Lorgat added that if found guilty the trio will be dealt with firmly but fairly and revealed they were more than entitled to appeal any ruling at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
An inquiry in 2008 concluded a nuclear submarine snagging the boat's trawl was the "highly probable cause" of the sinking, but the judges recommended the investigation be wound up, with no guilty party traced.
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If a new permanent international criminal court is set up in the next few years, as many including this newspaper hope, it too will be able to punish the guilty only with prison, not with death.
Not only does Mr Wahid fear a nationalist backlash, but he is also keen to build up Indonesians' confidence that the country's own institutions will be capable of dealing with those found guilty of atrocities.
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There is no proof that McGwire did anything illegal, but he refused to address the issue and testimony before Congress and has vanished from public view afterwards, which led many baseball writers to believe he may well be guilty and baseball writers are the people with votes for the Hall of Fame.
In the Citigroup lawsuit, for example, lawyers needed to show that bank executives acted with scienter, or guilty knowledge, when they loaded the bank up with soon-to-be-worthless derivatives that were a byproduct of their mortgage-backed securities business.
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He would find the courthouse a lonely place to be, everyone, with the exception of Abdulwahab, pleaded guilty and were prepared to testify against the two remaining defendants.
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These cases always start out the same way with proclamations of innocence only to be followed by apologies and guilty pleas.
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Whatever NPR may be guilty of, we are one of the few large news operations in America with a growing audience.
Former EEOC General Counsel Donald Livingston, in testimony in December to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, warned that employers could be considered guilty of "race discrimination if they choose law abiding applicants over applicants with criminal convictions" unless they conduct a comprehensive analysis of the ex-offender's recent life history.
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Kelman feels guilty that he's likely going to be wealthier than the friends he works with.
Nguyen, who is cooperating with authorities and has pled guilty to criminal charges, has yet to be sentenced.
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"The culture needs to be one where there's a presumption of innocence to start with, instead of guilty until proven innocent, " he says.
Unlike criminal forfeiture, where property is taken after its owner has been found guilty in a court of law, with civil forfeiture, owners need not be charged with or convicted of a crime to lose homes, cars, cash or other property.
In 2002, Dr. Colin Bouwer, the Head of Psychological Medicine at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, where I used to be on staff, was found guilty of murdering his wife by secretly and repeatedly injecting her with glucose-lowering drugs, sometimes in the university's own teaching hospital.
Fortunately, with your help, this time around it will be much easier to identify the guilty party.
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This is in keeping with Wahid's earlier statements that any officer found guilty of human-rights abuses would be dismissed.
He pleaded guilty to obstructing justice in 2002 but has yet to be sentenced, because he has been co-operating with the prosecution in the case against Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, top executives at Enron.
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The implication of the power of the deferred prosecution agreement should be clear: if the government decides that a company may be guilty under some vaguely worded statute or other, it can force a company to investigate itself and then dispense with the inconvenience that we call an actual trial.
But if the verdict had been guilty they would either have been replaced with what the prosecutors really did say: or the prosecutors would be persuaded into saying something similar to justify the quotes.
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