But even as such trials were largely abandoned, evidence gathering was stepped up, using increasingly exotic means.
Who would you trust more on the economy: a party prepared to listen to expert evidence and properly test and review its ideas, or a party that abandoned evidence as soon as it clashed with ideology?
"When that evidence is not delivered -- when it is abandoned in evidence lockers or left at a police station -- the victim is further traumatized and the public trust is betrayed".
Although most of the hospitals Mr. Payne visited were still marginally functional, others were crumbling away or abandoned, leaving evidence of vanished lives: cardboard boxes of clinical records, wardrobes of straitjackets, stored suitcases.
In 2011, a Federal District Court judge enjoined the city from seizing property there unless it was abandoned, contraband, evidence of a crime or an immediate threat to public health or safety, and from destroying it unless it posed a threat.
In most school districts, the idea of a sound mind in a sound body has been abandoned, despite evidence that physically active children tend to do better in school.
An inquiry by former judge Sir Peter Gibson was abandoned after evidence emerged that Libyan dissidents Abdel Hakim Belhaj and Sami al-Saadi had been abducted and rendered to Tripoli in a joint MI6-CIA operation.
However, within decades the Priory was abandoned, with evidence of Thomas de Baugy being the final Prior around 1560.
Xenephon passed by Nimrud (which he called Larissa) in 401 BC along with 10,000 Greek soldiers and described the city as Despite Xenephon's description of the city as being abandoned, archaeological evidence seems to show that there was some Achaemenid-period occupation.
Gradually investigators cleared Metternich of the more extreme charges and would evidently abandon the search for evidence for the more minor ones empty handed, though nothing was ever proven.
The prosecutor Hannah Maynard – played by Kerry Fox – is under pressure to abandon the witnesses' evidence in the interests of securing Serbian membership of the EU.
