Once again, Domitian acquitted himself of this task dutifully, and with care.

In 2009 a federal court of appeals in San Francisco found that Ashcroft could be sued and held personally responsible for the wrongful detention of material witness Abdullah al-Kidd – an American citizen arrested in March 2003 and held for 13 months in maximum security to be used as a witness in the trial of Sami Omar Al-Hussayen ( who himself was acquitted of all charges of supporting terrorism ).

In January 1909, the Supreme Court refused to hear the case, and in a new trial before another judge ( Landis recused himself ), Standard Oil was acquitted.

Though Col. Lambert subsequently acquitted himself to Henry Vane the Younger and Edmond Ludlow and the " Committee on Safety " an instrument of the Wallingford House party acting under their miss-direction.

In the capacity of papal legate he was sent to France in 1480, where he remained four years, and acquitted himself with such ability that he soon acquired a paramount influence in the College of Cardinals, an influence which increased rather than diminished during the pontificate of Pope Innocent VIII.

He was Consul in 48, and assumed Proconsul of Africa in either 60 or 61, in which capacity he is said to have acquitted himself with credit.

Ramush Haradinaj, a former KLA commander, served briefly as Prime Minister of Kosovo before he turned himself in to the ICTY at The Hague to stand trial on war crimes charges, and was later acquitted.

Despite this, the German princes thought that he had acquitted himself well.

Payne acquitted himself on the tour, but many fans refused to support an Asia lineup without Wetton.

During his Freikorps period, he was on intimate terms with the people such as Horst von Pflugk-Harttung who were accused of political assassinations of leaders of the left, and was even accused himself, although later acquitted, of being involved in the assassinations and other crimes ( such as his alleged involvement in Rosa Luxembourg's " trial ").

Thompson was eventually captured and put on trial, but was acquitted in the shooting, as Sheriff Whitney himself, a friend to both Thompson's, stated prior to his death it was an accident.

He acquitted himself in this difficult task without violence and managed to rapidly appease opponents of the July Monarchy.

' This view was not shared by the jury, which, after three days ’ hearing, acquitted Lilburne — who had defended himself as skilfully as any lawyer could have done — to the great horror of the Judges and the chagrin of the majority of the Council of State.

Transferred to the army on the Moselle, Kellermann was accused by General Custine of neglecting to support his operations on the Rhine ; but he was acquitted at the bar of the National Convention in Paris, and placed at the head of the army of the Alps and of Italy, in which position he showed himself a careful commander and excellent administrator.

He had previously been called on to clear himself from charges of heterodoxy brought against him in the Quarterly Review ( 1851 ) and had been acquitted by a committee of inquiry.

He was given leave to rejoin his garrison with a reward of a hundred francs by the earl of Buckingham, who stated that he had acquitted himself much to his satisfaction.

He acquitted himself with credit ; but, tired of the small parts he found himself condemned to play, returned again to his sculptor's studio in 1846.

) At the same time, Garrison indicted Judge Bernard Cocke with criminal malfeasance and, in two trials prosecuted by Garrison himself, Cocke was acquitted.

In 1774, Hamilton commanded the 21st Regiment of Foot in the American War of Independence ; General John Burgoyne said that he " was the whole time engaged and acquitted himself with great honor, activity, and good conduct.

Traficant was acquitted of the charges, becoming the only person ever to win a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO ) case while representing himself.

He was employed by M. de Torcy, minister of foreign affairs, and by the regent and Cardinal Dubois in several secret missions, in which he acquitted himself with great success.

Foch acquitted himself well, covering the withdrawal to Nancy and the Charmes Gap, before launching a counter-attack that prevented the Germans from crossing the Meurthe.

The man was acquitted, and Lord Dalhousie removed Hodson from his civil functions and remanded him to his regiment on account of his lack of judgment and gross negligence.

