Sentence examples for case of acquittal from inspiring English sources

"My thinking is if the Department of Defense adopts our report, it will strengthen the nurse's case of acquittal.

He further commented that in case of acquittal, measures would be undertaken to avoid anything similar from happening at Lamb of God concerts again.

Normally, it says, if agents close the investigation without charges, they should remove the subject's name — as they should also normally do in the case of an acquittal.

He issued an unusual ruling in Izhar's case: a "judgment of acquittal," the determination that the evidence against a defendant is so lacking that no reasonable jury could convict.

It recalls the Rodney King case of 1992, when the acquittal of police officers who had beaten a black man triggered the Los Angeles riots.

But an order directing a verdict of acquittal would end the case: acquittals cannot be appealed.

There are few jurisdictions in which an appeal on a verdict of acquittal in a criminal case is allowed.

The most famous contemporary case of that kind followed the acquittal of four white police officers in a 1992 state trial in California who had been charged in the beating of a black motorist, Rodney G. King.

This case already went to trial, but a hung jury, 9-3 in favor of acquittal, means that if the DA's office wants to continue prosecution, it will have to try the case all over again.

The decision in the Wilson case, and the acquittal of a NYPD officer in the death of Eric Garner, set of a wave of national protests in late November and early December.

Lewis said the British case and the acquittal of Bonnemaison followed a trend of broadening legal acceptance for euthanasia and assisted suicide.