He was a staunch opponent of both emancipist rights and convict privileges. |
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A jury isn't going to convict on that kind of legal hair-splitting, and I think the prosecutor realized that. |
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The effect of the brew was to stupefy the convict to the point of pseudo-coma and to numb his physical sensations. |
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A better film would have been the battle between the rogue FBI agent and convict vs. the enigmatic Brother Payne. |
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The jury took two hours to convict him of assault occasioning actual bodily harm. |
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He stayed there for a moment and took it all in, feeling like a convict making an escape in one of those prison movies. |
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But in practice, the issue isn't so cut and dried, because while lawyers have a duty to the court, it's not their job to convict their client. |
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They need at least one of them, in my opinion, to convict in a capital murder case. |
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The same jury took less than four hours on Tuesday to convict her of capital murder, rejecting her insanity defence. |
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A convict has escaped, unwittingly aided by young Julian's artless chatter, and John must be on hand to deal with the situation. |
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These powers include the ability to convict suspects by innuendo, hearsay and rumour. |
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Contrariwise, juries may convict where the judicial decision-maker would find the evidence insubstantial. |
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Prosecutors said after investigating the eccentric heiress there was not enough evidence to convict her of petty theft. |
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Thus, if the jury acquit the accused of the more serious indictable offence, they may still convict of the summary offence. |
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Alex Lichtenstein sees an essential continuity between the convict lease system and the chain gang in Georgia. |
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Of greater significance was the parole system, introduced in 1908, the same year as convict leasing was abolished and the chain gang introduced. |
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Examples include the oscar, Jack Dempsey, jewelfish, convict cichlid, Midas cichlid, and spotted tilapia. |
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His intention was to get you lot to try, convict and hang me just on his say-so. |
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Australia was a penal settlement at the time, and a team of convict labourers were set about the task. |
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By the 1960s SHD enthusiasm for using convict road gangs was apparently in decline as the system dwindled away to a remnant. |
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And jurors are never accused of acting like vigilantes when they convict a defendant, no matter how weak the evidence. |
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The persistent offender scheme is devised to catch, convict and provide effective rehabilitative support to these most prolific offenders. |
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The Justices are perfectly entitled, should they think fit, to convict absent such evidence. |
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The man, a convict who has escaped from a prison ship, scares Pip into stealing him some food and a file to grind away his leg shackle. |
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Taylor and Thomas also tell the story of a convict on the lam in Maine who hid from police in snowy woods. |
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This agitation ended an unpopular attempt by the British government to renew convict transportation. |
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Instead, all charges were dropped when the district attorney decided that no jury would convict them. |
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Psychologically, it's much harder to convict a feeling, speaking person than a silent figure who might as well be made of wax. |
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His lawyer has suggested that the jury could convict him of manslaughter by gross negligence for not rescuing her. |
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Indeed it is good for the legal system to acquit the innocent and convict the guilty. |
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The most famous of the convict bolters was Jack Donahue, an Irishman who arrived in Sydney in 1825, aged eighteen. |
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During the nineteenth century, juries as far South as Georgia refused to convict whites who assisted slaves escaping from bondage. |
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No matter how much trouble he may unwittingly cause, the court doesn't have the heart to convict him. |
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No jury would convict four people of breaking and entering if they broke into a burning house to try to save a child. |
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The new Board assumed responsibility for 38 local county prisons, 96 bridewells and four convict prisons. |
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Because of its associations with the convict settlement in that colony, the people there were called Vandemonians. |
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Prior to 1927, when county convict road gangs were sometimes used by the SHC, there is no explicit mention of the race of convict laborers. |
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They try, judge and convict individuals who cannot defend themselves from such virulent attacks. |
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I spent four years in a prison where each handicapped convict was issued an underpaid inmate assistant. |
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Despite the proven utility of convict road gangs for construction work, the postwar trend was definitely headed in the direction of maintenance work. |
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The pardon process was essentially a negotiation between the disenfranchised groups populating the convict work camps and the white male middle class. |
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This is a conspiracy to convict the captain when the core team made the erroneous decisions together. |
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Why should old men and women sleep easy in their beds if there is enough evidence to convict them of terrible, genocidal crimes? |
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The seven man, five woman jury rejected a call to convict him of manslaughter on the grounds of his claims that he was provoked by his wife taunting him about affairs. |
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Can there be any doubt that it is imprudent to kill alleged traitors without even bothering to convict them? |
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But Sheen's case is complicated by the inferences necessary to convict him. |
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Time and again, juries refused to convict drug defendants, even in cases where there was overwhelming evidence of guilt. |
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In 1843 South Australia transported its first female convict to Tasmania. |
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But both sides thought this was a case where the jury should be told that it would be dangerous to convict on the uncorroborated evidence of the accomplices. |
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Harris wishes to convict religious belief of mulish literalism, while attacking its tenets in the most bluntly prosaic and anachronistic terms he can muster. |
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Police used spy camera footage to identify and convict 11 yobs. |
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She helped rescue dozens of victims in Cambodia and collected evidence used by Cambodian authorities to convict the brothel owners and other traffickers. |
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If you can't put together the how or the why of the murder, you are going to get a jury to make a leap of faith with you and convict somebody of capital murder. |
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If there is no workable defence of insanity, it is surely wrong to convict a grossly disordered killer of murder when the less stigmatic offence of manslaughter is at hand. |
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In order to be able to convict him, they're going to be able to tie him, circumstantially or through direct evidence, to the deaths of these individuals. |
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He claimed the pair had persuaded him to invest in a joint venture before colluding with local police to convict him so they could take over his business interests. |
