If on the other hand, at least a majority of the judges consider the evidence too weak for a conviction, they must acquit. |
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The jury convicted and the Court of Appeal refused to quash the conviction. |
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Three judges will then decide to either quash the conviction, reject the appeal or order a retrial. |
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He pleaded not guilty, but his conviction was confirmed on appeal in February the following year. |
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In Mazo the Court of Appeal quashed the conviction and stated that a person cannot be guilty of theft of property received as a valid gift. |
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The anaesthetist in the above case was found guilty and his conviction was upheld in the House of Lords. |
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Not just managing Shakespeare but actually grabbing it by the throat and ringing every drop out of it and carrying it with such conviction. |
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His thin arms waggled around in the air balancing himself on on his stool as he laughed with conviction at everything. |
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For the reasons set out in the judgment which is handed down we allow this appeal and quash the conviction. |
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He plays the part of the semi-moronic, innocently brutal Quentin with as much conviction as one can muster for such an absurd character. |
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Accordingly, the Court of Criminal Appeal quashed the conviction and ordered a new trial. |
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It is played and sung with conviction, and his is one of the great bass voices. |
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This dignified and measured document does that with overwhelming conviction. |
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The conviction makes clear the fact that this offence can be committed by threats, as well as by the use of violence. |
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She had put serpent-shaped silver barrettes in her hair, and she played with fearful but clear conviction. |
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The man of genius can operate rationally, after careful consideration, from conviction, but all that happens only secondarily. |
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It is more or less a given, by convention if not by conviction, that one must have a biblical text for a sermon. |
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One marketing analyst suggested that a conviction might actually increase his marketability. |
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They play with a conviction and authenticity far beyond their tender years. |
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The accused had based his conviction on a telex he had received in October 1944 from the Regional office of the Gestapo. |
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My conviction was so strong that I convinced my skeptical high school English teacher by giving him readings and arguing with him. |
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And of course, leaping ahead to some possible jury trial, a possible conviction is really putting the cart before the horse. |
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Hence, for example, he is shocked if the police maltreat a criminal in order to secure a conviction. |
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A conviction for corrupting judges on a grand scale would be more difficult to shrug off. |
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Julius Drake plays his part with dedication and conviction, particularly in the dissonant sections where Ives' demands are extremely taxing. |
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The first is pessimism, the conviction that social transformation is, contrary to the sanguine illusions of the optimists, profoundly difficult. |
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The Pygmalion effect works by luring us into the conviction that we are capable of achieving the goals that we set. |
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But he has maintained a low profile since the conviction was quashed and now simply wants to get on with life. |
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She became another victim of the evil and false conviction that it is the one who is to blame for the accident who rushes the victim to hospital. |
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He's a tearaway, a lout, a hooligan, and he's got a previous conviction for affray. |
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This appeal against conviction is based solely on two rulings made by the judge prior to trial. |
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Their conviction rests on seven articles of faith, carefully passed from person to person at all levels of the black community. |
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He's been attempting to overturn the conviction because the police tracked his burner phone to a Texas rest stop. |
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It seems that the Appellant did not lodge a timely appeal against conviction. |
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Prosecution is a process of investigation, of indictment, arraignment, trial and conviction. |
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He knows he is right and so feels no need to listen to advice that goes against his conviction. |
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This work of transformation which I have come to think of as culture work must be approached carefully but with great conviction and effort. |
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Adnan said the defence team had visited Amrozi in jail today and he signed a document authorising them to appeal the conviction and sentence. |
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In all the circumstances, I do not think it would be right to allow Evans's conviction to stand. |
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In part this intense study of Scripture was connected with a conviction that his lifework lay in the service of the gospel. |
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This, the story goes, secured a large crowd, a conviction for indecency and copious ticket-shifting headlines. |
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Duncan's conviction is hardly a surprise, given the fact that his own career has melded action and contemplation, science and liberal arts. |
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It is certain that National Socialism does not favor monarchism and is definitely republican in conviction. |
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Defenders is offering rewards for information leading to the conviction of the persons responsible for all of these acts. |
