{"id":25131,"date":"2015-06-22T12:02:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T16:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=25131"},"modified":"2015-06-22T12:02:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T16:02:43","slug":"its-too-late-says-carol-king-and-a-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=25131","title":{"rendered":"“It’s too late,” says Carol King and a judge"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s not quite a statute of limitations thing, but it’s a too-late thing, and it’s definitely a chutzpah thing. The defendant suddenly is asking that his jury be given an unexpected day off because of his religion?<\/p>\n

Well, we all know how I feel about religion. Not positively. Glad the judge didn’t cave in, although you can guess the defendant’s lawyer will use this to file an appeal if he loses the case.<\/p>\n

And I’m also wondering why if this guy had such religious devotion he somehow managed to forget about it until mid-trial. Hm.<\/p>\n

By the way, it was when working for lawyers that I learned something about appeals. First, every lawyer who gets a bad verdict says, “We will appeal!” You know. You’ve read it all the newspaper accounts of guilty verdicts. Yeah, sure, but…<\/p>\n

Appeals aren’t just “We are unhappy with this verdict and intend to complain” sort of things. They actually have to be based on genuine legal issues (what a shocker), and are usually criticisms of the way the judge handled the case.<\/p>\n

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Request to Delay Trial Was Made Too Late, Judge Says<\/em><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

Andrew Keshner<\/a>, New York Law Journal<\/small>

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A judge denied a defendant’s midtrial request to adjourn proceedings on Fridays for his religious worship, saying the query came too late and the consequences of a mistrial were too high.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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