The corporation becomes its own judge and jury, and it gets to pick its own scapegoat.
The five-member commission acts as both judge and jury, applies lower standards of evidence and allows no appeal to civilian courts.
Where do we derive the laws that the court system hews to, and how do we determine who is judge and jury?
The Commissioner is for practical purposes the judge and jury.
Unless the entire judge and jury was at the scene of the crime as it was happening there is no way anyone can be 100% certain of what happened.
It didn't help that the trial had initially been delayed by a bomb threat, as well as the impaneling of a new judge and jury for reasons that remain hazy.
But a smart lawyer, a sympathetic victim, and a complex medical case can easily confuse both judge and jury, leading to enormous jury awards regardless of what the scientific evidence shows.
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Then if, and I it is a big if, a judge and jury can be shown that the relative importance of the MGT patent to casino operations is proportionally much greater than that of Vringo patent to Google, maybe the royalty could be more significant.
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He wrote the rules, adjudicated the validity of claims and approved all financial payments: he was judge, jury and exchequer.
If you believe the Paterno family report — and it is an impressive, though flawed document — former FBI director Louis Freeh acted as "judge, jury and executioner" when he was hired by Penn State to deliver the definitive report on the involvement of the university and its officers in the Sandusky scandal.
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