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If on the other hand, at least a majority of the judges consider the evidence too weak for a conviction, they must acquit.
The jury convicted and the Court of Appeal refused to quash the conviction.
Three judges will then decide to either quash the conviction, reject the appeal or order a retrial.
He pleaded not guilty, but his conviction was confirmed on appeal in February the following year.
In Mazo the Court of Appeal quashed the conviction and stated that a person cannot be guilty of theft of property received as a valid gift.
The anaesthetist in the above case was found guilty and his conviction was upheld in the House of Lords.
Not just managing Shakespeare but actually grabbing it by the throat and ringing every drop out of it and carrying it with such conviction.
His thin arms waggled around in the air balancing himself on on his stool as he laughed with conviction at everything.
For the reasons set out in the judgment which is handed down we allow this appeal and quash the conviction.
He plays the part of the semi-moronic, innocently brutal Quentin with as much conviction as one can muster for such an absurd character.
Accordingly, the Court of Criminal Appeal quashed the conviction and ordered a new trial.
It is played and sung with conviction, and his is one of the great bass voices.
This dignified and measured document does that with overwhelming conviction.
The conviction makes clear the fact that this offence can be committed by threats, as well as by the use of violence.
She had put serpent-shaped silver barrettes in her hair, and she played with fearful but clear conviction.
The man of genius can operate rationally, after careful consideration, from conviction, but all that happens only secondarily.
It is more or less a given, by convention if not by conviction, that one must have a biblical text for a sermon.
One marketing analyst suggested that a conviction might actually increase his marketability.
They play with a conviction and authenticity far beyond their tender years.
The accused had based his conviction on a telex he had received in October 1944 from the Regional office of the Gestapo.
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It cost him nothing to give a maximum of fervid conviction to the tone of his words.
Rosalind was shirking a problem she dared not face from a cowardly conviction of its insolubility.
Some firm conviction, she was sure, must energise him yet she respected him the more for concealing it.
This conviction was strengthened by his vanity and conceit, a conceit to the point of fatuity.
As the Judge had said, his client was conceded to be slated for conviction.
Then you want me not to let some previous conviction injure the receptivity of my mind with regard to some strange matter.
The latter is often accompanied by a self-righteous conviction that it is a virtue.
There was profound conviction in the emphasis with which she spoke her warning.
Her self-doubt was grappled by a stronger will and a stronger conviction than her own.
Doubtless it will seem so, yet the statement is not exaggerative by any means, but is made in my serious and sincere conviction.
It was only the supposition of Furness, and it is my conviction that they have not.
But if he escape conviction, you must sequestrate the living because of the debts.
Coleridge's unshaken conviction that it was solvable, inspired many with courage.
One morning she awoke with the conviction that there was a letter for her at St. Clair.
He may be a republican, and he must uphold with warmth and conviction Royalist theories.
Lafontaine had conviction and self-assurance, but his elocution was very bad for poetry.
This accusation, after soul-wearying delays, had culminated to-day in conviction.
It is only that conviction which has emboldened me to state my views publicly.
And one would like to know what our conviction that we are not automata has to do with it.
It is claimed, however, that prisoners on conviction were required to adhibit their mark as a seal of confession.
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