* 139 page in-depth analysis of intelligent design, irreducible complexity, and the book Of Pandas and People by the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District judge

In the 2005 Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial, Behe testified under oath that he " did not judge asymmetry serious enough to revised the book yet.

Josiah Oliver Wolcott ( October 31, 1877-November 11, 1938 ) was an American lawyer, politician and judge, from Dover, in Kent County, Delaware.

Following the judgement against intelligent design supporters in the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial where a judge decided that it was unconstitutional for Dover Area High School's school board to require teachers to tell students that Darwin's theory of evolution is " not a fact ," members of Repent America went door-to-door.

:" The Dover decision is an attempt by an activist federal judge to stop the spread of a scientific idea and even to prevent criticism of Darwinian evolution through government-imposed censorship rather than open debate, and it won't work.

The trial judge decided that the administrative procedures of the Act were fully complied with and refused to require the production of such documents.

Then, when the case went to the jury, the judge excused one of the jurors, saying the juror had told him he had been accosted by masked men at his motel the night before the trial opened.

For example, suppose at trial the judge found for the plaintiff and ordered the defendant to pay $ 50, 000.

On March 5, 1868, the impeachment trial began in the Senate and lasted almost three months ; Reps. George S. Boutwell, Ben Butler and Thaddeus Stevens acted as managers ( prosecutors ) for the House and William M. Evarts, Benjamin R. Curtis and Attorney General Henry Stanberry served as Johnson's counsel ; Chief Justice Chase served as presiding judge.

Alford was sentenced to thirty years in prison, after the trial judge in the case accepted the plea bargain and ruled that the defendant had been adequately apprised by his lawyer.

Most cases that go to trial are carefully prepared through a discovery process that aids in the review of evidence and testimony before it is presented to judge or jury.

* in the United States, determining whether the Seventh Amendment's right to a jury trial applies ( a determination of a fact necessary to resolution of a " common law " claim ) or whether the issue will be decided by a judge ( issues of what the law is, and all issues relating to equity ).

A finding of contempt of court may result from a failure to obey a lawful order of a court, showing disrespect for the judge, disruption of the proceedings through poor behaviour, or publication of material deemed likely to jeopardize a fair trial.

Disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent behaviour toward the judge or magistrates while holding the court, tending to interrupt the due course of a trial or other judicial proceeding, may be prosecuted as " direct " contempt.

Where it is necessary to act quickly the judge ( even the trial judge ) may act to sentence for contempt.

Cross-examination is considered an essential component of a jury trial because of the impact it has on the opinions of the judge and jury.

This principle does not prevent the government from appealing a pre-trial motion to dismiss or other non-merits dismissal, or a directed verdict after a jury conviction, nor does it prevent the trial judge from entertaining a motion for reconsideration of a directed verdict, if the jurisdiction has so provided by rule or statute.

If the prosecutor moves for a mistrial, there is no bar to retrial if the trial judge finds " manifest necessity " for granting the mistrial.

After a trial at the Old Bailey in front of the notoriously sadistic judge Salathiel Lovell, Defoe was found guilty.

However, the original trial judge, Judge David Burnett, disallowed presentation of this information in his court.

In civil matters, generally there is no jury however, in criminal matters, the defendant can elect trial by judge and jury or judge alone.

The trial and execution of Charles by his own subjects shocked the rest of Europe ( the king argued to the end that only God could judge him ) and was a precursor of sorts to the beheading of Louis XVI 145 years later.

If the judge finds such probable cause, he or she binds, or holds over, the suspect for trial.

However since the Lord Chancellor today is no longer a judge, it is not certain who would preside over an impeachment trial today.

Other debilitating scandals included " Arms to Iraq " – the ongoing inquiry into how government ministers including Alan Clark ( also involved in an unrelated scandal involving the revelation of his affair with the wife and both daughters of a South African judge ) had encouraged businesses to supply arms to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, in breach of the official arms embargo, and how senior ministers had, on legal advice, attempted to withhold evidence of this official connivance when directors of Matrix Churchill were put trial for breaking the embargo.

A jury trial ( or trial by jury ) is a legal proceeding in which a jury either makes a decision or makes findings of fact which are then applied by a judge.

