The verdict confirms statements by Bush Administration officials who said last week that some of the contras had tortured prisoners and committed other human rights abuses in their camps in Honduras.

The City Court's verdict, which came on Tuesday, confirmed a lower court ruling.

"Today's not-guilty verdicts on all of the so-called 'C.T.R. counts' confirm what we already knew: Bruce Lindsey acted properly."

Three of the other convictions involved former Assistant Secretaries at the housing agency, and today's verdict confirmed how widespread the corruption was at the department.

These verdicts confirm that Muslims categorically reject the Ahmadiyya community as being part of the Muslim community.

The verdict only confirms the villagers' feelings of impotence.

The verdict, reached on June 6, 1991, confirmed $2.8 million in damages that the jury had awarded to the family of one of those killed and $250,000 to one of the injured.

Company spokesmen said only that the verdict confirmed that the spill was an accident.

The verdict of the polls confirmed this view.

On March 30, 2010, after a three-week trial before Judge Ted Stewart, a jury returned a verdict "confirming Novell's ownership of the Unix copyrights."