Quashed Sentence Examples

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  • On the 2nd of April the Cour de Cassation quashed the proceedings.

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  • By a majority of nine to four the court quashed the conviction.

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  • In addition, there are around 3,500 quashed criminal convictionsa year.

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  • The move had sparked fears among customers of a price hike and time limits for tickets, but these were quickly quashed.

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  • His conviction was quashed on appeal on 13th May 1994.

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  • This conviction was also quashed on 21st April 1994.

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  • Francis being in captivity after the battle of Pavia (February 25, 1525), Faber was condemned and his works suppressed by commission of the parlement; these measures were quashed on the return of Francis some months later.

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  • The matter was examined and the legate ordered the suit to be quashed.

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  • The court of cassation quashed the sentence, through defect of form, but sent Babeuf for a new trial before the Aisne tribunal, by which he was acquitted on the 18th of July.

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  • Parker assisted actively in the escape of fugitive slaves, and for trying to prevent the rendition of perhaps the most famous of them, Anthony Burns, was indicted, but the indictment was quashed.

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  • After his resignation he was impeached for abuse of power as minister, but the supreme court quashed the impeachment by denying the competence of the ordinary tribunals to judge ministerial acts.

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  • Eric died in 1436 and was followed by his brother Bernard IV., whose claim to exercise the electoral vote was quashed by the electors in 1438; and who was succeeded by his son John IV.

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  • The king, however, perceiving a danger to the constitution in the violence of the szlachta, not only supported the bishops, but quashed a subsequent reiterated demand for a national synod.

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  • This verdict was ignored by the government, and subsequently quashed by the Queen's Bench in Dublin, but additional feeling was roused in respect of the incident owing to a message later sent by Mr Gladstone ending with the words "Remember Mitchelstown."

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  • There was one scuffle, when a young boy started a fight, which was soon quashed with others shouting " peace!

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  • Bentley's conviction was finally quashed by the Court of Appeal in July 1998.

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  • A woman who fatally stabbed her abusive husband had her murder conviction quashed by the court of appeal today.

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  • He began by founding the Order of the Immaculate Conception, consisting of 72 young noblemen who swore a special oath of allegiance to the crown, and were to form the nucleus of a patriotic movement antagonistic to the constant usurpations of the diet, but the sejm promptly intervened and quashed the attempt.

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  • Richardson quashed the rumor he lacks passing ability with a majestic victory in heat four from behind.

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  • The judges had quashed the decision of Alan Milburn, then the Health Secretary, to hold the Shipman inquiry behind closed doors.

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  • But the proceedings were quashed on technicalities advanced by " influential friends ".

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  • In 1997, however, her conviction was quashed by the court of appeal, and a retrial ordered.

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  • His conviction was quashed last November by the Court of Appeal.

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  • There was one scuffle, when a young boy started a fight, which was soon quashed with others shouting peace !

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  • What the Tribunal did not have and never saw was any record of an appeal which quashed either or both of the convictions.

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  • Bentley 's conviction was finally quashed by the Court of Appeal in July 1998.

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  • A man who was convicted of the murder of a Kilmarnock woman has had his sentence quashed by appeal court judges.

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  • Its decision was upheld by a valuation tribunal but quashed on appeal.

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  • In 2006, tabloids speculated that the two had split, but they quashed all rumors of a break-up.

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  • Further possible single releases were abruptly quashed as 'Walking Back Home' dropped out of the charts after only 3 weeks.

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  • In February 1900 it was, however, quashed by the supreme court on a point of procedure, and the Public Safety Bill as a whole had again to be presented to the Chamber.

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  • In 1200 King John, bribed by the burgesses, confirmed this charter, but in 1201, bribed by the successor of Richard de Waterville, quashed it as injurious to the dignity of the church of Whitby.

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  • A suit on the complaint of a neighbouring clergyman ensued and after various complications Denison was condemned by the archbishops' court at Bath (1856); but on appeal the court of Arches and the privy council quashed this judgment on a technical plea.

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  • Lancasters ad parlia- herents were turned out of the council; the persons meat of condemned in 1376 were declared incapable of serving in it; Alice Perrers was sentenced to banishment and forfeiture, and the little king was made to re pudiate the declaration whereby his uncle had quashed the statutes of 1376 by declaring that no act of parliament can be repealed save with parliaments consent.

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