examining judge

Democrats said they worked through the night examining Judge Roberts's record.

The examining judge found affirmatively and read the findings of the psychiatric board.

In the past the examining judge could order committal of the accused, this power being subject to appeal.

Police must present persons remanded in custody to an examining judge within 48 hours of detention.

The examining judge conducts investigations into serious crimes or complex enquiries.

She told Qin to slip an execution notice inside the skin of an orange and send it to the examining judge.

Despite high media attention and frequent TV portrayals, examining judges are actually active in only a small minority of cases.

Other police powers, like wiretapping, observation or searching premises, can only be used after permission is granted by the examining judge.

If the examining judge decides there is a valid case against a suspect, the accused is sent for adversarial trial by jury.

After a protracted exchange of letters with an Untersuchungsrichter, an examining judge, he reluctantly sends the black hairs removed from the girl out for evaluation.

Surely, the Senate was not careless in examining Judge Bork's qualifications in 1982.

The examining judge does not sit on the trial court which tries the case and is in fact prohibited from sitting for future cases involving the same defendant.

The Inspector is under pressure from another examining judge to arrest one of the Gypsies he interrogated and charge him with Dora's murder.

The scope of the inquiry is limited by the mandate given by the prosecutor's office: the examining judge cannot open a criminal investigation sua sponte.

When necessary, a Crown prosecutor will request an examining judge (juge d'instruction/onderzoeksrechter) be appointed to lead a judicial inquest.

The Chief Prosecutor generally initiates preliminary investigations and, if necessary, asks an examining judge, or juge d'instruction, be assigned to lead a formal judicial investigation.

De Bruin said: "No, you have to separate the criminal investigation by the police from the investigation by the examining judge in The Hague.

On Monday 7 May 2012 the examining judge went to Kondengui prison and issued "new" charges against Mebara in order to keep him in prison.

The attorney-general Havas was then sent to Nyíregyháza, and he found that, despite the official declaration of the examining judge, the accused had not had a single hearing.

Another official who was deeply involved in examining Judge Wood's background expressed sympathy for the judge and said: "Under any other circumstances, this would have been totally ignored.

He is one of several people dragged into an inquiry into the company's affairs, led by the examining judges Philippe Courroye and Isabelle Prevost-Deprez.

Examining judges are used for serious crimes, e.g., murder and rape, and for crimes involving complexity, such as embezzlement, misuse of public funds, and corruption.

The examining judge, who conducts a pretrial inquiry in criminal cases, has a wide range of powers to collect evidence, order or dismiss indictments, and determine whether to release detained persons.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo institutes proceedings against Belgium concerning an international arrest warrant issued by a Belgian examining judge against the DRC's acting Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Our task has been limited to that of an examining judge at a trial, and we feel sure that our readers will not be sorry that we have left them to choose amid all the conflicting explanations of the puzzle.