61. Stern said there was not enough evidence that Wilkerson had willfully defrauded the government, the legal standard for evasion. 62. The amount converts to nearly half a million Danish kroner, an astronomical sum by Scandinavian legal standards. 63. The Court of Appeals employed precisely the same legal standard that the Court does. 64. The high court said that ruling applied the wrong legal standard. 65. The guilt of Megrahi has now been established through a judicial sifting of evidence and testimony that meets the highest legal standards. 66. The high court said the government had to meet the strictest legal standards and show that affirmative action was needed to correct the unlawful impact of past discrimination. 67. The judge relied on a legal standard that gives executive branch officials substantial leeway to interpret federal law, unless their actions are arbitrary or capricious. 68. The legal standards that the FBI must meet to obtain court authorization under FISA are lower than the probable-cause standard required in other criminal cases. 69. The legal standard for a manslaughter charge requires that a person disregard a substantial and unjustifiable risk of death to another, Buckley said. 70. The legal standard for whether new information turned over by prosecutors warrants a new trial is whether it would have changed the outcome. |