Sentence examples for overturned because of the from inspiring English sources

Oakland recovered the ball, but the play was overturned because of the current tuck rule.

The stability and reliability of the law as an institution are brought into question when the work of many years by the police, prosecutors, judges and juries -- as well as the implied promise to victims' families -- is overturned because of the actions of a single individual, no matter how well intended or even necessary.

They acknowledged that the conviction should be overturned because of the Supreme Court ruling.

Wingate Associates is claiming that a 2011 settlement over the mis-selling of an interest rate swap should be overturned because of the bank's involvement in fixing Libor.

(Yesterday, Siegelman's lawyers argued before an appellate court that the verdict should be overturned because of the alleged involvement of a lawyer who had been recused).

A wrongly convicted person sentenced to death in America stands a far greater chance of having his conviction overturned because of the extensive appellate process involved in capital cases.

[Page A18.] The commission's chairman, Anthony J. Principi, said the Pentagon's recommendations on the two installations were overturned because of uncertainty about whether the Navy, which is shrinking, will need to grow in response to China's naval buildup, as well as concern about losing expertise at both places.

But the convictions were overturned because of an unconstitutional ruling by the trial judge.

For example, the law bars payment to people who originally pleaded guilty to their crime, and those whose cases were overturned because of a legal matter like the suppression of evidence, that doesn't point to innocence.

Courts have decided that verdicts would be overturned because of Brady rule violations only if the evidence withheld would have altered the verdict or sentence.

Studies of the hundreds of felony cases overturned because of DNA evidence have found that misidentifications accounted for between 75 percent and 85 percent of the wrongful convictions.