Sentences with phrase «guilty verdict»

The victim's family can still pursue a wrongful death case against the driver in civil court, despite the not guilty verdict in criminal court.

The case resulted in a not guilty verdict because there was no evidence of impairment.

Is this really the place to cut corners when what is said or not said in police interview can be the difference between a guilty and not guilty verdict?

In the Skeloses» case, the jury barely took one full work day before returning with guilty verdicts on all eight counts for each man.

According to the Innocence Project, eyewitness testimony played a role in 75 percent of guilty verdicts eventually overturned by DNA testing after people spent years in prison.

Civil libertarians like Robert Shibley of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education argue that these «systemic» investigations improperly required colleges to revisit other complaints resolved long ago, potentially leading to colleges overturning not guilty verdicts against students accused of harassment or assault.

Republicans have had corruption scandals — and convictions — of their own, with both top leaders Dean Skelos and Tom Libous departing the chamber following guilty verdicts.

Of those they did press forward, the feds obtained guilty verdicts in a respectable 76 %.

When their farfetched marriage - gone - bad defense failed to save former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, from guilty verdicts in their corruption trial, I could not help but wonder: Why didn't they take a plea deal when they had the...

The day the Zimmerman not guilty verdict came down, one commentator said, «this is the verdict we all expected.»

An event happens in 2025 and unaccountable bureaucrats deem you guilty and destroy your life for what you said or did in 2018 - without charge, without indictment, without judge, without jury and without guilty verdict.

«Jury nullification, also called jury lenity, is the extraordinary power of the jury to issue a not - guilty verdict even if the law as applied to the proven facts establishes that the defendant is guilty.

Sheldon Silver's guilty verdict earlier this year.

Several credited Judge Gary L. Sharpe for «excellent» officiating and said a key witness was Gluchowski, whose testimony helped them arrive at guilty verdicts on two counts.

LIMÓN — A Limón court delivered guilty verdicts for four of seven defendants in the 2013 killing of sea turtle conservationist Jairo Mora and the kidnapping and robbery of four foreign volunteers.

The only question was whether he would repeat his washed - out handling of the Andy Coulson guilty verdict last Wednesday.

The former wife of Chris Huhne tried to use a defence of marital coercion, saying she had been forced to take her then - husband's speeding points in 2003, but the jury issued a unanimous guilty verdict after 12 hours of deliberation.

In both the two big stories of the week - the Andy Coulson guilty verdict and today's vote over Jean - Claude Juncker - Cameron has found himself on the losing side.

A jury returned not guilty verdicts Tuesday against a former city housing inspector in Schenectady, NY who faced charges including manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide after a deadly fire in the city just over three years ago.

But mock trials also show sympathetic defendants get more non-guilty verdicts and unsympathetic defendants get more guilty verdicts in front of jurors who were explicitly told about nullification compared to those who weren't.

Typically, the goal of a prosecutor is to get as many guilty verdicts as possible, because that is just their job.

They viewed blogging on climateaudit as entering a black hole of trying defend yourself against a prejudged 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.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of New York City is the prosecutor who won guilty verdicts against both Silver and Skelos.

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.

At O'Meara Law, we've helped many people avoid guilty verdicts in high - stakes cases.

Even the people who are glad of a not guilty verdict generally agree Zimmerman is an idiot.

Though the jury brings in the inevitable guilty verdict, it is clear that Drummond has triumphed — and along with him, freedom of thought.

David Cameron's judgement faces scrutiny in the Commons following Andy Coulson's guilty verdict yesterday

Huhne's guilty verdict shocked observers after months of denials and triggered the Eastleigh by - election, which the Liberal Democrats won.

Liang's initial guilty verdict was celebrated by Gurley's family and many black community leaders but panned by many in the Asian community including Councilwoman Margaret Chin.

Statement from Susan Lerner, Common Cause / NY, on Second Guilty Verdict in Silver Corruption Trial Friday May 11, 2018 at 07:00 pm

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Some have even argued that Silver's guilty verdict forever casts a shadow on the developments that were erected (or torpedoed) under his tenure.

The group that represents district attorneys in New York has formed a committee that is reviewing the process of conviction integrity in order to strengthen the review of wrongful guilty verdicts.

One guilty verdict involved a scheme in which an energy company with state regulatory decisions ahead of it arranged for a «low - show» job for Percoco's wife.

Mr Straw said he was moved to speak out after a string of high - profile guilty verdicts, accompanied by tabloid campaigns for capital punishment.

Mr. Seabrook furiously rejects that line of reasoning, as well as criticism of Mr. Liu, whose bid for Gracie Mansion lost momentum after federal prosecutors scored damning guilty verdicts against his campaign treasurer and a fund - raiser.

Today's guilty verdict echoed a separate jury's decision just two weeks ago to convict another former state leader, Sheldon Silver, on political corruption charges.

For now, a definitive guilty verdict on either accused killer would be difficult, Renne predicts.

The jury's guilty verdict sent Smith to prison for life yet the Boston Strangler remained active for months to come.

The study, conducted by a researcher at the University of Huddersfield with legal guidance from Manchester based barristers» chambers St John's Buildings, revealed that 43 % of jurors chose a pre-deliberation guilty verdict, with this figure rising to 83 % within jurors with personal experiences of sexual victimisation.

«I am glad to see today's guilty verdicts for disgraced ex-Senator Pedro Espada,» Morse said.

State College, Pennsylvania (CNN)-- Jerry Sandusky sits in a county jail cell in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, but his presence and the weight of the 45 guilty verdicts rendered against the former Penn State football coach on Friday night hung in the air Sunday morning at the State College church where he and his wife are longtime members.