Sentence examples for of an alibi from inspiring English sources

I think Paris is more of an alibi for cynics (Saudi Arabia signed it!) than a mechanism for action.

The police had concealed the existence of an alibi for Gerard Conlon, and the lord chief justice, Lord Lane, overturned the convictions.

But if the grim churn of world politics slanted opinions in the 1930s, postwar critics had less of an alibi for judgments that now look distinctly hasty.

Moreover, we held that 'the privilege against self-incrimination is not violated by a requirement that the defendant give notice of an alibi defense and disclose his alibi witnesses.' Id., at 83, 90 S.Ct., at 1897.

Among the judge's findings, which we've been attempting to get to court for many years, is a confirmation of the credibility of the testimony of an alibi witness, Asia McClain, who was never contacted by Adnan's defense counsel.

Other accusers of Ms. Knox and Mr. Sollecito said that the DNA was just one piece of evidence in the case that they built against them, based on various testimonies, their lack of an alibi and what prosecutors say is other damaging physical evidence, which has not been reviewed.

Even that case, however, involved the burden of proving an alibi, which the Court of Appeals described as the "denial of the possibility of the defendant's having committed the crime by reason of being elsewhere". Id., at 116.

But Mr. Stutman said there was no reliable evidence of such an alibi.

He is accused of concocting an alibi, forging diaries and sending a key witness abroad in order to win another front-page trial in 1987.

In late 2014, his case gained international attention as the subject of the first season of Serial, prompting an alibi witness previously ignored by his trial counsel to come forward; a subsequent podcast,Undisclosed, discovered new evidence in the existing files that undermined the reliability of the cellphone records at the center of the state's case.

After their first sex, Ennis grimly heads off to his sheep, getting into a habit of making work an alibi for non-commitment that will last him for the rest of his life.