acquittal

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• A year later, the acquittal of the Los Angeles police officers who beat Rodney King set off riots in the city, during which many Korean shops were burned and looted.

• Schwartz referenced two cases where Berryment had achieved an acquittal at trial for one client and had a guilty verdict vacated by the state supreme court for another.

• It is also clear having the trial, even with an acquittal, was important.

• Over 13 months from the initial disclosure to the president’s acquittal on impeachment charges, the Dow rose almost 20 percent.

• He became famous in the county court for a streak of acquittals that some say reached into the seventies.

• Skoller relates how lucky he was for a hung jury—the final, deadlocked vote was eleven to one, for acquittal.

• His mother was beaming and seemed to take the acquittal as a vindication.

• One month and three days after the acquittal, Tupac was born.

• However, this same high court threw out the acquittal in the first place, so Knox may need more than luck to walk free.

• Even Bieber's ridiculous statement won't destroy a dismissal or acquittal for faulty probable cause.

• The persecuted minister obtained both a complete acquittal, and a signal revenge.

• The of the Girondists would have given them some little hope that they also might find mercy.