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There have been no arrests and police are set to offer a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the perpetrators. |
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If there is evidence of moral cowardice and a lack of conviction among the pro-war lobby, however, it is more than matched among the antis. |
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But this side showed great resolve and conviction and by the interval had drawn level. |
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He had his own line of thinking and would defend his views with a resolute sincerity and great conviction. |
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Rather than fortitude, courage or conviction, his morality play teaches resignation, passivity and submission. |
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Her selfless act of bravery led to the conviction of two girls who had mugged a pensioner. |
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It was placed there out of the conviction that it was the ancestor, however remote, of the American constitution and the bill of rights. |
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They then feel that when they interpret out of a greater receptivity to this, there is more conviction for the analyst and for the analysand. |
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The second revolution involved the repudiation of the conviction that well-formed academic learning is a product of our generic humanity. |
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Her persistence led to a conviction and the recovery of a lava lamp and money box among the stolen goods. |
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There is no reflection of that reliance on the conviction matters in the bail decision against us by the Court of Appeal. |
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The prosecutor should not lay a charge where there is no reasonable prospect of securing a conviction before a reasonable jury. |
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Throughout the present brief, Microsoft protests its innocence with as much conviction as an old lag before a magistrate. |
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The Prime Minister is having to draw on his last reserves of personal conviction, and convince us that he is levelling with the country. |
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Under U.S. law, a person held in custody by a state may challenge his conviction or sentence by seeking a writ of habeas corpus in federal court. |
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This appellant's convictions are safe, and his appeal against conviction is dismissed. |
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The English Court of Appeal upheld the conviction of a man jailed for 14 days for wolf-whistling at a juror from the court's public gallery. |
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The energy sensitivity and conviction of the cast brought the audience to their feet in a standing ovation. |
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His conviction came 41 years to the day after the trio was mobbed and killed by Klansmen. |
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On Friday, the official judgment of his conviction was entered into the court record. |
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When his conviction was found flawed, the State retried and reconvicted him in another flawed proceeding. |
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My conviction is based not on wishful thinking, but on my experiences living in a totalitarian regime. |
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In spite of reform in the law they say conviction rates are not encouraging and in most cases the killers escape justice. |
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George wanted his conviction to be reassessed, in light of what had come out at the second trial. |
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I neither agreed with nor approved her methods or her language, but there was never any doubt about her passion and the depth of her conviction. |
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His conviction as a humanitarian made him a revolutionary and an agent for change. |
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History is littered with resolute men whose faith and conviction got them into deep doo-doo. |
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Once an impression or conviction takes hold, it stays there, with stubborn intensity. |
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Any previous conviction or driving ban could then be revealed to the court after the jury returned a verdict. |
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One of her teachers was found guilty of negligent homicide in a French court but his conviction was later overturned. |
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It is important to keep in mind that whatever method is adopted for quitting smoking, the most important factors are conviction and willpower. |
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The Court of Criminal Appeal quashed the conviction for murder and substituted one of manslaughter. |
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However, it proceeded to speculate on the safety of their conviction with reference to the weight of the evidence adduced by the prosecution. |
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Accordingly, it does not yield knowledge, if knowledge involves understanding and not just well-founded conviction. |
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The rock of Mother Jones' faith was her conviction that working Americans acting together must free themselves from poverty and powerlessness. |
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The breathalyzer readings resulted in the appellant's conviction before the trial court. |
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An armed robber is appealing against his conviction claiming that he was high on a mind-bending cocktail of drugs when he confessed to police. |
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I am therefore of the view that it is not appropriate to substitute a verdict of acquittal for the conviction. |
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Moreover the public interest may be as much involved in the circumstances of a remarkable acquittal as in a surprising conviction. |
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Nine months after his conviction, however, an appeals judge acquitted him of all charges. |
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A conviction for that offence could not in any sense have been less than clear in its meaning. |
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What is sought now to be done is to ask the court to overturn a conviction because he made a decision not to call evidence. |
