Mr. Karadzic had asked to be acquitted of all charges.
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He's still highly likely to be acquitted in the Senate.
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Balili may yet be acquitted, or receive a reduced term.
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The Republican party is unified and President Trump will be acquitted.
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Were she to be acquitted, the junta's authority would be undermined.
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It said Gul should be acquitted due to lack of evidence.
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Civil rights activists have vowed to protest should Slager be acquitted.
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Trump is expected to be acquitted by the majority-Republican Senate.
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The President will, according to Democrats and Republicans alike, be acquitted.
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Trump is expected to be acquitted in the Republican-controlled Senate.
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"We want the President to be acquitted as quickly as possible."
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If impeachment proceedings go forward, Trump will almost certainly be acquitted.
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On Thursday, Henein recommended her client be acquitted on all counts.
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Trump is expected to be acquitted in the GOP-controlled upper chamber.
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Tom Breen, Walsh's lawyer, told reporters that his client would be acquitted.
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Jeffrey Richard, the only officer to be acquitted, remains a correction officer.
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It potentially puts Trump on track to be acquitted before his Feb.
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He defied congressional subpoenas but likely will be acquitted of obstructing Congress.
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Manafort claims he is innocent and is confident he will be acquitted.
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Up until that day, he thought he was going to be acquitted.
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Trump was expected to be acquitted by the Republican-controlled Senate on Wednesday.
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The president needed 34 votes in favor of "not guilty" to be acquitted.
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Trump is expected to be acquitted, since 67 votes are needed to convict.
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"She thinks he should be acquitted," a source close to Taylor tells PEOPLE.
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J. Simpson could be acquitted of murder, then Trump deserves a white judge.
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The latest ruling orders that the volunteers be acquitted and their sentences vacated.
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Tomorrow, he'll almost certainly be acquitted by the Senate, ending the impeachment trial.
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President Trump — if ever tried in the Senate — will most likely be acquitted.
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"He will not be acquitted," she told reporters at her weekly news conference.
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The prosecutors appealed and he stood trial again, only to be acquitted once more.
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There's a moment of real heartbreak when it looks like they will be acquitted.
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He is expected to be acquitted on Wednesday after a trial in the Senate.
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J. Simpson will not be tried again, and if he is, he'll be acquitted.
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In that case, Cosby would not be found guilty, nor would he be acquitted.
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Dalik, 41, has rejected the charges and his attorney said he should be acquitted.
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At the end of this process Trump will probably be acquitted by the Senate.
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Do you think the president will be acquitted or convicted and removed from office?
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McConnell has said it is preordained that Trump will be acquitted in the Senate.
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He&aposs going to be acquitted on a party-line vote in the Senate.
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So long as Republican senators hold their ranks, Mr Trump will ultimately be acquitted.
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He is expected to be acquitted by the Senate in the impeachment trial on Wednesday.
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He just learned on the fly, and was able to be acquitted by the jury.
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We do, however, believe that Johnny will be acquitted at the conclusion of the case.
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"At the end of it, we expect Officer Isaacs to be acquitted," Mr. Worth said.
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That was Samuel Chase, who went on to be acquitted and remained on the bench.
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On Wednesday, Donald Trump became the third American president to be acquitted of impeachment charges.
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He is all but certain to be acquitted and will run for reelection in November.
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Two low-ranking members of the SPU were tried, only to be acquitted in 2013.
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If Mr. Trump is impeached, he will almost certainly be acquitted by a Republican-led Senate.
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While Trump is certain to be acquitted, some Republicans are still weighing the evidence against him.
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Trump is expected to be acquitted in the 100-seat chamber, where Republicans hold 53 seats.
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To boot, Trump would be acquitted unless 20 Republican senators vote to convict, which appears unlikely.
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And now, he's the first person to be acquitted in a Mueller-related trial as well.
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"It may hang again, it may be acquitted, but we're not going to lose," he added.
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Republicans control the Senate, 53 to 47, and Mr. Trump is widely expected to be acquitted.
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The message is: since Rodney King suffered a miscarriage of justice, poor O.J. deserved to be acquitted.
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Manafort is confident that he will be acquitted and violations of his constitutional rights will be remedied.
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And despite being impeached by the House, it looks like the President will officially be acquitted Wednesday.
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That would allow Trump to be acquitted before his State of the Union address on Feb. 4.
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The idea was that, since Trump badly wanted to be acquitted, delaying the trial would infuriate him.
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The president is widely expected to be acquitted by the GOP-controlled Senate in an impeachment trial.
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Trump will most certainly be acquitted in the Senate, regardless of what impeachment cheerleaders have to say.
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He pressured Ukraine to help his campaign, but will almost certainly be acquitted of abusing his powers.
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But with Republicans holding the majority in the Senate, Trump is expected to be acquitted on Wednesday.
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Sixty-seven votes would be needed to convict Trump, all but guaranteeing he will ultimately be acquitted.
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A vote will be held Wednesday and the president will likely be acquitted in the GOP-controlled Senate.
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Though experts say it's unlikely Manafort will be acquitted, it only takes one juror to hang a jury.
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Yet McConnell already appears to be pronouncing that Trump will be acquitted if impeachment falls to the Senate.
