In an unusual step, Mr. Rosen's lawyers, asserting that their client was innocent, requested a speedy trial.
A query is sent to the database masquerading as an innocent request for information, but is really a malicious command designed to reveal confidential data, such as credit-card names and numbers.
"This might look like a perfectly innocent request from six-year-old Jimmy asking for a new bike for Christmas, but for we all we know it could be a coded message for a suicide bomber.
That's the heart of the show, and Mr. Horowitz gets right to it in Sunday's episode, "The Russian House," with a favorite device: the scene in which someone from the War Office comes to Foyle, the civilian policeman, with an innocent request that rouses his suspicion.
In the song, a supernatural character poses a series of questions to an innocent, requesting her to perform impossible tasks.
What started as an innocent request for permission to use the photo led to a fiery slap ― containing some inappropriate language.
In a world fraught with brutal terrorism, economic inequality, hate-filled political rhetoric, disastrous climate change, centuries-old religious wars, and paranoid racial and ethnic bigotry, little Sa'fyre has been able to unite the planet with her simple, innocent request.
My first request was rather innocent, asking my Ace to recommend some options for dinner that night.
That was merely the beginning of the I.R.S.'s revised approach toward innocent-spouse requests.
