Example sentences of "[art] accused ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It would appear that the pretrial investigation determined the accused 's fate without as much as affording him a right of effective participation in the process . |
| 32 | One looks at the accused 's state of mind . |
| 33 | ( d ) Whether the unlawful act was a dangerous one is judged not by the accused 's state of mind , but by a sober and reasonable person in the defendant 's position . |
| 34 | Therefore the prosecution should try to provide corroboration for her allegation at the investigation stage , even regarding the accused 's identity ( R v Midwinter ( 1971 ) 55 Cr App R 523 ) . |
| 35 | The Israeli authorities also said that following denials by the accused 's interrogator and a polygraph ( lie detector ) test on ‘ Abd al-Ra'uf Ghabin 's , his allegations were ‘ found to be baseless ’ , and that he actually ‘ retracted most of his allegations ’ . |
| 36 | However in R. v. Samuel ( C.A. 1988 ) , the theft of £300 from a Building Society was considered a serious arrestable offence , both because of the use of a sawn-off shot gun in the raid and also because of the accused 's intention to cause serious financial loss to the Building Society . |
| 37 | But if the cause is reasonably capable of being associated with the promotion of lawful business interests the judge should not allow the case to go to the jury if there is no evidence of the accused 's intention going beyond such lawful business interests … |
| 38 | The problem is this : if the accused 's intention is to rape and he is in the same position as in Brown with the top half of his body in the building , is his entry therein effective for the purposes of the rape form of burglary ? |
| 39 | The accused 's intention had to be considered to determine whether he wished to use it to inflict injury . |
| 40 | The court allowed the accused 's appeal . |
| 41 | In Lambie [ 1982 ] AC 449 and MPC v Charles [ 1977 ] AC 177 , the payee did not care whether the accused 's account was in the red because he was going to be paid anyway in accordance with his contract with the bank or credit card company which provided the cheque card or credit card . |
| 42 | The bank was contractually obliged to honour the cheque even when honouring put the accused 's account into the red . |
| 43 | It was found in a cardboard folder in the back of the accused 's car . |
| 44 | An entry can be made by any part of the accused 's body or by an instrument held by the accused to intimidate someone in the building or to remove goods from the building . |
| 45 | There was no need for the whole of the accused 's body to be in the building : the top half was in a shop-front display , the bottom half outside . |
| 46 | Under the pre-Theft Act law it was sufficient if any part of the accused 's body was inside . |
| 47 | The element of ‘ mens rea ’ — that is to say , what was actually in the accused 's mind at the time of the assault — is of utmost importance . |
| 48 | With regard to blackmail the Criminal Law Revision Committee did not want a test that the accused 's belief had to be reasonable because such could be out of line with the rest of the 1968 Act , yet Feely and Ghosh do just that in relation to dishonesty falling outside of s.2(1) . |
| 49 | Clotworthy demonstrates that it is the accused 's belief which counts , not whether the owner really would have consented , had he known of the lack of insurance . |
| 50 | In the London , Ontario case , each of the three complainants admitted that they had participated willingly in the sexual relationship , so the accused 's solicitor argued that there was no evidence of a sexual assault . |
| 51 | It is a ‘ right ’ to the extent that , at the trial , the prosecution may not comment at all on the accused 's failure to answer questions and the judge may refer to it , but not adversely : the point is that in no circumstances should silence be used against an accused person . |
| 52 | This led the judge at the preliminary inquiry to consider whether the complainants ' consent had been vitiated by the accused 's failure to disclose his HIV status before engaging in unprotected sex . |