Sentence examples for asked for acquittal from inspiring English sources

"We had asked for murder, the defense had asked for acquittal, and they found something in between," Pino said after the verdict.

Appeals were promptly lodged by the prosecutors, who had sought much harsher sentences, and by the defence, which had asked for acquittals.For many Germans, including relations of those killed crossing the border, the verdicts were pretty mild.

The defense asked for an acquittal that could allow release of the defendant, Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch.

Mr. Ortseifen's lawyer, Rainer Hamm, had asked for an acquittal and said his client would appeal Wednesday's decision.

The public prosecutor, Antonio Marini, who in his summation last month had asked for the acquittal of the Bulgarians for lack of conclusive evidence, said he would not appeal the verdict on the Bulgarians.

In what local legal experts say is an unusual development, the prosecutor himself asked for an acquittal - a request which the judge, sitting directly under a black and gold silhouette of Ataturk, saw no reason to deny.

One could even argue that by setting the bar too high, the prosecution asked for an acquittal".

Few people were surprised by the verdict since the public prosecutor, in an unusual plea last month, admitted his lack of conclusive evidence for a "Bulgarian connection" to the 1981 attack on the Pope and asked for the Bulgarians' acquittal.

Lawyers for the four men told the court they would also appeal and ask for their acquittal on the homicide charges, and for softer sentences with regard to the charges of people smuggling.

Even the prosecutor, unusually, asked for Strauss-Kahn's acquittal, saying the trial did not back up the charge of aggravated pimping, which requires proof that he promoted or profited from prostitution.

The prosecutors had challenged the earlier acquittal and had asked for a five-year sentence.