A federal judge in the United States has rejected a settlement between regulators and Bank of America which is accused of making false statements over the payment of billions of dollars in bonuses.

美国联邦法官拒绝了监管机构和美国银行之间的调解。美国银行被指控在发放价值数十亿美元的奖金方面发表虚假声明。

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According to the law, the accuser, the accused, and the judge were each allowed to talk for the same length of time.

按照法律，每一原告、被告及法官都准许有等长的时间发言。

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As the guardian of the law, the prosecutor shall protect the suspect against arbitrariness of the police and keep the accused from improper presumption of the judge.

作为法律守护人的检察官，既要保护犯罪嫌疑人免于警察的恣意，又要保护被告人免于法官的擅断。

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But his lawyer,Ulrich Busch, accused the judge and prosecutors of bias.

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Defence lawyers claimed the judge had acted improperly and the conversation showed the accused could not expect a fair trial.

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The district judge granted bail because of the defendant's health and because the accused had not been convicted of any crime since 1977.

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But both Israel and America want to avoid a repeat of the controversial UN report issued in September by Richard Goldstone, a South African judge, which accused Israel and Hamas, the Islamist group that runs the Gaza Strip, of war crimes during Israel's three-week attack on Gaza which began in December 2008.

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