Sentences with phrase «first guilty verdict»

The former Lower East Side assemblyman is undergoing a second trial after the first guilty verdict on corruption charges was nullified by an appeals court.

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Hundreds marched across the country in response to the 2015 verdict that found Ontario truck driver Bradley Barton not guilty of first degree murder in the death of Cindy Gladue.

Britain's first black Tory peer was found guilty of fraudulently claiming # 11,277 in parliamentary expenses by a jury at Southwark Crown Court, which found him guilty by an 11 - 1 majority verdict.

For the first time in his eleven months as NYC's top cop, James O'Neill has overturned the verdict of an NYPD officer found guilty of misconduct by an administrative judge.

His first, in 2015, ended with a guilty verdict and 12 - year prison sentence - an outcome that was reversed last July by an appeals court that cited a U.S. Supreme Court ruling narrowing public corruption law.

Many of the films have been previously available in poor editions but many others are available for the first time, from early slapstick shorts to Zora Neale Hurston's landmark ethnographic films to James and Eloyce Gist's amateur evangelical film Hell - Bound Train (1930) and Verdict: Not Guilty (1933).

While I'm not sure if it's technically correct that there's no evidence of wrongdoing whatsoever, it seems strange to me that in a legal system where the defendant is innocent until proven guilty, an appeals court would not be legally required to exonerate the convict if unable to find any evidence (or the single piece of evidence was retracted, as in this case) with which they could have rendered a guilty verdict in the first place.

According to the Huffington Post, «The Florence appellate court that reinstated the first trial guilty verdicts in January handed Knox a 28 1/2 year sentence, including the additional conviction on a slander charge for wrongly accusing a Congolese bar owner.

This is jury nullification too and the jurors are protected by the first rule, though the second doesn't apply and judges have the power to overrule a guilty verdict if they think the jurors are... nt the best.

The first and most important myth which needs to be debunked is the supposition that too many guilty rapists are being acquitted by the autonomous verdicts of juries.