Sentence examples for to support a conviction from inspiring English sources

"The evidence is totally insufficient to support a conviction".

Judge Coleman ruled they had presented enough evidence to support a conviction on all eight charges against Mr. Williams, including two counts of manslaughter.

"We conclude that scent-discrimination lineups, when used alone or as primary evidence, are legally insufficient to support a conviction," Justice Barbara Hervey wrote in the court's opinion granting the acquittal.

If a jury was willing to convict based on the testimony of witnesses like Mr. Adondakis and Mr. Tortora, there is a reasonably good chance Dr. Gilman's testimony will be sufficiently believable to support a conviction of Mr. Martoma.

If the jury votes to convict the former councilwoman, Sandy Annabi, and a co-defendant, Zehy Jereis, the judge would have the power to direct an acquittal if she concluded the evidence was not sufficient to support a conviction.

That finding was enough to support a conviction on the conspiracy charge, but not on the substantive charge of aiding and abetting the plot, which would have required direct knowledge.

While intelligence pointed clearly to a money-laundering operation, the challenge was to build forensic ties between the money seized and the stolen Northern Bank notes in order to support a court conviction.

The likelihood of an FA charge for the racial element of what Terry said in his confrontation with Ferdinand rests on the distinction between the required degree of evidence to support a criminal conviction – proven beyond reasonable doubt – and an FA guilty decision, proven on the balance of probabilities.

On another key issue, though, the court concluded that there was "ample evidence" of Huguely's malice toward Love and sufficient grounds to support a murder conviction.

Those included key allegations by Huguely's defense team that there was insufficient evidence to support a murder conviction in Love's 2010 death and that jurors should have been sequestered during the nationally publicized trial.

But the judge left open the possibility that Mr. Roeder might be allowed to present evidence that could support a conviction short of premeditated murder, like voluntary manslaughter, a notion that has outraged some abortion rights groups.