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"He will not be acquitted," Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, told reporters at her weekly news conference.
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Mr. Manafort is confident that he will be acquitted and violations of his constitutional rights will be remedied.
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This would set up a trial in the GOP-controlled Senate, where many expect Trump would be acquitted.
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This would set up a trial in the GOP-controlled Senate, where Trump would almost certainly be acquitted.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Trump will probably be acquitted by the Senate in any impeachment trial.
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Officer Jeronimo Yanez was charged with second-degree manslaughter for the death of Philando Castile, only to be acquitted.
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But at the end of the day the president is going to be acquitted and that's the main thing.
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"You cannot be acquitted if you don't have a trial," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said last Thursday.
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"They remain confident that, if given a fair trial, he will be acquitted of all charges and fully vindicated."
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Kyaw Soe Oo's wife, Chit Su Win, said she had expected the two reporters to be acquitted on Monday.
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Plus, they weren't interested in allowing the President to be acquitted ahead of Tuesday's State of the Union address.
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Clinton would be acquitted by the Senate not long later but did not mention the proceedings in his address.
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Trump and his advisers view the Senate as friendly territory, where it is near certain Trump will be acquitted.
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Bottom line Trump will be acquitted in the early morning hours of Saturday, according to GOP senators and aides.
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They remain confident that, if given a fair trial, he will be acquitted of all charges and fully vindicated.
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He also said he had no plans to be "impartial," and has repeatedly predicted that Trump would be acquitted.
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" The team added "that, if given a fair trial, he will be acquitted of all charges and fully vindicated.
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The state prosecutor in the case had asked for the pair to be acquitted citing a lack of sufficient proof.
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Halavurt said he believed Brunson would ultimately be acquitted, and there was no reason for his continued detention during trial.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Barring a dramatic development, President Donald Trump appears almost certain to be acquitted in his Senate impeachment trial.
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But unlike the last President to be acquitted, don't expect Trump to apologize or express any contrition for his conduct.
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Their comments underscore that Trump is almost certain to be acquitted in the third presidential impeachment trial in U.S. history.
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Markets took Trump's impeachment trial in stride, as he is widely expected to be acquitted in the Republican-controlled Senate.
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That would shift proceedings to the GOP-led Senate, where Republican leaders have said they expect Trump to be acquitted.
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But with 67 votes needed for conviction, Trump is all but guaranteed to be acquitted by the GOP-controlled Senate.
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Trump has maintained he has done nothing wrong and is widely expected to be acquitted by the Republican-controlled Senate.
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Trump is all but certain to be acquitted of both impeachment articles by the Republican majority and remain in office.
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The Senate will now conduct a trial, though Trump is widely expected to be acquitted in the Republican-controlled chamber.
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A trial would be held in the Senate, and Trump is expected to be acquitted by the Republican-controlled chamber.
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Kyle: Trump is fighting impeachment on Twitter, but he's already operating as though he knows he's about to be acquitted.
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John Keker, his lawyer, said in a statement on Friday that Hussain was innocent and would be acquitted at trial.
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The president now faces trial in the Senate, during which he is expected to be acquitted and maintain his post.
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Were Mr Trump to be impeached now by the Democrat-controlled House he would be acquitted in the Republican-controlled Senate.
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Currently, a legal loophole allows culprits to be acquitted due to a provision that lets relatives of the victim forgive them.
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He said he had expected to be acquitted of all charges because his advocacy work benefited Thai society and migrant workers.
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I do have faith in the judicial process and have no doubt that I will be acquitted from any wrong doing.
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With the Senate voting to bar any new witness testimony, the only outstanding question is when President Trump will be acquitted.
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Thereafter, the articles would move to a trial in the GOP-controlled Senate where Trump is widely expected to be acquitted.
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Next comes a trial in the Senate, where Trump is expected to be acquitted given the fact Republicans have a majority.
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Trump will almost certainly be acquitted as Democrats do not have the 220006-vote majority needed under the Constitution to convict him.
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Leadership and vulnerable members knew that impeachment was unpopular, and Clinton would be acquitted and wanted to get things over with fast.
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Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker, cautioned against trying to impeach President Donald Trump, since he is sure to be acquitted in the Senate.
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The judge, William B. Horkins, said Ghomeshi had to be acquitted mainly due to "inconsistencies" in the testimonies of the alleged victims.
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For Trump, who will likely be acquitted, he can run against Democrats in the fall for leading a "witch hunt" against him.
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If the Senate does not agree to witnesses, it could pave the way for Trump to be acquitted before the scheduled Feb.
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The only difference is that the defendant in the Senate case — the president of the United States — will most likely be acquitted.
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When they laid out their written case for why Trump should be acquitted, the president's lawyers mentioned Schiff's name almost 100 times.
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"We believe without question that the president will be acquitted," Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow told reporters at the end of Wednesday's session.
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The president is widely expected to be acquitted by the Republican majority, with some senators already calling the outcome a foregone conclusion.
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Jezic believes his client will be acquitted in a jury trial and plans to claim asylum for Sanchez-Milian following the criminal proceedings.
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A jury found Cormier not guilty, the second white man to be acquitted of an Indigenous person's death in Canada in two weeks.
