He escaped from a Venezuelan prison in 1985 while awaiting a trial on appeal.
The case was noteworthy for its use of wiretaps that captured incriminating conversations between Rajaratnam and his co-conspirators, and his lawyers attacked the validity of those wiretaps both at trial and on appeal.
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This means arguing at trial, and on appeal, that someone like Zimmerman can be brought to justice notwithstanding Florida's strong self defense law, or that the law should be construed less favorably to those who resort to deadly force.
In light of the prior IRS courtroom losses, Mayo argued that the new regulation was invalid, an argument that was accepted by a lower trial court but reversed on appeal.
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It is always difficult to predict what the Supreme Court will do, and almost everyone agrees this is a close case. (The two federal courts to hear it so far have split, with Clinton winning at the trial level and Jones on appeal.) But there are good reasons to believe that the court may be reluctant to allow Jones' suit to go forward.
Meanwhile, Silvio Berlusconi, who has been dogged by corruption and sexual misconduct allegations for years, insisted he was innocent on Friday at an appeal trial in Milan against a tax fraud conviction in October.
On appeal, Pittas claimed that the trial court had wrongly placed the burden on him to prove that he was unable to support his mother, and also failed to consider alternative sources of payment such as Medicaid and other family members.
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At trial, the court denied a Motion to Suppress but on appeal the Florida Supreme Court reversed, holding that in order to reach the level of probable cause, the State needed to demonstrate the reliability of Aldo through such factors as field-performance records showing how many times the dog had falsely alerted.
Mayer Morganroth, who is representing Kevorkian on appeal but was not his attorney at his last trial, told The Detroit Free Press that he was not surprised by Judge Cooper's ruling and that he would appeal to the Michigan Court of Appeals.
If you have a bad lawyer and you get convicted, you can always argue on appeal that your lawyer was ineffective and get a new trial.
The primary question in the trial court was how to value the partnership for buyout purposes, but on appeal the court pointed out that this was the wrong question.
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Taylor's lawyers have filed more than 40 grounds of appeal, arguing that the trial chamber's findings were based on "uncorroborated hearsay evidence".
Much of the appeal rests on criticism of the way Lord Hardie conducted the trial and remarks he made to the jury during its closing stages.
Whether the 25-year-old Knox, who spent four years in prison during the investigation, trial and first appeal, ever returns to Italy to serve more prison time depends on a string of unknowns.
Khan's original conviction for murder was quashed on appeal, but he was convicted of culpable homicide in 2011 following a re-trial.
The second trial resulted in a conviction and a 240-year prison sentence, but was overturned on a technicality on appeal.
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon called on Somalia to ensure that the journalist and the woman get a fair trial, including the right of appeal.
In November 2012 Abu Qatada was released from prison once more after a UK court backed his appeal on the grounds that witness evidence obtained by torture could be used against him at trial in Jordan.
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Norris' lawyer said the appeal will be based on the grounds that about two thirds of the way through the trial what had been a scientific case about forensic evidence became a case about a surveillance video of the men.
Despite his clashes with Italian justice over corruption charges, and the fact that he is still on trial for allegedly paying an underage prostitute for sex, Mr Berlusconi is using his considerable political skills to appeal to an electorate which has seen a draconian increase in taxes by the technocrat administration led by Mario Monti during 2012, our correspondent says.
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