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It is submitted that a criminal conviction would have a serious adverse effect on a promising career. |
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While large numbers of Americans professed religious belief, the depth of their conviction appeared weak. |
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He sought release on bail while he appealed his conviction and sentence. |
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They share my strong conviction that the policy is misguided. |
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They are to face oppression with humble persistence and absolute conviction. |
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Still, his conviction will restart a House Ethics Committee investigation into his actions. |
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The pre-war records in Albany revealed a conviction the fellow earned at 16 before going off to war. |
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We can only sit and stew in our conviction that anime is becoming an important port of inspiration. |
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The consequences of a drug conviction amount to the annihilation of citizenship. |
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The cousin is said by the FBI to have relinquished his title as boss after his own conviction for racketeering. |
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Despite the 21 years I did in prison for a drug conviction, I am assimilating back into mainstream or, dare I say, white America. |
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Vasquez, who has borderline ID, was exonerated in 1989, four years after his conviction. |
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The conviction of the man known as The hatchet, infamous for filming himself torturing gay people, is good news. |
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Secondly, the expert evidence which persuaded the Court of Appeal to quash the murder conviction and substitute manslaughter had not been before the jury. |
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That is so, in the same way that if after a verdict of guilty an appellate court concludes that the conviction is unsafe and unsatisfactory it quashes the jury's verdict. |
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She now appeals against conviction by leave of the single judge. |
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The conviction that the strong are bound to prey on the weak, as dictated by the law of the jungle, is incompatible with the principle of competition. |
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As left-wing biographer Rick Perlstein grants, Goldwater was a man of color-blind temperament, conviction, and personal action. |
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One common denominator of super-affluent alpha men is the conviction, unchallenged every day, that the world revolves around them. |
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He got one goal chance and he put it away with style and conviction. |
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He left no disciples, but only admirers of his scholarship and conviction. |
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She admiringly sings the serious version with deep conviction. |
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Interestingly, some jurists even asserted that judges who rely on a coerced confession in a criminal conviction are to be held liable for the wrongful conviction. |
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The other process is a kangaroo court where the prosecutors design the rules of the forum to ensure that a conviction is obtained without any reference to justice or fairness. |
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A person who has a record that becomes spent is deemed to have no record of that conviction and need not disclose the record when asked about his criminal record. |
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Collins, instead, handles himself with assurance, has unshakeable conviction in his own abilities and isn't short of an opinion or two that might put noses out of joint. |
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Harry has proven himself to be absolutely a man of his word, a man of principle, a quiet spoken person with a very strong conviction and a good heart. |
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But on the right, the conviction that Thomas was a victim is close to sacrosanct. |
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I didn't think they had sufficient evidence to lay a charge, let alone obtain a conviction and that view hasn't changed after what I've seen today. |
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He would quaff a few glasses of Alsatian Pinot Noir as he poured forth his conviction that Northern Ireland could emulate France and Germany by resolving age-old conflict. |
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But that self-presentation would carry more conviction if they announced from the start their intention to cooperate with police. |
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On Sunday they did not do themselves justice tactically or in terms of conviction, but they are extremely lucky to have a chance of making amends so quickly. |
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He must be henceforth treated like a moral leper to satisfy our conviction that endless ongoing punishment without mercy is ours to mete out to him forever. |
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On the Web site, in the e-mails of targeted professors, one finds a whole fuzzy world of impression and anecdote, of passionate conviction and hurt feelings. |
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Following conviction, an accused person must have the right to have the sentence and conviction reviewed by a higher tribunal or court, according to law. |
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These experiences reinforced my conviction that humanitarian medicine was a powerful antidote to the violations I had read about in Medicine Betrayed. |
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The charge came just hours after Crimestoppers announced it was offering its biggest-ever reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the killers. |
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He was hoping that the R5000 reward being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those involved in the killings will bring witnesses forward. |
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Many modern directors feel obliged to pose as anti-intellectuals, adopting a facade of stupidity they are unable to carry off with any conviction. |
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It comes from a deep-seated conviction that there is only one economic system, the globalised free market, set in the political context of liberal democracy. |
