Sentences with phrase «doubt about your guilt»

However, during the middle courtroom section, things grow increasingly unsubtle — the defense attorney (Johannes Krisch) not only employs an outrageous strategy to create doubt about the guilt of his clients (oddly, there seems to be virtually no media interest in the crime or the trial) but looks like the less attractive cousin of Nosferatu to boot — and go completely off the rails during the highly implausible final section.

Although the prosecutor had convinced a jury to sentence the pair to death based on questionable circumstantial evidence, the nagging doubts about their guilt or innocence which had turned the case into something of a cause celebre have remained unresolved to this very day.

You need a lawyer to spend the time looking for the little mistakes that the police may have made — errors that can raise doubt about your guilt.

If not for Rafferty, then for people like Paul Bernardo, where there are clear videos that appear to dismiss any doubts about their guilt.

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There were doubts early on about Coley's guilt.

Oh, and glad to see that there is * no doubt * about her guilt from the wonderful government of Iran...!

To create reasonable doubt about Bannister's and Phillips's guilt, their lawyers are likely to dredge up all that circumstantial evidence that the police collected against Thompson.

Certain details about the Olivia Barnes case are withheld for a while, raising reasonable doubts about the Ronnie and Alice's guilt in both that incident and the current one Porter is trying to solve.

Obviously, it would be for the jury to decide whether to accept that evidence or whether it at least raised a reasonable doubt about Murphy's guilt.

room for doubt about a defendant's guilt in a criminal case, in a civil case, the plaintiff must prove that it is 51 percent (or more) likely that the defendant committed an act of malpractice, and that the malpractice was the cause of the plaintiff's injuries.

Essentially, while there is no room for doubt about a defendant's guilt in a criminal case, in a civil case, the plaintiff must prove that it is 51 percent (or more) likely that the defendant committed an act of malpractice, and that the malpractice was the cause of the plaintiff's injuries.

The we - don't - want - Troy - Davis - killed - camp has done a very good job of raising all kinds of doubts about Troy Davis» guilt.

She constructs an alternative narrative that, ideally, will raise a reasonable doubt about her client's guilt.

Innocence Project of Florida Asks State Attorney to Test DNA in Case of Wayne Tompkins Serious Doubts Remain About the Guilt of a Florida Man Executed February 11 The Innocence Project of Florida today sent a letter to the Hillsborough -LSB-...]

... the district court erred in dismissing a juror, based largely on its finding that the juror was purposefully disregarding the court's instructions on the law, where the record evidence raised the possibility that the juror's view on the merits of the case was motivated by doubts about the defendants» guilt, rather than by an intent to nullify the law.

Today the Court granted certiorari to Harrington v. Richter, an ineffective assistance of counsel case challenging the issuance of habeas corpus relief by the Ninth Circuit based upon counsel's reliance on cross-examination and other methods to create reasonable doubt about the defendant's guilt rather than expert - opinion testimony.

The trial judge indicated that she had a reasonable doubt about the accused's guilt even without accepting the evidence of the accused with respect to the conduct of the police officer.