ADAIR FILES PLEA FOR INNOCENCE.Byline: Jesse Hiestand Staff Writer Exactly a month after a jury found Jeanie Adair not guilty of beating her husband to death with a baseball bat, she asked a judge Thursday to go one step further by declaring her innocent. But San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. Superior Court Judge L. Jeffrey Wiatt said he needs more information before he can rule and asked the prosecution and defense to research the law and procedures required to find someone innocent. Adair is scheduled to return to court Dec. 10 to argue the determination of factual innocence, a petition that court officials said is rarely filed. In acquitting Adair, the jury found that the prosecution had not proved her guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, which technically is not the same as saying she is innocent. ``I'm doing this for my children as well as myself,'' Adair, a 39-year-old mother of two, said outside the courthouse after the hearing. ``I did not kill my husband and I need to clear my name.'' The San Fernando jury found her not guilty of murdering Robert Adair This article is about the British politician. For the Irish cricketer of the same name, see Robert Adair (cricketer) Sir Robert Adair (1763 – 1855) was a distinguished English diplomatist, and frequently employed on the most important diplomatic missions. in November 1996. Prosecutors had accused Jeanie Adair of killing to collect her husband's life insurance and end their troubled marriage. While the burden was on the prosecution to prove Adair guilty at trial, it is now up to Adair to prove her innocence. She must show that the facts of the case would not lead an average person to entertain ``any honest and strong suspicion'' that she was guilty of the crimes charged, Plotin said. Plotin said he plans to do this by having the judge review both the trial transcript and evidence the jury did not hear. If granted, the determination of innocence would require police departments to destroy any records of Adair's arrest, allowing her to state on job and other applications that she has never been arrested. Plotin discounted claims that the bid for innocence was intended to head off a wrongful death The taking of the life of an individual resulting from the willful or negligent act of another person or persons. If a person is killed because of the wrongful conduct of a person or persons, the decedent's heirs and other beneficiaries may file a wrongful death action civil suit from Robert Adair's relatives. While there was not enough evidence to convict To adjudge an accused person guilty of a crime at the conclusion of a criminal prosecution, or after the entry of a plea of guilty or a plea of nolo contendere. An individual who has been found guilty of a crime and, as a result, is serving a sentence as punishment for the act; Adair, jurors were not totally convinced of her innocence either, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. one juror juror n. any person who actually serves on a jury. Lists of potential jurors are chosen from various sources such as registered voters, automobile registration or telephone directories. . Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Deputy District Attorney Marsh Goldstein continues to maintain that Adair got away with murder. ``That's a no-brainer: There were grounds for her to be arrested and convicted, too,'' Goldstein said after the hearing. |
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