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An Uber driver assaulted a passenger and it turned out he had a felony conviction, despite passing the background check. |
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That's how he keeps betraying us, why he roars at us with such conviction. |
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They suggested his name with all the conviction of a gambler throwing a few bucks on a long-shot at the track. |
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Crucial documentation surrounding the case is currently being studied by counsel in the hope of launching proceedings which could result in a longed-for conviction. |
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I disagreed with him on a few issues, but I knew that he held those views out of conviction, not because his party required him to salaam before their chosen altars. |
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But today it's precisely a lack of belief and conviction that haunts this president. |
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On Friday, hedge fund trader Michael Steinberg was sentenced to 3.5 years in jail for his insider-trading conviction. |
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A Van der Sloot conviction may seem like a slam-dunk, but there are still potential caveats. |
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The Crisis still clings to the conviction that a vote for Woodrow Wilson was NOT a vote for Cole Blease or hoke Smith. |
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The Walking Dead, like the monomyth, is a metaphor for human nature and conviction of the spirit. |
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The human race has a pervasive tendency towards religious conviction. |
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It is not an idealist, not a romantic call to ethics of conviction as opposed to ethics of responsibility. |
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Just last week, a California appellate court turned aside the appeal of Luster's conviction, saying he had forfeited his right to appeal by jumping bail. |
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Upon his conviction the 69-year-old was sentenced to between 30 and 60 years in state prison. |
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And yet her call for a plebiscite smacks as much of political despair than a statesman's conviction. |
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In their screenings of Ienaga's texts, the Textbook Authorisation Council exposed its conviction that the purpose of history education was to create patriotic citizens. |
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Of course there will be deranged people who will rejoice in their weird conviction of his eternal and infernal roasting. |
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It is not required as a matter of law for a conviction to be sustained. |
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Evans's family and his girlfriend Natasha Massey have set up a website to campaign for the conviction to the be quashed. |
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Following his conviction, Sutcliffe began using his mother's maiden name and became known as Peter William Coonan. |
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He was calm in the conviction that he could measure and calculate the universe.... He matched finity against the Infinite. |
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Listen to him play a Bach cello suite and you'll grasp its proportionate beauty and the conviction that music transcends all worldy concerns. |
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There is no evidence of Richard's involvement in George's subsequent conviction and execution on a charge of treason. |
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Despite Strabo's conviction of a lie, the perimeter said to have been given by Pytheas is not evidence of it. |
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On 31 July, the appeals court overturned Richards' conviction, and Jagger's sentence was reduced to a conditional discharge. |
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The jury having convicted on the basis of the wider test, we cannot see any unsafety in the conviction. |
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The ALPR system facilitates the identification, arrest, and conviction of criminals in order to promote safety and well being in the community. |
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He felt himself in the position that having got the conviction he did not see how he was to unget it. |
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This overstuffed, smug, showy and sentimental music can almost persuade when it is performed with undoubting conviction. |
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Meetings lasted hours but from the beginning there was a sense of conviction of sin. |
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Jim remarked irrelevantly that tigers were 'schelms' and it was his conviction that there were a great many in the kloofs round about. |
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After his son's killer was let off without a conviction, the man decided to take the law into his own hands. |
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The best modus vivendi for a secret Judaist in Elizabethan London was a pragmatic compromise between inward conviction and outward conformity. |
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The colour now rushed into Elizabeth's cheeks in the instantaneous conviction of its being a letter from the nephew. |
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The Court of Criminal Appeal quashed his conviction for murder and substituted a verdict of manslaughter. |
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The high intricate ways of the Keep had a strange power of suasion, an ability to carry conviction. |
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The evidentiary rules for conviction were nearly impossible to meet. |
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Jeri received a felony conviction and was sent to the county jail. |
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The elegiac slow movement is larded with cloying appoggiaturas that make it hard to bring off with conviction. |
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Police did release an audio recording of Black following his conviction for the murder of Jennifer Cardy from Northern Ireland, in October. |
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On 24 December 2013, Queen Elizabeth II signed a pardon for Turing's conviction for gross indecency, with immediate effect. |
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He acknowledged the theories but his voice lacked conviction. |
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Leanne Goose is one such vocalist who has proven she can sing almost any kind of song with conviction and passion. |
