Sentence examples for constitute an acquittal on from inspiring English sources

"The fact that deliberations continued after the report deprives that report of the finality necessary to constitute an acquittal on the murder offenses," the chief justice wrote.

(Of course, a defence counsel who secured an acquittal on these grounds while knowing independently that Leon was guilty would deserve Aristotle's disapproval).

These public policies constitute a war on workers.

A conviction or acquittal on one of the charges would stand regardless of whether a mistrial was declared on other charges.

On "Brothers & Sisters" this constitutes an earmark of realism.

What constitutes an outsider?

"What constitutes an Islamophobe?

(Worth won an acquittal for one of the four police officers who shot Amadou Diallo to death on his doorstep in the Bronx on February 4 , 1999.

A 1995 trial ended with acquittal on one perjury count and dismissal of a second.

On the positive side, they can benefit from jurors' misguided notion that science solves crimes, and hence that the absence of crime-solving scientific evidence constitutes a reasonable doubt and grounds for acquittal.

Lawyers for Mr. Ghailani asked that Judge Kaplan order a new trial or enter a judgment of acquittal on the one count.