Word: motioning
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...desire to charge ahead, Ito quashed a motion by the prosecution to defer the jury selection until after a hearing on the admissibility of DNA evidence in the case. The DA's office had asked for the delay because they could then pick a jury "untainted" by any media coverage of DNA results that come out in the hearing -- a well-known prosecution ploy, says TIME Law Reporter Andrea Sachs. "They don't want the jury to hear any of the outside information. They want a sequestered jury," says Sachs. "A sequestered jury is often a hanging jury...
...poetry in motion, a true fusion of fluidity and form. It was sweet music on the football field...
...orchestra came up a bit short during the huge swells of the tutti. Unfortunately, the rumbling of the lower strings appeared more like the lulling motion of a ship than the towering waves that crash against it. Only some enthusiastic brass entrances rescued the accompaniment...
...recall motion failed by a 28-23 vote. A motion censuring Liston passed 28-20 a week later, but was later overturned because the council did not follow proper procedure in handing down the censure...
...experience of Bruce van Voorst, who has covered Germany off and on since 1965, and who took over in May as our Bonn bureau chief. Van Voorst considers himself a lucky man: "My timing has always been good. I was in Germany when Willy Brandt set Ostpolitik in motion -- leading to German unification; in South America when Allende fell; with Kissinger during his shuttle diplomacy...