In his closing argument, Leibowitz called the prosecution's case " a contemptible frame-up by two bums ".

On 24 August 2007, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the prosecution's argument, enabling Bryant's trial to continue.

Stewart designed the prosecution's argument to preserve political control over the schools exclusively within the state legislature, thereby keeping the trial to the narrow, legal matter and forestalling attempts by the defense to introduce scientific testimony to show there was not a conflict between evolution and the story of divine creation set forth in Genesis.

In upholding the prosecution's argument on the legal principle of transferred intent, the Supreme Court stated that the, "... explanation of Ohio law was perfectly clear and unambiguous.

The Demon trial ended with a guilty verdict, the prosecution's argument to the jury being based on the claim that " comics are for children " and that the item was therefore designed to appeal to children, and the fact that the store was across the street from an elementary school.

In this way, the lawyer attacks several premises of the prosecution's argument at once.

The court denied the prosecution's request, and ruled that the term was appropriately " descriptive.

Although the remarks were stricken from the record, they still discredited the prosecution's case and Smith was acquitted.

The prosecution's witnesses testified that Tom McLaury was unarmed, that Billy Clanton had his hands in the air, and that neither of the McLaurys were troublemakers.

It was the military prosecution's contention that Calley, in defiance of the rules of engagement, ordered his men to deliberately murder unarmed Vietnamese civilians despite the fact that his men were not under enemy fire at all.

The issue of the insanity defense was more thoroughly explored in the novel, and a key scene in which Biegler destroys the credibility and professionalism of the prosecution's psychiatric expert for proffering an opinion without examining the subject is watered down in the film almost to insignificance.

Since he was a witness, not a defendant, the questioning was not intended to prove Rundstedt's guilt: it was designed to bolster the prosecution's case that the high command had functioned as an organisation and that it was collectively responsible for the German invasions of various countries between 1939 and 1941 and also for the war crimes committed during those invasions.

A notable contemporary example of this tactic was the claim by the defense in the Roger Clemens perjury trial to have the charges against Clemens dismissed due to " prosecutorial misconduct ", i. e. that the prosecution intentionally introduced video evidence which Judge Reggie Walton had ruled inadmissible, for the purposes of getting, in the words of the defense, " a second bite at the apple ", due to the prosecution's alleged poor performance.

Kantor was discharged at the end of the prosecution's case.

Two appeals were unsuccessful, but after discredited forensics evidence was excluded from the prosecution's case, George's third appeal succeeded in November 2007.

It was the prosecution's position that Keating was liable as a matter of strict liability.

Although Fenning was executed, Hone's 240 page book on the subject, The Important Results of an Elaborate Investigation into the Mysterious Case of Eliza Fenning — a landmark in investigative journalism – demolished the prosecution's case.

The jury in 2006 completely disagreed with the prosecution's assertions and her earlier conviction from 2002 was overturned.

This evidence had been known to the prosecution's pathologist, Alan Williams, since February 1998, but was not shared with other medical witnesses, police or lawyers.

The lawyer uses the time to manipulate those financially interested in the trial to have their private detective recant his testimony, which was the final remaining weapon in the prosecution's arsenal.

The district attorney asked that bail be set at $ 5, 000, but the judge released both men on $ 1, 500 bond, indicating he thought the prosecution's case was weak.

The prosecution's case was further undermined after it had spent a great deal of effort to link the 13 wounds which Professor Sikorsky had discovered on a part of the murdered boy's body with the importance of the number thirteen in " Jewish ritual ," only to have it revealed later that there were actually 14 wounds on that part of the body.

This document – the prosecution's most valuable document – was in the hands of the defence, a situation that led the Home Secretary, Gwilym Lloyd-George, to reprimand Manningham-Buller, stating that such documents should not even be shown to " Parliament or to individual Members ".

The New York Journal American carried the banner front-page headline that she was " astounded " by the guilty verdict due to what she argued were manifest shortcomings in the prosecution's case.

