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Bench Trial |
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A trial conducted before a judge presiding without a jury. |
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| The 11th Circuit remanded the case back to Cooper saying that the judge would have to decide "whether to start with an entirely clean slate and a completely new trial or to supplement, clarify, and flesh out the evidence that it heard in the four days of bench trial already conducted. The district court denied relief following a bench trial and the inmates appealed. Sarabia opted for a bench trial because his attorney feared the effect the bloody crime-scene photographs would have on a jury. |
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