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Furthermore, they demonstrate her conviction, a legacy from her father, that books should provide moral education. |
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It would seem that Schettino has little chance to escape a conviction. |
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The sentence for murder is, in all cases, mandatory and depends upon the age of the offender at the time of the crime or conviction. |
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The wrongful conviction of the three men has been called one of the most egregious miscarriages of justice in recent times. |
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It crystallised his lifelong conviction that to restore was to destroy, and that the only true course was preservation and conservation. |
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He had a dislike of public display, considering it hollow and lacking in conviction. |
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He was denied entry into the United States after his conviction in 1952, but was free to visit other European countries. |
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Following her conviction, she was replaced by Vice President Michel Temer, who had served as acting president while Rousseff's case was pending. |
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It is my conviction that the evident stiffness and apodictism of the definitions cited was already predetermined. |
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Dara will have left, I hope, with a newfound conviction that Irish is the Hullish vernacular of choice. |
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This led to the arrest and conviction of Owain Williams and John Albert Jones. |
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Banks may refuse to issue loans to felons, and a felony conviction may prevent employment in banking or finance. |
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His voice has a gentle, vaguely toffish tone but it's based on a deep conviction he's right. |
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The Blockburger test, originally developed in the multiple punishments context, is also the test for prosecution after conviction. |
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We have conviction from reason, or decisions from the inerrable and requisite conditions of sense. |
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Thus, although the act actually causing death was performed when the defendants did not have the intention to kill, the conviction was confirmed. |
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Monsignor William Lynn left a Pennsylvania jail after winning the right to appeal his conviction for child endangerment. |
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The Bill of Rights in the Constitution of South Africa forbids a retrial when there has already been an acquittal or a conviction. |
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In rare circumstances, a court of appeal might also substitute a conviction for an acquittal. |
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Chris was brilliant, deferential, even demure, full of conviction. |
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John Stewart, though arrested and sent to trial in Sydney as an accomplice to murder, nevertheless escaped conviction. |
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In 2014, 24,025 prosecutions that were commenced by the BBC did not result in conviction. |
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Police were set on Edalji's conviction, even though the mutilations continued after their suspect was jailed. |
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However, on 7 May he fell into a trap laid for him by Richard Rich, who was to perjure himself to obtain Thomas More's conviction. |
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A woman found guilty of a nightclub glassing which left an Australian singer's career in tatters has had her conviction overturned on appeal. |
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In 2015 the Crown Court heard 11,348 appeals against conviction, sentence or both, from those convicted in the magistrates' courts. |
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Law enforcers normally have to prove an individual is guilty to get a conviction. |
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One reason for this is the rule that in such cases the evidence for the prosecution must be corroborated in order to permit a conviction. |
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In other countries, the prosecuting authority may appeal an acquittal similar to how a defendant may appeal a conviction. |
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It is more than two weeks that Babylon 5 aired for the last time. We, Portuguese Fivers of conviction, are few. |
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Yogi himself has identified at least 25 suspects in lineups and has close to a 100-percent conviction rate in the Colorado courts. |
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Two judges sit to hear an appeal against sentence, and three judges sit to hear an appeal against conviction. |
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If you have the conviction and commitment, you will always find your witch. |
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The president is removed on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. |
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As a result of his conviction, Taylor's MBE nomination was annulled before he was awarded it. |
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The men who were against Atahualpa's conviction and murder argued that he should be judged by King Charles since he was the sovereign prince. |
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Hers was a metempsychosis of novelty, her mind a vapid thing until animated by the next absolute conviction. |
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Judith is depicted as an exemplar woman, grounded by ideal morale, probity, courage, and religious conviction. |
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Following his conviction and incarceration, Sutcliffe chose to use the name Coonan, his mother's maiden name. |
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Father and mother may not follow the promptings of religious belief, of conscience or of conviction, and teach son or daughter the doctrine of pacifism. |
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Richard Tempest, a British backpacker who was among the 70 who escaped from the inferno, said the conviction would allow survivors and victims' families to move on. |
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Her skilled sociopathy enabled her to avoid a criminal conviction for allegedly arranging the long-distance execution of her husband, but now what? |
