Lincoln rarely raised objections in the courtroom ; but in an 1859 case, where he defended a cousin Peachy Harrison, who was accused of stabbing another to death, Lincoln angrily protested the judge's decision to exclude evidence favorable to his client.

Many who side with this view disagree that Luke portrays Christianity or the Roman Empire as harmless and thus reject the apologetic view because “ Acts does not present Christians as politically harmless or law abiding for there are a large number of public controversies concerning Christianity, particularly featuring Paul .” For example, to support this view Cassidy references how Paul is accused of going against the Emperor because he is “ saying that there is another king named Jesus .” ( Acts 17: 7 ) Furthermore, there are multiple examples of Paul ’ s preaching causing uprisings in various cities ( Acts 14: 2 ; 14: 19 ; 16: 19-23 ; 17: 5 ; 17: 13-14 ; 19: 28-40 ; 21: 27 ).

He was a vocal opponent of the Vietnam War and political movements such as McCarthyism, and he helped pay for the successful defense of a soldier accused of " fragging " ( murdering ) another soldier during the war.

Rudi Block, the Merchant – Block is another accused man and client of Huld.

Communications theorist Paul Watzlawick used this situation, where " both American soldiers and British girls accused one another of being sexually brash ", as an example of differences in " punctuation " in interpersonal communications.

Similarly, in a Corinthian Oration, Dio Chrysostom ( or yet another pseudonymous author ) accused the historian of prejudice against Corinth, sourcing it in personal bitterness over financial disappointments-an account also given by Marcellinus in his Life of Thucydides.

Yet another example of hubris appears in Aeschines " Against Timarchus ," where the defendant, Timarchus, is accused of breaking the law of hubris by submitting himself to prostitution and anal intercourse.

In another lawsuit, he was accused of slandering a newscaster ( a former colleague ), and of indecently exposing himself to her and slapping her.

Throughout the book, President Durling faces another, less important political crisis: Vice-President Ed Kealty is forced to resign after being accused of drugging and raping a former member of his staff.

Robert was dispossessed and imprisoned, and another noble, William of Eu, accused of treachery, was blinded and castrated.

According to Ctesias ( in Persica 20 ), Artabanus then accused the Crown Prince Darius, Xerxes's eldest son, of the murder and persuaded another of Xerxes's sons, Artaxerxes, to avenge the patricide by killing Darius.

* Negligence: the accused unintentionally committed the criminal act by accident for one reason or another.

During the course of the conduct, the accused foresees that he may be putting another at risk of injury: A choice must be made at that point in time.

On 8 December, fifteen of the accused, including A. Giotopoulos and D. Koufodinas, were found guilty ; another four defendants were acquitted for lack of evidence.

In a paternity suit that rocked France, another woman accused Montand of being the father of her daughter and went to court to obtain a DNA sample from him.

However, Autolycus was a source of some controversy in Herakles ' life, because Autolycus stole some cattle from Euboea and Eurytus, who accused Herakles of the deed and, upon his going mad about these accusations, Herakles killed them plus another one of Autolycus ' sons, Iphitus.

" The article went on to explain that the then Leader of the Opposition William Hague had accused the then Prime Minister Tony Blair of being a hypocrite with regards to food, telling one portion of society that his favourite meal was fish and chips and another that it was a fresh fettuccine dish.

Other topics this season include the murder of a prostitute ; a teacher accused of molesting a child, who commits suicide due to inflammation of the story from the press ; a woman with an intellectual disability getting pregnant and burying her child ; the introduction of Bobby Johnson, after his brother is killed in a drug shootout ; a scam involving another one of Virgil ’ s friends ; a bounty hunter ; and a serial rapist stalking Sparta.

Later they returned to the jail and lynched another black man, Will Allen, accused of murder.

South Korea accused Kim of ordering the 1983 bombing in Rangoon, Burma ( now Yangon, Myanmar ), which killed 17 visiting South Korean officials, including four cabinet members, and another in 1987 which killed all 115 on board Korean Air Flight 858.

* A writ of mittimus orders either ( 1 ) a court to send its record to another or ( 2 ) a jailor to receive the accused in his or her custody at any point during the investigative or trial process.

In 1982, Coe released another independent album, Underground Album, which contained his most controversial song, " Nigger Fucker ," which resulted in Coe being accused of racism.

The Israelites accused Mary of being a loose woman and having touched another man while unmarried.

One accused could be convicted by a jury who supported the existing law, while another person indicted for the same offence could be acquitted by a jury who, with reformist zeal, wished to express disapproval of the same law.

In other words, the proceedings by the grand jury were the actual trial ; everyone it accused was punished, and the community rid of the malefactor, one way or another.

Author Bernard O ' Mahoney and the former member of the Richardson gang Frankie Fraser have accused Courtney of embellishing and fabricating his criminal record and position in the underworld ; however, Courtney has denied overstating his past.

