| That's the portion that protects innocent people from being mistakenly convicted, even at the cost of acquitting some guilty people. |
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| In the end the jurymen are divided in their decision, and Athena casts the deciding vote, acquitting Orestes. |
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| The Community Games Finals took place in Mosney over the past two weekends, with participants from the locality acquitting themselves very well. |
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| The CJM's court had convicted him for the killing of two chinkara deer on the night of September 26-27, 1998 at Bhavad village while acquitting seven others. |
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| Edwards thanked the jurors for acquitting him of one count of campaign finance violations and failing to come to a decision on the other five. |
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| This forced the federal government to give up interference with the legal proceedings and the tribunals ended up acquitting us from the crimes we were accused of. |
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| Those have had a patchy and controversial history, fingering nervous innocents while acquitting practised liars. |
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| This obligation of transparency even demands that I give to the defence any evidence that weighs in favour of acquitting the accused. |
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| On 28 June 2007, the Military Court of Katanga delivered its verdict on the case, acquitting all defendants. |
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| British juries served to soften the impact of this by acquitting defendants or finding them guilty of lesser crimes. |
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| Upon conclusion of the proceedings, the Trial Chamber issues its decision, acquitting or convicting the accused. |
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| Lawyers representing 144 plaintiffs have indicated that their clients intend to appeal the verdict acquitting the defendants of war crimes. |
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| Current national laws or even international legal instruments appear to not always foresee ne bis in idem effect also for acquitting decisions. |
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| Women's rights groups in Malaysia displayed outrage Wednesday at a court judge's ruling acquitting a policeman accused of raping two female detainees in a police lock-up. |
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| There were some fine individual performances in the match with all the team acquitting themselves very well even though some were only making their championship debut. |
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| Gearing up for the season ending play-offs, the trip gave enough reassurance of the strength in depth at the Club with both newcomers acquitting themselves with distinction. |
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| On 30 November, the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia released a verdict acquitting Fatmir Limaj and Isak Musliu and sentencing Haradin Bala to 13 years' imprisonment for war crimes. |
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| Jurors deliberated for less than 15 minutes before acquitting Stevens, who was required to establish that an otherwise illegal act was necessary to avoid imminent harm more serious than the harm caused by breaking the law. |
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| The trial judge entered a directed verdict acquitting the accused. |
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| I will say on the record that I hope the attorney general in British Columbia will appeal the recent decision of the B. C. supreme court which cited artistic merit as a reason for acquitting Mr. Sharpe. |
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| Your right to appeal begins immediately after you receive written notice of the hearing officer's decision either acquitting the officer, or finding misconduct and imposing a penalty. |
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| Afghan National Security Forces are now leading the fight against insurgents in all parts of the country, and they are acquitting themselves well. |
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| The defense strategy at trial was as much about mitigating as acquitting. |
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| The jury debated for just three hours before acquitting Mr Posada on April 8th. Even though Cuba and Venezuela had objected to the perjury charges at first, they were outraged by the verdict. |
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| The EBRD also faces the challenge of satisfactorily acquitting itself of its double mission of being a development bank on the one hand, and a commercially viable lending institution on the other. |
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| To find out just how the country is acquitting itself as host, your correspondent is on a whistle-stop tour of half a dozen stadium cities. Off the bat he hit a snag. |
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| In June this year, a court in the central province of Hubei complied, by acquitting a 21-year-old pedicurist who had stabbed a sexually abusive official to death. |
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| Though this was one of the first mercantile transactions of my life, yet I had no doubt about acquitting myself with reputation. |
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| I want to say that I certainly hope these two young men apply to my law school-I'm going to be handing out my card here-because I think they're acquitting themselves so magnificently today. |
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| Because the defence results in a complete acquittal, the courts have interpreted the defence in a restrictive way so as to avoid acquitting too easily. |
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| The first exception to a ban on retrying a defendant is if, in a trial, the defendant bribed the judge into acquitting him or her, since the defendant was not in jeopardy. |
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| Acquitting a woman on ground of insanity may have saved her from the gallows, or a lengthy prison term, but it also stripped her crime of meaning. |
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