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.
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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In order to convict Bucchere of felony vehicular manslaughter which carries a sentence of two to six years prosecutors need to prove gross negligence.
You could use connoisseur testimony to convict someone of witchcraft.
The law, first introduced in colonial times but in the 1980s made punishable by death by the late dictator General Zia ul Haq, is wide open to abuse, with hearsay used to convict dozens of people each year.
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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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.
It requires us to convict the President of Article II of these Articles of Impeachment.
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.
The jury took under three hours to convict Knight, of Torres de Segre, near Barcelona, of the rape and indecent assaults of victims who were aged between 13 and 15, at a newsagents in the 1990s.
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.
In becoming the first modern international tribunal to convict a head of state for international crimes committed while in office, the Special Court sent a clear signal that neither rank nor title will shield from justice those who perpetrate the most egregious of crimes.
Fine Gael has questioned the effectiveness of new laws passed to help convict the bombers and demanded answers to reports the Irish government interfered in police investigations of the bombing for political reasons.
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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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.
If a Senator thought the President lied but did not commit perjury, for example, he or she could vote to affirm the lie in the finding of fact without voting to convict on impeachment.
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.
The securities laws are so wonderfully fluid that a jury can be found to convict anybody on Wall Street of anything.
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.
Their willingness to convict may well have been a product of three factors.
This strikes me as a pretty high threshold given that for a jury to convict there should evidence beyond a shadow of a doubt that the defendant is guilty.
Discharging such people skews the jury pool towards those who are more rule-bound, trusting of authority, and likely to convict.
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