Voorbeelden van acquittal

• Fortunately for their intended victims, a series of high-profile acquittals# began to dampen their enthusiasm for libel prosecutions.

• But even justified refusals could later, under pressure, be overturned and acquittal conceded all the same.

• In jury decisions this seems acceptable, as the standard of proof for conviction should be higher than that for acquittal.

• What we face here is not a standard of proof but a pretext-and a flimsy one at that-for a conviction or for an acquittal.

• Both grants and refusals of acquittal were recorded, along with their justifications, and communicated to the accounting clerks.

• However, this was already a time of hardship, as is seen in the downturn of rents and the frequency and magnitude of rent acquittals.

• First, the assembly's acquittal on appeal was encouraged by the king, who suggested it in the first place.

• Any one of these excuses, if true, should lead to an acquittal.

• For that reason, his adjudication resulted in a legal acquittal that was, in turn, wrapped in a social conviction.

• If it came to a trial, acquittal was anything but certain.

• The ultra vires thesis holds that imperiled wrongdoers faced with death are entitled to an acquittal because the state lacks standing to punish them.

• Yet current practice allows acquittal on precisely such inexpressible worries.

• If upon such proof there is reasonable doubt remaining, the accused is entitled to the benefit of it by an acquittal.

• Before harvesting, the tenant requested acquittal on contingency grounds, often threatening to apply for, or already armed with a judicial mandate for encampacao.

• In later crises, risk-sharing was mostly contained by resorting to the device of acquittals, with only a residual growth in sharecropping.