Sentences with phrase «prosecution in a murder trial»

She went on to forge an outstanding legal career, featuring notable firsts, including being the first woman to obtain a divorce for a client and the first to lead the prosecution in a murder trial.

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The trial judge, Justice Lekan Ogunmoye, held that the prosecution failed to prove the complicity of the accused persons in the murder of Aderiye.

The Albany County District Attorney's Office took over prosecution of his case in February 2018, at the request of Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel Abelove, who may call the detective as a witness in an upcoming quadruple murder trial.

The acquittal of a Baltimore police officer charged with murder and six other crimes in the death of Freddie Gray has dealt a devastating blow to the prosecution, legal experts say, and raises questions about whether the state should press ahead with the trials of four other officers.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) wants Mr Lugovi to stand trial for the murder of the former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned with polonium - 210 in London last November.

The prosecutions in the case where two suspects are standing trial before a magistrate court for the murder of former Member of Parliament (MP) for Abuakwa North constituency, Joseph Bokaye Danquah - Adu have failed once again to bring the bill of indictment for the two in order for full trial to begin.

ON THE eve of the verdict of the high - profile trial in Perugia, Italy, in which Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito are charged with the murder of British student Meredith Kercher, DNA evidence brought by the prosecution is being questioned by nine US specialists in DNA forensics.

(The press materials understandably keep mum about Basic Instinct but are not at all reluctant to describe the murder trial as «reminiscent of the romantic intrigue contained in such courtroom movie classics from the late 1950s as Billy Wilder's Witness for the Prosecution and Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder,» politely admitting that Body of Evidence dutifully — if pointlessly — rips off both these very entertaining momurder trial as «reminiscent of the romantic intrigue contained in such courtroom movie classics from the late 1950s as Billy Wilder's Witness for the Prosecution and Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder,» politely admitting that Body of Evidence dutifully — if pointlessly — rips off both these very entertaining moMurder,» politely admitting that Body of Evidence dutifully — if pointlessly — rips off both these very entertaining movies.)

«Witness for the Prosecution» (1957, Billy Wilder) From the famous Agatha Christie short story, Billy Wilder expertly fashions one of the screen's trickiest trial - drama / murder mysteries — with Charles Laughton as the wily, wheelchair - bound barrister, his real - life wife Elsa Lanchester as his long - suffering nurse, and Tyrone Power and Marlene Dietrich as the incendiary couple caught up in a legendary triple - reverse surprise ending.

Opinions may differ as to whether Avery, in fact, murdered Halbach, but it's abundantly clear that there are aspects of Avery's subsequent investigation and prosecution that do not accord with what we would expect to see in a fair trial.

Recently, developments in fire science led to the prosecution agreeing to a new trial for Adam Gray, who was convicted of an arson double - murder that happened in 1996 in Chicago.

Not only did Frey build a case for witness misconduct and evidence tampering by two prosecution witnesses in a Louisiana murder trial that landed Kelly's client, Jimmy Duncan, on death row, but he even conducted an interview with another prosecution expert witness.

«Review into the disclosure handling in the case of R v Mouncher»: Adviser to Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of the CPS, appointed by the DPP to investigate conduct of the prosecution case in the collapsed trial of R v Mouncher (arising from the murder of Lynette White) amid allegations of police corruption.

Activity data recovered from an Apple Watch will be reportedly become key evidence for the prosecution in an Australian murder trial.