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A final vote on Trump's articles of impeachment is slated for Wednesday in the Senate, and the president is expected to be acquitted.
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The California father charged with torturing his 10 children says he is "not an animal" and he&aposs confident he will be acquitted.
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Almost all of the 6900 cases are listed as pending, and most of the defendants will be acquitted on account of self-defense.
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And some voiced the White House view that Trump should be acquitted before delivering the State of the Union address scheduled for Tuesday.
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The outcome is one that's essentially been expected since the trial started just over two weeks ago: President Donald Trump will be acquitted.
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Anita: We don't know what the actual vote will be to acquit Trump, but we are nearly certain that he will be acquitted.
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Because everybody accepts that the President is almost certain to be acquitted, each smaller battle in the trial takes on extra political importance.
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If they are successful, a trial to determine whether Mr. Trump will be acquitted or removed from office would follow in the Senate.
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If a Senate trial doesn't end up taking place, that means that Trump would never formally be acquitted or convicted of the charges.
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There, he will be acquitted — and then the ultimate result will be in the hands of the American people in next year's election.
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Trump now awaits trial for abuse of power and obstruction of justice in the Senate, after which he is expected to be acquitted.
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We will soon formally move to dismiss the indictment and if this case actually proceeds to trial, we expect Mr Weinstein to be acquitted.
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"I think there's some people that just want to tarnish what I expect will occur, which is the president will be acquitted," said Sen.
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Johnson says he hasn't directly told Kelly about his decision to step down ... and he believes the embattled singer will once again be acquitted.
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"We will soon formally move to dismiss the indictment and if this case actually proceeds to trial, we expect Mr. Weinstein to be acquitted."
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On Monday, Baltimore Police Lieutenant Brian Rice became the third of six indicted officers to be acquitted of all charges related to Gray's death.
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While Hinton knew he was innocent and believed he'd be acquitted, those hopes were almost dashed when he was sentenced to the electric chair.
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They said Carter deserves to be acquitted or have a new trial, as her text messages were protected speech and contradicted by physical evidence.
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He was the latest cop to be acquitted of murder — despite video evidence that captured him saying he would kill Smith before shooting him.
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We look forward to receiving the verdict next week, when we very much hope that they will be acquitted and reunited with their families.
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Gray's lawyer, Adam Sheppard, saying the evidence was inconsistent and that Escamilla's death was a "tragic accident," called for his client to be acquitted.
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The White House will then present its defense of the president, who is all but certain to be acquitted in the GOP-controlled Senate.
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But if the Senate doesn't agree to call any witnesses or subpoena any documents, Trump could be acquitted by the middle of next week.
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If the Senate doesn't agree to call any witnesses or subpoena any documents, Trump could even be acquitted by the middle of next week.
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Sixty-seven votes in the upper chamber would be needed to convict Trump, who is expected to be acquitted in the Republican-controlled Senate.
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Trump is expected to be acquitted in the Senate, where a two-thirds vote is required to convict and remove a president from office.
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The deal, which passed the Senate Friday nights, means Trump will not be acquitted until after his State of the Union address on Tuesday.
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First is what they believe is the inevitable endpoint: If Trump is impeached by the House, he will then be acquitted by the Senate.
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Pelosi and other top Democrats have never thought impeachment would be a winning political message, fully aware that he would be acquitted by the Senate.
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Senators had declared their decisions in the three days leading up to the two crucial votes and Trump was all but certain to be acquitted.
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Mr. Van Drew said he saw no redeeming value in moving forward, particularly with Mr. Trump likely to be acquitted by the Republican-controlled Senate.
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Trump is almost certain to be acquitted in the Senate impeachment trial later Wednesday, and he will seek to use the result to damage Democrats.
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" Prior to this indictment, Maloni has repeatedly maintained that Manafort is innocent and that "he is confident that he will be acquitted of all charges.
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" At the same time, McConnell predicted Trump would be acquitted in the upper chamber: "I will say I'm pretty sure how it's likely to end.
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The president has outwardly expressed confidence that he'd be able to weather impeachment given the likelihood that he'd be acquitted by the Republican-controlled Senate.
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And the next 24 look pretty good too, as he is all-but-certain to be acquitted by the Senate on the articles of impeachment.
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The president is expected to be acquitted in the Senate, where a two-thirds vote is required to convict and remove a president from office.
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You cannot be acquitted if you don't have a trial and you don't have a trial if you don't have witnesses and documentation and that.
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McConnell has angered Democrats by repeatedly predicting Trump will be acquitted and by vowing to closely coordinate with the White House during the Senate proceedings.
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McConnell has boasted that he has closely coordinated the planning of the trial with the White House and has repeatedly predicted Trump would be acquitted.
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"We will soon formally move to dismiss the indictment and if this case actually proceeds to trial, we expect Mr. Weinstein to be acquitted," Brafman continued.
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The culprits of honor killings often walk free because of a legal provision that allows them be acquitted if the victim or her family forgive them.
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The policy shift has been criticized by advocate groups who say it unfairly targets immigrants who might ultimately be acquitted and do not pose a threat.
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"And Cheryl did everything, everything she needed to do to be acquitted: going through the court system, drug tests, hearings, all of it," Dr. Wade says.
