Sentences with phrase «number of acquittals»

Not exact matches

About 10 % of cases go to trial and about 10 % of cases that go to trial result in an acquittal or hung jury (in very round and approximate numbers that vary greatly from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and by type of case).

The experienced criminal defense attorneys at the Blischak Law Firm work diligently to win an acquittal by asserting a number of defenses.

He has obtained acquittals in a number of high profile prosecutions which implicated issues of civil rights and government overreaching.

However, she is also able to deal successfully with complex dishonesty cases, and recently secured an acquittal at half time in a money laundering matter, where her client was the wife of a man who had committed large - scale Advance Fee Frauds over a number of years.

Also secured the acquittal of a client on a number of alleged frauds within the telecommunications industry involving Orange plc and Vodafone plc..

Numerous successful acquittals, including defence of a large U.S. company, and its Canadian subsidiary, against a number of Criminal Code charges alleging bribery of public officials

Chile takes a robust view on statistics and, to what would be the horror of UK lawyers who could advance any number of reasons for the inappropriateness of some of its statistical requirements, even pays a bonus for an above average acquittal rate.

Both numbers are likely to be lower bounds for impropriety that reaches judicial notice, given the number of cases in which prosecutorial missteps are addressed by trial judges, or take place in cases that result in acquittals or are not appealed.

The recent acquittal of Sean Hoey (see R v Sean Hoey [2007] NICC 49, 20/12/2007) and the swingeing criticisms by Mr Justice Weir of the use of forensic evidence, including low copy number DNA (LCNDNA), in the case, highlight the huge drawbacks if forensic techniques are not used correctly or its results are misinterpreted.