* In the Principate, high administrative offices tended to be separated from military command ( transferred to imperial legates ), but the various not strictly military functions still had to be acquitted, so there was a mainly civilian ' company ' of clerks, advisors, retainers etcetera, still referred to be such terms as cohors ( amicorum ), amici ( possibly specified by the pivotal personality, e. g. Amici principis around the Emperor ).

He was acquitted, with the jury sympathetic to the wounds that Aeschylus and his brother Cynegeirus suffered at Marathon.

No one shall be liable to be tried or punished again in criminal proceedings under the jurisdiction of the same State for an offence for which he or she has already been finally acquitted or convicted in accordance with the law and penal procedure of that State.

The 72 signatories and 166 parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights recognise this rule, under Article 14 ( 7 ): No one shall be liable to be tried or punished again for an offence for which he has already been finally convicted or acquitted in accordance with the law and penal procedure of each country.

Bringing the charges of the two resolutions to life was accomplished by forming NCTE's Committee on Public Doublespeak, a body which has acquitted itself with notable achievements since its inception.

Patrick was charged for kidnapping, but he was acquitted with the reasoning: :" here parents are, as here, of the reasonable and intelligent belief that they were not physically capable of recapturing their daughter from existing, imminent danger, then the defense of necessity transfers or transposes to the constituted agent, the person who acts upon their belief under such conditions.

In April, the officers were acquitted of all charges, and on 9 May 1831, a banquet was held in their honor, with many illustrious people present, such as Alexandre Dumas.

The impi was to clash with the mobile commando on the open fields of the high veldt in a series of epic confrontations, in which each force both suffered defeat and enjoyed victory, and both sides acquitted themselves well.

The most recent cases of impeachment dealt with Warren Hastings, Governor-General of India between 1773 and 1786 ( impeached in 1788 ; the Lords found him not guilty in 1795 ), and Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, First Lord of the Admiralty, in 1806 ( acquitted ).

* 1999 – Sanjeev Nanda kills three policemen in New Delhi, India with his car, an act for which he was later acquitted, resulting in a sharp drop in public confidence in the Indian legal system.

An infamous case was the 1992 trial in the Rodney King case in California, in which white police officers were acquitted of excessive force in the violent beating of a black man by a jury consisting mostly of whites without any black jurors, with a video tape showing King continuing to try to get up despite the beating.

Contrary to the legal principle of " no double jeopardy ," after the officers were acquitted, the government renamed the crime and tried the officers a second time for the same event and got a conviction from a jury with black jurors.

He is acquitted on all counts when Luthor claims to have been kidnapped by renegade scientists from Cadmus Labs, who replaced him with a violent clone that is allegedly responsible for all the crimes with which Luthor is charged.

The jury acquitted Barger on the RICO charges with a hung jury on the predicate acts: " There was no proof it was part of club policy, and as much as they tried, the government could not come up with any incriminating minutes from any of our meetings mentioning drugs and guns.

Burr was charged with conspiring to levy war against the United States in an attempt to establish a separate confederacy composed of the Western states and territories, but he was acquitted.

The nun, after pointing out her abbess's head covering, is acquitted, and thenceforth finds it easier to meet with her lover.

** Sanjeev Nanda kills three policemen in New Delhi with his car, an act for which he was later acquitted, resulting in a sharp drop in public confidence in the Indian legal system.

Miura Goro is recalled to Japan, and tried along with 55 other men ; all were acquitted for lack of evidence.

* November 30 – The Democratic-Republican-controlled United States Senate begin an impeachment trial against Federalist-partisan Supreme Court of the United States Justice Samuel Chase ( he was charged with political bias but was acquitted by the United States Senate of all charges on March 1, 1805 ).

Kosovo Police established a special investigation team to handle cases related to the 2004 unrest and according to Kosovo Judicial Council by the end of 2006 the 326 charges filed by municipal and district prosecutors for criminal offenses in connection with the unrest had resulted in 200 indictments: convictions in 134 cases, and courts acquitted eight and dismissed 28 ; 30 cases were pending.