Sentence examples for prosecution trying to from inspiring English sources

"Basically, you've got prosecution trying to sell their product to the jury" – their product being the idea that Glossip offered to pay Sneed for Van Treese's murder, Knight, Glossip's new attorney, said of the trials.

The two men face a total of 22 charges of conspiracy, scheming to defraud, larceny and forgery, with the prosecution trying to prove she was not legally competent to make decisions including changing her will and consenting to the sale of a prized painting.

For weeks now, the prosecution, trying to make the case that Mr. Marshall took advantage of his mother's mental frailty, has compelled witness after witness, dear friend after dear friend, to say for the public record the things that we all hope, should we end up in a state of mental decline, would go unsaid to anyone but the doctors, and only if they really must know.

Ludicrously, the prosecution tried to paint Mr. Titiev as a drug addict.

While the prosecution tried to present a straightforward account, Mr. Sullivan delivered a complex welter of explanations.

Even though the prosecution tried to kick us out, the judge always sided with us.

The prosecution tried to portray a world in which Mr. Stevens's friends regularly tried both to help him and to conceal their efforts from officials.

"But I would note that the proposed shield law," he said, describing new legislation that the administration says is an effort to shield journalists from prosecution, "tries to define Wiki-like publishers out of the definition of news organizations".

While the prosecution tried to insert much of that anonymous evidence in its case, the rules dictate that such material can be used only if its sources are disclosed to the judges and the defense.

The central points that the prosecution tried to make with the tapes were that Mr. Gotti and others referred to him as "the boss" and that he purportedly described how he would reorganize the Gambino family.

In court, the prosecution tried to finesse these ambiguities by suggesting that any defendants that were not actually gang members were "affiliated with or sympathetic to" the gang, but Crompton admitted that these were not terms he could define.