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Alibi meaning
The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove being in another place when the alleged act was committed. | An excuse, especially one used to avoid responsibility or blame.
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Judge Andrew Cody gave both defendants alibi warnings and informed them that they must notify gardaí in writing within 14 days if he wished to rely on an alibi in their defence.
According to him, the protesters’ allusion to disobedience of court orders by the EFCC chairman is an alibi to manipulate facts around judicial pronouncements and processes to pitch the public against the commission.
Alibi will have a special Valentine’s Day dinner menu available!
Bakersfield Police Department officers questioned Johnson about his alibi when Rufus died in September 2002 and eventually arrested him as a getaway driver in connection with Rufus’ shooting.
Cable theft is not new to Transnet and is an inadequate alibi for poor performance.
First, it was an alibi for Putin not being an antisemite as he destroyed the oligarchs—many of them being of Jewish descent (Mikhail Fridman, Vladimir Gusinsky, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Boris Berezovsky)—as a class.
ISTJs are smart and methodical, and Greg proves his cunning intelligence with his plan, which goes off without a hitch, complete with an airtight alibi.
It was described as a satirical send-up and included Andrew's 2019 interview with BBC Newsnight's Emily Maitlis in which he gave the alibi.
It wouldn't be hard for Ethan to fake his alibi because his father's a detective.
Mr Wright told the jury that if his alibi, that he was at home with his parents when Ashley was killed, "might be true" then they must reach a not guilty verdict.
That’s according to an objection filed this week in Idaho’s 2nd District Court by Kohberger’s defense in response to prosecutors’ attempt to get the precise location of his alibi and the names of witnesses who could corroborate it.
The Connecticut Supreme Court overturned the murder conviction of Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel in the 1975 bludgeoning death of a girl in Greenwich, finding that Skakel’s trial attorney had failed to present evidence of an alibi.
The disbarred attorney lied to cops about his alibi before making the sensational decision to take the stand where he changed his story to fit the damning evidence.
The problem with that identification was the initial person identified as the possible killer had a corroborated alibi.
They didn’t check Murdaugh’s parents’ house — a cornerstone of his alibi — for evidence for three months.
We already made our point clear that a violation is a violation of law and no sort of alibi will justify the crime.
While Ms Dorrian's testimony eventually dismantled the killers' alibi, it was the evidence of Archie Wilson that proved critical to the conviction of O'Brien, Brand and Kelly.
Cashman’s observation was accurate — and also a bad alibi.
Following a reinvestigation by the Conviction Review Unit (CRU), it was determined the original case was flawed, primarily due to an uncredible eyewitness account, a plausible alibi defense, and a rushed police investigation.
Games offer structure, shared goals and an alibi if conversation dwindles to silence.