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it does not establish any law ( rights ) for the federal judges to enforce.

It has the power to do so but for the most part has left the matter for solution by judges on a case-by-case basis.

Mayer Goldberg, attorney for election judges in the 58th precinct of the 23d ward, argued this procedure constituted intimidation.

The third time was on the floor of the Beverly Hilton ballroom and for the critical eyes and tongues of judges.

He reprised resolutions for constitutional amendments to provide for 1 ) the direct election of the president, rather than by the electoral college, 2 ) the direct election of U. S. Senators, rather than by state legislatures and 3 ) the limiting of judges ' terms to twelve years.

The case of " beauty " is different from mere " agreeableness " because, " If he proclaims something to be beautiful, then he requires the same liking from others ; he then judges not just for himself but for everyone, and speaks of beauty as if it were a property of things.

After his death, Aeacus became ( along with the Cretan brothers Rhadamanthus and Minos ) one of the three judges in Hades, and according to Plato especially for the shades of Europeans.

The result is decided when an opponent is deemed incapable to continue by a referee, is disqualified for breaking a rule, resigns by throwing in a towel, or is pronounced the winner or loser based on the judges ' scorecards at the end of the contest.

Currently scoring blows in amateur boxing are subjectively counted by ringside judges, but the Australian Institute for Sport has demonstrated a prototype of an Automated Boxing Scoring System, which introduces scoring objectivity, improves safety, and arguably makes the sport more interesting to spectators.

Its title describes its contents: it contains the history of Biblical judges, divinely inspired leaders whose direct knowledge of Yahweh allows them to act as champions for the Israelites from oppression by foreign rulers, and models of wise and faithful behaviour required of them by their god Yahweh following the exodus from Egypt and conquest of Canaan.

In Samuel's old age, he appoints his sons as judges, but they are unworthy, and so the people clamour for a king.

He was acquitted on these charges but was described by the court martial judges as being " entirely unfitted " for his command.

The other judges were John Toohey QC, a former Justice of the High Court of Australia who had worked on Aboriginal issues ( he replaced New Zealander Sir Edward Somers QC, who retired from the Inquiry in 2000 for personal reasons ), and Mr Justice William Hoyt QC, former Chief Justice of New Brunswick and a member of the Canadian Judicial Council.

Additionally, from at least the 11th century and continuing for several centuries after that, there were several different circuits in the royal court system, served by itinerant judges who would travel from town to town dispensing the King's justice.

( a ) The law evolves, this evolution is in the hands of judges, and judges have " made law " for hundreds of years.

Arias thus remained barred from a second term as president ; however, in April 2003 – by which time two of the four judges who had voted against the change in 2000 had been replaced – the Court reconsidered the issue and, with the only dissenters being the two anti-reelection judges remaining from 2000, declared the 1969 amendment null and thus opened the way to reelection for former presidents – which in practice meant Arias.

" ( Book of The Life of Sir William Phips first published anonymously in London in 1697 ) And Mather then included the letter, but, for his own reasons ( surely not brevity, Magnalia is huge ) left out the first, second, and eight sections, which would seem most encouraging to the judges to carry-on with their work.

Rosenthal suggests that Mather might have had guilty feelings — feigned or not — for choosing not to restrain the judges during the trial, though he was in the best position to do so.

These deliberate acts of violence against civilians were acknowledged by the CIA as early as late 1983, when Duane Clarridge, Latin America division chief of the CIA ’ s Directorate for Operations, reported in a secret briefing to the Senate subcommittee that his contras had murdered " civilians and Sandinista officials in the provinces, as well as heads of cooperatives, nurses, doctors and judges.

For lawyers and judges, the calendar is the docket used by the court to schedule the order of hearings or trials.

The FDP is opposed to a tightening of the penal code, and instead supports for the recruitment of more police officers, judges, and prosecutors to improve security and speed up trials.

Campaigns for constitutional reform during the 19th century successfully called for: the replacement of lay Jurats with professional judges in the Royal Court to decide questions of law ; the establishment of a Police Court ( later known as the Magistrate's Court ); the creation of a Petty Debts Court ; a professional, salaried police force for St Helier in addition to the Honorary Police ; and the reform of " archaic procedure of the Royal Court for criminal trials ".

Jury trials are used in a significant share of serious criminal cases in all common law legal systems, and juries or lay judges have been incorporated into the legal systems of many civil law countries for criminal cases.

On May 28, 2004, the Diet of Japan enacted a law requiring selected citizens to take part in criminal court trials of certain severe crimes to make decisions together with professional judges, both on guilt and on the sentence.

Because the unified Swiss Code of Criminal Procedure ( set to enter into force in 2011 ) does not provide for jury trials or lay judges, however, they are likely to be abolished in the near future.

In many parts of the world, judges wear long robes ( usually in black or red ) and sit on an elevated platform during trials ( known as the bench ).

When trials are conducted in Chinese, judges were addressed, in Punti, as Fat Goon Dai Yan ( 法官大人, literally " Judge, Your Lordship ") before the transfer of sovereignty from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China, and as Fat Goon Gok Ha ( 法官閣下, " Judge, Your Honour ") since 1997.

Upon surveying judges and jurors of approximately 8000 criminal and civil trials, it was discovered that the verdicts handed down by both parties were in agreement 80 % of the time.

Summary trials are presided over by superior officers, while more significant matters are heard by courts martial, which are presided over by independent military judges serving under the independent Office of the Chief Military Judge.

These other duties in fact include the resolving of conflicts of competence between courts, penal trials against judges for offences committed in office, disciplinary and advisory tasks and the decision in disputes about prizes taken by Dutch vessels.

District judges usually concentrate on managing their court's overall caseload, supervising trials, and writing opinions in response to important motions like the motion for summary judgment.

The tribunal consists of 16 judges in four " chambers "-three to hear trials, and one to hear appeals.

Trial courts may conduct trials with juries as the finders of fact ( these are known as jury trials ) or trials in which judges act as both finders of fact and finders of law ( in some jurisdictions these are known as bench trials ).

Its successor, the National Liberation Front, took control of the police, the court system and the economy, while eliminating several hundred political opponents through a series of show trials conducted by judges without legal training.

At the urging of civil libertarians, judges could even now exclude evidence in trials if acquired in breach of Charter rights in certain circumstances, something the Charter was not originally going to provide for.

Fujimori contended that these measures were justified, that this compromise of open trials was necessary because the judiciary was too afraid to charge alleged insurgents, and that judges and prosecutors had legitimate fears of insurgent reprisals against them or their families.

Each of Parisi's murder trials ended with an acquittal, as the judges directed a verdict of not-guilty due to the lack of corroborating evidence, since the chief witnesses for the prosecution were accomplices.

Howard repeatedly clashed with judges and prison reformers as he sought to clamp down on crime through a series of ' tough ' measures, such as reducing the right to silence of defendants in their police interviews and at their trials as part of 1994's Criminal Justice and Public Order Act.

Regular trials are usually held before a panel of three judges, one professional and two lay judges.

* Prosecutors using multidefendant trials to get defendants to turn on one another in the courtroom, as judges may be reluctant to allow separate trials in multi-defendant cases.