Sentences with phrase «rape case after»

On appeal, the prosecution argued that the similarity of the actions and words of Proffitt in both instances was relevant and may have led the prosecution's psychiatric expert to give weight to the 2007 rape case after all.

In fact, prosecutors have with some regularity had judges incarcerate young women who refuse to testify in statutory rape cases after being subpoenaed to do so, until they agree to...

Not exact matches

The rape case drew national attention after the accused and their friends joked about the incident and showed a galling sense of impunity over social media.

Parker was acquitted in the rape case more than a decade ago and Celestin had his sexual assault conviction overturned on appeal (a higher court deemed his trial attorney ineffective), but the two men have come under fire once again as the media reports troubling details from the case, which included accusations that Parker and Celestin, then both 19, had sex with a Penn State freshman while she was unconscious after a night of heavy drinking.

Last Friday, three weeks after he dropped rape charges against the three players accused of assaulting an exotic dancer last March — and eight months after he was reelected — Nifong recused himself from the crumbling case and handed it over to the North Carolina attorney general.

In another case, a woman reported a rape to her doctor after a man had refused to stop having sex with her after she told him she was in pain.

After already pleading guilty to rape and assault charges this past spring, a Hudson Falls man admits to plotting to kill the victim in his case.

Since returning to parliament Galloway has faced criticism for the scarcity of his appearances in the Commons, been banned by the National Union of Students for comments about the Julian Assange rape case and stormed out of a debate after discovering his opponent was an Israeli.

Rees Mogg was appearing on LBC Radio a week after he was widely condemned for declaring that he is against same - sex marriage and opposes abortion even in cases of rape.

The rape case was brought after an anonymous letter was sent to then - prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 2002, accusing Singh of repeatedly raping the sender and several other women in the sect.

Also at 1 p.m., the National Organization for Women holds a protest and press conference to call on the NYPD to take rape cases seriously after NYPD Captain Peter Rose's controversial remarks on rape, for which he has apologized, 100 Meserole Ave., Brooklyn.

Police Commissioner James O'Neill said Thursday he would apologize to the woman whose infamous Prospect Park rape case was finally solved after more than 23 years.

The Crown Prosecution Service today thanked the woman for her «courage» during the case, saying that they respected the jury's decision after the footballer was found not guilty of rape.

The denim connection to sexual assault awareness originated from a 1998 Supreme Court Case in Italy in which a rape conviction was overturned after the judge reasoned the victim's tight denim jeans meant that she had to have helped her attacker remove them, implying consent.

This is a town, after all, that over the past 15 years or so has seen people accused — and convicted in dozens of cases — of everything from embezzlement, bribery and rape to racketeering, bid - rigging and kickbacks.

Although their analysis does not include data after 2004, the researchers note that they doubt that the use of DNA identification technology would have much impact on false conviction rates — because DNA evidence is primarily used in cases such as rape rather than homicide.

After this project folded, Montgomery returned to dramatic roles with a vengeance, spending the next two decades starring as abused, beleaguered women in such TV movies as A Case of Rape (1974) and The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975).

After a mostly tangential opening scene featuring Josh Hartnett (Wicker Park), we are introduced to Detective John Hartigan (Bruce Willis, Hostage), a soon - to - be-retired cop out to crack the last case of his career, nailing the child - raping son of a senator, Junior (Stahl, Terminator 3).

by Bill Chambers When news of Nick Nolte's arrest for driving under the influence of the date - rape drug hit the Toronto International Film Festival last year, just days after he'd made a strong showing there with Neil Jordan's The Good Thief, I immediately flashed back to the time I met Nolte — «met,» alas, a figure of speech in this case: We crossed paths in the lobby of the Park Hyatt Hotel.

Those in attendance at «Three Billboards» actually burst into applause and cheered when a mad - as - hell Frances McDormand as a grieving mother viciously and profanely reads the riot act to Sam Rockwell's obscenely racist cop after he brushes off her objections about the handling of her daughter's unsolved rape and murder case.

Her teenage daughter Angela is dead, raped and set alight on the very stretch of road that houses those billboards, and after seven months, the local police department has made no arrests, turned up no leads, and effectively put the case in the deep - freeze.

the first time Maryam was raped by then five months pregnant and after the police station humiliating experience, she never returned to the station to pursue her case.

Is the rape accusation a case of after - the - fact remorse, or was there an element of force in the encounter?

After conducting advanced analysis on the data obtained, being a victim of a sexual crime was shown to be a significant predictor of juror behaviour in rape cases, with the research revealing that jurors with personal experience of victimisation were four times more likely to convict in court, prior to deliberations taking place.

Do the available official statistics allow us to compare the conviction / acquittal rate between rape trials and trials for the generality of offences where juries have actually deliberated and given verdicts of their own, that is excluding directed acquittals after the judge has made a decision to stop the case?

After his lawyers were told by the police, prosecutor, and court that the rape kit and its contents had been destroyed, Anderson contacted the Innocence Project and his case was accepted in 1994.

Moon's case was taken by the Innocence Project, and he was released after 17 years in jail for a rape that he did not commit.

That all changed at the end of 2014 when, after months of negotiations, the U.S. Congress finally passed a funding bill with bipartisan support that amended this policy to ensure that Peace Corps Volunteers have equitable coverage for abortion in cases of rape, incest, and to protect the life of the woman, consistent with the coverage that federal employees and women serving in the military receive.