Word: acquits
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...fast. Less than a week after Spain's national court acquitted Rabei Osman of all charges in the 2004 Madrid train bombings in which 191 people were killed, prosecutors have appealed the sentence. On Tuesday, they filed their appeal, alleging that some of the grounds used to acquit Osman, who was charged, among other things, with being the "intellectual author," or mastermind, behind the train bombings, were faulty...
Black's lawyers seem partial to an approach that worked flawlessly for Johnnie Cochran in the O.J. Simpson trial. They've suggested that they will create doubt by roughing up the prosecution's star witness, Black's former partner David Radler, on the stand, thereby persuading jurors to acquit because the proverbial glove doesn...
...tactic that exploits confusion over the meaning of reasonable doubt--and how much is needed to acquit. Even jurors in the trial of I. Lewis Libby, a well-educated bunch, stumbled over the term's definition. And it is supposed to make convictions difficult. The Constitution requires the government to be damned sure someone is guilty before taking away his life or liberty. "Reasonable doubt," though "quantitatively imprecise," denotes a high "degree of confidence" in a suspect's guilt, wrote U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Harlan in the 1970 case that gave a constitutional imprimatur to the standard...
...from any responsibilities for the girl, and says he walked out of court "a broke but free man." He successfully lobbied his home state to pass its paternity-fraud law in 2002 and now runs a DNA-testing company. Its slogan: "If the genes don't fit, you must acquit...
Despite concerns that such an exercise would devolve into a witch hunt, he contends it may acquit rather than implicate the clergy as a whole. Given the coercive pressure that priests were under, he says, a 10% cooperation rate is surprisingly low. The Polish church, he says, may go down as "a church of martyrs - not informers." The worst part is not knowing which...