Instead, the judges only considered whether Thayer had abused his discretion in the course of the trial.

We hold that in the circumstances of this case the District Court abused its discretion.

What caused most of the debate, however, was whether the lawyer should be subject to discipline if he abused his discretion.

The District Court therefore abused its discretion in imposing the tax itself.

Police managers do not appear to be abusing their discretion.

In this way, we believe that the trial court abused its discretion.

The open-ended nature of the section is an invitation to the police to abuse their discretion in response to which there are no effective safeguards.

Prosecutors who abuse their discretion, based on the evidence, can get nailed big-time.

He said the environmentalists had "failed to demonstrate" that state officials "abused their discretion or violated any rule of law."

The First Circuit held that the trial judge did not abuse his discretion by doing so.