Sentences with phrase «of an acquittal advanced»

The Court of Appeal acknowledged that, had the statement not been admitted, «the prospect of a conviction would have receded and that of an acquittal advanced».

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As one of the essayists astutely points out, he even smuggles in reference to Dutch geometric abstraction in the primary colors of the workstation.4 That one prominent art critic's review frames Marshall's retrospective as «not an appeal for progress in race relations but a ratification of advances already made» is somewhat bewildering in the face of this opening gambit.5 After all, both of these paintings date from the year after the 1992 acquittal of Los Angeles police officers in the beating of Rodney King and the ensuing waves of unrest.

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.

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.