Landis later wrote, " I may not have been much of a judge, nor baseball official, but I do pride myself on having been a real shorthand reporter.

In February 2010, the Australian judge ruled that " Down Under " did contain a flute riff based on " Kookaburra " but stipulated that neither was it necessarily the hook nor a substantial part of the hit song ( Colin Hay wrote the song years before the flute riff was added by a later member of the band ).

The song was originally commissioned by Lieutenant Governor of Quebec Théodore Robitaille for the 1880 Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day ceremony ; Calixa Lavallée wrote the music as a setting of a French Canadian patriotic poem composed by poet and judge Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier.

Besides Adonis, other myths that appear in his work are those of Hyacinthus and the Cyclops ; to judge from references in the Epitaph on Bion, which frequently alludes to Bion's work, he also wrote a poem on Orpheus, to which some of the extant fragments may have belonged.

Texas A & M University-Central Texas professor Luke Nichter wrote the chief judge of the federal court in Washington to in an effort release hundreds of pages of sealed records of the Watergate 7.

The physician and judge known as Song Ci ( 1186 – 1249 ) wrote a pioneering work of forensic science on the examination of corpses in order to determine cause of death ( strangulation, poisoning, drowning, blows, etc.

The 1973 – 1982 versions were produced by veteran Goodson-Todman producer Ira Skutch, who also wrote some questions and acted as on-stage judge.

Robert H. Gollmar, the judge in the Gein case, wrote: " Due to prohibitive costs, Gein was tried for only one murder — that of Mrs. Worden.

" Although Warren was an important and courageous figure and although he inspired passionate devotion among his followers ... he was a dull man and a dull judge ," wrote Dennis J. Hutchinson.

Other historical figures and famous people who have lived in Esopus include naturalist John Burroughs, abolitionist Sojourner Truth, Major Gen. Daniel Butterfield, who founded the American Express Company and wrote “ Taps ” in 1862, and 1904 Democratic nominee for president Alton Brooks Parker, a lawyer and judge, who lost to incumbent Theodore Roosevelt.

William Blackstone later wrote that " if judgment of death be given by a judge not authorized by lawful commission, and execution is done accordingly, the judge is guilty of murder ; and upon this argument Sir Matthew Hale himself, though he accepted the place of a judge of the Common Pleas under Cromwell's government, yet declined to sit on the crown side at the assizes, and try prisoners, having very strong objections to the legality of the usurper's commission ".

Edward Foss wrote that he was an " eminent judge, whom all look up to as one of the brightest luminaries of the law, as well for the soundness of his learning as for the excellence of his life ".

It seems that he wrote verses at this period, but, to judge from a quotation of Tallemant des Réaux, they must have been very bad ones.

The judge wrote that she had to uphold the new definition of “ political party ”, because the Alaska Supreme Court had upheld the old definition of “ political party ” on November 17, 2006.

In August 2003, Musgrove wrote judge Roy Moore on state letterhead to praise the judge's unconstitutional-as ruled by the U. S. Supreme Court-Ten Commandments monument, inviting the judge to display the monument in the Mississippi State Capitol for a week the following month and announcing his intention to encourage other governors to follow suit.

" When I look at myself objectively ," he wrote in retirement, " I think that what success I may have achieved through life is largely due to the fact that I am a good judge of men.

Awarding Robbins $ 20, 000 in damages, the judge wrote " While damages are presumed, the plaintiff's failure to take the witness stand and to testify about his feelings and the impact of the defamation upon his reputation leaves the court somewhat in the dark about these matters ".

* Jack Speer, also known as John “ Jack ” Bristol Speer, a judge, Washington statr representative and a science fiction fan and historian, who wrote the first history of science fiction fandom

Calixa Lavallée ( 1842 – 1891 ) wrote the music, which was a setting of a patriotic poem composed by the poet and judge Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier ( 1839 – 1920 ).

The judge admitted nearly every piece of evidence the Republican Party offered and then wrote a thorough, tough opinion rejecting the Republicans ' claims ( while criticizing the administration of the election, particularly in King County ); Rossi was left with very little legal ground for a successful appeal.

Author Joseph Goulden wrote a book about federal judges called The Benchwarmers and mentioned that many lawyers appearing in Sirica's courtroom thought little of him or his abilities as a judge.