Sentences with phrase «guilty verdicts for»

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.

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

Finally, a guilty verdict for Bill Cosby.

«We didn't need this guilty verdict for people to know corruption is a major problem in Albany, but it once again puts a spotlight on the drastic change we need to improve our culture,» said state Sen. Mike Gianaris, a Queens Democrat who chairs the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara got to continue his anti-corruption-in-Albany victory tour this Friday with a guilty verdict for former State Senate majority leader Dean Skelos, a Long Island Republican, and his son Adam.

The outcome, which included settlements from most of the publishers seeking to avoid lengthy and costly court battles as well as a guilty verdict for Apple that is currently in appeals, has yet to be finalized, but Judge Denise Cote is expected to seek the maximum amount of damages against Apple for its violation of Section One of the Sherman Act.

Not exact matches

If anything good might come of this case — and we hope a verdict of «not guilty» is one result — it could be to shine a light on the growing sense that rigid paywalls are not good for science.

Shortly after being found guilty of three federal felonies, former hedge fund manager and pharmaceutical CEO Martin Shkreli called a press conference to announce he was «delighted» with the verdict — which could send him to prison for years.

The night after they obtained a guilty verdict against one defendant, in 2011, prosecutors and their staff spent a total of $ 763.80 for dinner at a country club (divided by the 18 individuals present, that comes out to $ 42.39 each).

After March 4, 2013, an International Arrest Warrant will be issued against these Defendants.The guilty verdict followed nearly a month of deliberations by more than thirty sworn Citizen Jurors of the 150 case exhibits produced by Court Prosecutors, The Court's judgement declares the wealth and property of the churches responsible for the Canadian genocide to be forfeited and placed under public ownership, as reparations for the families of the more than 50,000 children who died in the residential schools.To enforce its sentence, the Court has empowered citizens in Canada, the United States, England, Italy and a dozen other nations to act as its legal agents armed with warrants, and peacefully occupy and seize properties of the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada, which are the main agents in the deaths of these children

One person posted: «Actually for those bible ignorant folks - Jesus was NOT falsely accused... He was guilty as charged and had planned from day one for the verdict and sentence to be what it was

Those, prosecutors were a bit careless; the guilty verdict which they seek has no room for professorial provided thats, moreovers and howevers.

It is time for the UN to condemn Iran for these violations and insist that this pastor is freed from prison and his guilty verdict is tossed out.

George will be running from the general public for years even though I knew he would be found not guilty long before the verdict was handed down.

The guilty verdict in the case of Joe Percoco was coupled with not guilty results for two prominent upstate developers who had also been accused of corruption and bribery by federal prosecutors.

After a long and expensive trial, the Special Court for Sierra Leone will finally give its verdict on whether former Liberian president Charles Taylor is guilty or innocent of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

A lawyer for Aiello is planning to appeal what he called a «confusing» and «coerced» verdict that determined his client was guilty on one charge.

In a split verdict, Percoco was convicted of soliciting and accepting more than $ 300,000 in bribes from executives working for two companies with state business, but not guilty of extortion and conspiracy to commit extortion.

The Broadway Democrats and CoDA (Coalition for a Democratic Alternative), both progressive clubs in Manhattan, also threw their support behind Liu, whose campaign has been marred by the guilty verdict of two aides in a federal campaign - finance fraud case.

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.

Monday's guilty - on - all - counts verdict was swiftly arrived at, and surely chilled the air in the nearby courtroom where US Attorney Preet Bharara has put another erstwhile Albany power broker, former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, on trial for his future.

Not - guilty verdicts in Silver's case would have let the steam out of whatever it is that the prosecutor is planning for Cuomo, and that didn't happen.

Lawyers for former NYPD Officer Peter Liang filed a bombshell motion Tuesday, seeking to set aside the ex-cop's guilty verdict in the fatal shooting of unarmed Akai Gurley, claiming one...

Former State Senate Leader Dean Skelos was stone - faced and silent as he left a federal courthouse where a jury found him and his son Adam guilty of public corruption charges today, after a four - week trial and just about eight hours of deliberations — but attorneys for both men said they would pursue legal challenges to the verdict.

The conviction is a major victory for U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, coming on the heels of a guilty verdict in the case of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

Esapda — who had no visible reaction to the damning verdicts when they were announced — faces 10 years in prison for every guilty count.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a statement Monday evening reacting to the guilty verdict in the Sheldon Silver corruption case hinted at yet another ethics legislation push, calling on state lawmakers to «take seriously the need for reform.»

The guilty verdict is another conviction for U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, the federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York who has led a number of high - profile corruption cases of state lawmakers and public officials.

He said: «So many people — friends and family of the pilots, my predecessor Ray Mitchie, and others — campaigned for many years to overturn the original verdict which found the two young pilots, who died doing their duty, guilty of gross negligence.»

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.

Silver, 71, one of Albany's proverbial «three men in a room» who ruled the Assembly with seldom - questioned authority for 20 years, was stoic as the jury forewoman read seven consecutive verdicts of guilty on extortion, bribery and money - laundering charges on just the third day of deliberations.

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.

Lawyers for former NYPD Officer Peter Liang filed a bombshell motion Tuesday, seeking to set aside the ex-cop's guilty verdict in the fatal shooting of unarmed Akai Gurley, claiming one of the jurors who convicted him of manslaughter should not have been on the panel.

For U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, the guilty verdict is yet another high profile victory in his crusade against political corruption.

The jury's verdict of guilty on three felony counts of «Conspiracy to Commit Honest Services Wire Fraud» and «Solicitation of Bribes and Gratuity» was a long - awaited victory for the people of New York.

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.

They retired for the weekend and on the final Monday, the woman who was holding out asked the others to state their reasons for a guilty verdict.

«If we were in a court of law, with human influence on the climate system in the dock, the verdict for Australia's 2013 heat wave would be guilty as charged.

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

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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).

The wittiest scene in Joel and Ethan Coen's 2001 film The Man Who Wasn't There is one in which a fast - talking defense attorney, Freddy Riedenschneider (marvelously played by Tony Shalhoub), invokes Heisenberg's uncertainty principle as grounds for a not - guilty verdict in a murder case:

The guilty verdict, whether appropriate or not, for Michelle Carter definitely underscores the importance of encouraging youth to pause and consider the implications of their texts, tweets, and other digital interactions with friends and peers.

A litany of incriminating text messages led to a guilty verdict in the case of Michelle Carter, charged with involuntary manslaughter for encouraging her boyfriend, Conrad Roy, to take his own life.

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.

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

Surveillance video, combined with what Senior Judge Truman A. Morrison III described as Dauphine's «inability and unwillingness to own up to her own professional writings» on the stand, proved sufficient for a guilty verdict — prompting Dauphine's immediate resignation.

And as for Vick himself, I am reminded of the words a murder victim's mother said of the accused after the guilty verdict: «I hope he rots in hell.»

And in answer to the argument some have made that a broad interpretation of the MBTA could lead to such absurd results as convictions for bird deaths caused by automobiles, airplanes, and plate glass windows, the Moon Lake court pointed out that to obtain a guilty verdict, the government must prove proximate causation.