Definition & Betydelse | Engelska ordet ACQUITTALS

Definition av ACQUITTALS

1. böjningsform av acquittal

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• Nikitchenko dissented against the acquittals of Hjalmar Schacht, Franz von Papen and Hans Fritzsche; he also argued for a death sentence for Rudolf Hess, who was ultimately sentenced to life in prison by the tribunal.
• In some judicial systems, the prosecution may appeal acquittals; while in others, this is prohibited under double jeopardy protections.
• In 2013 Italy's highest court, the Court of Cassation, decided to annul Knox's appeal (alongside the co-accused, Italian Raffaele Sollecito), thus overturning their previous acquittals, declaring the acquittal as "full of deficiencies, contradictions and illogical conclusions".
• In response to the acquittals of the accused killers, the CWP attempted to storm the 1980 Democratic National Convention and succeeded in setting off firecrackers in Madison Square Garden.
• Alfonsín established the 1985 Trial of the Juntas; but the decision to limit the proceedings to nine leading military junta members, as well as the acquittals handed to five of these, further antagonized Bonafini, who believed the president would forego further prosecutions for political considerations.
• After the Bundesgerichtshof (BGH) had at first quashed a lower court's two acquittals, it changed its mind in 1956 during the third revision of the case, quashed Thorbeck's and Huppenkothen's sentences, and acquitted them of the charges of being accessories to murder by their participation in the drumhead trial on grounds that the court had been duly constituted and the sentence had been imposed according to the law then in force, without either of the accused having perverted justice.
• Removal of jury trial was opposed on the ground that mere expediency (in cases of fraud) should never justify its removal, and that judge-alone acquittals of major City figures might cause "grave public disquiet".
• According to Callow, judges like Holt found "creative and practical ways around the statute book in order to prevent the execution of witches", with Holt "skilfully combining directions to jurymen that permitted religious faith and even the law's acceptance of the validity of witchbelief with measures to seek acquittals through the raising of questions of reasonable doubt and the unmasking of fraudulent cases of possession".
• He obtained acquittals for the abductors of Clément Ris, for Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, for General Dupont, with his customary courage and eloquence.
• Cooley's account tells how he chased crooked acquittals for the likes of Pat Marcy, originally an Al Capone protégé who had become the Mob's key political operative; Mafia Capo and gambling czar Marco D'Amico; and notorious hit man Harry Aleman.
• The jury deliberated 11 hours and the trial resulted in Birns' and the other defendants' acquittals.
• Anti-doping investigations of the athletes ended up with discontinuations and acquittals due to extenuating circumstances, and a criminal investigation of the doctor concerned was also discontinued.
• Having been acquitted in 1987 at Lewes Crown Court, and following a successful application to the Court of Appeal under the double jeopardy rule to quash the acquittals and to retry him, Russell Bishop was retried at the Old Bailey and convicted of the murders of two nine-year-old girls, Karen Hadaway and Nicola Fellows.
• Having established the authority of South Carolina's Vice-Admiralty Court (a November trial for piracy had resulted only in acquittals), Trott would later go on to preside over the trials of other pirates, notably Blackbeard’s associate Stede Bonnet.
• Reappraisals of Campbell, Justice, and McGaughey's records to include acquittals and resident aliens found seven connections, including one individual, Kurbegovic, who Justice and McGaughey had made negative comments about regarding his moral character.
• Though the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits retrials after acquittals, the United States Constitution's dual sovereignty doctrine allows a defendant tried and acquitted in a state court to be retried at a federal court.
• The events of the Septembrine Conspiracy and the subsequent trials that were carried out abnormally by means of a newly created court ex post facto when a court of conspirators emerged, In addition, Bolívar, when reviewing the sentences issued by the court of eight people, became furious by stating that "he did not accept acquittals", by 29 September Bolívar decided to dissolve the court and order Rafael Urdaneta as Sole Judge with the support of Tomás Barriga of the missing cases and the review of those acquitted or convictions that did not leave him satisfaction, Urdaneta acted summarily setting aside any sense of impartiality or neutrality in the cases, Urdaneta preferred to act in his favor, how many charges were given without evidence to the defendants in process and simply handed down the sentences (there were no trials), for those decisions that were made even minors and people who did not participate in that event were sentenced to the death penalty, including Admiral José Prudencio Padilla, who was in prison when the attack occurred and the court had acquitted him.
• After the acquittals of the first three suspects – Datuk Stephen Lee Chee Kiang, Lie Chang Loon and Chin Wui Chung – for the abetment of Kayong's killing, Amnesty International appealed for the case to be reopened, expressing their hope for justice to be served and better protection was ensured for those who fought for human rights.

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