They may believe they have evidence of further benefit fraud by Baghdadi and a propensity to violence, but the appeal court judges will be mindful that twice juries have disbelieved Dizaei, and on the second occasion did so despite hearing his accuser had repeatedly lied.
I have no reason to disbelieve that she may have worked with Max Factor Jr himself in the 1950s, once she was famous.
That means going before a judge, who can order bone x-ray exams – which have a two-year margin of error – if he disbelieves their age; they may have to wait months to get formal protection.
Reacting to the documentary, he said: "I have no reason to disbelieve what they are saying but I think I may have been more comfortable if it had been a proper police inquiry".
Although the abuse that took place between 1997 and 2013 may have been identified and investigated on occasions, its seriousness is said to have often been "underplayed" or even "disbelieved".
I don't disbelieve him; yet there's another, even more prominent influence that, for all we know, may have acted unconsciously on Pegg and the director, Justin Lin, but that's nonetheless both conspicuous and affecting: the character of Feathers, from Howard Hawks's 1959 Western, "Rio Bravo," and Angie Dickinson's performance of the role.
Invoking Martin Luther's "Here I stand" may have been his own idea but dwindled without "I can do no other," which in the circumstances might have brought disbelieving giggles.
You either would have to disbelieve the Calverts, Michael Pittman, and Mr. Kernen and Sergeant Sonberg and the rest of them.
The story was one "with which in a sense I have lived all my life and which even now may be disbelieved," she wrote, "so fixed in some minds is the certainty of what transpired that nothing would alter their opinion.
Men keep silent for fear they may be disbelieved or ridiculed, or simply out of a crippling sense of shame".
