Sentence examples for acquittal under from inspiring English sources

Our focus in Martin Linen was on the significance of a judicial acquittal under Fed.

There was no chance of an acquittal under Misha's justice system, and torture and humiliation prevailed in his overflowing prisons.

At his trial on a federal marijuana charge, petitioner filed his motion for a judgment of acquittal under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 29(c) after the jury returned a guilty verdict and was discharged.

The only exception is in a criminal case in which the jury renders an acquittal; under Anglo-American law (though not under European continental law), the jury's acquittal is always final.

Applying that section, the Court likened the situation to one where the four persons implicated in the two conspiracies had been charged as conspirators in separate counts, but with a failure in the proof to connect one of them (Berger) with one of the conspiracies, and a resulting conviction under one count and acquittal under the other.

Had Mr Berlusconi succeeded in this instance, his trial would have had to be restarted from scratch, probably leading to an acquittal under the statute of limitations, which has already helped the prime minister in other cases (see article).The ruling thus strikes a much-needed blow for the independence of the judiciary.

In holding that the District Court was without power to direct acquittals under the circumstances disclosed by the record, the Court of Appeals relied primarily upon two decisions of this Court, Ex parte United States, 242 U.S. 27, 37 S.Ct.

There's over a million cases a year [in the Russian judicial system] and the rate of acquittal is under 1% – the statistic is pretty strange".

Acquittal rates are well under 1%.

It becomes difficult to imagine, after Simon Walsh's landmark acquittal on all counts, under what circumstances charges relating to possession of extreme pornography may be brought to the crown court again, but it seems the CPS has a rather prurient interest in bringing other people's private sex lives to light and persecuting them for it.

This is an important point, because like his criminal acquittal, slipping out from under these penalties would not have proved that The Agent of Truth had discovered the TRUTH.