Word: acquited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Committee then matches student applications with requests for missionaries filed by 180 missions located throughout the world, in every country which permits their establishment. Youths who score poorly on the language exam are sent to countries with relatively simple languages. Harvard students tend to acquit themselves very well and often receive missions in the Far East. Once accepted, prospective missionaries spend two months at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, where returned missionaries teach them the language of their assigned country...
...friendship and then must endure war, it is poignant and masterfully drawn. Peter Weir safely navigates the film away from both bombast and ineffectuality. The relationship of Archy and Frank is at once simple and affecting as it unfolds through the short, lyrical scenes. Both Lee and Gibson acquit themselves well in their roles and give sound, straightforward performances. Weir's direction of the background characters is better still. As random soldiers, desert wanderers and Australian ranchers, the supporting actors turn in a number of superb vignettes...
After an hour of arguing, the jurors took their first vote by a show of hands: four to acquit, two to convict, six undecided. The store manager suggested that they all write out their reasons on a blackboard. One by one, they stood up and explained their votes. "I kept hearing 'Beyond a reasonable doubt, beyond a reasonable doubt,' " said Suzanne Sheldon, the writer, who had originally voted for conviction. "And I kept seeing that kid Charles looking up at me from the defendant's table with his big blue eyes. It tore me apart." The jurors...
...actual presentation of evidence took 67 days but proved remarkably inconclusive. Because prison officials had justifiably concentrated on disarming and locking up the 700 rioting convicts, they failed to produce such key evidence as murder weapons and fingerprints. The jurors finally took only five hours of deliberation to acquit all ten defendants. "I'm sure some of them must have been guilty of something," says Tumino, "but the state had no evidence...
...trial had lasted seven weeks, but the jury took only two hours and 45 minutes to acquit the defendants on all 13 counts, ranging from second-degree murder to tampering with evidence. Said McDuffie's sister Dorothy, "We despise the verdict. We hate it." The U.S. Justice Department, too, was appalled. It said it would press for indictments of the ex-police for civil rights violations...