Justice Goldstone, the head of the Fact Finding Mission and a former judge of the South African Constitutional Court, is also a former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
It was a close thing, since by making it a matter of equity the judge is in fact admitting that M Jewell LLC had the letter of the law on its side.
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For now, her combination of hot-headededness, her badly misplaced arrogance, and the fact that she is simply a miserable judge of character makes every scene painful to watch.
In a new case involving an abusive spouse who used a tracking device to stalk and threaten his wife, a Minnesota judge made a similar decision, but the emphasis was on the fact that he had partial ownership of the car.
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But on Nov. 5, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson made the long-muttered accusation a matter of legal fact.
"Given the high burden appellate courts impose for reversing a district court's findings of fact, Waterkeeper Alliance will not appeal Judge Nickerson's decision, " the group said in a statement.
And in fact, the judge in Detroit has at her disposal, a number of documents filed by the Central Intelligence Agency or the National Security Agency, that she can look at, and that's supposed to provide more detail about why they don't want to expose these secrets.
Judge Fowler referred to the fact that the victim was alone and had suffered "a profound degree of harm" as a result.
The irony is that the trial is being held in the courtroom of a federal district judge, Robert Potter, who declined to excuse himself from the case despite the fact that he led a citizens' anti-busing campaign before he joined the bench.
Judge Zaldivar said the irregularities included the fact that Mexican police made Ms Cassez take part in a televised staging of the raid.
In fact, the Judge took pains to emphasize that cost should not be a factor in the determination of whether to grant medical treatment.
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Add to this the fact that Norway has a maximum sentence of 21 years (though it can be extended by a judge) and Norway certainly does start to look awfully soft on crime.
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