Following this ruling, Alford petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, which upheld the initial ruling, and subsequently to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit which ruled that Alford's plea was not voluntary, because it was made under fear of the death penalty.

Following the initial design of ATM, networks have become much faster.

Following discussion of the initial draft the Cabinet Secretary, Mark Sykes, met with the Zionist negotiators to clarify their aims.

Following initial compression, the high-density, over-compressed region rapidly depressurizes, exploding violently, to set in train the sequence of events that produces the impact crater.

Following this initial success, Boylston began performing inoculations throughout Boston, despite much controversy and at least one attempt upon his life.

Following initial work between 1958 – 1964, in 1966, a team at the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions ( FLNR ) reported that they had been able to detect < sup > 250 </ sup > Fm from the decay of a parent nucleus (< sup > 254 </ sup > No ) with a half-life of ~ 50s, in contradiction to the Berkeley claim.

* 1940 – World War II: Following the initial Italian invasion, Greek troops counterattack into Italian-occupied Albania and capture Korytsa.

Following the outbreak of World War II Menzies found it necessary to distance himself from the controversy by claiming Interior Minister Thomas Paterson was responsible since he made the initial order to exclude Kisch.

Following the agreement the Blue Streak programme was formally cancelled in April 1960 and in May 1960 an agreement for an initial order of 100 Skybolts was concluded.

Following the initial invasion, the conflict deteriorated into a series of border raids which lasted until 950 when Otto I and Boleslaus I signed a peace treaty.

Following the moment of launch ( i. e., initial loss of contact with the substrate ), a jumper will traverse a parabolic path.

Following da Gama's initial voyage, the Portuguese crown realized that securing outposts on the eastern coast of Africa would prove vital to maintaining national trade routes to the Far East.

Following some initial setbacks, the war went exceptionally well for England ; the victories of Crécy and Poitiers led to the highly favourable Treaty of Brétigny.

Following initial positive reviews, the made-for-television film was rebroadcast twice in 1978 and 1979, but has not been shown since on national re-broadcasts, nor issued in home media.

Following changes to treatment methods, this classification is now much less useful in diagnosis, since neurological symptoms may develop after the initial presentation, and both Type I and Type II DCS have the same initial management.

Following the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957, the initial Project Orbiter program was revived as the Explorer program to catch up with the Soviet Union.

Following this initial defeat, the PAP decided to re-assert ties with the labour faction of Singapore by promising to release the jailed members of the PAP and at the same time getting them to sign a document that they supported Lee Kuan Yew and the PAP, in the hope that it could attract the votes of working-class Chinese Singaporeans.

Following an initial pilot episode in January 1976, it ran for two subsequent series of five and three episodes in October 1977 and October 1979 respectively.

Following a failed initial approach to Anton Bruckner, Schnabel studied music theory and composition under Eusebius Mandyczewski.

Following their initial dissolution in 1982 Cold Chisel lead vocalist Jimmy Barnes embarked on a successful solo career that has continued from the 1980s to the present.

Following the close of the eligibility period, CARAS conducts an initial vote by its members to establish the list of nominees in most categories.

Following his initial coup against and killing of President Taraki, the KGB station in Kabul warned Moscow that Amin's leadership would lead to " harsh repressions, and as a result, the activation and consolidation of the opposition.

Following this, the Saints made their first big signing under Markus Liebherr as they unveiled new striker Rickie Lambert who was purchased on 10 August 2009, for an initial £ 800, 000, which could rise to £ 1m subject to appearances, from fellow League One side Bristol Rovers.

Following disagreements over operations, Fields agreed to be bought out for an initial sum of £ 1 million with further payment on Virgin's first dividend.

Following the successes in Italy and along the Rhine, Louis XIV was now hopeful of similar results in Flanders.

Following a series of military successes in the south, forces led by Gnaeus Julius Agricola entered Scotland in 79.

Following successes at Kummersdorf with the first two Aggregate series rockets, Wernher von Braun and Walter Riedel began thinking of a much larger rocket in the summer of 1936, based on a projected 25-metric-ton-thrust engine.

Following the successes of his trial-run games, Foster moved ahead with his idea for arena football.

Following his successes with the Six Days Campaign ( 10 to 14 February 1814 ) in smashing the Allied drive on Paris, Napoleon headed southward towards Seine River where the main Austrian Army under Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg, was threatening Paris from the southeast.

Following these successes, Nelson was given a more prominent role on the Ozzie and Harriet show and ended every two or three episodes with a musical number.

Following the settling of the legal issues, her chart successes continued with the charting of " Black Coffee " in the summer of 1949.

Following the completion of a pair of pictures for the Seville Cathedral, he began to specialize in the themes that brought him his greatest successes: the Virgin and Child and the Immaculate Conception.

Following the departure of Glass, the band had their biggest successes on the UK Independent Chart with the singles Sick Of Love, Church Of No Return and Zero Sex and the album Sex and Drugs and Jesus Christ.

Following successes over American forces in the Pacific, the main Japanese carrier force made its one and only foray into the Indian Ocean in April 1942.

Following the successes in the 1850s in the provinces of Guangxi, Hunan and Hubei, and the capture of Nanjing in 1853 the rebel advance had slowed.

Following a minor decline in its hype, neo soul's mainstream popularity increased in the late 1990s with the successes of Hill, Maxwell, Eric Benét, Raphael Saadiq, and Les Nubians.

Following these two commercial successes, Ratnam wrote and directed Agni Natchathiram in 1988.

Following an expedition to Scotland in search of reinforcements, Sorley Boy landed at Cushendun in January 1585 with a substantial army, but after initial successes he was driven back to Scotland, where he offered to accept the terms formerly put to him by Sidney ; Perrot declined, whereupon Sorley Boy returned and regained possession of Dunluce Castle.

Following the successes of Blackton and Cohl, many other artists began experimenting with animation.

Following the outstanding successes of the all-electric E-Tracer, X-Tracers and ZeroTracer the MonoTracer-E is due to go into production in 2012.

Following the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo the Prussian Kingdom had years of military successes in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Following its run she returned to the United States and appeared in several stage successes, before making her film debut in 1939.

Following his resignation McLetchie had a short spell as a backbencher in the Parliament though he remained a prominent figure, his major successes from this period include his campaigns on free personal care and road pricing.

* 27 June – Following successes using aircraft against the Turks in North Africa, Italy forms a specialised Air Battalion ( Battagliore Aviatori ).

Following the demise of the team, he joined Bernie Ecclestone's Brabham team at Weybridge, where he would stay for the following decade, becoming chief mechanic for the World Drivers ' Championship successes of Nelson Piquet in and and later rising to chief engineer, while Nick went on to open a Motor Racing spares shop near the Brands Hatch circuit.

Following their Atlantic successes, Motown also issued a " Best of the Spinners " LP which featured selections from their Motown / V. I. P.

Following France's successes against Prussia in the Napoleonic Wars, Napoleon sent Polish generals Jan Henryk Dąbrowski and Józef Wybicki to raise a Polish army to take control of South Prussia, in what was called the Greater Poland Uprising of 1806.

Following the early successes of the Solidarity movement, in 1981 a monument to the events and victims of June 1956 was erected on Adam Mickiewicz Square, with Lech Wałęsa attending.