Word: alibiers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...behold, it turned out to be Reed's missing plane. Reed and his wife were indicted for mail fraud in Wichita. The case was dismissed in 1990 after the government refused to turn over North's diaries, notes and phone records, which Reed claimed would back up his alibi...
...their freedom to new evidence unearthed by Jim McCloskey, a New Jersey independent investigator who took the case after receiving a letter from Chance claiming that he had been wrongly convicted. His alibi: he was locked up in the county jail on the day of the murder. McCloskey tracked down three witnesses who had testified against Chance and Powell under what they said was pressure by the L.A.P.D. County prosecutors who joined the investigation then discovered that police had not revealed the fact that a jailhouse informant who had provided damning testimony had failed two polygraph tests...
...Maybe its script isn't worth $3 million, but its basic premise is not a bad one. It proposes an untrammeled San Francisco woman named Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone) who writes murder mysteries that have a nasty way of predicting actual crimes. They also provide, of course, a perfect alibi. No one in her right mind would create fictions that make their author a prime suspect...
...most Americans, the plea is a cop-out -- a too easy alibi that could allow monsters like Dahmer to return to the streets. In fact, the insanity defense is seldom used and rarely successful. Experts estimate the defense is raised in fewer than 1% of the 13 million criminal cases filed annually in the U.S. On those rare occasions where it succeeds, the offense is usually nonviolent, and the prosecution and defense agree that the accused is deranged. One example: a homeless person with schizophrenia who is charged with disorderly conduct...
...broad center of American and international public opinion. He knew he had a problem with "the vision thing." Gorbachev's genius for making a public relations virtue out of political and economic necessity made Bush look bad by comparison. Bush's favorite word, prudence, often sounded like an alibi -- or a euphemism for timidity...