| At the court of first instance level, the cost to the parties of a jury trial is probably not much different from a bench trial. |
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| Judge Carl J. Barbier has not ruled yet on the question in the bench trial. |
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| On Friday, the detectives switched gears and asked for a bench trial. |
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| The simulated bench trial provided 13 students with an opportunity to moot on the topic of euthanasia, a controversial area of criminal and constitutional law. |
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| This can leave a losing defendant feeling bereft of justice resulting in an appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit which might not have been taken following a bench trial. |
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| In a bench trial, the judge's decision near the end of the trial is simply referred to as a finding. |
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| But at his bench trial, six months later, he changed his story again. |
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| A bench trial strategy is deemed risky by many legal experts. |
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| Sheriff courts hear civil cases as a bench trial without a jury, and make determinations and judgments alone. |
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| At the close of discovery, the parties may either pick a jury and then have a trial by jury or the case may proceed as a bench trial. |
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| If evidence of authenticity is lacking in a bench trial, the trial judge will simply dismiss the evidence as unpersuasive or irrelevant. |
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| If a defendant bribes a judge and obtains acquittal as a result of a bench trial, the acquittal is not valid because the defendant was never in jeopardy in the first place. |
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| Rules 38 and 39 deal with the parties' right to a trial by jury and the procedure for requesting a jury trial instead of a bench trial and trials by an advisory jury. |
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| 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 offences. |
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