Sentences with phrase «arguing for their innocence»

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Silver has continued to maintain his innocence — his lawyers argued that no witness ever said there was an explicit agreement trading political favors for money.

The commission argues that DNA profiling is now so powerful a diagnostic technique and so helpful in establishing guilt or innocence, «we believe that it is proper and desirable to allow the police to take non-intimate samples... without consent from all those arrested for serious criminal offences».

Determined women's - rights lawyer Meaza Ashenafi (Meron Getnet) takes up Hirut's case to argue for the girl's innocence.

The CGI is groovy — while we can argue about how the gigantic wolf looks a bit tinny here and there — and the heart, as Dwayne goes to bat solely for George's innocence, is healthy enough to satisfy.

I could have argued that The Age of Innocence was a little too glazed and remote for a mass audience, but in the end it certainly wasn't ignored or treated with contempt when it was released, unlike what I suppose are some of the other «forgotten pleasures» I respond to...

To postulate a null hypothesis of «innocence», which states humans have had absolutely no influence on our planet's climate is silly as very few people would argue for this case.

Raj Rajaratnam asked the Second Circuit on Monday to toss five of 14 insider - trading counts for which he is serving an 11 - year sentence, but a judge at oral arguments said his latest bid for a shorter prison term did not look like something a prisoner who has exhausted his direct appeal would argue in support of a finding of «actual innocence.»

The Innocence Project Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law has secured a conditional pardon for its client, Messiah Johnson, who the clinic argued was wrongly convicted of armed robbery.