Adjudication

listener, so presenter Tim Harford asked software designer Mike Thelan, who runs Zyzzyva, a word adjudication programme which is used at various Scrabble tournaments, to crunch the numbers. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Balance is therefore the key legal issue in adjudication of explicit individual versus non-explicit governmental 4A constitutional rights/entitlements (?) Denlen (Quote) ❋ Unknown (2010)

In Texas county and district courts, where deferred adjudication is used for more serious misdemeanor and felony offenses, the burden is on the State to demonstrate violation of the conditions, and the State must request a hearing to do so. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Given that the DA will see his chances for re-election dwindle if he/she is perceived to be soft on a multiple felony slam-dunk conviction case against a spoiled, arrogant, crime-committing, room-temperature-IQ behemoth, I suspect the moron in question (e.g., the football player), after considerable wheeling and dealing by his zealous defense attorney -- who is just doing his job, will likely receive felony deferred adjudication from the appropriate court. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Judge Posner acknowledges that a pragmatist need not think that pragmatic adjudication is wise. ❋ Unknown (2006)

After a six-month apprenticeship in adjudication, I began to serve officially as a judge in March ❋ Unknown (2004)

Craft warned about the “details of unsettled rules of property and personal rights — of inconsistent and conflicting decisions — of instability in adjudication made, and want of adherence to what was of old established [precedent] …” Judge Seymour D. Thompson, in an 1888 address to the Georgia Bar, observed that “doubts and infirmities seem to permeate every title of our case made law,” adding, “what is called legal sense is often the rankest nonsense.” ❋ Unknown (2007)

As part of the plea agreement, Martin received 24 months of deferred adjudication, which is a form of probation, and must pay a $200 fine. ❋ Unknown (2010)

(or unfair competition) claim without creating federal jurisdiction, so too can state law permissibly regulate juvenile federal offenses as long as this doesn't constitute what we'd normally refer to as the adjudication of federal criminal offense. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Theresa Gaas, 56, was sentenced to three years deferred adjudication, meaning she won't serve prison time and her record will be wiped clean if she meets the conditions of probation. ❋ Bill Crider (2010)

Tit for tat can be settled, somehow, by some kind of adjudication, but tit for tat for tit for tat ... has no end point because it has no starting point that can be remembered by the current protagonists. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Usually the theorists just pass the buck and say that if the jurisdiction has some kind of adjudication or consultation mechanism that meets X-moral stipulations, then the ensuing laws and specific directives are just or have moral legitimacy. ❋ Unknown (2006)

MCCAIN: Well, I think that there has to be some kind of adjudication of their cases, in other words I don't think a terrorist is entitled to the same rights as our citizens to a jury of 12 people of their peers and all of the protections because they are terrorists. ❋ Unknown (2005)

And so you're going to have a situation when people who really turn out to have done nothing wrong may end up spending years in jail before that kind of adjudication is found out. ❋ Unknown (2001)

The judge withheld adjudication, meaning Bruce will not have a felony on his record. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The judge did agree to withhold adjudication, meaning that while Grill plead guilty to a felony, he will not lose his right to vote, doesn't have to check boxes on governmental or employment forms that ask if the applicant has ever been convicted of a felony, etc. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Five months later, he received five years of deferred adjudication, meaning the offense won't count on his criminal history if he successfully completes probation. ❋ Unknown (2008)

These are bad people but there should be a system of tribunals and judgment of their cases and, look, some of these guys are really bad guys and if we want to keep them in prison for the rest of their lives, it's fine with me but we got to have some kind of adjudication of their cases in order I think to comply with the kinds of standards that we as the United States of America maintain. ❋ Unknown (2005)