Kilpatrick blamed his loss on the racial make-up of the jury and vowed to appeal.

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Mr. Pan and Ms. Hou denied wrongdoing and are exploring an appeal of the jury's verdict, according to their attorneys.

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The county's commissioners agreed this week to drop their appeal of the jury's verdict in return for Slevin accepting the lesser amount.

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The cornerstone of Robinson's appeal is a Michigan State University study of jury selection in North Carolina in 1994, the time during which Robinson was sentenced, that found prosecutors struck blacks from juries at a rate of more than 2-to-1 compared with whites.

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The five-member commission acts as both judge and jury, applies lower standards of evidence and allows no appeal to civilian courts.

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Famously, at the end of it, you made a direct appeal to the jury and you said, can you remember what you said?

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Ms Platt said the "right and proper" outcome would have been for the appeal judges to have sent the case back, with the new evidence to a jury "as the jury are the final arbiters of disputes of this kind and not the Court of Appeal".

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Viacom says that the decision "ignores the opinions of the higher courts and completely disregards the rights of creative artists, " and promises to appeal the decision again with hopes of taking the case to a jury.

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Much of the appeal rests on criticism of the way Lord Hardie conducted the trial and remarks he made to the jury during its closing stages.

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The evidence at the centre of the appeal would have been "but one further facet of bad character in this case of which the jury had a great deal".

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