Word: acquitting
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...doesn't fit, acquit." --Media celebrity and attorney Johnnie Cochran, challenging the reliability of prosecution's evidence in the closing arguments of a double-murder trial in Los Angeles...
...much like what's being expressed. In the most highly publicized attempt in recent years to set the law on pop music, three members of 2 Live Crew were arrested in Florida in 1990 after a live performance. It took a local jury just two hours to acquit them on obscenity charges...
Without a good family example, there's really not much teachers can do. I worry about a society where children, however sweet--and many of these first-graders were adorable--cannot acquit themselves without making those around them uncomfortable. As always, classroom education, while critical, is secondary: the real learning process must begin at home...
...defender is the same one who delivered Fleiss's verdict: jury foreman Sheila Mitrowski. Persuaded by the defense argument that Fleiss had been entrapped when a police detective posing as a Japanese businessman asked her to provide call girls for himself and his pals, Mitrowski, 48, had wanted to acquit Fleiss. Her view never wavered through four days of a debate that grew so rancorous she sometimes had to blow a whistle to silence the bickering. But with the weekend approaching and the jurors tiring, Mitrowski agreed to a compromise with the three male jurors determined to convict: a drug...
...jury selection by race or gender is a tricky game. In the William Kennedy Smith rape trial, defense attorney Roy Black was astonished by jury ^ research showing that conservative women over 40 were the people most likely to acquit his client. "They were most skeptical of claims made by younger women who would go out all night in bars," he says...