But only after three trials did Fatty secure an acquittal, and it is difficult to overestimate the intensity of public attention to the case.
Women are so unfree that even if a woman is shown to have given consent to sex, that should never be enough to secure an acquittal.
Some changes have already been introduced in rape trials where, for too long, defence counsel were allowed to exploit a victim's previous sexual history, clothing or state of inebriation in an effort to secure an acquittal.
He was more worried about his nephew, who was transferred nine months ago to the Afghan-run prison at Pul-i-Charkhi, where he said Afghan officials were demanding large bribes to secure an acquittal.
Once the case against him had deteriorated beyond repair, he could file a post-conviction motion to set aside the plea and secure an acquittal.
So that all that can be said is that the witness is not protected by the provision in question from being prosecuted, but that he has been furnished with a good plea to the indictment, which will secure his acquittal.
He secured an acquittal in one of the country's largest Residential Mortgage Backed Securities Fraud cases – a six count federal indictment.
Even when judicial or prosecutorial error prejudices a defendant's prospects of securing an acquittal, he may nonetheless desire "to go to the first jury and, perhaps, end the dispute then and there with an acquittal". United States v. Jorn, supra, at 484, 91 S.Ct. at 557, 27 L.Ed.2d at 556.
Indeed, he is sought out to represent clients in cases that many in the legal community deem "impossible". Illustratively, Professor Sullivan secured an acquittal in the double murder case of former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez.
(Of course, a defence counsel who secured an acquittal on these grounds while knowing independently that Leon was guilty would deserve Aristotle's disapproval).
In 2000, Nunn secured an acquittal for actor Woody Harrelson, who came to Lee County, Kentucky, and planted hemp seeds in open defiance of Kentucky's law forbidding the cultivation of hemp.
