Members of the jury took just over 70 minutes to find the Reds' captain not guilty.
If you dig a little deeper, you find that the World Cup-winning captain has overseen a solitary victory away from home in his two years in charge, against Italy in Rome in this year's Six Nations, and England's track record on the road needs addressing before time runs out.
In spite of such horrors, and in spite of such feats as bicycling over 500km in under 72 hours to find a radio operator, Captain Wake was having the time of her life.
This, members of the committee, is the equivalent of a ship's captain leaving on a difficult and uncharted voyage hoping to find his or her compass somewhere along the way.
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Scotland captain Paul Caddis created the opener for Murphy to find the net, but the home defence was ripped open by the pace of Bournemouth's McQuoid.
They had a glorious chance to take the lead in the second half but Arjen Robben, comfortably his team's most potent attacking weapon, could find no way past Spain captain Iker Casillas, who slumped to the floor and cried tears of joy after the final whistle.
Australia's Test captain Steve Waugh said Warne could find it difficult to come back from the ban.
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Hooker Smit's place in the team looks to be assured after new national coach Peter de Villiers named him as captain but that means at least one of the others will not find a place in the Test team.
"You can find some very, very talented individuals that you can get cheaper, " the former Middlesbrough captain said.
He made us believe in Captain Hook and Tinkerbell, and so we can believe that women oppressed by Victorian strictures could find the spirit to escape their gilded birdcages of propriety.
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