The lack of a convincing corroborating witness, and the fact that the investors were institutions, not widows, also played a part.
And their findings were crucial to the outcome because in Georgia, as in many other states, a plea bargain cannot be accepted without corroborating evidence.
In that case, Labour should talk about these well-founded concerns and, whatever else it does, avoid corroborating the notion that the problems are fundamentally rooted in immigration rates (they are not).
On January 6th the government reported that employment had risen by 200,000 in December compared with November, the best gain since April, corroborating a cluster of other reports that show an economy picking up steam.
He also claims the president's accusers held him hostage in a Catholic seminary in an attempt to bully him into corroborating their story.
A collection of biblical commentaries, translations of patristic works, and liturgical prayers and hymns constructed on an eight-tone scale is credited to him, corroborating his reputation for having laid the foundation of a national Armenian liturgy.
Indeed, magnetic surveys of the oceanic crust provided for the first time the quantitative evidence needed to cogently demonstrate that segments of the crust had undergone large-scale lateral displacements over geologic time, thereby corroborating the concepts of continental drift and seafloor spreading, both of which are fundamental to the theory of plate tectonics (see plate tectonics).
Without the hair from the scene, Jones would have received life imprisonment, since under Texas law it is impossible to secure a death penalty conviction without corroborating physical evidence that the suspect was directly responsible for a crime such as murder.
There is no way of corroborating the accuracy of Mr Letts' claims.
Mr Goto's mother said her son went to Syria to try to secure a friend's release, corroborating comments by others who said he was trying to rescue Mr Yukawa, who was taken hostage earlier.
It also shows the extent of the effects inbreeding had on Tut, who reigned over Egypt around 1320 B.C. Corroborating earlier research, which held Tut was disabled and malarial, the genetic analysis of Tut's family showed that young pharaoh's parents were brother and sister.
