Sentences with phrase «of guilty verdicts»

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.

But there's a peculiar lack of evidence that consumers were ever deceived or harmed by Sears» tire pricing strategy, regardless of the guilty verdict.

Critics of Gov. Andrew Cuomo — including his Republican gubernatorial opponents and a GOP - aligned super PAC — pounce on the news Tuesday of the guilty verdict in the corruption case of his close former aide.

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.

Her comments came in reaction to Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan raising the possibility of discussing changes to the state's ethics and anti-corruption measures in the wake of the guilty verdict of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's guilty verdict.

But she declined to say anything about Andy Coulson, her successor as editor at the News of the World, although reporters repeatedly asked her what she thought of the guilty verdict against him.

That kid has since been sentenced to a year in prison, on charges of computer fraud and obstruction of justice (further charges, of wire fraud and identity theft, weren't part of the guilty verdict).

Two months of ongoing criticism of the guilty verdict that sent Dennis Oland to prison — and of the character and motives of jury members who delivered it — is raising questions about rules in Canada that gag jurors after a trial, says Toronto lawyer Allan Rouben.

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A PBR refers to any time you plead guilty for a crime and are assigned probation in lieu of a guilty verdict by the court.

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.

Announcing their verdict on Thursday, a jury outside of Philadelphia found Bill Cosby guilty of all three sexual assault charges brought against him.

On Wednesday, a U.S. judge pronounced Apple guilty of conspiring with publishers to raise book prices — a verdict the company plans on appealing.

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).

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

In returning its verdict Thursday afternoon on the sixth day of deliberations, the Superior Court jury also pronounced Jose Ines Garcia Zarate not guilty of assault with a firearm, finding credence in defense attorneys» argument that the shot that ricocheted off the concrete ground before piercing Steinle's heart was an accident, with the gun discharging after the defendant stumbled upon it on the waterfront on July 1, 2015.

Mere days after the jury returned a guilty verdict in Bill Cosby's post - #MeToo retrial, the disgraced star has been removed from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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.

Irish rock band U2 was forced to cancel its St. Louis concert scheduled Saturday over security concerns after Black Lives Matter activists clashed with police following the not guilty verdict of Jason Stockley in the shooting of Anthony Lamar Smith.

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But the verdict of not guilty was clearly the correct one given the lack of evidence.

(CNN)- As news spread on social media of the not guilty verdict in the Trayvon Martin case, a religious theme soon emerged: Sooner or later, a higher authority will judge George Zimmerman

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

Any and every bar fight can now end in a not guilty verdict by the subjective rational of» I thought my life was in danger:»

CNN: Sandusky's pastor addresses conviction from pulpit 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.

If the verdict was «guilty,»» we would meet again to recommend punishment on a scale of five to 99 years.

I think the court of public opinion has already rendered a guilty verdict on a man who truly doesn't deserve this.

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.

At the end of the day, the prosecution's case was weak to begin with and I believe that the verdict of «not guilty» was the correct one due to a lack of evidence.

Rather, after the cross-examination of Bryan (which was stricken from the record the following day), Darrow stated his willingness to accept a guilty verdict in order to move to appeal.

Members of the Junior Comanches football team demonstrated Sunday after kids asked team coaches about the protests in St. Louis over a not - guilty verdict of an officer killing a black man in 2011.

But in terms of football, I do not understand why, and from a legal point of view, I have not had a trial, I am not guilty, we will have to wait until the court reaches a verdict.

The jury failed to reach an agreement, and the judge entered a verdict of not guilty.

John Terry was found not guilty, but given the ambiguity of the evidence, a more accurate verdict would have been Not Proven.

NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill recently overturned a guilty verdict against an officer in a department misconduct trial, but the department and the Civilian Complaint Review Board — citing a state law protecting police disciplinary records — wouldn't say what the cop was accused of.

The NYPD moved to tamp down speculation of a coverup after the city's top cop overturned a guilty verdict against a cop accused of using a banned chokehold, releasing a video of the incident in question.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan in a statement Tuesday said he would be willing to discuss «additional changes» to the state's ethics and transparency laws after the guilty verdict in the corruption case of Joe Percoco, a former close aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

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.

Flanagan, like Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, called the guilty verdict unfortunate, but added it shouldn't smear all of Albany.

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.

«With today's verdict of guilty reached by an impartial and independent jury, the clean - up of corruption in New York continues in courtrooms.

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.

Staten Island DA Dan Donovan, who acted as the special prosecutor in Sen. Kevin Parker's assault case, released a statement in the wake of the Brooklyn Democrat's conviction on two misdemeanor charges, saying he respects the jury's decision despite the fact that it did not deliver a felony guilty verdict.

He also seemed to blame the guilty verdict on juror confusion, saying the law was very technical and its possible the jury couldn't «decipher the nuances» of the counts against him.

After the jurors finally returned a guilty verdict on four counts — each of which carries a prison sentence of up to 10 years — it was speculated that perhaps prosecutors would be satisfied.

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.