A bench trial is a trial by judge, as opposed to a trial by jury. The term applies most appropriately to any administrative hearing in relation to a summary...
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jury trial, or trial by jury, is a legal proceeding in which a jury makes a decision or findings of fact. It is distinguished from a bench trial in which...
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the Chicago judge was recruited specifically to acquit Aleman during a bench trial. Born in the Taylor Street area of Chicago, Aleman was the first of three...
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or agreement of the parties; this is referred to as a bench trial. In the United States, a trial court of general jurisdiction is authorized to hear some...
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of King's Bench of Alberta, the superior trial court of the Canadian province of Alberta Court of King's Bench of Manitoba, the superior trial court of...
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before a judge, it is called a bench trial. Hearings before administrative bodies may have many of the features of a trial before a court, but are typically...
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instance, in the case of a bench trial, a judge acts as both the court of law and the factfinder, whereas in a jury trial, the jury is the trier of fact...
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Sheriff court (redirect from Shrieval bench)
twelve. Sheriff courts hear criminal trials on complaint as a bench trial for summary offences, and as a trial with a jury of fifteen for indictable...
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(law) Bench trial Bencher En banc Full court In Italy, in the law on the conflict between powers, the ordinance drawn by the judge at the bench (...)...
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Acquittal (category Criminal trials that ended in acquittal)
this was held applicable to bench trials. In Arizona v. Rumsey, 467 U.S. 203 (1984), it was ruled that in a bench trial, when a judge was holding a separate...
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