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Stone said Sunday on "This Week" that his attorneys view the indictment as "thin as piss on a rock" and predicted that he would be acquitted.
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In the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War, Johnson was impeached in 1868 after firing his secretary of war, only to be acquitted by the Senate.
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Still, the president is eager to be acquitted by a bipartisan vote and to avoid the spectacle of having even one Republican vote to convict him.
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Activists for women's rights had feared he would be acquitted, since his parents had absolved him of blame, a factor Pakistani courts often take into account.
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Trump is almost certain to be acquitted by the Republican-controlled 100-member Senate, where a two-thirds majority is needed to remove him from office.
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And then, because Mr. Trump's hold over Senate Republicans seems almost cultlike, he is all but certain to be acquitted at the trial early next year.
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It would take 67 votes in the Senate to remove Trump, so with Republicans holding 53 seats, the President is a virtually lock to be acquitted.
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The only two presidents ever impeached, Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton, were each put on trial by opposition Republicans only to be acquitted in the Senate.
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If Trump has to be acquitted, it would much better come at the hands of a group of people as corrupted and partisan as the Senate Republicans.
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Democrats had to impeach Trump Even as it was always pretty clear Trump would be acquitted, it should be equally obvious that Democrats had to impeach him.
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McConnell has said he expects Trump to be acquitted, telling Fox News this week that he believes there is "zero chance" the president is removed from office.
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Fifty-two percent of Americans in the Gallup poll said they thought Trump should be acquitted, versus 46 percent who wanted him convicted and removed from office.
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The wife of jailed separatist leader Raul Romeva said she was hopeful he would be acquitted and called for an amnesty if the verdict goes against him.
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For one, there was what they saw as the inevitable endpoint: If they did impeach Trump in the House, he'd be acquitted by the GOP-controlled Senate.
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Trump is likely to be acquitted of the charges this week, after GOP senators blocked a motion for new witness testimony and documents in the upper chamber's trial.
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Not all senators were happy about the delay, asserting the trial should be completed as quickly as possible since everyone knows Trump will be acquitted in the end.
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" Freud's analysis: "A complicated defense, but so much the better; if only one of these three lines of defense is recognized as valid, the man must be acquitted.
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If less than 67 senators conclude that asking Ukraine to help take down a political rival is a removable offense, then Trump would be acquitted — and presumably emboldened.
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It will be the third presidential impeachment trial in US history, though Trump is overwhelmingly expected to be acquitted and remain in office, due to Republicans' Senate majority.
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The House voted to charge Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, setting up a trial in the Senate where Trump is expected to be acquitted.
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No matter how the trial proceeds, Trump will be acquitted — and voters on the fence about Trump will consider impeachment to have been a massive waste of time.
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The assumption by many Trump critics is that the greatest risk in an impeachment trial is he is likely to be acquitted and Republican voters will be galvanized.
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Even though Trump is likely to be acquitted, Republicans expect House Democrats to continue investigating Trump, and they worry it could jeopardize the president&aposs re-election prospects.
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During Bill Clinton's impeachment process, for instance, it took two months between the House Judiciary Committee voting on Articles of Impeachment for him to be acquitted in the Senate.
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Defense lawyers, who had called for their client to be acquitted, argued there was no evidence that their client had helped stab the victim and said they would appeal.
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Florence's appeals court upheld that ruling, rejecting a prosecutor's request to extend the term to 27 years and three months and Schettino's lawyers' call for him to be acquitted.
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Brazil's first female president, the 68-year-old economist and former Marxist guerrilla is unlikely to be acquitted in a trial that could last as long as six months.
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Meanwhile, some believe Slager, who faces a murder charge in state court, will be acquitted because, as they see it, police officers -- especially white officers -- are a protected class.
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In the lead up to the verdict, Rwigara told CNN that she hoped she would be acquitted of the "fabricated charges" but that she was prepared for any outcome.
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Someone who qualifies as indigent may be acquitted, only to be convicted of being too poor to pay for the legal services the Constitution requires the state to provide.
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I know everyone in Washington thinks Trump will be acquitted (and I think the conventional wisdom is probably right) but there's no denying what a historic moment it was.
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In short, Trump's plan almost succeeded — and in any case, he will get away with it in the sense that he is sure to be acquitted by the Senate.
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And at the end of it all, the most likely outcome is that Trump will be acquitted and claim a broad exoneration for anything he's ever been accused of.
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And they argue that Trump is on track to be acquitted in the Senate so there is no reason to risk having witnesses that could disrupt that expected path.
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Although phone records showed that Savchenko was not at the mortar position on the day the reporters were killed, her lawyers had little hope that she would be acquitted.
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Read: Over 80 protesters arrested in St. Louis after white cop's acquittal He and his fellow clergy members wanted to be more organized in their response, should Stockley be acquitted.
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The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department this week surrounded the courthouse and police headquarters with barricades in anticipation of protests, should Stockley be acquitted.
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The Senate will listen to arguments for and against the removal of the president, and they'll vote to decide whether he should be acquitted or found guilty of criminal charges.
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Even if such a motion fails, Trump is almost certain to be acquitted by the 100-member chamber, where a two-thirds majority is needed to remove him from office.
