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.

Selig was eager to settle the case because the judge had previously ruled that the Expos could not be moved or contracted until the case was over.

However, in December 2007 an administrative law judge ruled that he would receive benefits, as his action was not intentional misbehavior.

" ( The judge ruled that " intelligent design is not science and is essentially religious in nature ".

In Beacon Theaters v. Westover,, the US Supreme Court discussed the right to a jury, holding that when both equitable and legal claims are brought, the right to a jury trial still exists for the legal claim, which would be decided by a jury before the judge ruled on the equitable claim.

A High Court judge, Mr Justice Floyd, ruled in favour of the creditors and paved the way for the sale of the club to Fenway Sports Group ( formerly New England Sports Ventures ), although Gillett and Hicks still had the option to appeal.

After general manager Marvin Milkes testified that the Pilots did not have enough money to pay the players, the bankruptcy judge granted the Pilots ' filing on April 1 and ruled the move to Milwaukee in order.

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 ).

In July 2010 a judge ruled that Larrikin should be paid 5 % of past ( since 2002 ) and future profits.

It was ruled that the judge should have left the defence of automatism open to him, so his conviction was quashed ( he had pleaded guilty rather than not guilty by reason of insanity ).

A Dutch judge has ruled that tourists can legally be banned from entering cannabis cafes, as part of new restrictions which come into force in 2012.

The majority of the lawsuit was dismissed in April 2004, when an Alameda County Superior Court judge ruled that the case lacked merit since none of the other partners took part in the lawsuit.

On June 6, federal judge Richard Paul Matsch ruled the documents would not prove McVeigh innocent and ordered the execution to proceed.

The judge ultimately ruled that a murder charge could not be supported partly because there were no witnesses to the killing.

A person whose behaviour is not mustahabb can be ruled against by the judge.

In a mockery of William Brevard Hand, a federal judge in Alabama, who ruled secular humanism as a religion, the musician Frank Zappa, who was also a free speech advocate, established the " Church of American Secular Humanism ".

While the defense could show no specific instance where any part of North's congressional testimony was used in his trial, the Court of Appeals ruled that the trial judge had made an insufficient examination of the issue, and ordered North's convictions reversed.

Litigation continued for nearly six years, until October 6, 1889, when a judge ruled that Edison's electric-light improvement claim for " a filament of carbon of high resistance " was valid.

The Court has ruled that, in certain circumstances, the Due Process Clause requires a judge to recuse himself on account of concern of there being a conflict of interest.

The judge ruled that any similarities in the melody were minor and " Titles " was a Vangelis original.

In July 2004, an appeal judge of the Pretoria High Court ruled that " the crimes were not committed for personal gain ".

However, when Clarke appealed to the High Court against the order, the judge ruled that the order was arbitrary and unjustified and quashed the order.

In August 2010, the trial judge ruled in their clients ' favor.

Microware sued Apple that year for trademark infringement, although a judge ruled that there would be little chance for confusion between the two.

The judge ruled that although the women were being discriminated against, the issue is an International Olympic Committee responsibility and thus not governed by the charter.

Regardless of whether a plot to deport Jews was planned, in his " Secret Speech " in 1956, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev stated that the Doctors Plot was " fabricated ... set up by Stalin ", that Stalin told the judge to beat confessions from the defendants and had told Politburo members " You are blind like young kittens.

" If certain acts of violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us ... We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow.

Federal judge Richard Paul Matsch ordered the venue for the trial be moved from Oklahoma City to Denver, Colorado, citing that the defendants would be unable to receive a fair trial in Oklahoma.

However, if a judge routinely disregards joint submissions, that judge would compromise the ability of the Crown to offer meaningful incentives for defendants to plead guilty.

Volkswagen was one of the " defendants "; the case cited is WWV Corp ( original defendant ) v. Woodson ( the Oklahoma state judge )

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.

Indeed, as Justice Brennan observes, the United States played an instrumental role in the criminal prosecution of Nazi officials who experimented with human subjects during the Second World War, and the standards that the Nuremberg Military Tribunals developed to judge the behavior of the defendants stated that the ' voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential ... to satisfy moral, ethical, and legal concepts.

His first action was to prepare a degree to repair the disastrous sentence by Supreme Court judge Corrado Carnevale, known as the “ sentence-killer ”, that allowed most of the remaining defendants of the Maxi Trial to walk free from prison.

A district judge dismissed the suit against several of the defendants and ruled that the actions of the remaining officials could not be considered unlawful.

" He is a judge and used to enjoy handing out death sentences to defendants he knew to be innocent.

Under the " new arrangements ", defendants are tried by a judge and two magistrates.

The judge sentenced ten defendants to five years ' imprisonment and a $ 10, 000 fine each ($ in dollars ).

The trial lasted five months: Rawson Macharia, the main prosecution witness, turned out to have perjured himself ; the judge — who had only recently been awarded an unusually large pension, and who maintained secret contact with the then colonial Governor of Kenya Evelyn Baring during the trial — was openly hostile to the defendants ' cause.

However, during the trial, which culminated in a courtroom riot with punches being thrown ( Lerner was the only defendant to remain seated ) the presiding judge sent the defendants to jail on " contempt of court " charges.

Judge Hoffman became the favorite courtroom target of the Chicago Seven defendants, who often openly insulted the judge.

But this is of little value to defendants since there are almost always offenses of basic intent that can be charged and / or the basic intent offenses are usually lesser included offenses and an alternative verdict can be delivered by judge or jury without the need for a separate charge.

There was some dispute over the copyright claims by the newspapers, as the defendants experts argued that these only held a copyright on their publication " as a whole " but not on individual articles, but the district judge agreed with the plaintiffs ' expert who interpreted the relevant paragraphs of the Russian law as giving rise to " parallel exclusive rights in both the newspaper publisher and the reporter ", similar to co-authorship.

In her rationale, the judge also said that it is not up to the defendants to teach youngsters human anatomy ; however, her decision was appealed by Krzysztofek's female friend soon afterwards, with the plea of not guilty.

The defendants originally intended to file their petition in Federal court, but the only sitting judge was assigned to other judicial duties in Minnesota at the time and would not return to Arkansas until after the defendants ' scheduled execution date.

Judge Hoffman became the favorite courtroom target of the defendants, who frequently would insult the judge to his face.

The contempt charges were retried before a different judge, who found Dellinger, Rubin, Hoffman, and Kunstler guilty of some of the charges, but opted not to sentence the defendants to jail or fines.