Sentences with phrase «alibi evidence»

I would certainly hope that no agent of Her Majesty would amend a specific time frame after the defence production of alibi evidence.

His defence was alibi and his counsel, while opening to the jury, said that the accused would be called to give alibi evidence.

Improper notice can only weaken alibi evidence; it can not exclude it.

«This is the first case that I'm award of in which a Facebook update has been used as alibi evidence,» Dallas lawyer John G. Browning told the Times.

The charges were dropped and Bradford made legal history as the first criminal suspect to use a status update as alibi evidence.

The court said Sherman's failure to secure the alibi evidence «was constitutionally inexcusable» and said the case against Skakel was «far from overwhelming.»

Not exact matches

Kazeem also explained that DNA profiling is an extraction of DNA from body fluids, semen, nails, hair and other DNA generic sources, adding that the centre would greatly help to controvert evidence of alibi and confirm physical presence of suspects at the scene of a crime and the origin of DNA to such suspects.

The question for Moll is whether or not she'll help Pascal, who insists he's innocent but doesn't have an alibi for the night of the girl's disappearance, as the evidence keeps stacking against him.

His success in that case makes him a media darling as well, which draws the attention of accused murderer Douglas Benoit (Hurt, 1984), who wants the young lawyer's sense of style to help him prevail against overwhelming circumstantial evidence and a lack of alibi.

That supposed «eyewitness» testimony was the only evidence linking Colin to the crime, but it didn't prevent a jury from convicting the 18 year - old in spite of a credible alibi and the absence of a motive, weapon or connection to the victim.

We all understand and agree that it would be ineffective and immoral for a criminal investigator to start an investigation by picking one suspect and then hiding or ignoring evidence that would exonerate the suspect such as an alibi.

The defence of alibi (Latin for «elsewhere») arises where there is an air of reality that, at the time of the commission of the offence, the accused was not present at the scene of the crime.The requirements of an alibi are strict; evidence that an accused had only a limited opportunity to commit a crime is not an alibi.R.

However, in the absence of evidence of concoction (deliberate fabrication) an alibi that is disbelieved has no evidentiary value.

[19] In this case, there was no «independent» or «other» evidence of fabrication that would bring the appellant's statements into the exception to the general rule that a disbelieved alibi can not be used to support an inference of guilt.

And a man was charged with murdering his wife when his alibi was disbelieved because of the evidence of her Fitbit, which showed she was alive after his story said she was dead.

This might depend upon the nature of the evidence at trial - if A did not raise the failure of the prosecution to provide corpus delecti (i.e. a dead body) or the misidentification of an alleged victim's body as a defense and instead, for example, argued an alibi defense (e.g. he was in jail at the time of the alleged shooting).

Archer was a case of alibi, the sort of case in which the accused probably has the very most to gain by hearing the other defence witnesses and then tailoring his evidence to fit in with theirs.

In Hilton J.A.'s view, the trial judge erred in not admitting in evidence out - of - court statements made by one of the victims and in giving the jury an instruction, the content of which was also erroneous, with respect to the fabrication of an alibi even though sufficient evidence had not been adduced to link the appellant to the fabrication of an alibi.