez.

Vincent G. Ierulli has been appointed temporary assistant district attorney, it was announced Monday by Charles E. Raymond, District Attorney.

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

In a non-criminal case in a United States district court, a litigant ( or a litigant's attorney ) who presents any pleading, written motion or other paper to the court is required, under Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, to certify that, to the best of the presenter's knowledge and belief, the legal contentions " are warranted by existing law or by a nonfrivolous argument for the extension, modification, or reversal of existing law or the establishment of new law ".

In January 1863, he was appointed assistant district attorney of Erie County.

Cukor was born on the Lower East Side of New York City, the younger child and only son of Hungarian Jewish immigrants Victor, an assistant district attorney, and Helen Ilona ( née Gross ) Cukor.

His father, Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Sr., was the district attorney of Orleans Parish from 1973 – 2003.

Connick, Jr. was also thrilled to learn he'd be playing an executive assistant district attorney on Law & Order: SVU, because the role gives him the chance to act like his father, who was district attorney of New Orleans, LA for 30 years.

He even mentions his father was excited that he get the role of EADA Haden and Connick, Jr. mentions his father was the district attorney in New Orleans, and as he played Haden, he has something else to share with his father ; he also mentions his mother was a judge and his father wanted him in more courtroom scenes on the show.

There, he became State's attorney for the twenty-seventh judicial district of Illinois, holding the position from March 1861 to December 1868.

The district attorney who prosecuted Dahmer cautioned against turning Scarver into a folk hero, noting that Dahmer's death was still murder.

Spacey played an egomaniacal district attorney in A Time to Kill ( 1996 ), and founded Trigger Street Productions in 1997, with the purpose of producing and developing entertainment across various media.

Topps responded initially by repainting 13 of the cards to reduce the gore and sexuality, then, following inquiries from a Connecticut district attorney, agreed to halt production.

Jones was not prosecuted since he cooperated with the district attorney, and testified against Patrick.

The prosecution team was led by Tom Stewart, district attorney for the 18th Circuit ( and future United States Senator ), and included, in addition to Herbert and Sue Hicks, Ben B. McKenzie and William Jennings Bryan.

After two years of appeals, a new district attorney in New York did not continue to push the case.

Woll retreated to Mexico with many hostages, including the local judge, clerk, district attorney and all attorneys attending the court session.

The district attorney is Janet DiFiore ( D ).

In the 1960s G. Gordon Liddy ( who went to prison for crimes committed during the Nixon administration's Watergate scandal and now a talk show host ), was a Dutchess County assistant district attorney when he repeatedly tried to have Timothy Leary arrested on drug charges.

The Alameda County district attorney later dropped the case for lack of evidence, and in 2004 the FBI and the City of Oakland agreed to a $ 4 million settlement of a lawsuit brought by Bari's estate, and her friend, over their false arrest.

Prosecution in Italy enjoys constitutional independence from the Government, and is entrusted to a district attorney, the Procuratore della Repubblica ( one for every ordinary court ), the Procuratore Generale ( every Court of Appeal ), the Procuratore Distrettuale Antimafia, the Procuratore Generale ( Court of Cassation ) and the Procura Nazionale Antimafia.

At least they hadn't stepped up and asked to see papers in the hated, flat, dialect mispronunciation of Mussolini's home district -- Dogumenti, per favore.

In October 1028, the Emperor's opportunity came as the Lutici district of Pöhlde asked the Emperor to defend against the attacks of Mieszko II, promising support in the fight against the Polish ruler.

The Great Ocean Road was first planned towards the end of the first world war, when chairman of the Country Roads Board William Calder asked the State War Council for funds be provided for returned soldiers to work on roads in sparsely populated areas in the Western district.

It is interesting to note that once a school district was asked to be included in the reorganized district the people of the district asked to be included and the people of the reorganized district both voted.

In March 1991, the school board asked the district court for permission to close Crowder elementary and junior high school, a majority white school.

Printers of Christmas cards and stationery were requested to always include district numbers in addresses, and election agents for candidates in the upcoming general election were asked to ensure they correctly addressed the 100 million items of mail they were expected to post.

Schuyler Colfax, the congressman in the district was asked to name the post office.

The school district and Wyoming Township had asked for it to handle the land development.

The plaintiffs filed an appeal on procedural issues and asked for the district court decision to be vacated.

Auglaize-Brown asked to join the Paulding Exempted Village School district, while the Grover Hill, Blue Creek, and Payne Local School Districts merged into the new Wayne Trace school district.

The Old Order Amish use a combination of election and sortition to select church leaders ; men receiving two or three nominations to fill a vacancy ( the number varies by district ) are then asked to select a psalm book containing a slip of paper, one of those slips being marked to indicate who will take on the burden of the position.

The district court judge asked Al-Arian whether he had been promised anything else by anyone to induce his guilty plea, and he said that he had not.

Also known for his wit, when asked by his party leaders why he opposed legislation to combat communism and pornography, he replied they were the major industries of his district and if they were suppressed then " the 17th district would be a depressed area ".

In 1970 a federal judge asked the district to speed the integration process.

Rod Paige became superintendent of Houston Independent School District in 1994 ; during his seven-year tenure the district became very well known for high test scores, and in 2001 Paige was asked to become Secretary of Education for the new George W. Bush administration.

A typical criminal defendant will be arraigned and subsequently indicted or held over for trial before a trial court in and for a particular county where the crime occurred, kept in the county jail ( if he is not granted bail or cannot make bail ), prosecuted by the county's district attorney, and tried before a jury selected from that county.

The Judiciary Act states, " Upon all arrests in criminal cases, bail shall be admitted, except where punishment may be by death, in which cases it shall not be admitted but by the supreme or a circuit court, or by a justice of the supreme court, or a judge of a district court, who shall exercise their discretion therein.

They also have certain powers to issue search warrants, and ( in conjunction with another Justice of the Peace ) may try minor criminal trials in the district court and exercise powers to remand defendants in custody, grant bail, and adjourn court hearings.

The tax break news also led to the Joliet High School district threatening to bail out of the enterprise zone, but a compromise was reached.

Further, it ordered the district court to revoke Stewart's bail immediately and remanded the case for resentencing in light of her possible perjury at her trial and other factors not properly considered against her by the sentencing judge.