"Waiting to Be Heard," Knox's detailed account of her experiences, from her arrival in Italy through her trial, imprisonment and eventual release in 2011, after a court overturned her and Sollecito's convictions, seeks, unsurprisingly, to affirm her innocence.
Despite his prison clothes, he looked every bit the jovial grandfather, plump, balding and waving warmly to the crowd before affirming his innocence.
The embattled track coach Trevor Graham said that he was not involved in providing his athletes with performance-enhancing drugs and that the results of a polygraph test affirming his innocence had been sent to the grand jury investigating the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative.
In August 2011, using an Alford pleain which the young men affirmed their innocence but pled guiltythe state of Arkansas let the West Memphis Three walk free, after 17 years behind bars.
Throughout the unhappy years of Mary's childless reign, with its burning of Protestants and its military disasters, Elizabeth had continually to protest her innocence, affirm her unwavering loyalty, and proclaim her pious abhorrence of heresy.
But the trial court gave, not once but twice, explicit instructions affirming the presumption of innocence and declaring the obligation of the State to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
When we frame the problem as one where White people are participating in a system of oppression unconsciously, without malice, it absolves all blame and affirms a state of racial innocence: "We're not bad people, we're just powerfully-socialized good people".
Mr. Megrahi has always professed his innocence, a stand he affirmed in a written statement read at a court hearing last November that failed to win him release because of his prostate cancer, which British doctors have called incurable.
After initially affirming her affidavit of Howell's innocence, she wavered under the prosecution's questioning.
Following the news that her son had been found guilty on all 30 charges, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva affirmed her belief in her son's innocence, calling the US authorities "terrorists".
Coley maintained his innocence, but his conviction was affirmed on appeal.