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The idea is to allow for other wild cards to get played, like John Bolton, and make Senate Republicans and Mr. Trump, who wants to be acquitted, sweat a little.
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But more than that, Trump wants a trial and if Trump wants a trial, Mitch is going to give him one because Trump wants to be acquitted by the Senate.
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Even if witnesses are called, the president is likely to be acquitted, given that Democrats would need at least 20 Republican senators to join them for him to be removed.
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After the House vote, impeachment goes to a trial in the Republican-controlled Senate, where the president is all but sure to be acquitted, given the state of partisan affairs.
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McConnell also predicted the whole exercise will all be for naught because Trump will be acquitted by the GOP-led Senate: "We will have a largely partisan outcome," he said.
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The re-enactment and more deliberation led them to their conclusion: that Gallo had acted in self-defense in a moment of temporary insanity, and should be acquitted of all charges.
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"Paul Manafort is innocent of the allegations set out in the newly filed indictments and he is confident that he will be acquitted of all charges," Maloni said in the statement.
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For his part, Stone said on ABC's "This Week" that his attorneys view the charges as "thin as piss on a rock" and predicted that he would be acquitted in trial.
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THE HAGUE (Reuters) - International Criminal Court judges will rule on Tuesday on former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo's request to be acquitted and released after more than seven years in custody.
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In 2005, Mr. Bush expressed confidence that Representative Tom DeLay of Texas, the former Republican majority leader, would be acquitted, weeks before his trial on money laundering charges was to open.
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Democrats' arguments have not seemed to move any GOP senators to vote to remove Trump, and the White House expects the president to be acquitted at the conclusion of the trial.
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It's also the argument put forward on Monday by Ken Starr, the former independent counsel in the Clinton impeachment and now one of the lawyers arguing that Trump should be acquitted.
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Trump is expected to be acquitted in the GOP-controlled chamber, with Democrats needing 20 Republican senators to flip to their side to successfully push Trump out of the Oval Office. Sen.
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Mr. Manafort has given no indication that he wants to help the government or has information that would do so; his friends say he believes he is innocent and will be acquitted.
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McConnell also unnerved Democrats after he went on Fox New's "Hannity" to declare Trump will be acquitted and that there's no daylight between the White House and Senate GOP on trial strategy.
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After six years at Manila City Jail, Mr. Mendiola's lawyer recently told him that his time would be ending in a few months and that he would be acquitted of his crime.
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And on the eve of his State of the Union address and two days before he's set to be acquitted in his impeachment trial, things cannot have worked out better for the President.
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"Paul Manafort is innocent of the allegations set out in the newly filed indictments and he is confident that he will be acquitted of all charges," said Jason Maloni, a spokesman for Manafort.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that House Democrats' impeachment process against President Trump is "far-fetched" and predicted that the president will be acquitted by the Republican-controlled Senate, the AP reports.
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President Donald Trump is expected to deliver the annual State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday, the night before he is expected to be acquitted by the Senate in his impeachment trial.
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The speech came in the thick of the president's 2020 reelection campaign, and one day before he is expected to be acquitted by the Senate on impeachment charges brought by the Democratic-led House .
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And if this one is anything like the last one, Trump will be impeached, then be acquitted in the Senate, and then in 20 years, his wife will lose an election to some idiot.
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As the proceedings wrapped up, for instance, he wrote on Facebook that if he were to be acquitted, he would be able to have sex with a female journalist he often posted about online.
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"Paul Manafort is innocent of the allegations set out in the newly filed indictments, and he is confident that he will be acquitted of all charges," the spokesman, Jason Maloni, said in a statement.
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While they are sure that Trump will be acquitted by the GOP-led Senate they want to make the case that the President has been wrongly accused and that the charges are a sham.
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But it&aposs virtually guaranteed that, like the other two presidents who were impeached before him, Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton, Trump will go on to be acquitted in a trial in the Senate.
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He's about to be acquitted in his impeachment trial, and it's not clear that this trial has damaged his approval rating at all — in fact, one poll has him at an all-time high.
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Kizer's lawyers are trying to defend her using an "affirmative defense," a legal term which in this case means that people who commit crimes as a "direct result" of being trafficked can be acquitted.
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But at the end of the day, he'll be acquitted in the Senate, possibly without a single Republican voting in favor of conviction, and maybe even with a Democrat or two voting for acquittal.
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While the impact of impeachment is uncertain — particularly as Trump is expected to be acquitted by the Senate — the GOP&aposs efforts to fill the courts with conservatives judges will cement Trump&aposs legacy.
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It suggests that both Collins and Murkowski — who are considered to be the swing votes on the question of whether Trump should be acquitted or convicted — believe that Trump's decision to deputize Giuliani was improper.
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The Senate is expected to take a final vote on acquittal or conviction on Wednesday and the President is all but guaranteed to be acquitted with votes from the Republican majority in the upper chamber.
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Schiff is also speaking to the American people on the assumption that Trump will be acquitted and Democrats will want to run in November by charging a supine Republican Party of saving a corrupt President.
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Based on video of the conference, Nancy Pelosi did say "he will not be acquitted" in reference to President Trump, video of the conference shows her answer is far from a "huge" or "massive" meltdown.
