Tag: Judge

  • Allocution

    Allocution in United States Practical Information Note: Some of this information was last updated in 1982The requirement that a trial judge ask a defendant to show legal cause why the sentence should not be pronounced upon the verdict of conviction. The judge usually asks the defendant to […]

  • Harlan F. Stone

    Harlan F. Stone in the United States American law scholar and educator (October 11, 1872 – April 22, 1946), born in Chesterfield, N. H., 11 Oct. 1872. He was graduated at Amherst College (1894), received the degree LL.B., Columbia University of Law (1898), and LL.D., Amherst (1913). He was […]

  • Alton Brooks Parker

    Alton Brooks Parker in the United States Alton Brooks Parker (1852 -1926), American judge and lawyer, was born at Cortland, N.Y., May 14 1852. He studied at the local academy and normal school, taught for a short time, read law in an office, and in 1873 graduated from the Albany Law School. […]