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acquittal in a sentence
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CRIM.R. 29 -- WAIVER -- Failure to renew motion for acquittal at close of evidence results in waiver of error; SENTENCING -- Maximum Sentence; Consecutive Sentences.
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It looked like Randall D. Knight would get away with murder for nearly 16 years. But because of an intense investigation by FBI agents and the Cattaraugus County Cold Case Squad, Knight was sentenced to 24 years in federal prison Wednesday for the July 3, 1994, knife slaying of Andie K. Gasper.
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The common-law rule of consistency prevented a defendant's conviction upon the acquittal of all confederates for a crime requiring multiple parties. Though most federal circuit courts of appeal pronounced the rule dead after a series of Supreme Court decisions ending in United States v. Powell, the Sixth Circuit recently invoked the rule in Getsy v. Mitchell to reverse a death sentence returned against a hired murderer-a decision subsequently reversed on en banc review. This Note highlights the ways in which the common-law rule, as well as variations of the type presented in Getsy, are ill-suited to today's sentencing system-problems that result chiefly from the rule's ability to operate on partially inconsistent verdicts. This Note concludes with a proposal for a "clear-inconsistency r...
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Three cheers for The Washington Times' March 24 "Nobles and Knaves" editorial. The Noble: "The French court that upheld the ideals of free speech over political correctness" in the acquittal of Philippe Val, who was facing a six-month prison sentence and $30,000 in fines for printing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad." The Knave: "The Iraqi insurgents who used children as decoys in a car bombing, murdering them." This is not news to be ignored. The truth must be told. Similarly, Israeli Knesset member Arieh Eldad has reported on another aspect of the insurgency issue: "Three Israeli Arabs were captured by U.S. Army forces fighting with al Qaeda in counterterrorism operations in Baghdad." But Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice make a big mis...
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The state Supreme Court has vacated the conviction of a Cabell County woman who says she shot and killed her sleeping husband after suffering a severe beating, ruling that evidence of abuse and threats against a victim's life may negate elements of the crime of murder. The court ordered the release of Tanya Harden, who was serving a life sentence, and returned the case to Cabell County Circuit Court for acquittal in the 4-1 opinion issued Thursday. Chief Justice Brent Benjamin dissented.
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... authorized to award such punishment; the sentence actually imposed is immaterial. When an accused is... could plead former conviction or former acquittal as a special plea in bar to defeat the prosecution...
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... earlier charges and shortly after her acquittal was sent to the Women's North Carolina Correctionaal Center in Raleigh to serve out the sentence for breaking and entering. While the CWJ members c...
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... jury will not unanimously agree on the sentence, but the court must then enter a life sentence. Wh... whether a first life sentence was an "acquittal" based on findings sufficient to establish legal e...
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...The pre-sentence report ("PSR") calculated Alnutt's criminal histor... and criminal activity resulting in acquittal in determining sentence." United States v. . Sisti...
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... (without pay), under arrest (without acquittal), in desertion, while undergoing sentence of court...
