Federal prosecutors bungled the first trial and now a jury has found Clemens not guilty of lying to Congress in a second trial that tried to make a federal case out of allegations of steroid use in Major League Baseball.
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He said it was at the very cutting edge of science and had been used in the trial because of his determination to build a case.
Congressman Edcel Lagman, chairman of the House of Representatives justice committee, cites recent surveys showing that only about a third of Filipinos expect a speedy trial in a court case.
In one case a trial of a promising HIV therapy was delayed two years while City of Hope negotiated with Chiron and another firm.
Norris' lawyer said the appeal will be based on the grounds that about two thirds of the way through the trial what had been a scientific case about forensic evidence became a case about a surveillance video of the men.
He said issues about the integrity of the evidence could be argued in front of the trial judge, who would be hearing the case in the absence of a jury or before another court.
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The elimination of those academic positions occurred shortly after a deposition of Topol was played at the first trial in the case brought by the widow of Richard "Dicky" Irvin.
Resnick testified that he previously worked as a consultant for the defense in the Susan Smith murder trial -- the case of the South Carolina mother who rolled her car into a lake, killing her two sons.
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If Kevorkian's bid for a new trial fails before the Court of Appeals, he could get a chance to take his case to the Michigan Supreme Court and challenge Michigan's law making assisted suicide a felony punishable up to five years in prison.
But what I am curious about is whether this was the type of case that warranted a trial to begin with.
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At the time of his death, the case was still open and had not yet gone to trial because of a backlog of cases at the Toulouse public prosecutor's office, Mouton said.
Ginsberg and Breyer said the majority damaged the credibility of the court by taking the case and deciding a question of fact best left to the trial court, however.
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To cut down on the risk of a plaintiff or his lawyers foolishly rejecting a settlement and rolling the dice on a trial, or accepting too little for a big-dollar case, Fields spends most of his time trying to determine whether the parties are aligned in their interests.
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As previously stated, I could not afford a costly trial lawyer at the time of my case and was ordered deported.
The jury in the case of a man on trial for the second time over the murder of a woman has been sent home.
"After 10 years of litigation, we are eager to have the court finally resolve the procedural issues that Wal-Mart has raised in its effort to delay the trial of this case, " said Brad Seligman, a Berkeley, California-based attorney for the plaintiffs, shortly after the high court granted review.
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If the case goes to trial, a lot of details about problems between the two men could be aired in public.
He added that it was the second time he had been forced to demand an explanation from the Crown Prosecution Service about the length of time taken to bring a case to trial.
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The other trial involves a Gloucestershire woman accused of being at the centre of the case.
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During the trial prosecutor Barnaby Shaw said the facts of the case resembled "a Charles Dickens novel".
There have been several complaints about delays to the trial - the case has stretched on for the best part of a decade.
The Ministry of Defence, the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Justice say they have been given assurances at the "highest level" that both men will receive a fair trial and treatment, whatever the outcome of the case.
So now, unless BP and Chesapeake can come to some sort of settlement, the case will go to trial, where a judge will hear all the evidence and determine, at last, whether Chesapeake owes BP a few million more.
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The actor's case is part of a sprawling Mumbai bombings trial that has lasted 18 years.
Tuesday's trial is the first time for such a large number of defendants in the case to be tried together.
Delivering his closing speech as the trial reached a fourth month, Mr Harrington said separate strands of the prosecution case, such as CCTV footage and telephone records, when added together "became more compelling" - including information about a Volvo car.
That part of the case is allowed to proceed on a track towards trial.
More cases will probably be filed, and without a single case at trial, any estimate is based on lots of guesswork.
By last week, public interest in the trial had dwindled, but over the months the case did produce a number of startling allegations and soap opera-like revelations.
It is thought it will become a trial within a trial as the men challenge the legality of the court to hear their case, and it will be littered with postponements and adjournments.
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