Sentence examples for accused fact from inspiring English sources

Imagine that the accused is prosecuted for the crime of rape and the alleged victim's behaviour (fact A) increases the probability that she had consented to have sexual intercourse with the accused (fact B).

Success in proving the presence of the accused (the evidential fact) will depend on the fact-finder's assessment of the veracity of the witness and the reliability of his testimony.

In fact, accused terrorists often throw the label back at their accusers.

After democracy returned in 1983, General Bussi was in fact accused of kidnapping, torture and murder.

The misogyny of which the opera is so often accused is in fact superficial.

(A private detective hired by Wells showed that the wife had never in fact accused Hose of rape).

He had, in fact, accused others who he believed strayed from the tenets of their faith of following a dirty religion.

It continues: "The honourable judge erred in overemphasising the personal circumstances of the accused and the fact that the accused was suffering from post-traumatic stress, was anxious and 'seems remorseful'.

Mr Rahman's defenders say that the corruption of which he is widely accused was in fact carried out by those who abused their connections with him.Not relishing a return of the BNP's mother-son duo which, among other things, turned a blind eye to the Islamist fringe foreign governments are content to do business with Sheikh Hasina.

If the accused is in fact guilty, the probability that the blood found at the scene will be type A is 1.0.

To recapitulate, the likelihood of an item of evidence, E (in our previous example, the likelihood of a blood type match) given a hypothesis H (that the accused is in fact guilty) is compared with the likelihood of E given the negation of H (that the accused is in fact innocent).