Even if they know their client to be guilty, defence lawyers are supposed to pick holes in the prosecution's arguments, and to get their clients off.
He's the first lawmaker to plead guilty or to be convicted in this case.
The report said Blagojevich did not need to be found guilty of a crime for the House to impeach him.
The Illinois committee's report points out that Blagojevich does not need to be found guilty of a crime for the House to impeach him.
If Columbia proves to be as guilty as is alleged, it will hardly be alone in a business that often seems to rival America's defence industry in over-pricing prowess.
Huntley is scheduled to be sentenced May 9 after pleading guilty to mail fraud conspiracy last winter.
However, he said it would be reduced to 18 weeks to reflect the guilty plea.
We all seem to be guilty of that at some point in our careers.
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To do so is to be guilty of using a simple arithmetic calculation that leans on mean reversal theory.
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If lawyers refuse to defend clients whom they suspect to be guilty, then some defendants will appear in court without a lawyer.
Rather than describing a failure of imagination, this fascinating story tells of regulators and prosecutors who appear to be guilty of a failure of inspiration.
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Mr Rideau's lawyers have hinted at a deal in which their client will plead guilty and be sentenced to the amount of time he has already served.
Asked in a recent opinion poll if they believed the ANC leader to be guilty of corruption, most of the South Africans polled, black and white, said yes.
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Or so says the Supreme Court, who in February held that a husband and wife who were Japanese citizens but lawful residents of the U.S. could be deported after pleading guilty to filing a false tax return.
On Friday, former Goldman Sachs wunderkind, Sergey Aleynikov, is to be sentenced to prison after being found guilty last December on charges related to his theft of proprietary computer code used for conducting high frequency trades.
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The cost of any penalties to Goldman, if found guilty, is likely to be in the tens, possibly hundreds, of millions.
Citing a study published in the Spanish Journal of Psychology, Frankel and Frohlinger note that women are more likely to feel guilty because they are socialized to be considerate of the needs and feelings of others.
He has long been convinced that, if the House votes to impeach, there will never be 67 senators willing to find him guilty and so end his presidency.
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In order to get picked up by the rozzers and taken through the court system, to be tried and if found guilty convicted and sentenced you do actually have to do something which is against the law.
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He also joins a long list of Tour riders to be found guilty of doping in recent years.
Mullah is the second defendant to be found guilty by the special tribunal.
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He is the second defendant to be found guilty by the special tribunal.
With his trial in London coming to a close, it is likely that he is going to be found guilty.
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German cyclist Stefan Schumacher, Greek 20km walker Athanasia Tsoumeleka and Croatian 800m runner Vanja Perisic are the other Olympians to be found guilty.
But the two who pleaded guilty appear to be key players in terms of knowledge and information and could prove valuable witnesses, Raybin said.
The suspected would-be letter bomber pleaded not guilty to firearms charges and putting lives at risk when he appeared in court on 11 September.
If he were to be found guilty at a court martial of the two articles against him, West could have faced 11 years in prison, a military prosecutor told CNN.
Roosevelt also set out to prove that the intention of the taxpayer who failed to complete complex returns correctly was malign: Where there was ambiguity, taxpayers ought to be presumed guilty.
Rudy Guede, an Ivory Coast native who was raised by a local family in Perugia, was the first to be found guilty of the crime in a fast-track trial in 2008.
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The firm faces more accusations and legal challenges in Australia and America, and if any of its directors were to be found guilty of a criminal charge, that would present huge regulatory problems.
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