He kills when he pleases, takes his women where he finds them and always acts as judge, jury and executioner rolled into one.

Hanoverian agents assisted in promoting circulation, said to have reached 40,000, and if one may judge by the reaction of Swift and other government writers, the work must have had considerable impact.

No one is to judge others ''.

This thoughtful gesture was well received by the Juniors as the Class had an entry of 46 Juniors and it took approximately one hour, 45 minutes to judge the Class.

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.

Johnson appointed one judge to the United States Court of Claims, Samuel Milligan, who served from 1868 to 1874.

# Lack of obligation towards the signing countries of extradition of the offender committing an act against convention to the country where the aircraft is registered in order to judge one.

In a current context, one might judge a Lamborghini to be beautiful partly because it is desirable as a status symbol, or we might judge it to be repulsive partly because it signifies for us over-consumption and offends our political or moral values.

Is one to judge the painting itself, the work of the painter, or perhaps the painting in its context of presentation by the museum workers?

Others hold that an Alford plea is simply one form of a guilty plea, and, as with other guilty pleas, the judge must see there is some factual basis for the plea.

The hearings were initially completed, with Thomas's good character being presented as a primary qualification for the high court because he had only been a judge for slightly more than one year.

Justice is done when the most effective adversary is able to convince the judge or jury that his or her perspective on the case is the correct one.

In time, a rule, known as stare decisis ( also commonly known as precedent ) developed, whereby a judge would be bound to follow the decision of an earlier judge ; he was required to adopt the earlier judge's interpretation of the law and apply the same principles promulgated by that earlier judge if the two cases had similar facts to one another.

But under orders of Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón, he was arrested there, attracting worldwide attention, not only because of the history of Chile and South America, but also because this was one of the first arrests of a former president based on the universal jurisdiction principle.

The first was the Praetor Peregrinus, who was the chief judge in trials involving one or more foreigners.

It is relatively rare that a person is charged for contempt without first receiving at least one warning from the judge.

Upon the contempt being either admitted or proved the judge or JP may imprison the offender for a maximum of one month, fine them up to GBP £ 2, 500, or do both.

Only one provision appears to impose obligations on an official ; this provision establishes that a judge who reaches an incorrect decision is to be fined and removed from the bench permanently.

The most common forms are civil conciliation and domestic conciliation, both of which are managed under the auspices of the court system by one judge and two non-judge " conciliators.

However, if there are several possibilities of the reincarnation, in the past regents and eminent officials and monks at the Jokhang in Lhasa, and the Minister to Tibet would decide on the individual by putting the boys ' names inside an urn and drawing one lot in public if it was too difficult to judge the reincarnation initially.

Accordingly, it is extremely difficult for one judge to manipulate scores.

In synchronised diving events, there is a panel of seven, nine, or eleven judges ; two or three to mark the execution of one diver, two or three to mark the execution of the other, and the remaining three or five to judge the synchronisation.

Roman law provided for the yearly selection of judices, who would be responsible for resolving disputes by acting as jurors, with a praetor performing many of the duties of a judge.

Whereas colonial judges routinely instructed jurors that they were the ultimate arbiters of both fact and law, the modern judge asserts almost an plenary control over the evidence, law, and facts, instructing the jury as to what the law is, and may overturn decisions in favor of the defense.

Over the years, this has been made more difficult by court decisions such as Sparf v. United States, which held that the judge need not inform jurors of their nullification prerogative, and United States v. Dougherty, which held that the judge need not allow defendants to openly seek jury nullification.

These questions are to familiarize the judge and attorneys with the jurors and glean biases, experiences, or relationships that could jeopardize the proper course of the trial.

The judge calls out the names of the anonymously challenged prospective jurors and those return to the pool for consideration in other trials.

According to Simon ( 1980 ), jurors approach their responsibilities as decision makers much in the same way as a court judge – with great seriousness, a lawful mind, and a concern for consistency that is evidence-based.

She also told the audience of law students that, as a lower-court judge, she would sometimes instruct juries to not follow the film's example, because most of the jurors ' conclusions are based on speculation, not fact.

The judge would be assigned to create 5-7 wards and to authorize an election for the selection of an equivalent number of police jurors.

Such an allegation would be a question of law rather than a question of fact, and as such decided by the judge with no reference to the jurors.

* Second, whether a judge may remove jurors " for cause " when they refuse to apply the law as instructed.

As punishment the judge ordered the jurors imprisoned until they paid a fine to the court.

Chief Justice Vaughan, sitting on the Court of Common Pleas, discharged the writ, released them, called the power to punish a jury " absurd ", and forbade judges from punishing jurors for returning a verdict the judge disagreed with.

In some states, jurors are likely to be struck from the panel during voir dire if they will not agree to accept as correct the rulings and instructions of the law as provided by the judge.

The judge did not to give the jury the option of lesser charges of manslaughter or negligent homicide, and told the jurors they must convict or acquit Saldívar on the sole charge of first-degree murder.

They are unarmed and provide services to the courtroom judge, escort and maintain the jurors / jury pool, and maintain courtroom decorum.

After scolding the jurors for not following his instructions, the judge declared a mistrial on the remaining charges.

On November 21, 1972, all of the convictions were reversed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on the basis that the judge was biased in his refusal to permit defense attorneys to screen prospective jurors for cultural and racial bias.

That said, there are those who recognise that three de facto jurors from the community may well have a more realistic understanding of local life than a single district judge whose background is in law rather than working in the wider community.

This procedure fell into disuse when the function of trying challenges to jurors was transferred to the judge.

The judge called for Howe's conviction, but swayed by his passionate address, jurors acquitted him in what is considered a landmark case in the struggle for a free press in Canada.

" Even though the judge instructed the jury to find Howe guilty, jurors took only 10 minutes to acquit him.

The next day, jurors informed the judge that they could not reach a common verdict on the other four remaining charges, resulting in a partial mistrial.