The jury accepted his version of events and he was acquitted.

This is the first opportunity for him to present his story, and the jury accepted it.

A jury might not accept that he had proved his case, but they would agree there was a case to answer.

He had been charged with murder but the jury accepted his defence of diminished responsibility.

But the jury accepted that a page of the statement had been substituted for legitimate reasons.

A jury accepted it, and awarded Photovest more than $3 million in damages.

The jury apparently accepted the defense contention that the piano was junk.

"The jury accepts or rejects me, not my case," he has written.

The jury accepted his account, and on 18 November awarded him £2,000 with £3,000 costs.

But he believed a jury would accept it in preference to any other theory that at that time had been presented.