Sentence examples for narrow verdict from inspiring English sources
Outside observers also criticized the narrow verdict.
He was the man who had overthrown Benazir Bhutto's father, and tried him on a much disputed conspiracy-to-murder charge, and then ignored the narrow verdict — four to three for conviction — of his own Supreme Court and the pleas for clemency from leaders around the world.
That the trial reached a ruling even after the Constitutional Court verdict radically narrowed its scope was a testament to the persistence of the judge and the veteran counterterrorism prosecutor Armando Spataro, who brought the case.
Twelve states adopted a guilty but mentally ill verdict, 7 narrowed the test for insanity, 16 shifted the burden of proof, and 25 tightened release rules for those found not guilty by reason of insanity.
Then, in 1995, under Governor Bush, the Legislature passed a series of bills that made it harder to win big punitive-damage verdicts, narrowed the state's primary consumer protection law and limited what deep-pocketed defendants had to pay in multiparty lawsuits.
Some of the appeals request fresh votes on rulings made by a narrow margin, like the guilty verdict for Mr. Oliveira e Silva, the former presidential chief of staff, for unlawful conspiracy, or essentially orchestrating the vote-buying scheme.
Hundreds of Pussy Riot supporters filled a narrow street outside the court where the verdict was delivered, chanting "Russia without Putin!" amid a heavy police presence.
Motty's verdict: "It is hard to narrow it down to one 'great goal'.
Tossing aside longstanding legal precedents, government practice and a jury verdict in Ms. Ledbetter's favor, the narrow Supreme Court majority decided that she was entitled to nothing.
The gap between a murder verdict and culpable homicide is obviously a narrow and at least partially subjective one, and I can't pretend to be an expert.
In particular, biased courts issue verdicts that suit the interests of a narrow royalist elite, or so ran the argument.
