Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment.

Despite his personal absence from the prisoners ' dock, however, Krupp remained technically still under indictment and liable to prosecution in subsequent proceedings.

Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment.

Despite Osborn's efforts to distract from the indictment of the group by putting Rhodes on trial at The Hague for war crimes, Rhodes and his team foiled Osborn's scheme with Rhodes himself transferred to his clone body after saving the life of a child.

Despite a weak start, with opening witness Anthony Gilberti unable to recognize Massino in the courtroom, the prosecution would establish its case to link Massino with the charges in the indictment through an unprecedented seven major turncoats, including the six turned made men.

Despite her arrest and indictment on bribery charges, Troutman was a candidate in the February 27, 2007, election.

Despite evidence compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and indictment by a federal grand jury, the men who killed him were released.

Despite an extensive investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the presentation of evidence before both county and federal grand juries, no indictment or conviction was ever obtained against any of the men who murdered Mack Charles Parker.

Despite the alliance, one of the high-ranking Batavi, Julius Paullus, to give him his Roman name, was executed by Fonteius Capito on a false charge of rebellion.

Despite being a human and a criminal, he has a number of high-ranking Dragaeran friends, and often gets caught up in important events.

Despite so many high-ranking church representatives being involved in the 1209 / 1221 arrangements, later chronicles are fully ignorant on the situation in Finland at the time, or if there was even a bishop then.

Despite the high level of casualties amongst ordinary soldiers, supposedly no high-ranking leaders died on the journey, regardless of how ill or badly wounded they were.

Despite an extensive manhunt and an ongoing FBI investigation, the perpetrator has never been located or positively identified.

Despite Byron Bolton ’ s statements, no action was taken by the FBI.

Despite showing his face, giving away his code name, and revealing his FBI affiliation, Hanssen escaped arrest when the Bureau's investigation didn't go anywhere.

Despite over US $ 7 billion spent annually towards arresting and prosecuting nearly 800, 000 people across the country for marijuana offenses in 2005 ( FBI Uniform Crime Reports ), the federally-funded Monitoring the Future Survey reports about 85 % of high school seniors find marijuana “ easy to obtain .” That figure has remained virtually unchanged since 1975, never dropping below 82. 7 % in three decades of national surveys.

Despite some evidence that could have kept the case open, the FBI closed this file on Lee in 1984.

Despite the seizure of his computer equipment ; searches of his business, person, and home ; grand jury investigations ; FBI and ATF questioning ; facing years in prison and hundreds of death threats ; he did not reveal the identities of members of the Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front movements.

" Despite finding out that the Truman Library had an accessible file which documented all the reports of this folder, the FBI and Office of Information and Privacy put forth " stony resistance " to the FOIA appeal process.

Despite Federal Marshalls and FBI SWAT teams firing thousands of bullets into the home before setting it alight, Kahl was killed by a single. 41 Magnum bullet fired by Sheriff Gene Matthews, who died on an operating table critically wounded by a bullet from Kahl's Mini-14.

Despite Wehelie's offer to FBI agents to allow them to accompany him in the plane, while shackled, he was not permitted to return.

The technique is described in Dr. Farwell's paper " Using Brain MERMER Testing to Detect Concealed Knowledge Despite Efforts to Conceal ", published in the Journal of Forensic Sciences in 2001 by Dr. Farwell and FBI Supervisory Special Agent Sharon Smith of the FBI ( Farwell & Smith 2001 ).

Despite the " untimely " exculpatory evidence – which also included exculpatory DNA evidence, an FBI report discrediting key forensic evidence that had been used against him at trial, and the sworn testimony of the original chief investigator on his case, who became convinced that Slaughter was innocent – Slaughter was executed ( Slaughter v. State ).

Despite the pleadings of Kate and FBI Special Agent Lonnie Hawkins, Tom sticks to his plan, believing it is the best chance of having Sean returned.

Despite FBI press releases, it was not the FBI who captured Yousef but the ISI and DSS.

Despite FBI press releases, it was not the FBI who captured Yousef but the ISI and DSS.

Despite never getting to meet FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, Presley did receive a letter from him on January 4, 1971, acknowledging his offer of assistance.

Despite the fact that Maggie has no legal rights to Cody, FBI agent John Travis ( Jimmy Smits ), an expert in ritual murder and occult-related crime, takes up her case when he realizes that Cody shares the same birth date as several other recently missing children.

Despite the protection of his patron, Means was later suspended from the FBI at the insistence of Daugherty, who had become increasingly aware that Means was a loose cannon.

Despite being on the lookout for two violent felons who were known to use firearms during their crimes, only two of the FBI vehicles contained shotguns ( in addition to Mireles, McNeill had a shotgun in his car, but was unable to reach it before the shootout began ), and none of the agents were armed with rifles.

Despite a double cross by the FBI, the calves are saved, as there is now no market for " little tortured baby cow ".

