But a jury found him guilty anyway based on witness testimony and circumstantial evidence.
And on Friday, a jury found four Somali nationals guilty of supporting terrorism in their native country.
But a jury found him not guilty, ending a four-year effort by US federal prosecutors to convict him.
Last week a jury found him guilty of Mr Smoderek's murder in September 2011 and he was jailed for 23 years.
American tobacco companies, under siege from anti-tobacco lawsuits, scored an unexpected victory in a Florida court when a jury found R.
It was later found at the back of his van and a jury found the former binman guilty of handling stolen goods.
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Though no physical evidence linked him to the crime, a jury found Ranta guilty in May 1991 based on witness testimony and circumstantial evidence.
In August, a jury found that Amazon infringed only one of the three patents, and that the asserted claims off the infringed patent were invalid.
Rajaratnam reported to a federal prison in Massachusetts last December to begin serving an 11-year sentence after a jury found him guilty of insider trading.
He fled from the dock at the High Court in Glasgow after a jury found him guilty but was soon caught by a court official and police.
GALLATIN, Tenn. (AP) A jury found a 26-year-old Tennessee woman guilty of murder Tuesday in the 2011 smothering deaths of newborn twins found in her laundry basket.
Those loans are remnants of a practice for which LaRouche was convicted of fraud in 1988 when a jury found he had no intention of repaying them.
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Today a jury found that Leung, along with the previously convicted companies and former executives, was guilty of fixing the prices of LCD panels sold in the United States.
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On July 5, 2011, a jury found Anthony not guilty of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and aggravated manslaughter of a child, while convicting her on the four "false information" counts.
In the first Whitewater trial last month, a jury found former Clinton business partners James and Susan McDougal and Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker guilty of most of the charges against them.
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Nevertheless, on Nov. 1, after years of delay and controversy, a jury found Gonzalez, the son of the head of Panama's ruling party, innocent of murder, setting off an explosion of indignation.
He was a trusted adviser to these companies but a jury found that Gupta had leaked confidential information that was discussed at board meetings of Goldman Sachs to his friend, Raj Rajaratnam (see above).
North London woman Saeeda Khan was believed to be the first person convicted under that law when a jury found her guilty of trafficking a Tanzanian woman into the country to work as her domestic slave.
In the case, a jury found that Heather Sue Mercer, a kicker, was discriminated against by the Duke University football team, a program designated as a single-sex contact sport, for her gender when she was kicked off it.
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Last month, a jury found that Vonage's phone system infringes three Verizon (nyse: VZ - news - people ) patents, and a federal judge said he would issue an injunction forcing Vonage to stop using the patented technologies.
But if Mr. Liu believes the board is unlikely to award his campaign any matching funds because of the illegal conduct that a jury found in his campaign, he could decide not to join and then would be free to spend as much as he could raise.
Now to North Carolina, where a jury has found a former CIA contractor guilty of assaulting an Afghan detainee who later died.
Last year, a Washington jury found the seven-time Cy Young Award winner not guilty of lying to Congress about steroids and human growth hormone.
In 1982, a Washington jury found John Hinckley Jr. innocent by reason of insanity in the shootings of President Reagan and three other men.
Federal prosecutors bungled the first trial and now a jury has found Clemens not guilty of lying to Congress in a second trial that tried to make a federal case out of allegations of steroid use in Major League Baseball.
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In February 2008, a Florida jury found Snipes guilty of three misdemeanor charges that he willfully failed to file tax returns for 1999, 2000 and 2001, but acquitted him of nonfiling in three other years and of two far more serious felony charges.
But a jury last month found her guilty of the lesser charge of culpable homicide.
The securities laws are so wonderfully fluid that a jury can be found to convict anybody on Wall Street of anything.
Lipps, who was hearing the case without a jury, also found Mays guilty of disseminating a nude photo of a minor.
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