Judge Geoffrey Rivlin QC agreed, and formally ordered her acquittal on both counts, adding that her defence costs should be paid out of public funds.
Forced to resign and move to Rome in 1983, he kept performing unorthodox ceremonies in Italy until formally ordered to stop in 1996.
Mr. Tanzi, who resigned earlier this month, and about 20 other Parmalat executives and others are under investigation, but he is the first executive formally ordered to be arrested.
When they reapplied in 2005, the canton formally ordered the Town Council to hand the Arifis their much-desired passports, but the council again refused.
After three United Nations workers were murdered earlier this month, and western countries threatened to cut off aid, the Indonesian government formally ordered the disbanding of the militias.
Last month, the acting I.R.S. commissioner, Daniel I. Werfel, formally ordered an end to such lists after discovering that they were still in use after the controversy flared up.
On May 23 , 2006 Gonzales secretly filed a memorandum of law before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court requesting that the major phone companies be formally ordered to hand over the telephone records of all Americans on an ongoing basis.
On July 14, the State Education Commissioner, Richard Mills, formally ordered the district to adopt an austerity budget, buy textbooks and organize staffing, or face state sanctions -- a highly unusual step signifying that Hempstead was in critical condition.
Today, the Health Ministry backed away from formally ordering the withdrawal from stores of any of Germany's many sausage varieties, but the government crisis talks reflected the damage done.
When prosecutors attempted to argue in court this month that protesters had "intent" to conspire against and impede government workers, the defense pointed out that public officials had not come to the refuge and formally ordered the activists to leave.
