Sentences with phrase «argument for your innocence»

You are confident that the defense attorney, having only hearsay knowledge of the case, can not or will not present as convincing or as thorough an argument for your innocence, as you could without their help.

When you plead «not guilty» to your traffic ticket, you're exercising your legal right to stand before a Utah judge or jury and make an argument for your innocence.

Not exact matches

The reasons for accepting it do not form the kind of deductive proof we require in logic or pure mathematics, but they resemble the arguments used in a court of law to establish innocence or culpability.

A defense lawyer for the man accused of blowing up a bomb in Chelsea last year all but conceded that her client committed the crime, instead focusing her closing arguments to jurors — and claims of innocence — on a second, unexploded device found four blocks away.

Liptak cites dictum from a 1993 decision, Herrera v. Collins, in which Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist wrote for the court,» [W] e may assume, for the sake of argument in deciding this case, that in a capital case a truly persuasive demonstration of «actual innocence» made after trial would render the execution of a defendant unconstitutional and warrant federal habeas relief.»

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.»

If you elect to represent yourself, you will be held to the same standards as an attorney and you will be expected to know trial procedure as well as the correct form for legal arguments to prove your innocence.