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And I think the answer would still be ‘ no. ’ I was accused of going out with a bang – no pun intended. But I guess I did go out with a bang as far as [ the work ] was concerned. … But I was always a professional.

Steve Stanulis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is my job, always trying to ensure that we verify details, so nobody, none of us in the group, will be accused of peddling false information.

Janine Anthony

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We human beings have always known that our eyes reveal our true nature. It’s nearly impossible to hide emotions in them. “Look me in the eye and tell me the truth,” the questioner will say to the accused, because both parties know that while words can mask the truth, our eyes will invariably reveal it.

Lisa Haisha

added by lisa.haisha
2 years ago

The Select Committee has responded to Dr. Eastman's efforts to discharge this responsibility by accusing him of criminal activity, because this is a civil matter, Dr. Eastman will not have the benefit of the Constitutional protections normally afforded to those accused by their government of criminal conduct.

Charles Burnham

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Imagine being falsely accused of threatening to shoot up a school. Law enforcement concluded that he was being pranked by fellow students, but that did not stop numerous parents from spreading the false accusation online.

Dhillon Law Group

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The things I’m accused to have said are not who I am. They’re not a reflection of my beliefs at all, it’s clear this media smear campaign is politically backed, and I won’t stop fighting for Oklahomans.

Abby Broyles

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I'm representing the handful of people who are either in custody right now or been released from custody, and then we are going to be representing them in court, they’ve been pursued by the government and accused of crimes or a quasi-criminal offenses. And my job is to now come in here and defend them of those charges. And then there's sort of the second category of the people who might not have been charged with anything but were mistreated by the police in a way that was contrary to the code of conduct.

David Anber

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In 2017, when New York Times resurrected a horrific false accusation that had been recognized as false almost uniformly and that, in its simplest form, accused Governor Palin of inciting a murder of six people, a federal judge, a 9-year-old girl, at a time when she had a 9-year-old girl, it became time to draw a line.

Lawyer Kenneth G. Turkel

Found on CNN
2 years ago

So you saw me do something I very rarely do, i very rarely lose my cool, and I’m not proud of it and I don’t like it. But I also don’t like being accused of being hysterical, because that’s one of the things I try not to be on this show.

Jeanine Pirro

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The letter from Governor DeSantis was very harmful for staff to read, to dedicate your life and your career to something you truly believed in and to be accused of being the final link in the chain of a human trafficking scheme, even though these staff know that that's not true, it's still really hard to hear.

Nathan Bult

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You had two individuals accused of identical crimes/offenses even stealing a backpack, and one person goes to Rikers for three years because they couldn't post bail.

Kathy Hochul

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I will absolutely stand behind the fundamental premise on why we needed bail reform in the first place, you had two individuals accused of identical crimes/offenses even stealing a backpack, and one person goes to Rikers for three years because they couldn't post bail.

Kathy Hochul

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

While Travis Price is disappointed by this verdict, Travis Price respects the jury process, our concern is that other citizens don't suffer the same mistreatment that Travis Price endured. We will continue to fight for those who have been wrongly accused or subjected to excessive force and will push back against Rock Hill Police Department and any other who attempts to take advantage of those they are entrusted to protect and serve.

Justin Bamberg

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They were saying that she's hotheaded and insane and accused her of identity politics, but what was really disturbing was the one that went directly to her where they would call her the n-word and the b-word and talking about putting a bullet in her head.

Jeffrey Brown

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Some of the books that people are concerned about have to do with sexuality. We have( state) laws against providing pornography to minors( and) although it's not happening, librarians are concerned that they will be accused of this.

Mary Woodard

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We are obviously pleased with the opinion rendered by the Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday, and believe the Court's opinion speaks for itself, there is still much to be done, and we are eager to continue fighting for Mr. Tim Gilbert and the right of the criminally accused to receive a fair trial.

Evan Baddour

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The accused attacked him as well but he was able to escape.

Kailash Prajapati

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Jussie Smollett, the actor who is accused of lying to police about an alleged hate crime in 2019, testifying in his own defense today. At the time Smollett told police that two men had attacked him in the street yelling racist, anti-gay remarks, put a noose around his neck and poured bleach on him, smollett has repeatedly denied staging the racist and homophobic attack against himself; he is charged with six counts of disorderly conduct on suspicion of making false reports to police.

Don Lemon

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The severity of the crime is a factor… and I'm sure a prosecutor would argue that that is someone who is dangerous to the community shouldn't be released, but you also have to say the flip side to this which is that you are accused of a crime that you presumed to be innocent of, you could spend years fighting your case and you're found not guilty. Where's the justice in that?

Steven Clark

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What I have been accused of is absolutely the complete opposite of anything I would ever do in my life, if I have any fault, it is because I am too giving and I help too many people.

Jen Shah

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It wasn't my plan to spend the rest of my life doing this, to be some kind of champion, if you saw someone drowning you would do the same as me, you would reach out a hand, pull them out, and that's the exact same crime that I'm accused of doing.

Giorgos Kosmopoulos

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Your Honor, I would submit with all respect to the Rev. Jesse Jackson that his is not different than bringing in police officers or uniformed prison guards in a small town where a young Black man has been accused of assaulting a law enforcement officer or corrections officer.

Kevin Gough

Found on CNN
2 years ago

How many pastors does that Ahmaud Arbery family have ? We had the Rev. Al Sharpton here earlier last week... I don't know who Mr. Jackson, Rev. Jackson, is pastoring here, your Honor, I would submit with all respect to the Rev. Jesse Jackson that his is not different than bringing in police officers or uniformed prison guards in a small town where a young Black man has been accused of assaulting a law enforcement officer or corrections officer.

Kevin Gough

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Men and women -- without regard to what they have done in the past, what they are maybe in prison accused of before trial -- deserve to be treated as human beings with dignity, kindness and respect. Yes, even in an incarcerable environment.

Karl Racine

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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