Sentence examples for inconsistent verdicts from inspiring English sources

We live with the inconsistent verdicts of juries applying the same legal standard.

Mr. Tacopina said that he would appeal the guilty verdicts on several grounds, including the seemingly inconsistent verdicts.

"The bottom line is that inconsistent verdicts make us uncomfortable but we completely wrap our doctrine around them and accept them," said Professor Richman, who is a former federal prosecutor.

"I don't see any way that argument can stand up to the Supreme Court," he said, noting that "over and over again" the Supreme Court has ruled that inconsistent verdicts are not grounds for reversal.

Bachrach was essentially arguing for an exception to the Supreme Court rule that courts may not reverse inconsistent jury verdicts.

Keable's distinction between the historical and the traditional Jesus, Wilson argued, was ultimately muddled and internally inconsistent, his verdicts on the illiberality of the contemporary church at odds with his own abiding conviction.

But Judge Kaplan made clear that the Supreme Court had long held that verdicts, however inconsistent, needed to be considered separately.

As part of that appeal, Mr. Zemel said, the lawyers plan on arguing that the trial judge did not give jurors the appropriate options in his charge to them, that he erred in the technical reading of some elements of the case and that the jury's verdict was inconsistent and should be set aside.

He also complained that some of the jury's findings on its verdict sheet were inconsistent.

Shortly after the verdict, Mr. Neary filed a motion seeking either the priest's acquittal or a new trial on grounds the jury's verdict was logically inconsistent.

When in December 2011 he was banned for eight matches for racially abusing the Manchester United defender Patrice Evra, the commission highlighted his "unreliable and inconsistent evidence" as a reason for its verdict.