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What's next: Mr. Trump will most likely be acquitted of the two impeachment charges approved Wednesday — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress — when he goes on trial in the Republican-controlled Senate next year.
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The likely decision to exclude House members, which may disappoint conservative hardliners, signals the White House and top Republicans want orderly and serious proceedings in the Senate, where the president is expected to be acquitted.
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"You cannot be acquitted if you don't have a trial, and you don't have a trial if you don't have witnesses and documentation," Pelosi said on Thursday, already excavating a seam of post-impeachment politics.
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The market also shrugged off the impeachment of President Donald Trump this past week, on the assumption he will be acquitted of charges, and there will be no negative impacts affecting fiscal or monetary policy.
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When speaking on Sunday about the possibility that Trump would be acquitted in the Senate impeachment trial if it comes to it, Schiff said that the potential outcome would not spell a "failure" for Democrats.
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The defense team has been coy about what exactly it will say on the Senate floor, but it is expected to argue Trump should be acquitted because House Democrats have not alleged he committed any crimes.
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He was seen walking with a man who is believed to be his attorney who told CNN affiliate WFOR he advised Brown not to make a statement but that he was innocent and would be acquitted.
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There is no question that the president will be acquitted on Wednesday by the Republican-controlled Senate, giving him the chance to claim vindication in what he views as an attempted political assassination by his enemies.
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For Tyson, this confession reveals the workings of a racial caste system that insured the murderers would be acquitted, and which, even decades later, makes it possible for young black men to be killed with impunity.
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Though the president will almost certainly be impeached for extorting Ukraine to aid his re-election, he is equally certain to be acquitted in the Senate, a tacit confirmation that he is, indeed, above the law.
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Trump has said he favors the House voting quickly so that he can be acquitted by the GOP-controlled Senate, but Republicans have expressed reluctance about staying in Washington during the Christmas holiday to begin proceedings.
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BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - Soccer's five-times World Player of the Year Lionel Messi should be acquitted on tax evasion charges against him, Spain's public prosecutors' office said on Friday as the trial drew to a close.
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Mr. Slager was tried for murder in state court in 2016, but the jury deadlocked, unable to reach a unanimous agreement on whether he should be acquitted, convicted of murder or found guilty of voluntary manslaughter.
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"In view of the fact that I expect to be acquitted and vindicated and that my attorneys … believe that this indictment is thin as piss on a rock, I'm prepared to fight for my life," Stone said.
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But the appeals court concluded there was not enough evidence to show any fraud despite his not telling the truth to either side, taking the rare step of ordering that Mr. Weimert be acquitted of the charges.
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Given that these are arguably some of the most critical states for Democrats to capture in 2020, impeachment will likely become politically problematic as Trump, who will almost surely be acquitted by the Senate, will be emboldened.
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Mike Rounds of South Dakota said McConnell's message Tuesday afternoon -- just one day before the President would be acquitted -- was that a real break from Washington may help to begin repairing the relationships that had been tested.
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At the conclusion of the Senate trial, through which Trump is expected to be acquitted, many of those volunteers will be looped into GOP efforts to retake the House by tying vulnerable Democratic congressional candidates to impeachment.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Democratic push to force Republicans to accept witnesses at President Donald Trump's impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate appeared to be flagging on Wednesday, raising the possibility he could be acquitted as early as Friday.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish prosecutor said on Tuesday a U.S. consulate employee should be acquitted on charges of espionage and trying to overthrow the government, but should face jail on a lesser charge of belonging to a terrorist organization.
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Those gains likely have less to do with impeachment -- although it's worth noting that 52% of all respondents in Gallup think Trump should be acquitted in the Senate trial -- than they do with the continued strength of the economy.
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He previewed his campaign themes in his State of the Union — the first time in history a president delivered a speech to Congress while awaiting the verdict of an impeachment trial in which he will almost certainly be acquitted.
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The Court of Cassation, the high court of appeals, had ruled for the 12 defendants to be acquitted, with the exception of journalist and politician Ahmet Sik, who the court had said should be tried for a different crime.
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Much will depend on whether Senate Republicans tie their votes to acquit to a central argument of Trump's defense team, that he should be acquitted because impeachment articles must allege statutory crimes, which the House-passed articles did not contain.
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President Donald Trump is expected to reveal an expansion of his controversial travel ban on Friday, the same day he could be acquitted in his impeachment trial and just days ahead of the president's annual State of the Union address.
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While his lawyer argued Abdeslam, 28, should be acquitted because of a procedural error, prosecutors had charged him with attempted murder over the Brussels shootout in March 2016, days before his arrest, and called for a jail term of 20 years.
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Mr. Teller also told the group that he believed Mr. Trump would want to see Mr. McConnell bring impeachment to a vote on the Senate floor, where Mr. Trump would be acquitted, rather than move to simply dismiss the charges.
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He was accused of perjury and obstruction of justice in his effort to cover up his affair with Monica Lewinsky — and, due to his high approval rating and continued support among most Democrats, he was widely expected to be acquitted.
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Democrats argued that, because Trump clearly wanted to be acquitted, to get impeachment behind him, withholding the articles gave them some leverage over Republicans and could force concessions from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell about how the trial will work.