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It follows that awareness that one of D's confederates might commit murder is sufficient to convict D as an accomplice, with a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment. |
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Judges rarely render even highly suspicious confessions inadmissible, and juries often convict confessors, even in the absence of physical evidence. |
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Do you have any idea how much it costs to keep a convict in prison? |
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On the other hand, the jury may have thought that they could convict only if the book tended to deprave and corrupt the average reader or the majority of its readers. |
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A group of jurors who wanted to convict deposed the forewoman. |
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This is not an exception, all the prisons in the country has more remand prisoners than convict prisoners because of the delay in dispensation of justice. |
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In any event, the image of military tribunals as drumhead courts manned by stony-faced officers ready to convict regardless of the evidence is a fantasy. |
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The jury acquitted the defendant because there wasn't enough evidence to convict him of the crime. |
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Both trials ended in mistrials, with all of the white jurors voting to convict and all of the black jurors voting to acquit. |
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And revolutionary courts often convict and sentence journalists to prison on these baseless charges. |
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In 1828 Curr tried to charge one of his superintendents with being an accessory to murder after one of his convict servants had killed an Aboriginal woman. |
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From the founding of Botany Bay to 1967, the punishment was administered as the ultimate penalty of the law, in great frequency during the convict era but much less so later. |
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If he realized that she knew that he was an escaped convict, then he might assume that she would be only too eager to send him back from whence he came. |
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He had traded his convict uniform for civilian attire, though he still had on prison-issue footwear. |
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But former convict Mark Leech, editor of the national prisoners' newspaper, Converse, said there was no justification to retry him. |
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At the convict hour between four and five when even those with the least to fear are darkened and sober, and back away from waking. |
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Impeachments are tried by the House of Lords, where a simple majority is necessary to convict. |
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The prison then lay empty until 1850, when it was largely rebuilt and commissioned as a convict gaol. |
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The say-so of one small child is not enough to convict a man of murder in the absence of any other evidence. |
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We usta have a rule that if a trusty shot an escaping convict, then the trusty would go free. |
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We are prepared to offer a reward of pounds 500 to get this field coil back and help the police convict those responsible for the theft. |
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Here, he plays a convict finally freed from jail who gets trapped on a transport plane that's been hijacked by psychopathic crims. |
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The jury decided that the case was not strong enough to convict. |
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In the past, the WMA has maintained that it would not take a stand till Indian courts convict him. |
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The occurrence of the convict cichlid represents the first record for Hidalgo. |
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If the jury cannot muster either a unanimous vote to convict or 10 votes to acquit, it is considered a hung jury. |
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A cheerful convict was found dead by his devoted caretaker one morning. |
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Some ship captains banned servants and redemptioners altogether and the convict trade between Ireland and America ended. |
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The importation of the modern state brought convictism into Australia and the convict system lasted until the middle of the nineteenth century. |
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When offering an Alford plea, a defendant asserts his innocence but admits that sufficient evidence exists to convict him of the offense. |
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The Crown persecuted the Covenanters but popular support made it impossible to convict them in a jury trial. |
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This provision enshrines the concept of autrefois convict, that no one convicted of an offence can be tried or punished a second time. |
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Both sharecropping and convict leasing were legal and tolerated by both the north and south. |
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You wouldn't want one of your agents doing something like that just to convict a pennyante gambler. |
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The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce and Van Diemen's Land are both set during an episode of Tasmania's convict history. |
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Because the Stamp Act was unpopular, a colonial jury was unlikely to convict a colonist of its violation. |
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They could only convict him by railroading him on suspect drug-possession charges. |
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In Australia, a convict who had served part of his time might apply for a ticket of leave, permitting some prescribed freedoms. |
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The police may be reticent to charge the alleged offender, prosecutors reticent to continue with the prosecution, and juries reticent to convict. |
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To find a kippage for a convict ship was no easy matter, for many a seaman would heave sharp about at the prospect of signing on to a vessel with a cargo of cutthroats. |
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The Privy Council suspected that Northumberland would have been Princess Elizabeth's protector had the plot succeeded, but there was insufficient evidence to convict him. |
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But by the late 1920s, after the introduct ion of parole, forms of early release in Georgia affected over 1000 convicts a year, more than a sixth of the convict population. |
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A person who has committed a felony is a felon, and upon conviction of a felony in a court of law a person is known as a convicted felon or a convict. |
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During 1848, HM Prison Portland was opened to provide convict labour, to quarry the stone needed to construct the breakwaters and the harbour defences. |
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Despite his resignation, the Senate nonetheless voted to convict him and bar him from holding any office for eight years, due to evidence of bribery and misappropriation. |
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Several months later, convict leasing was officially abolished. |
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The working convict is a rare exception, sometimes envied because his time is occupied, sometimes derided for his deviance from the yardbird norm. |
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Despite its alleged predisposition, Dobbert's jury recommended a life sentence, 10-2, but Doherty argued that a prodeath jury is more likely to convict. |
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The same legal strategy had been used to charge and convict former Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk on charges he served as a death camp guard at Sobibor in occupied Poland. |
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On the facts, the jury's decision to convict was not unsafe. |
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After World War II, Finland was under pressure to convict political leaders whom the Allied powers considered responsible for Finnish involvement in the war. |
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Jurors still expect hysteria, physical bruises, fresh complaint evidence, torn clothes and signs of renitence from victims in order to convict an alleged perpetrator. |
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