A state conviction was overturned on grounds of prejudicial news coverage.
And, again, his conviction was overturned on grounds of ineffective counsel — faster this time, and by the Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma.
I wrote about Stevens again, later that year, when he lost his good name after a federal jury convicted him of corruption, although that charge was later overturned on grounds of prosecutorial misconduct by the Justice Department.
All three judges unanimously rejected entrapment claims by the three other defendants, and rejected all four defendants' arguments that their convictions should be overturned on grounds of government misconduct.
Opponents of the law have filed lawsuits seeking to have the courts throw it out, and many on each side of the debate believe the 30- and 60-day restrictions run the greatest risk of being overturned on grounds that they violate the First Amendment right to free speech.
(Rudolph Giuliani has said that he advised Trump on how to make a Muslim ban more difficult to overturn on constitutional grounds).
Mr. Leterme's government said it would seek to have the Court of Cassation, the highest court, overturn on procedural grounds a decision by the Brussels Court of Appeals, which ruled Friday that shareholders must be allowed to vote before Feb. 12 on the proposed sale.
With its tournament shrinking in prestige and garnering fewer TV dollars, and the NCAA tournament growing into one of the top sporting events in the country, the MIBA hoped to overturn on anticompetitive grounds a 1982 NCAA rule that forbade any team receiving an invitation to its tournament from accepting any other postseason bids.
The company fought the ruling in American courts, which upheld Yahoo on First Amendment grounds, but that decision was later overturned on jurisdictional grounds by the federal appeals court in San Francisco.
Twice his lawyers had his conviction overturned on procedural grounds.
