Sentence examples for base their verdict from inspiring English sources
The prosecution cried foul; under the rules of trials, jurors are to base their verdict solely on the evidence.
Seeing his family or possessions, the judge said, could make some jurors "feel a personal connection" with Mr. Williams and later base their verdict on sympathy and not evidence.
He once appeared in a trial where the jury asked if they could base their verdict on "gut instinct".
Contrary to views held by scholars until recently, new research has shown that the Athenian dicasts who sat in judgment did not feel free to base their verdicts on vague notions of equity but adhered, at least in theory, to the literal meaning of the written statutes (nomoi), which they were bound by a solemn oath to observe.
"I can't begin to think what the jury was basing their verdict on," he added.
Instead jurors say they based their verdict on an e-mail message that Ms. Temple, an Andersen lawyer, wrote last October, in which she advised her client not to put something in writing -- the kind of advice lawyers give clients all the time.
Both Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the schools chancellor, Joel I. Klein, took pains in an afternoon news conference to describe how they carefully weighed their verdict, basing it on early-morning forecasts that they said were unlikely to change.
The reason is that the panel hand down their verdict based on the balance of probability rather than beyond all reasonable doubt, the requirement in a criminal case.
Their verdict, he said, "was clearly based on her charge to the jury".
Their verdict was not disclosed.
