The panelists could throw up their hands and acquit Avandia on the basis of reasonable doubt.
If the prosecution fails to prove even one element, a jury is obliged to acquit.
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Peter Rouch QC urged the jury to acquit Bowen on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
Second, such charges seem to me to be unlikely if we acquit the President, or in any event.
At no point did any juror argue that the defense had made a strong enough case to acquit.
The final votes to acquit or convict will be taken in open session.
But the Republican-majority Senate broke with Jefferson and voted to acquit, signalling that the standard must be greater than mere ideology.
Even without a law degree, Pellicano seemed to realize that getting the jury to acquit him of the conspiracy charge was important.
He first voted to dismiss Article III and then later voted to acquit Judge Nixon, because it was redundant, complex and confusing.
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As a result, the court decided it could neither convict nor acquit either the former head of military intelligence or his deputy.
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"There was no way in the world that any jury would acquit all of the defendants again, " Stone, the defense attorney, told CNN.
Moreover, to the electorate it would appear little different from the Democrats' alternative a vote first to acquit, and then a resolution of censure.
Vance recently suffered a setback when a Manhattan jury decided in May to acquit two police officers that he had charged with rape.
Harlequins prop Ceri Jones also boosted his chances by showing he can acquit himself at tight-head prop as well as loose-head at Test level.
These systems may acquit themselves well in warfare in Serbia and Afghanistan, but one day the U.S. will again face a well-equipped and resourceful adversary.
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All of these just because he wanted his cronies to become the government a pass a law to acquit him of all crimes he committed.
Once Mr Taylor completes his case, Mr Richard Keen QC, defending Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, will also insist his client is innocent and urge the judges to acquit.
The court did not acquit Andersen, but sent the case back to the lower court for a retrial, though prosecutors are now likely to let the matter rest.
Attorney Brad Bailey said if jurors believe that Linda Sohus could have killed her husband, John, in 1985, it would provide the reasonable doubt needed to acquit his client.
Thirty-three senators joined Senator Dole in voting to dismiss the article, and a total of 40 voted to acquit when it came to a judgment of guilt or innocence.
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Society would rather acquit criminals than violate due processes.
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The President should know, the American people should know, and history should know that by voting to acquit on impeachment, we did not vote to acquit the President for his egregious conduct.
But Knox and Sollecito's defense teams are arguing the whole trial was based on DNA evidence "on which mistakes were made, " and urged the jury to "abandon imagined fantasies" and acquit the pair.
If a jury reaches the same conclusion about Valle, it should acquit, said Andy Sellars, a staff lawyer for the Digital Medial Law Project at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
You should acquit him on this record.
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Carey seemed to think that at least some of that truth will acquit the company of the more egregious charges against it, such as the thinly-sourced claim that reporters may have hacked the voicemail in-boxes of Sept. 11 victims.
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