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    alibi


    alibis


    1. Thank goodness I went out that evening … if I had been at home on my own, I’d have been completely minus any sort of alibi


    2. It is a miracle that I had an alibi for the evening when it happened


    3. ‘The police are looking into his alibi


    4. ‘No … but it is fishy that the alibi is one of Dan’s employees … strangely enough he went along to the police station himself without being prompted


    5. ‘But fortunately, I had an alibi and it was corroborated by the ice cream seller


    6. a liaison with the ice cream man and got her alibi that way


    7. ‘The trouble is, the police can’t break Dan’s alibi


    8. ‘He’s convinced that Sadler’s alibi is founded on a false basis


    9. ‘We’ve broken Sadler’s alibi


    10. accomplice and her alibi, whatever it might cost in short term

    11. In our investigations, it turned out that Lickspittle paid no special attention to the child and, moreover, had an alibi on the night of the boy’s disappearance


    12. By then, the whore’d be smoked up too high to remember that she’d been alone, but he would make damn sure she didn’t forget him: he’d have a little fun slapping her around the room – and there would be his ironclad alibi


    13. �You have to placed Jonathan Smith-Hughes next even if he has a good alibi for his wife's murder,� Steve interjected, and Linda placed his name on the list


    14. �Can you prove that detective? My client has an alibi for that night,� Stidwell remarked in return as he slowly sat down


    15. Hell of a story, bad alibi though


    16. Iron clad alibi aside – I still wasn"t convinced


    17. But when I had raised the probability of either Ted and or son being the killer, Langdon had told me that both of them had a really incredible airtight alibi


    18. Had Langdon somehow broken down that alibi? Or was he maybe blowing smoke to see what Ted did? That action would not be typical cop behaviour


    19. She had a drug debt and he was a convenient alibi


    20. “But surely he doesn’t have an alibi for the several times that we saw him in France and Italy?”

    21. He does have an alibi


    22. Several people have been detained, although subsequently detained as they ether had an alibi or the evidence against them was insufficient


    23. "Chelsea has been withholding some information that is embarrassing in nature, but will give her an alibi for the murder


    24. “What is this alibi?”


    25. Jenkins’ preposterous alibi, namely, that the dope belonged to his client and passenger, Johnny McDaniels, and that Bob was trying to talk Johnny into turning it in was full of holes because of their three previous such runs using planes rented from Sawyer Aviation in Phoenix, to which they were returned after landing the dope from Mexico in Winslow


    26. Bob’s alibi was that the dope belonged to Johnny, and that Bob was trying to talk him into turning himself in and giving the dope to Feds


    27. The skin under her fingers matched his blood type, and he had scratches, but he was married, and his wife provided and alibi for him saying that she scratched him in heat of passion


    28. Why? He said he was just thanking him, returning him a favor, which was a good alibi


    29. But the police cleared me after verifying my alibi


    30. Knowing her alibi of attending church was rock solid, Itzel and Bowie cleared her as a suspect

    31. Love of God has been and still is for many women an alibi they can use to


    32. It has been an alibi, for


    33. A desperate family member contacts Weber — who ‘sees’ that the boyfriend is innocent, and gives police details that help undo the real killer’s alibi


    34. No alibi and he had a couple of beers nearby at Bogies in West Lake earlier in the day


    35. But to state there's a hole in his alibi? He's gonna want to know more


    36. I think that they wanted a good alibi and police off their back, and now theyŕe trying to gauge how much the formula is worth to Ms


    37. “Um yes,” I agreed pleased that I had an alibi


    38. He use to go out with the chick but his alibi was clean


    39. 'So I said, shit, since you got the perfect alibi," Brian chuckled, then started laughing hysterically


    40. Even my alibi with the Alconas doesn"t hold up because I didn"t get there till after four

    41. We could have murdered Frances, faked my wounds, driven up to the Alconas and, while I was conning Mad and Brian to give me an alibi, Jon could have driven on up to the studio in the Mercedes on his own


    42. Have you an alibi for Monday night, Jon?"


    43. We need a foolproof alibi


    44. His alibi was confirmed by Karim’s parents, who, by the way, have been au fait with all goings on


    45. ‘My alibi with you is automatically suspect because I’m a friend of the family and an employee


    46. have had an alibi


    47. Eddie would have to take care of his own alibi


    48. "Times are bad and it is hard to make a start," was the alibi given by one man


    49. There is always an alibi ready:


    50. than facing reality is an alibi














































    1. He sold information, alibis, scores, and made it


    2. because he had many alibis, the technicians of


    3. Regardless of their supposed airtight alibis Langdon had given me, Ted was still connected


    4. protected from all the types of lies and alibis that we had previously created


