The Home Office estimates up to 95% of rapes are never reported and only 6.5% result in a guilty plea or verdict.
Yet few people believe that this (or the verdict in the civil trial) will result in any new criminal charges.
The law firms typically agree to take the cases on a contingency basis that means no fees up front but a huge share (30% or more) of any settlement or jury verdict.
They would like this to happen because, according to them, if he is convicted of this crime, no court or authority could pardon him or overrule the verdict.
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In addition, the Bush team says that to count the ballots would be to grant the remedy before the verdict (or, now, to grant the remedy in the teeth of the verdict).
Often a trial judge or appellate court will reject or reduce a steep verdict.
Court cases there often drag on for four years or more before a verdict.
Simpson verdict, or Michael Jackson kissing Lisa Marie at the MTV awards.
Conviction or not, the verdict is in and Lay is forever the consummate corrupt CEO, and he, as well as his family, paid dearly for his callous actions.
The question in this case is whether the President has the power, on his own, to set up military tribunals to try Hamdan and others on war crimes charges, whether the President may appoint the judges and jurors for the trial, set the procedures, and review the verdict, or whether the other two branches of government, the Congress and the courts, have a role to play.
"I do not wish or intend to force a verdict, " Judge Sherry Stephens told the jurors before sending them back to continue discussions.
Those who want U.S. involvement to end as soon as possible must now wish for events in Iraq to render a clear verdict, pro or con.
An NPE truly prepared to pursue an infringement verdict could win tens or even hundreds of millions.
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What with a lengthy courtroom drama, and the possibility of an appeal, it could well take a year or two to reach a final verdict.
In the case of Peru, the vast majority of the population has already rejected the verdict and many supporters or independents that recognize Fujimori's achievements have gone to the streets to express their frustration with the sentence.
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These are nervous times for Messrs Cameron, Clegg and Miliband as they await the verdict of the voters - or, rather, some of them.
I'm reminded here of Zhou En-lai and his famous verdict on the success, or otherwise, of the French Revolution--that it's too early to tell.
The Uniform Code of Military Justice gives a convening authority the "sole discretion" to reduce or set aside guilty verdicts and sentences, or to reverse a jury's verdict.
Bill Donahue of the Catholic League, an advocacy group devoted to challenging defamation of or discrimination against Catholics, called the verdict a defeat for overzealous prosecutors and victims' advocates, who he said had singled out church leaders unfairly.
"They think it's important that there be accountability, whether it be in the form of a plea bargain or in the form of a trial verdict, " said Paul Mainardi, who added that the Clementi family was consulted before the plea bargain was offered.
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Sending the jury back to their room to further consider the allegation, Mr Justice Sweeney told them there were occasionally trials in which a jury could not agree in sufficient numbers one way or another or found themselves unable to reach a verdict at all.
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For a bank's reputation, the verdict on whether it has failed or not is everything.
There has been no verdict yet in the case, or a date set for another hearing at this time.
It ultimately has the power to choose whether to let her stand as Labour candidate or to de-select her but the verdict of the NEC could prove decisive.
The verdict's still out on whether or not androids dream of electric sheep.
"There's nothing about the trial that was erroneous or that would lead to a reversal of the verdict, " Ponvert said.
However, Irving Anolik, one of Mr. Lopez's attorneys, didn't attempt to have the allegations investigated or ask the trial judge to set aside the verdict, Judge Garaufis wrote in his ruling.
The Constitutional Court agreed or went along with the voters' verdict.
This would require a Treasury verdict on the five tests late next year or early in 2003.
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