Sentence examples for sustained a conviction from inspiring English sources

"Anyone following this case must have recognised that if there was a second appeal it may not have sustained a conviction, and that would have placed everyone in a very difficult position.

"But the evidence was insufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt".

Last week, they filed a motion for a retrial or an acquittal, claiming insufficient evidence to sustain a conviction.

The physical evidence in the case is diffuse and decades old, so it would be difficult to sustain a conviction against any of the perpetrators.

In addition he said it would meet the Justice Department standard that it would be sufficient "to obtain and sustain a conviction by an unbiased trier of fact".

In overturning that decision today, Justice Stevens said the amendment did something equally important: it "changed the quantum of evidence necessary to sustain a conviction".

In his statement, Mr. Holder suggested that the decision not to bring prosecutions should not be seen as a moral exoneration but a sign that the record was not "sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction".

"Based on the fully developed factual record concerning the two deaths, the department has declined prosecution because the admissible evidence would not be sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt," his statement said.

The first of those rules allows for a judgment of acquittal on the argument that the evidence was not enough to sustain a conviction; Andersen already made such a motion at the end of the presentation of the government's case, and it was denied.

He ruled that there was insufficient evidence to sustain a conviction on any of the 15 counts in the federal indictment against Welch, 59, the former president of the Salt Lake Bid Committee, and Johnson, 45, the committee's former vice president.

In 2012, US Attorney General Eric Holder looked into CIA interrogation practices overseas but said the evidence was not "sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt".