J. Patrick O'Connor, editor and publisher of crimemagazine.com, argues in his book The Framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal that the preponderance of evidence establishes that it was not Abu-Jamal but a passenger in Abu-Jamal's brother's car, Kenneth Freeman, who killed Faulkner, and that the Philadelphia Police Department and District Attorney's Office framed Abu-Jamal.
"The preponderance of this evidence establishes that the candidate never formed an intention to terminate his residence in Chicago; never formed an intention to establish his residence in Washington, D.C., or any place other than Chicago; and never formed an intention to change this residence," wrote Joseph A. Morris, the hearing officer.
One way to arrive at an objective, empirically based weighing scheme is to use the observed preponderance of functional annotations in established GWAS hits as a guide to weighting of 'near hit' GWAS SNPs.
In many of these cases the government met a "preponderance of the evidence" standard establishing a right to forfeiture.
A hegemon is defined as a dominant state that has a preponderance of power that often establishes and enforces the rules and norms in the international system.
This study revealed a preponderance of alien plant species across all habitat types.
Given the conservation and preponderance of the TPR domain in established and potential co-chaperones of the plant Hsp90/Hsp70 system, we set out to uncover all carboxylate clamp (CC) type TPR proteins (CC-TPR proteins) in Arabidopsis using an in silico approach and following the residues conserved for interaction with the EEVD motif of cytosolic Hsp90/Hsp70.
Kipnis and Cohn questioned what would establish a preponderance of evidence that students have really been dissuaded from coming forward with future complaints.
Finally, the Supreme Court majority upheld the validity of another aspect of the law as enacted by Congress namely, that it was all right for the government to assume that a potentially expatriating act had been performed voluntarily, and that any claim that a person had acted under duress was up to the person involved to establish by preponderance of evidence.
Although we understand why [Ball] find[s] sentencing based on acquitted conduct unfair, binding precedent of this court establishes that the practice does not violate the Sixth Amendment when the conduct is established by a preponderance of the evidence and the sentence does not exceed the statutory maximum for the crime.
