Sentences with phrase «event of an acquittal»
Robert Jappie (Senior Associate — Crime and Regulatory & Maya Paunrana (Solicitor — Crime & Regulatory): «In criminal proceedings, schedule 7 of LASPO Act 2012 made it much more difficult to successfully recover legal costs on behalf of the defendant in the event of an acquittal.
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Remember, of course, that even in the event of a complete acquittal and absolute vindication, the accused person is often left destitute, drained emotionally and financially by the entire ordeal.
A court could conceivably argue that if the death of B was not contested at trial, that the first murder acquittal would be inconsistent with a murder conviction upon the death of B later on from the events that formed the basis of the first prosecution.
On January 31, 2017, Justice LeGrandeur found Mr. Wagar not guilty, in a retrial of sexual assault charges stemming from events in 2011, after his first acquittal in 2014.