In addition, although Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder, even if the jury rejects the self-defense claim and believes the killing was homicide, they may choose to convict of a "lesser included offense" such as manslaughter.
The only crime that had no statute of limitations was murder, but, to convict Amy of that, prosecutors would have to prove that she had intentionally killed her brother.
At the High Court in Dundee, a jury took two hours to convict him of murder.
She finished her closing speech by urging jurors to convict him of murder.
Helmsley denied ever saying that, but it stuck with her all her life and helped convict her of federal tax evasion in 1989.
They had enough to send these defendants away for decades for just their executive decisions -- without having to convict them of physically injuring any person.
Eyewitness testimony under oath is enough to convict someone of murder.
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Most of them behaved with appalling callousness to their charges, especially in the cattle trucks used for rail transports and in the convict ships of the Far East.
You could use connoisseur testimony to convict someone of witchcraft.
It seems that Sorkin wants to convict Jobs of lacking the moral character for not using his wealth and prominent position in the world of commerce to set an example for others less wealthy and less powerful than him.
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Though, in one recent case, a court threw out the black box evidence used against a California man to convict him of vehicular manslaughter because the police pulled the data from the black box of his SUV without getting a warrant first.
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Then there is the story of Charlotte Badger, a convict who was one of the first white women to land in New Zealand, in 1806.
The FBI also searched the Worcester home of an ex-convict who has a history of art theft.
"You could just as well convict the chairman of Deutsche Telekom, " which provides the telecommunications access, he said.
The testimony was used to help convict the couple of drug trafficking.
But to actually convict a mother of second-degree vehicular homicide for it?
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Friday morning in Pakistan, the state prosecutor in the case seeking to convict the planners of the 2008 attack on Mumbai was killed by gunmen.
If prosecutors can convince jurors that Skilling and Lay knew Enron was skidding toward collapse, it's a small additional step to convict them both of fraud.
That same year an investigation that raised suspicions about the evidence used to convict Barry George of BBC TV presenter Jill Dando's murder was first broadcast by Panorama.
Judge Burr said Mr Thorley was not on trial for acting inappropriately or inadvisably and a jury properly directed by a judge could not safely convict on eight of the charges.
Ashton, a 30-year veteran who was on the team that failed to convict Casey Anthony of murder in 2011, was sworn in as the area's top prosecutor in January after beating his former boss in a hotly contested election.
And think of the poor set: crouched like a convict inside a dubious piece of furniture.
The hero of the novel, Dean Moriarty, is based on their friend Neal Cassady, an ex-convict and a Casanova of astonishing energy.
Relics of Goat Island's convict origins remain, including a seat carved out of stone by Charles Anderson, an inmate who was sentenced to be tied to a particularly large slab of the island for two years.
The final highly-moving chapter focuses on the ex-convict's memories of the week and the subsequent slings and arrows of his life up to now.
Her most popular is the Shantaram Tour, which follows the footsteps of protagonist Lindsay, an Australian convict who flees to India after breaking out of prison.
But that would make it virtually impossible for abusers to be prosecuted successfully: the police need evidence from several people in each case, as juries are unlikely to convict on the evidence of one victim alone.
These self-styled bohemians argue passionately that the Cross is a state of mind rather than a mere postcode, a place where the louche and laconic charm of this convict-established city has always been evident, and where creativity can flourish.
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals made it more difficult for federal prosecutors to use one of their favorite tools to convict white-collar criminals, or pry more lengthy sentences out of them in plea negotiations: Money laundering.
The convict era left behind a number of landmarks throughout the country for locals and travellers to explore, including the Tasmania Convict Trail, the 11 Australian Convict Sites (now World Heritage Sites) and Ned Kelly tours.
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