Sentence examples for affected the verdict from inspiring English sources

Whether the inclusion of West Indians on the jury would have affected the verdict in 2000 is arguable.

Mr. Quick said in an interview that he would decide in January whether the withheld evidence was important enough to have affected the verdict.

Ms. Parsley told the appeals court that Mr. Cannon's sleepiness might have caused him to make errors in defending his client but that there was no proof that those errors affected the verdict.

Lawyers for three terrorists convicted in the 1998 embassy bombings conspiracy case have asked a federal judge in Manhattan for a new trial, citing jury irregularities and other information that they contend could have affected the verdicts.

I'm sure such things can affect the verdict".

This was lost, even though the presiding judge said he had viewed the files and they contained nothing which could materially affect the verdict.

While Ms. Goodall said the officers in the courtroom did not affect the verdict she arrived at, she added, "I felt their presence and I felt sympathetic toward them possibly more than I would have if they hadn't been present".

So the point of you being here isn't to affect the verdict?

Positive linear transformations of outcome utilities will never affect the verdicts of expected utility theory: if $A$ has greater expected utility than $B$ where utility is measured by function $U$, then $A$ will also have greater expected utility than $B$ where utility is measured by any positive linear transformation of $U$.

The evidence was credible, inherently believable and gave rise to cogent admissible grounds of appeal that may have affected the jury's verdict.

In a 522-point judgment dismissing the appeal, the judges said that there was no conduct on the part of the police or prosecution that would have adversely affected the jury's verdict, and that the more they examined the details of the case, the more they thought the jury had been right.