Sentences with phrase «overturn of his acquittal»

Not exact matches

New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez was ordered to face 18 counts of corruption — dashing his hopes for an early acquittal based on the same Supreme Court decision that overturned convictions for two ex-New York legislative leaders: Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos.

As a result, Parliament has accepted that an acquittal at trial on an indictable offence can not be overturned unless an error of law was made.

He had also achieved great amounts of success that included securing an acquittal at trial for a client charged with possessing a controlled substance, obtaining a discharge for a client charged with domestic assault when the Crown wanted a conviction and permanent criminal record, and drafting an appeal factum that resulted in the overturning of a conviction for possession of marijuana on grounds that the client's Charter right to speak to a lawyer was violated.

The B.C. Court of Appeal overturned the acquittal of Timothy Dale Bornyk and ordered a new trial as a result of the conduct of Supreme Court Justice Gordon Funt in R. v. Bornyk.

The Ontario Court of Appeal accepted this argument and the Appellant's convictions for Assault and Assault with a Weapon were overturned and an acquittal entered.

On July 21, 2016, Justice J.E. Topolniski of the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta, at Edmonton, released her ruling in R v JR, 2016 ABQB 414 overturning the acquittal of a young person for sexual assault.

The Court of Appeal overturned the conviction and entered an acquittal.

The basis for overturning the acquittal was the trial judge had failed to consider the cumulative effect of the evidence.

The trial judge accepted Levkovic's arguments, resulting her acquittal, which was subsequently overturned by the Court of Appeal.

In his reasons for overturning the acquittal, Justice Krelove stated that during the first trial «the learned Justice of the Peace erred in law by admitting and relying upon irrelevant and otherwise inadmissible evidence.»