The show's almost exclusive focus was on the criminal trial of the accused, showing both the prosecution's and defense's preparation for trial, as well as the trial itself.

Two were acquitted on the direction of the judge after he ruled that the prosecution's key witness, a 14-year-old girl, was unreliable ; the jury found the other two not guilty.

In response to this decision, Darrow made a sarcastic comment to Judge Raulston ( as he often did throughout the trial ) on how he had been agreeable only on the prosecution's suggestions, for which he apologized the next day, keeping himself from being found in contempt of court.

Calling the prosecution's case " fiction ", Sonenberg suggested that Levy had been murdered elsewhere, with her dead body being dumped in the park.

After the defense had established doubts about the prosecution's case, Judge Spicer released Holliday and Wyatt from jail to rejoin their families in time for Thanksgiving.

This result flowed from Orchard's having turned state's evidence and having become the prosecution's star witness against Big Bill Haywood and two other leaders of the Western Federation of Miners whom the prosecution alleged had masterminded Steunenberg's assassination.

His defence had looked strong as eye witnesses refused to testify due to fear of reprisals, when Alison retracted her testimony and became the prosecution's main witness ; this not only removed Bronson's alibi but also gave the prosecution all the evidence needed to win the case.

Rivera, the prosecution's star witness, admitted under Tijerina's cross-examination that he neither knew federal civil rights laws, nor had he been trained in how to protect peoples ' civil rights.

Typically, it overrules constitutional decisions only when their doctrinal underpinnings have eroded, and the majority justices found, in 2000, both that it had intended Miranda as an interpretation of the Constitution, and that " If anything, our subsequent cases have reduced the impact of the Miranda rule on legitimate law enforcement while reaffirming the decision's core ruling that unwarned statements may not be used as evidence in the prosecution's case in chief.

During testimony before the jury, the prosecution's star witness told Smaltz in front of the jury: " God knows, if I had $ 30 million, I could find dirt on you, sir.

On 11 February 2009, after 71 witnesses had already been heard and with the expected conclusion of the prosecution's case just seven hours away, the presiding judges suspended Šešelj's trial indefinitely at the prosecutors ' request.

The defence then introduced medical evidence claiming that she had been suffering from a partial complex seizure ( an unusual form of epilepsy ) at the time of the killings, while the prosecution's medical evidence maintained that she was suffering from only mild migraine on that day.

The prosecution's expert testimony for forensic evidence included that of James Cameron, a scientist who had also given crucial evidence in a case in England which was later overturned when his expert evidence was proved wrong.

It became a central plank of the prosecution's case that the father had made no such call, and that the only reason Bamber would have lied about it — indeed, the only way he could have known about the shootings — was that he was the killer himself.

The prosecution's case was that Bamber had killed his family to inherit their estate, which included £ 436, 000, the farmhouse where the murders took place, of land, and a caravan site in Maldon, Essex, called Osea Road Camp Sites Ltd. Because of his conviction, the estate passed instead to his cousins, some of whom were involved in finding the crucial evidence against him — the gun's silencer in the farm's gun cupboard with a fleck of blood on it.

The prosecution's " grooming " theory held that Jackson used alcohol to lower Gavin's inhibitions in order to molest him, and the accuser testified that the first time he was molested, he and Jackson had just come " back from drinking in the arcade.

The prosecution's case was that the teeth marks on Deidre's body were made by Carroll, that he had a propensity for biting small children on the legs and that his alibi was false.

One of Gheorghe Tătărescu's last appearances in public was his stand as one of the prosecution's witnesses in the 1954 trial of Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu, when he claimed that the defendant had been infiltrated into the PCR during the time when he had been premier ( Pătrăşcanu was posthumously cleared of all charges ).

Bembenek filed three unsuccessful appeals of her conviction, citing police errors in handling of key evidence and the fact that one of the prosecution's witnesses, Judy Zess, had recanted her testimony, stating it was made under duress.