I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced - that Alan Dershowitz used to have my sentence - it came down eventually to eight years.
Quotes about technicality (15 Quotes)
I'm thrilled with the performance, but disappointed to lose on a technicality. It's a tough way to learn a lesson, but it doesn't take anything away from the way the kids ran.
We're not talking about Mother Teresa here who gets caught for turning right on a red light in a state that doesnt allow such a thing, ... The history of Tom DeLay in Congress is that he's pushed every envelope. It is often the case that powerful people get their comeuppance because of something that a lot of people would see as a technicality.
The problem with life without parole is that people get out for reasons that have nothing to do with justice. We had a case where a guy who was a rapist, a serial sex offender, was convicted, then let out on what I think an believe was a technicality, a new trial was ordered and the victim wouldn't come back and go through a second trial,
I think it would be appropriate now for Gore-Lieberman to say something about the military ballots. I believe that if there is a technicality that their vote can't be counted, American people will want to know why, ... Meet the Press.
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas derided any potential perjury charge as a technicality, ... two years' of investigation was not a waste of time and dollars.
This has nothing to do with children or education. This is purely to solve a technicality in the law, where we have inadvertently created a statewide property tax.
I do benefits for all religions - I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.
I'm fine with it, ... That's his decision. Us as players, we're no medical examiners ourselves. So we don't know the technicality or the extent of our injuries more than they do. So we might as well have the doctors talk about it as opposed to a bunch of players who truly don't know what is wrong. That's just the way we're doing things around here and that's just the way it's going to be.
I don't think that two years of hard work ... is gonna go down the drain on some technicality.
From the time I was 7 or 8 years old, we were the roughest knockabout act that ever was in the history of the theater, not only in the United States but all over Europe as well. We used to get arrested every other week--that is, the old man would get arrested. The first crack out of the box here in New York state, the Keith office raised my age two years, because the original law said that no child under 5 could even look at the audience, let alone do anything. So they said I was 7. And the law read that a child can't do acrobatics, can't walk a wire, can't juggle--a lot of those things--but there was nothing said in the law that you can't kick him in the face or throw him through a piece of scenery. On that technicality, we were allowed to work, although we'd get called into court every other week, see.
We are disappointed the court did not rule on Wal-Mart's fraud claims against Mr. Coughlin but instead upheld the release agreements on a technicality, ... We will file an amended complaint with additional evidence of fraud and fraudulent inducement.
TECHNICALITY, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his neighbor of murder. His exact words were Sir Thomas Holt hath taken a cleaver and stricken his cook upon the head, so that one side of the head fell upon one shoulder and the other side upon the other shoulder. The defendant was acquitted by instruction of the court, the learned judges holding that the words did not charge murder, for they did not affirm the death of the cook, that being only an inference.
It was a way to throw a stumbling block in front of them. But it's really a technicality. I can't in good conscience tell them they can't. It's just not fair.
There's really no way to calculate the harm that's been done to Mr. Higazy's reputation internationally. People still believe he has something to do with 911 and but for some technicality of some kind or another, he would be in jail. So his character has been besmirched internationally, his family and he have suffered extreme emotional distress, so there is really no way you can go to a calculator and punch up a number.