Sentence examples for reopening a case from inspiring English sources

Experts in exoneration cases said the biggest challenge was usually getting a district attorney even to consider reopening a case.

Recurring characters and themes may maintain the continuity of a mystery series, but reopening a case solved in a previous book is a high-risk venture.

After years of legal successes – some 70 lawsuits challenging Obama's birthplace had been dismissed by the courts – the legal team took the extraordinary step of reopening a case that they themselves considered closed.

Once a jury has reached a verdict or a judge has ruled, lawyers say, the odds are overwhelmingly against reopening a case, no matter how compelling the new information is.

Jackie Lacey said in a statement that the case shows her office is "dedicated to serving justice, even when it means reopening a closed case". Asking a judge to throw out the conviction in Jennings' case — one of more than 1,000 that prosecutors have been asked to look into — marked the first big move by the district attorney's unit dedicated to overturning wrongful convictions.

Reopening a cold case of sorts, Viesturs also retells the story of the 1939 expedition.

State Farm sued Mr. Hood in September to keep him from reopening a criminal case or continuing grand jury hearings over charges that the company fraudulently handled policyholders' claims after Katrina.

The project from Richard LaGravenese and director Tony Goldwyn follows a district attorney who uncovers evidence that leads to reopening a murder case.

Though the court may permit reopening of a case so that the trustee may exercise an avoiding power, laches may constitute a bar to an action that has been delayed too long.

In order to avoid unnecessary cost and delay, the rule is amended to permit reopening of a case without the appointment of a trustee when the services of a trustee are not needed.

Counter-terrorism detectives from the Metropolitan police are reopening an investigation of the case and have appealed for information about the gunman and a second man later seen driving away from the scene.