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Impeachment -- He's the third President ever to be impeached by the House and he's likely to be acquitted by the Senate on Wednesday, but he didn't bring it up when he was standing in front of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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Trump, who says he did nothing wrong and has dismissed his impeachment as a partisan bid to undo his 2016 election win, is likely to be acquitted in the trial, as no Republicans have voiced support for ousting him from office.
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BARCELONA (Reuters) - The wife of jailed Catalan separatist leader Raul Romeva says she is hopeful he will be acquitted in the trial over the Spanish region's banned independence bid, and called for an amnesty if the verdict goes against him.
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Trump is expected to be acquitted by the Republican-controlled Senate, where a two-thirds vote is required for a conviction, but how that process plays out will have high stakes not just for Trump and senators but Roberts too.
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" The prosecutor also dismissed Brafman's argument during his summation that Shkreli had to be acquitted by jurors if they believed that in his mind he had no intent to defraud investors because he was confident Retrophin would be a success. "Mr.
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BALTIMORE (Reuters) - A Baltimore woman charged with killing six of her children in a 1992 fire should be acquitted because the arson evidence in the case has been discredited, her lawyer said at the start of her retrial on Monday.
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They said in their initial statements after he was brought over here from Mexico that there is a mound of evidence, there were a zillion witnesses, there was no chance for him to be acquitted, basically is what they were suggesting.
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While Democrats are still fighting to call more witnesses -- an argument a small number of Republicans are open to -- it's widely expected by both sides that Trump will be acquitted given that 67 senators would have to vote to convict the president.
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The visible clash between Trump and Pelosi during the speech highlighted heightened tensions -- and a deteriorating relationship -- between the House speaker and the President on the eve of a final vote in the Senate impeachment trial where Trump is expected to be acquitted.
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Republicans believe Trump could be acquitted in the Senate by the time of his February 4 State of the Union address, giving him a major platform to tout the outcome before a nationally televised audience, according to GOP sources involved in the planning.
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And while the actual end-game was never in doubt -- the President was always going to be acquitted -- it's jarring that the more than four months of investigations, inquiry, impeachment and trial will come to a sudden (and rather anti-climactic) end.
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PARIS — The prosecutor in the trial against Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund, raised the chance that she would be acquitted of criminal charges linked to the misuse of public funds, after he called the case "very weak" on Thursday.
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In a week in which the president will very likely be acquitted in his impeachment trial and was able to tout his accomplishments in the State of the Union address, the Democrats' foibles seemed to help place Trump on more solid footing for re-election.
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"He will be acquitted forever beginning today," White House counselor Kellyanne ConwayKellyanne Elizabeth ConwaySenate acquits Trump, ending impeachment saga Gingrich calls on Pelosi to be censured: 'Disgusted' by 'viciously partisan action' Kellyanne Conway denounces Pelosi for ripping up Trump's speech MORE countered on Wednesday.
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In a matter of hours, Donald Trump, the third president in our history to have been impeached, will be acquitted by a Republican Senate after a trial that introduced no witnesses or evidence and examined only a narrow sliver of Trump's alleged abuses of office.
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The moment confirmed what GOP leaders had been projecting all week: The witness vote would fail, and Trump would be acquitted by a Senate that never heard from former national security adviser John Bolton, even as new revelations in a forthcoming book rattled Washington.
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"You should have no doubt that I will be acquitted before the law soon as long as the judicial authorities are based on the rule of law, not the expectations of the government," he said in a speech last week issued from the prison.
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Still, Republicans are eager to frame the debate as Democrats just being too afraid to make their argument to the GOP-controlled Senate, where Trump is expected to be acquitted of charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress in the Ukraine inquiry.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellKrystal Ball rips report saying Obama would intervene to stop Sanders Senate roundtable showcases importance and needs of women entrepreneurs Democrats: The 'Do Quite a Lot' Party MORE (R-Ky.) on Tuesday guaranteed that Trump would be acquitted.
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Democrats are now faced with the challenge of mounting a compelling case to the public that can cut through the political noise and generate even the barest of bipartisan consensus, knowing that the greater likelihood is that Mr. Trump will be acquitted in the Republican-led Senate.
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Jason Stockley, the former Missouri police officer who shot and killed Anthony Lamar Smith in 2011, on Friday became the latest cop to be acquitted of murder in spite of video that captured Stockley saying he would kill Smith before shooting him at close range multiple times.
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Should removal votes fall along party lines in the Senate as expected, the president will not have to worry about the impeachment process proceeding any further: He will always be the third to have been impeached, but he will also become the latest to be acquitted.
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So why would the president pull the trigger on a pardon grant that may not be necessary to contain Manafort – who might, after all, be acquitted at the end of the day – and will undoubtedly cause a giant political uproar against the president when it is invoked?
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But as the arguments have closed, it appears like very few, if any Republican senators, will be willing to vote for the conviction of president Donald Trump under these articles of impeachment, which means coming nowhere near the two thirds vote, the president will be acquitted.
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Anadolu also said the High Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) had suspended a judge and an official handling a case of 29 alleged members of Gulsen's network from various media outlets, less than a week after the judge ruled for 21 of the suspects to be acquitted.