Castro is a controversial and highly divisive world figure, being lauded as a champion of anti-imperialism, humanitarianism, socialism and environmentalism by his supporters, but his critics have accused him of being a dictator whose authoritarian administration has overseen multiple human rights abuses both at home and abroad.

Hentzi accused Mendes and Ball of identifying too readily with Jane and Ricky, saying the latter was their " fantasy figure "— a teenaged boy who's an absurdly wealthy artist able to " finance own projects ".

He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in the renowned newspaper headline J ' Accuse.

The figure of Faust appears to have been based on an actual alchemist, Johann Georg Faust, who was accused in his lifetime of practicing magic.

Most recently, there have been allegations of criminality against former senior Official IRA figure Sean Garland, who was accused in 2005 by the United States of helping to produce and circulate counterfeit US dollars allegedly printed in North Korea.

Still, he has been widely ( if unjustly ) viewed as a cartoonish figure in Luso-Brazilian history, being accused of laziness, lack of political acumen and constant indecision, and often portrayed as physically grotesque.

The necklace, still not completed nor paid for when Louis XV died, would eventually trigger a scandal involving Jeanne de la Motte-Valois, in which Queen Marie Antoinette would be wrongly accused of bribing the Cardinal de Rohan, Archbishop of Strasbourg in the Alsace, to purchase it for her, accusations which would figure prominently in the onset of the French Revolution.

It would be absurd for an officer to tell the accused that ‘ you know what you stole I'm not telling .’ Or, to simply hand the accused individual a catalog of Neiman Marcus ' entire inventory and say ‘ it's in there somewhere, you figure it out .’”

A controversial figure in her lifetime, for her critics Whitehouse was a highly censorious figure and she has been accused of homophobia.

Although his client range is varied, he is a controversial figure for often representing unpopular clients ( such as those accused or convicted of crimes ) and acting as an agent to people selling " kiss-and-tell " stories to tabloid newspapers.

To some Rodney was a controversial figure, accused of an obsession with prize money and nepotism.

They were led by the popular public figure, incarcerated opposition senator Benigno " Ninoy " Aquino Jr, who Marcos accused as leaning to a left-wing solution.

A minor figure in the Council Communist movement in the Netherlands was Marinus van der Lubbe, who was accused of the Reichstag arson in 1933 and consequently executed by the nazis after a show trial that marked the beginning of the persecution of socialist and communists in Nazi Germany.

He was again appointed as Prime Minister in February 2003 as part of a deal to end the country's 2002-2003 civil war, because he was widely considered to be a neutral figure ; however, many supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo accused him of not taking a strong stance against the rebels, despite their failure to disarm in October 2004, and demanded his resignation.

After the 2002 French presidential election, in which far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen arrived second behind conservative candidate Jacques Chirac, many analysts put the blame of the surprising result on working class, accused of engaging themselves in " protest vote ", that is in support of fringe candidates belonging to the far-left or the far-right, or even to people who present themselves as alien to the political world ( in France, environmentalist René Dumont in 1974, comedian Coluche in 1981 — but he withdrew his candidacy before the elections — environmentalist Pierre Rabhi who unsuccessfully tried to present himself in 2002, as well as TV showman Nicolas Hulot who almost stood for the election for 2007, before putting aside his idea, thus leaving electoral space for José Bové, a figure of the alterglobalization movement who recently decided to present himself as an independent candidate ).

At the trial in 1999 of solicitor Sally Clark, accused of murdering her two sons, Meadow testified that the odds against two such deaths happening naturally was 73, 000, 000: 1, a figure which he obtained by squaring the observed ratio of births to cot-deaths in affluent non-smoking families ( approximately 8, 500: 1 ).

After he dies the main figure of the third section is the great samurai, Minamoto no Yoshitsune ( 源義経 ), a military genius who is falsely accused of treachery by his politically astute elder brother Minamoto no Yoritomo ( 源頼朝 ).

As a final blow to those who accused him of extremism, Vuk in early 1992 called on all citizens of Bosnia to reject nationalism and was the only Serbian political figure to speak about crimes by Serb forces.

An often polemic and controversial figure, hated and feared, Chateaubriand has also been nicknamed “ the Brazilian Citizen Kane ” and accused of unethical behavior, for allegedly blackmailing companies that did not place ads in his media vehicles, and for insulting entrepreneurs with lies ( such as industry owner Count Francesco Matarazzo ).

She remained a figure of controversy and was accused in the press of being the éminence grise behind the throne.

" If ostensibly privileged defendants like us can be baselessly smeared, wrongfully deprived, falsely accused, shamelessly persecuted, innocently convicted and grotesquely punished, it doesn't take much to figure out what happens to the vulnerable, the powerless, the working-class people whose savings have been eaten up trying to defend themselves.

As a public figure, Singh has been accused of favoring the ruling Congress party, especially during the reign of Indira Gandhi.