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I can understand if they wanted to reduce the sentence due to the circumstances, but it should still have been a guilty verdict.

As the case wrapped up last week, Mr. Evans was asked if he thought a not-guilty verdict would remove his neighbors' suspicion.

When asked if he plans to appeal the guilty verdict, Shadrake replied he has to discuss the matter with his lawyer.

Forensic investigators tended to find more evidence supporting a guilty verdict following a confession, even if it was forced or coerced.

And if there were a guilty verdict, it would establish precedents that would make other prosecutions workable.

The difficulty in securing a guilty verdict was in part a result of the police's reliance on confessions for almost all convictions.

Down syndrome support group Vivi Down said in a statement that it was "very satisfied" with the guilty verdict.

They add a guilty verdict is almost certain in a North Korean justice system that protects the unquestioned rule of leader Kim Jong- il .

This follows previous court cases in which Mr Basyir either avoided a guilty verdict altogether or had light sentences reduced.

O. J. Simpson's attorney says he plans on appealing the guilty verdict the former football star received late yesterday.

The jury took barely an hour to return a guilty verdict, and Willingham was sentenced to death.

However, because the law protects a defendant from being tried twice for the same crime, the prosecution cannot appeal a not-guilty verdict.

As for the banking system, the popular jury has issued its guilty verdict long ago.

A guilty verdict for Neil Entwistle on two counts of first-degree murder.

But some analysts have suggested that a guilty verdict is almost certain.

The first trial - of former prison warder Kaing Guek Eav, or Comrade Duch - started in 2009 and reached a guilty verdict in July 2010.

Berlusconi's lawyer on the day of sentencing Gai Dini welcomed the results, and that the court should be equally guilty verdict Pierre;