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New South Wales is also studying how consent laws work, in the wake of outrage over the case of Saxon Mullins, who said she was raped in a Sydney alleyway, only to have the man involved be acquitted because even though she didn't consent, he thought she did.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Democratic push for witnesses at Donald Trump's U.S. Senate impeachment trial appeared to flag on Wednesday, raising the possibility the president could be acquitted as early as Friday, as the White House objected to the publication of a book by former national security adviser John Bolton.
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There's little doubt that Trump will eventually be acquitted given the Republican majority in the Senate, but some GOP members in the House and Senate have made the case to the White House that giving Jordan or Meadows a prominent speaking role would be problematic for convincing Sens.
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"I think what was important for us to do was to ground the end of the film in the final Italian legal conclusion, which was the Italian Court of Cassation — their version of the Supreme Court — ruled in 2015 that they were to be acquitted of the charge," Blackhurst explains.
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A defense lawyer told the jury on Thursday that the men should be acquitted because a federal sting operation was so flawed that prosecutors had to take the rare step of notifying their star witness that they were tearing up his cooperation deal because of his lies, The A.P. reported.
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A lawyer for Sheldon Silver cited a unanimous Supreme Court decision that narrowed the definition of what kind of conduct can serve as the basis for a corruption prosecution, as he argued on Thursday that the disgraced former speaker of the State Assembly should be acquitted or granted a new trial.
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" In a Facebook post, he wrote, "I hope that at the end of the process the soldier will be acquitted and it will be clear to everybody that it is the right of every Jew, and especially of a soldier, to protect himself from a terrorist who has come to kill him.
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The defense brief also says that the house managers need to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt, which is true in criminal cases but not in civil cases and not impeachments to my knowledge, and that the articles are written in such a way that the president has to be acquitted.
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It's unlikely that Guzmán will be acquitted of all 17 charges — the US government has examined the case of the Brooklyn prosecutors and found it strong enough that it gave them the right to try Guzmán first (even though, technically, the extradition requests that the Mexican government honored came from cases in California and Mexico).
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But even though Trump is likely to be acquitted in the Senate, officials close to the president told Politico they don&apost expect the flow of new information surrounding the conduct of Trump and allies around the Ukraine issue to end there — and they worry it could jeopardize the president&aposs re-election prospects.
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His reasoning boils down to this: It will prolong a trial that's ending is already known (Trump will be acquitted)Along those lines, every day the trial continues is a day the Senate is essentially shuttered to all other businessSome of the witnesses will create significant executive privilege concerns as it relates to precedentThere won't be just one witness.
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It all but guaranteed that the president will ultimately be acquitted in a GOP-majority Senate trial under the leadership of Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellRepublican group targets Graham in ad calling for fair Senate trial Democratic presidential candidates react to Trump impeachment: 'No one is above the law' Trump attacks Schumer at fiery rally in Michigan MORE (R-Ky.).
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"Even though he may feel that he will be acquitted in the Senate because Republicans will not break ranks, and however much he tries to turn this to his advantage at a later point, the truth is no matter how you slice it, you can't run away from the fact you were one of the few presidents who was impeached," Mr. Ross said.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellFive environmental fights to watch in 6900 U.S. combat deaths in Afghanistan highest in years 2628 forecast: A House switch, a slimmer Senate for GOP — and a bigger win for Trump MORE (R-Ky.) has shrugged off the tactic, saying he's "not anxious to have the trial," while Trump said he is eager to be acquitted by the Senate.
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In recent months, in delivering lectures on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and holding audience discussions, I have asked hundreds of people across Israel a hypothetical question: Assuming that Sergeant Azaria had stuck to his original story and admitted that he knew that the man lying on the ground presented no danger to anyone, but he had nevertheless decided to put a bullet in his head, should he be acquitted or convicted?
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He says he fears a 'sociopathic narcissist' like Trump 'cheating' again, guesses Trump will be acquitted today, and fears that Donald and Melania TrumpMelania TrumpOvernight Defense: Senate votes to acquit Trump | Highlights from State of the Union | Trump defends Soleimani strike | Service member surprises family at speech | Air Force tests ICBM The Hill's 12:30 Report: Buttigieg, Sanders look to carry momentum to New Hampshire The Hill's Morning Report - Icy moments between Trump, Pelosi mark national address MORE will be 'king and queen.
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Paul ManafortPaul John ManafortTrial of ex-Obama White House counsel suddenly postponed Top Mueller probe prosecutor to join Georgetown Law as lecturer DOJ releases notes from official Bruce Ohr's Russia probe interviews MORE is "confident he will be acquitted of all charges," his spokesman said Thursday, after special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerTrump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony Kellyanne Conway: 'I'd like to know' if Mueller read his own report MORE unsealed new charges against the former Trump campaign chairman.
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Senate Republicans along with most of the rest of the political world thought Trump would be acquitted on a straight party-line vote after Collins, who faces a tough reelection race this year in a state carried by Democratic nominee Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonHillicon Valley: FBI chief says foreign disinformation 'never stopped' | DNC says Iowa app won't be used in other states | Shadow CEO feels 'really terrible' about caucus debacle | Trump trade adviser claims Bezos won't meet him Romney shocks GOP with vote to convict FBI director says foreign disinformation campaigns 'never stopped' after 2016 elections MORE in 85033, said she would vote against conviction.
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