course of a case

Naturally, the foreign policy du jour often directs the course of a case.

Some, like the Ninth Circuit, in California, have held that bias cannot be based on things a judge learns during the course of a case.

No police department reported any instances of a psychic investigator providing information that was more helpful than other information received during the course of a case.

In referring to the Queen as prosecutor in the course of a case one speaks not of 'the Queen' but 'the Crown.'

Despite their fallings-out, Calleigh and Elliott remain friends, and she calls him in to determine the authenticity of money they confiscated during the course of a case.