Although Adams was finally found innocent after years of being processed by the legal system, the judge in the habeas corpus hearing officially stated that, " much could be said about those videotape interviews, but nothing that would have any bearing on the matter before this court.

John Dalberg-Acton stated that " The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

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.

" Judge Gerard L. Goettel instructed the jury that the case involved the Unification Church, Sun Myung Moon, and his followers, whom the judge stated were " sometimes referred to as Moonies.

Additionally, a judge ruling on the same case in November 2007 has stated that forcing the suspect to reveal his PGP passphrase would violate his Fifth Amendment rights i. e. a suspect's constitutional right not to incriminate himself.

" Five years after the publication of Hitler's Pope, Cornwell stated: " I would now argue, in the light of the debates and evidence following Hitler's Pope, that Pius XII had so little scope of action that it is impossible to judge the motives for his silence during the war, while Rome was under the heel of Mussolini and later occupied by Germany ".

Laaksonen, who was not interested in athletics, opposed Nurmi raising their newborn son Matti to be a runner and stated to the Associated Press in 1933 that " his concentration on athletics at last forced me to go to the judge for a divorce.

As stated in Brewer v. Williams,, the right to counsel “ at least that a person is entitled to the help of a lawyer at or after the time that judicial proceedings have been initiated against him, whether by formal charge, preliminary hearing, indictment, information, or arraignment .” Brewer goes on to conclude that once adversary proceeding have begun against a defendant, he has a right to legal representation when the government interrogates him and that when a defendant is arrested, “ arraigned on arrest warrant before a judge ,” and “ committed by the court to confinement ,” “ here can be no doubt that judicial proceedings ha been initiated .”

Robert Bork, often considered an originalist, stated during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing that a judge should not apply a constitutional provision like this one if he does not know what it means ; the example Bork then gave was a clause covered by an inkblot.

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.

Aristotle, for example, stated that phantasia ( imagination: that which can hold images or phantasmata ) and phronein ( a type of thinking that can judge and understand in some sense ) also exist in some animals.

The Reasons for Judgment, published on 23 February 2012, stated that there is a serious problem with the finding made and endorsed by the trial judge and the Court of Appeal respectively that Lo knew that there had been champerty involved.

A judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York denied a preliminary injunction against Jews for Jesus over the pamphlet, finding the distribution of the pamphlet to be protected by the First Amendment, and also stated that the pamphlet did not suggest that Mason was a Christian.

" Chief party judge Walter Buch later stated that the message was clear ; with these words Goebbels had commanded the party leaders to organize a pogrom.

However, he later stated that he was too unfamiliar with video games to judge them, although he still wasn't convinced at the time that video games are art.

Turkey and Britain have an extradition treaty, however, Home Office officials have stated " Under UK extradition law a judge must order the discharge of extradition request if it is not an offence under UK law and in the country requesting extradition.

In a declaration made on the 16 June 1673 by Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, the Lord Privy Seal, in reference to a dispute over the exercise of authority over the Officers of Arms the powers of the Earl Marshal were stated as " to have power to order, judge, and determine all matters touching arms, ensigns of nobility, honour, and chivalry ; to make laws, ordinances, and statutes for the good government of the Officers of Arms ; to nominate Officers to fill vacancies in the College of Arms ; to punish and correct Officers of Arms for misbehaviour in the execution of their places ".

The city asked for a new judge when the original judge, Mark Rusch, stated there may be the appearance of potential conflict if he heard the case.

The majority of the justices, in the opinion, stated that the judge should take into account mitigating factors and other information which are usually of relevance during the sentencing phase.

While all the other judges " succumbed to royal pressure and, throwing themselves on their knees, prayed for pardon ", Coke defended the letter and stated that " When the case happens I shall do that which shall be fit for a judge to do ".

On August 27, 2007, Martín Rangel Cervantes, writing in national daily El Universal, stated that a federal judge assigned to the Acteal case sentenced, on July 22, 18 persons from the Tzotzil ethnic group for their responsibility in this massacre.

On March 3, 2006, judge Randy Jackson stated in an interview that Daughtry had been offered the opportunity to become Fuel's new lead singer.

In addition, judges tend to be very much against nullification ; in R. v. Latimer, 2001 SCC 1, it was stated that " The trial did not become unfair simply because the trial judge undermined the jury ’ s de facto power to nullify.

It is no doubt true that juries have a de facto power to disregard the law as stated to the jury by the judge.

* 1993 – A federal judge sentences Los Angeles Police Department officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King's civil rights.

During the early 1980s, Cossiga attacked several times the antimafia judges and spoke in favour of judge Corrado Carnevale, a member of the Corte di Cassazione ( Italy's supreme court ) who had annulled numerous sentences against mafia leaders and was later tried for these actions.

* 1998 – A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives " Unabomber " Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.

The film itself has been widely sampled: Punk band Big Audio Dynamite used an audio clip from the movie in its song " Medicine Show "; the audio was taken from the scene in which a judge, after reading a long list of criminal charges, sentences Tuco to be " hanged from the neck until dead.

** A federal judge sentences Los Angeles Police Department officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King's civil rights.

* Judge Fang — A Chinese Confucian judge who sentences Bud to death in the beginning of the book.

* Florian Barbedienne is the judge who sentences Quasimodo to be tortured.

However, usage differs from this in German, where an upper-case letter may be used only if the sentence after the colon could stand alone without the preceding sentence ( otherwise one may judge freely according to the relative independence of the two assertions ), and in Dutch, where an upper-case letter must be used if the colon is followed by a quotation or an enumeration of complete sentences, although in all other cases a lower-case letter should be used.

A judge handed down prison sentences ranging from five months to five years.

Hans Filbinger ( centre ) had to resign in 1978 as Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg after it became public via Hochhuth's novel A Love in Germany that he was responsible for death sentences as a Navy judge at the end of World War II

Langston's eloquent speech against slavery and injustice persuaded the judge to give them light sentences.

After Langston's eloquent speech about slavery and discrimination, the judge gave them light sentences.

Larger fines are also given independently or alongside shorter prison sentences where the judge or magistrate considers a considerable amount of retribution is necessary, but there is unlikely to be significant danger to the public.

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

Verdicts and sentences are determined by a majority vote, with the lay judges ' votes counting the same as the professional judge.

* The Solomon Project ( 1995 ): Joseph Bonuso ( Skaggs ) claimed to have created a computer program that would work as both judge and jury and announce sentences.

Capital sentences of the assize courts were generally executed when the assize was concluded and as the circuit judge left town, so there was a limited time to apply to the judge or ( for well-connected convicts ) to the government for a pardon.

Traitor is a criminal court judge who hunts crooks down and sentences them to a secret jail while stealing their loot.

The judge rejected the charge of forming a criminal gang and handed out suspended sentences: the men had started relationships with young women in local discotheques in order to recruit them to work in their brothels, an illegal practice if the women are under 21 years of age ; some men had also abused some of their women.

Inmates serving sentences of more than 2 years are normally seen before the New Zealand Parole Board after serving one-third of the sentence, although the judge at sentencing can make an order for a minimum non-parole period of up to two-thirds of the sentence.

He has been openly criticised by retired judge Fergus Flood over McDowell's remarks about the failure of judges to implement the law on bail and mandatory sentences for drug dealing.

When a judge sentences a young offender to a custody and supervision order under Section 42 ( 2 ) ( n ) of the YCJA, it means that the young offender must serve time in custody, followed by a period of supervision in the community.

In other words, the availability heuristic made people believe that judges and jury were too lenient in the courtroom, but the participants gave similar sentences when put in the position of the judge, suggesting that the information they recalled was not correct.