VII. Translate the sentences from English into Russian. 1. Anthony Sabato, 53, of 70 Hawthorne St., West Haven, was arrested at his home on a warrant alleginghe punched a vendor in the face after throwing hot

1. Anthony Sabato, 53, of 70 Hawthorne St., West Haven, was arrested at his home on a warrant alleging he punched a vendor in the face after throwing hot coffee on him at Redwood Flea Market on South Hartford Turnpike, according to police.

2. If you are charged with a criminal offence, your first reaction may be to plead guilty and get it over with. If you plead guilty, you will have a criminal record and a penalty (sentence). Both these can seriously affect you.

3. You will be asked to either “swear an oath” (on a holy book) or “ affirm the truth”. The court understands that in our diverse society, many people do not wish to take an oath on the Bible. Instead of taking an oath on the Bible, witnesses can “ affirm ”. This means that you solemnly promise to tell the truth to the court.

4. During questioning, if a prospective juror indicates that he or she is not legally qualified to act as a juror in the particular case, the lawyer will then say, “I challenge the juror for cause.” If the judge is satisfied that the reason given for the challenge is sufficient, the juror will be excused. After all the jurors have been questioned and there are no longer any challenges “for cause,” the lawyers on each side may exercise a certain number of “peremptory challenges.”

5. In both civil and criminal trials the attorney for the Defendant might feel that the evidence presented is of such poor quality that no reasonable tribunal properly directed could find the Defendant guilty. At this point, the Defence will make a No Case Submission.

VIII. Complete the sentences with the words from the box.

compelling; findings; given; judgment; majority (2); plead for a light sentence; plead for leniency; plead guilty; plea in mitigation; pre-sentence (2); reaching; televising trials; the burden of proving; unanimous; vital

1. The Victorian Supreme Court jury deliberating in the murder trial of gangland widow Judy Moran was today having trouble a

verdict.

2. The definition of a report is contained in s. 158 Criminal Justice Act 2003. (1) In this Part “report” means a report which: (a) with a view to assisting the court in determining the most suitable method of dealing with an offender, is made or submitted by an appropriate officer, and (b) contains information as to such matters, presented in such manner, as may be prescribed by rules made by the Secretary of State.

3. Where the offence is non-capital, and the evidence is such that a not guilty verdict is highly unlikely, defendants are advised to and have an attorney make a.

4. The written of the trial court, in accordance with article 5 (6) of the Order in Council, was extensive. It contained 90 paragraphs. As will be seen, many of the issues of fact which were considered in it were not in dispute at the trial, and many of the trial court’s in fact are not affected by the grounds of appeal.

5. At the trial, as in all criminal trials in Scotland, the guilt of the accused lay on the Crown, and so remained throughout the trial. In order to secure a conviction against either accused, the Crown had to succeed in proving his guilt beyond reasonable doubt.

6. Periodically, when a jury cannot agree on a verdict (that is, the jury is ‘hung’) or when jurors subsequently reveal that they did not truly agree with the verdict, public debate arises about whether New South Wales should adopt a verdict system in criminal trials. Presently,

verdicts are permitted in criminal trials in five Australian jurisdictions – Northern Territory, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia128 – although such verdicts are subject to certain limitations.

7. We should be cautious about as they would do little to bolster public faith in the judicial system and provide for open justice.

8. A divided three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that prosecutors may not present positive urine samples and other evidence that the government says shows that the slugger knowingly used steroids.

9. The most recent report on atrocity crimes in South Kordofan was published on Tuesday, August 23 2011, by the Satellite Sentinel Project (“Special report: evidence of burial of human.remains in Kadugli”). It provides

evidence – satellite photography and eyewitness accounts – of three additional mass gravesites in and around Kadugli, capital of South Kordofan, and scene of well-documented attacks on the Nuba ethnic group.

10. Every defendant has his first chance to on the occasion of original sentencing; this of course includes those whose pleas succeed in persuading the judge to grant probation. For those who receive active sentences, the second chance is the Rule 35(b) motion. For a probationer, the second chance is the revocation hearing. As the Johnson court acknowledged, that hearing offers a realistic opportunity to.

IX. Fill in the gaps with the appropriate prepositions from the box.

for; in; of (2); on (6); out; to; up

1. Nevertheless, certain principles are common to both systems (the adversarial system and the inquisitorial system), including the requirements that trials be public, that determinations be based evidence presented in open court, and that the accused is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

2. Witnesses, and occasionally defendants, must swear oath the answers they give to questions asked in court will be “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth”.

3. This Memorandum of Law is submitted behalf the six defendants in the above captioned action support their defense that their refusal move out of the South Outer Roadway of the Queensboro Bridge when ordered to do so by members of the New York City Police Department was justified pursuant to § 35.05(2) of the Penal Law.

4. Sigurdsson and Gudjonsson (2001) conducted two self-report studies of prison inmates in Iceland and found that 12% claimed to have made a false confession police at some time in their lives, a pattern that the authors saw a part of the criminal lifestyle.

5. The English system of law, which relies on the decision of a jury of persons untrained to weigh and sift evidence, has rendered necessary the development of a large body of rules relating to evidence and designed to make the task of the jury easier; they are not, however, highly artificial rules, but are based on strict common sense. They fall into three divisions: relevancy, proof, and cogency.

6. The indictment is read to the accused at the start of the trial. There are a number of differences between trial on indictment and summary trial (i.e. by magistrates).

7. Australia have lodged a plea leniency with Fifa over Tim Cahill’s red card against Germany, in a bid to have him back for its third group game, against Serbia.

8. A special challenge posed by the international humanitarian law (IHL) principle of equality of belligerents in the context of non-international armed conflict is the capacity of armed opposition groups to pass sentences individuals for acts related to the hostilities.

9. Serving a jury is one of the most important, and in many cases interesting, ways in which an American gets to serve her or his country.

10. About 4,000 men working and living in South Croydon are being asked to voluntarily give their DNA as part of the hunt for a teenage model’s killer. None of those DNA samples or finger prints will be used to check out other unsolved crimes. Obviously if someone does refuse then each case will be reviewed its own merits.

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