    5. Four days later Steng comes by and gives Denson and Stacy an update, “Here are the matches with your local DNA pool who don't have alibis


    6. We will deny everything, I will provide him with alibis for every incident, and use every penny I possess on the best lawyers to ensure it is you, and not he who spends the rest of their life in prison


    7. Uniformed police officers were mobilised to check out alibis and stories


    8. All the others have satisfactory alibis, or no reasonable motive, or both


    9. " He has al sorts of alibis about why he is not doing any better than he is,


    10. and, unfortunately, in most cases he real y believes his alibis are reasons instead

    11. alibis he shows results


    12. through these alibis one by one and proved they were not reasons—but mere


    13. All this excess to handle often offers us the possibility of creating great alibis, that give us the possibility of


    14. By ten o’clock that morning the process of lifting suspects, giving them the 3rd degree and checking their stories and alibis was well under way


    15. They all provided watertight alibis for each other and the Director of Public Prosecutions was reluctant to bring anybody to court with a case he believed was unlikely to succeed


    16. maze of all of sorts of explanations and alibis


    17. We had long concocted and memorised our phoney alibis in advance and had them ready when Moose and his men arrived on the scene from the mainland


    18. They made love twice a week for more than three months, protected by the innocent complicity of Aureliano Segundo, who believed without suspicion in his daugh-ter’s alibis simply in order to set her free from her mother’s rigidity


    19. She had brought up some genuinely valid points that needed to be cleared up before he could definitively close the investigation, and some of her remarks resurrected other comments that had been made by Terence himself, which may prove useful in determining alibis


    20. Sensing that this would be the most convenient time to catch them off guard, Feltus carefully arose with the intention of speaking to the Ashburns and Preacher Cooper concerning their actions of the previous night in hopes of ascertaining alibis for the time frame in which Terence had been murdered

    21. There remained another dilemma that Feltus quickly contemplated in a matter of seconds—he now had two suspects with strong motives for wanting Terence Underwood dead, but which one, if either, was more dominant? Neither of them had alibis for the time frame in which the murder had been committed, but Elizabeth had been seen wandering the halls in the middle of the night; as a result it could be assumed that both had the opportunity and the means to commit the crime


    22. Quite a history these poor, wife-beating, wife-cheating, gambling, drinking, whoring, raping, killing items have! Alibis based on an irresistible impulse plea are merely obvious copouts on individual responsibility, but the guys’ve overworked ‘em ever since Adam helped himself to a bite of Eve’s apple, nonetheless


    23. “Hope your alibis are still good after this,”


    24. Lewis shouts to the police, "I WAS NOWHERE AROUND WHEN THE MURDER TOOK PLACE! I WAS AT HOME ASLEEP IN BED BECAUSE I HAD TO GET UP THE FOLLOWING MORNING AND GO TO WORK IN THE BUILDING WHERE THE MURDER TOOK PLACE! THAT'S HOW I DISCOVERED THE BODY! I HAVE NO REASON TO BE IN THE BUILDING OR WORK IN THE BUILDING AT AROUND THE TIME OF NIGHT YOU ALL THINK THAT WOMAN KATHY WAS MURDERED! I ALSO HAVE A COUPLE OF ALIBIS!"


    25. "Yeah! But the triplets all had alibis! They were all home at my grandparents' house with the rest of the family the night Warren was murdered! Then the police suspected Sammy, Thomas and Robert, but they were all home at my grandparents' house also the night of the murder, so was Missy! The family was having a little get together for my grandparents' anniversary that night, so a lot of the family was there! They were there all evening and all night! None of them ever left my grandparents' house until the next morning!"


    26. “What if,” he finally offered, “Lester and Atkinson are working together? And they’re providing alibis for each other?”


    27. He not only gave Clyntahn a motive he’s naturally inclined to accept but managed to provide alibis for all the rest of Thirsk’s personal staff with the same move


    28. By the middle of 1979, when almost all of my alibis and excuses had been stripped away and both my personal and professional life were in complete disarray, I wrote this verse:


    29. He said, “I’ve started taking notes so I can have seamless alibis in case you two pop up without warning


    30. He was retracing his alibis and lies

    31. When the police arrived, none of us knew that our parents were dead in their suite upstairs, and when questioned by the unsmiling Detective Caputo, we had no alibis except the unprovable “We were asleep


    32. You were finally cornered, your explanations exhausted, your alibis depleted, your pride in tatters


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    Synonyms for "alibi"

    alibi exculpation excuse self-justification defence evasion semblance makeshift trick pretence

    "alibi" definitions

    (law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question


    a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.


    exonerate by means of an alibi