Mr. Ghailani's lawyers had asked the judge, Lewis A. Kaplan of Federal District Court, to reverse the jury's sole guilty verdict and to acquit Mr. Ghailani, the first former Guantánamo detainee to be tried in civilian court, or grant him a new trial.
And there was the unsettling verdict of the sole "woman on the street" interviewed.
But what that verdict on the sole charge of which Karadžić was acquitted means is that what happened in the camps and around Dautović's town – burned into the dust of its own stone – was not genocide.
The surgeon, Dr. Robert Bierenbaum, 45, remained expressionless as the jury forewoman stood and read from the verdict sheet on the sole count of second-degree murder: "Guilty".
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Under military law, a commander who convenes a court-martial is known as the convening authority and has the sole discretion to reduce or set aside guilty verdicts and sentences or to reverse a jury's verdict.
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Once a verdict is reached, the commander, as "convening authority," has the sole discretion to modify the findings and sentence of a court martial, according to Taylor.
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So what remains is not a verdict, but the prosecution's account — that the former Serb leader was almost the sole driving force behind the three wars.
