So the verdict was `` death at the hands of a person or persons unknown '', and the elite of the city, accepting Delphine's testimony, welcomed her and the doctor back into the fold.

The verdict brought vindication to the dead woman's stepson, Vincent Hengesbach, 54, who was tried for the same crime in December, 1958, and released when the jury failed to reach a verdict.

Walker said he was considering filing a motion for a new trial which would contend that the verdict was against the weight of the evidence and that there were several errors in trial procedure.

The jury, which was locked up in a motel overnight, was canvassed at the request of Walker after the verdict was announced.

One of the eight defendants was freed on a directed verdict of acquittal.

A mistrial was declared in the case against the other seven when the jury was unable to agree on a verdict.

After this, he was especially known for acting as a mediator between conflicting parties ( In Cologne he is not only known for being the founder of Germany's oldest university there, but also for " the big verdict " ( der Große Schied ) of 1258, which brought an end to the conflict between the citizens of Cologne and the archbishop.

There was however a mechanism for prosecuting the witnesses of a successful prosecutor, which it appears could lead to the undoing of the earlier verdict.

Infamia and the censorial verdict was not a judicium or res judicata, for its effects were not lasting, but might be removed by the following censors, or by a lex ( roughly " law ").

For an appeal from an acquittal to be successful, the Supreme Court of Canada requires that the Crown show that an error in law was made during the trial and that the error contributed to the verdict.

Although the verdict was automatically trebled pursuant to antitrust law in the United States, the resulting $ 3 judgment was regarded as a victory for the NFL.

This was the largest civil verdict ever against a Hollywood studio.

However the jury was unable to reach a verdict.

A jury was unable to reach a verdict.

Michigan ( 1975 ) was the first state to create a GBMI verdict, after two prisoners released after being found NGRI committed violent crimes within a year of release, one raping two women and the other killing his wife.

As for Wolfenstein 3D, due to its use of Nazi symbols such as the Swastika and the anthem of the Nazi Party, Horst-Wessel-Lied, as theme music, the PC version of the game was withdrawn from circulation in Germany in 1994, following a verdict by the Amtsgericht München on January 25, 1994.

Similarly, the Atari Jaguar version was confiscated following a verdict by the Amtsgericht Berlin Tiergarten on December 7, 1994.

Hornblower was soon brought to trial and the verdict of the four judges ( in 1799 ) was decisively in favour of Watt.

An inquest concluded that the act had been committed while insane, avoiding the harsh strictures of a felo de se verdict.

Before there was any general form of criminal appeal, a royal judge might grant a pardon either by way of clemency, because he felt the law was harsh ( for example, in the case of child convicts ) or the verdict dubious, to seek popular approval, or otherwise in the public interest.

This work marked a partial reconsideration of his earlier harsh verdict on the German people.

He was particularly harsh on some of the defendants, sending the jury deliberating in the case of Rebecca Nurse back to reconsider its not guilty verdict ; after doing so, she was convicted.

For instance, Martin L Friedland, in his book My Life in Crime and Other Academic Adventures, contends that the rule should be changed so that a retrial is granted only when the error is shown to be responsible for the verdict, not just one of many factors.

Allegations of financial inconsistencies in the tendering process ( which eventually saw longtime Kennett supporters Ron Walker and Lloyd Williams successful ) were to dog the Kennett government for many years, despite the verdict of an enquiry which found no wrongdoing on its behalf.

However, the verdict of many was that the ' Kennett Revolution ' was far from over – indeed it was seemingly set in stone with the opening of the Crown Casino in May 1997.

The first of these events was the Rajiv Gandhi government's use of its large Parliamentary Majority to overturn a Supreme Court verdict granting alimony to an old woman, a verdict that had angered many Muslims ( see the Shah Bano case ).

After trial all the accused were acquitted but many refused to recognise the verdict of the courts.

After trial all the accused were acquitted but many refused to recognise the verdict of the courts.

The jury began deliberating Saturday afternoon and announced it had a verdict at ten the next morning, while many residents of Decatur were in church.

Diallo's death, the change of venue, and the verdict each sparked massive demonstrations against police brutality and racial profiling, resulting in more than 1, 700 arrests over the course of many weeks.

The verdict on both these composer's operas has generally been that, though they contain excellent music, they have too many dramatic weaknesses to be acclaimed as great stage works.

Issues of different national customs can arise – while the U. S. and host countries generally agree on what constitutes a crime, many U. S. observers feel that host country justice systems grant a much weaker set of protections to the accused than the U. S. and that the host country's courts can be subject to popular pressure to deliver a guilty verdict ; furthermore, that American servicemembers ordered to a foreign posting should not be forced to give up the rights they are afforded under the Bill of Rights.

However, all of MacDonald's claims regarding suppressed evidence have been rejected by the courts, citing evidence that many of the items had indeed been available to the defense and, even if they had not, the items did not establish his innocence and would not have changed the verdict of the jury.

In criminal law jury trials, many jurisdictions require a guilty verdict by a jury to be unanimous.

These instructions were quite lengthy, and were, in substance, that in a large proportion of cases absolute certainty could not be expected ; that, although the verdict must be the verdict of each individual juror, and not a mere acquiescence in the conclusion of his fellows, yet they should examine the question submitted with candor, and with a proper regard and deference to the opinions of each other ; that it was their duty to decide the case if they could conscientiously do so ; that they should listen, with a disposition to be convinced, to each other's arguments ; that, if much the larger number were for conviction, a dissenting juror should consider whether his doubt was a reasonable one which made no impression upon the minds of so many men, equally honest, equally intelligent with himself.

Mob authors and journalists Anthony D. DeStefano and Selwyn Raab both consider the turning of so many made men as a factor in disillusioning Massino with Cosa Nostra, the former also assuming Massino had decided to flip " long before the verdict ".

It is a phrase used in many common law criminal prosecution contexts to describe a prosecutor's decision to voluntarily discontinue criminal charges either before trial or before a verdict is rendered.

Iman's father, Samir al-Hams, responded to the verdict by saying that from the outset there was no intention to hold the officer accountable :" They did not charge him with Iman's murder, only with small offences, and now they say he is innocent of those even though he shot my daughter so many times ...

To earn as much money as he could from being the Champion, Welsh fought in as many ten round ' no verdict ' matches as he could.

On January 23, 2008, the appeals court of The Hague overthrew the verdict, and acquitted many of the suspects, stating that they found no evidence for the existence of the Hofstad network: Verdict.

The project remained to be analyzed by the Chamber's Judicial Committee over the following seven months, and many of its provisions were ultimately objected to, while it failed to win a parallel verdict from Prime Minister Mugur Isărescu ; it was outvoted by a new Social Democratic majority in February 2001, following the 2000 elections.

The verdict concerns not only deductive justifications as many of his critics believe, but also inductive, causal, transcendental, and all otherwise structured justifications.

Due to the seriousness of the punishment, many committed seppuku to pre-empt the verdict.

This dynamic mode of play, which is characteristic of the modern game, has seen this line being played by many strong grandmasters, though the theoretical verdict is unclear.