Despite delivering a great deal of intelligence about the inner workings of the Patriarca crime family, Flemmi's own criminal activities proved a public relations nightmare for the FBI.

Despite usually preferring his department to remain behind the scenes, Oreck offers to commit DOA resources to helping the FBI extract information on the Cianelli crime family from the brain of recently deceased mobster Angelo Mortalli.

Despite proclaiming high clinical standards for himself to gather information ' by means of expert analysis of individual cases ', he would also draw on the reported observations of officials not trained in psychiatry.

Despite a warming by the Comintern, German tensions were raised when the Soviets stated in September that they must enter Poland to " protect " their ethnic Ukrainian and Belorussian brethren therein from Germany, though Molotov later admitted to German officials that this excuse was necessary because the Soviets could find no other pretext for the Soviet invasion.

Despite objections from shareholders such as Joan Whitney Payson, majority owner Horace Stoneham entered into negotiations with San Francisco officials at around the same time that the Dodgers ' owner Walter O ' Malley was courting the city of Los Angeles.

Despite the dubious nature of the document, wheels were set in motion for its publication ; members of the Conservative Party combining with Foreign Office officials in what Chester, Fay, and Young characterised as a " conspiracy.

Despite these concerns, the Syrian officials knew it was too late to turn back.

Despite his own religious views and his friendship with the Emperor Julian, called " the Apostate " for attempting to restore the traditional religions of the empire, Libanius cultivated long-lasting friendships with Christians, both as private individuals and as imperial officials.

Despite its association with Zhang Heng or even the later Ma Jun ( c. 200 – 265 ), there is evidence to suggest that the invention of the odometer was a gradual process in Han Dynasty China that centered around the huang men court people ( i. e. eunuchs, palace officials, attendants and familiars, actors, acrobats, etc.

Despite local opposition, officials in Bergen County asked the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority to support the proposal.

" Despite the warning, no action was taken by village officials.

Despite this lack of permanence, French fur traders continued to ascend the Missouri River and interact with indigenous peoples ; one such duo, Paul and Pierre Mallet, journeyed from Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1739, although future expeditions to New Spain were stopped by Spanish officials.

Despite the reluctance of English officials to issue a patent to Colt, no fault could be found with the gun and he was issued his first patent ( Number 6909 ).

Despite a consensus among the landowners to refuse to allow the Compact to be signed with this inadequate LUA proposed by the U. S., the new Compact ( and the MUORA, by extension ) was finalized by officials of the RMI National government and went into effect in 2003.

Despite the party's name and their position as " rebel Tories ", some of their candidates and officials were from the European Movement and originally from parties other than the Conservatives, such as Labour and the Liberal Democrats.

Despite the event, officials and athletes agreed that the games should continue as planned.

Despite her brutality, she was known to be a competent administrator, and she, other than the instances of nepotism, generally promoted capable officials.

Despite promises by San Mateo County officials, opponents felt a longer runway would lead to bigger and noisier planes, in particular, more corporate aircraft.

Despite such strong rhetoric, Mussolini considered evacuating Fascists into Switzerland, although this was opposed by Germany, which instead proposed that Mussolini and key Fascist officials be taken into exile in Germany.

Despite these differences, Young remained on good terms with British government officials, including Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher, and wrote a critical biography of the latter, One of Us ( 1989 ).

Despite numerous attempts by local city and crown officials to halt this, Redhead continued to cause considerable damage before being forced to stop.

Despite resistance from Eden and other government officials, who noted that one million ' LDV ' armbands had already been printed and the cost of printing another million ' Home Guard ' armbands would be excessive, Churchill would not be dissuaded ; on 22 July the LDV was officially renamed the Home Guard.

Despite the fact that he overthrew the kingdom of Goryeo, and purged officials who remained loyal to the old regime, many regard him as a revolutionary and a decisive ruler who disposed the inept, obsolete and crippled governing system to save the nation from many foreign forces and conflicts.

Despite the well-known anger of the peasants towards the Duke, and their efforts to rid England of corrupt high officials, the Bill of Complaints dismissed the idea that the rebels were responsible.

Despite being warned by the Yishuv and told to evacuate the building the British officials decided not to cave in to the pressure.

Despite entering the race long after his primary opponent, California State Treasurer Phil Angelides, Westly's campaign picked up considerable momentum, receiving endorsements from such figures as Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante, Congressmembers Grace Napolitano, Diane Watson, and Brad Sherman, State Senators Carole Migden, Martha Escutia, and Nell Soto, County Supervisor Yvonne Burke, Assembly Members Judy Chu, Ted Lieu, Rudy Bermudez, and Nicole Parra, former Assembly Speaker and current Los Angeles City Councilman Herb Wesson, the majority of the Los Angeles City Council, and other elected officials at the federal, state, and local levels.

Despite the reaction of fashion critics and church officials, shoppers purchased the monokini in record numbers that summer, though very few monokinis were ever worn in public.