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His conviction that England would conquer in the end was unshakeable. |
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Perhaps Saxon was secretly comforted by the conviction that only a preux chevalier would be worthy of Miss Colonna, and that the preux chevalier was certainly not forthcoming. |
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I felt no conviction of a burning sincerity, of that fire in the belly which made some of the wilder nonconformist parsons of my youth appear almost incandescent. |
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When, at the age of seventeen, one of his paintings was accepted at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, he was strengthened in his conviction to become an artist. |
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Pryce Davies preaching on the necessity of partaking of Holy Communion Harris came to the conviction that he had received mercy through the blood of Christ. |
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Her manner was brisk, and her good-breeding scarcely concealed her conviction that if you were not a soldier you might as well be a counter-jumper. |
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I might refer to the general conviction and the common sense of society that such an investment cannot be treated as absolutely idle and nugatory. |
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Stone, his voice tiringly big in this acoustic sang with conviction. |
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Eric Elliott, defending, said McPhee, who was a previous excess alcohol conviction, had either fallen asleep at the wheel through general drowsiness or suffered a black-out. |
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The Bench generally comprises three Appeal Sheriffs when considering appeals against conviction, and two appeal sheriffs when considering appeals against sentence. |
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The leading journal of the Schutzstaffel was suspicious of what it astutely perceived as Schmitt's lack of conviction regarding his identification with the party's mission. |
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Calling someone a killer, an arsonist, a crook, a rapist, or a child molester can get any medium in trouble unless there is proof or a conviction to back up the label. |
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The elder Bell took great efforts to have his young pupil learn to speak clearly and with conviction, the attributes that his pupil would need to become a teacher himself. |
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A verdict of guilty in a criminal case is generally followed by a judgment of conviction rendered by judge, which in turn be followed by sentencing. |
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His conviction for a Birmingham pub robbery in 1984 was quashed last year. |
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On 8 June 2011, the former MP Elliot Morley was expelled following his conviction on charges of false accounting in connection with the British parliamentary expenses scandal. |
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In English admiralty law, piracy was classified as petit treason during the medieval period, and offenders were accordingly liable to be drawn and quartered on conviction. |
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This is the conviction that economists' understanding of the business cycle is meager in light of the knowledge necessary for activist countercyclical policy to be effective. |
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Coulson had resigned as the paper's editor following the conviction of a reporter in relation to illegal phone hacking, although stating that he knew nothing about it. |
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His father died on 24 January 1895, aged 45, leaving Churchill with the conviction that he too would die young and so should be quick about making his mark on the world. |
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In taking this approach, Aquinas is moved by the conviction that teaching the thought of Aristotle would require changes to the trivium and quadrivium. |
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The conviction comes days after water bailiffs and wildlife police discovered a poacher's net containing 60 large sea trout worth around PS1500 in the Tyne. |
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The conviction that my personal, worldly life was something real and good constituted the misunderstanding, the obstacle, that prevented me from comprehending Jesus doctrine. |
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This mature young pianist can convey everything with conviction, from poignant bell-like floating melodies, to torrential arpeggios and monumental pianistic nobilities. |
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And he sets industriously to the task of cleaning, renovating and exploring his overgrown property with the steady uncircumspect conviction of a true handyman. |
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The divorce court was overturned when it rendered a criminal conviction against a party, because it lacked the subject matter jurisdiction to hear a criminal case. |
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A sense of comradeship rather than political conviction led him, while still a student, to join the Kelmscott House Socialist Club in Hammersmith. |
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As John Harley has shown, it is probable that Byrd's parental family were Protestants, though whether by deeply felt conviction or nominal conformism is not clear. |
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However, the biography in question was consistent with Carlyle's own conviction that the flaws of heroes should be openly discussed, without diminishing their achievements. |
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Her conviction that such forces could improve society connects her biographical approach with that of other early feminist historians such as Mary Hays and Anna Jameson. |
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A prime example of the professional is Earl Shumway, whose five-year, three-month prison term is the toughest sentence ever imposed for an ARPA conviction. |
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Following conviction, the Senate may vote to further punish the individual by barring him or her from holding future federal office, elected or appointed. |
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Once an individual is impeached, he or she must then face the possibility of conviction via legislative vote, which then entails the removal of the individual from office. |
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The primary means of restoring civil rights that are lost as a result of a felony conviction are executive clemency and Expungement in the United States. |
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Poet Michael Kruger feels with unmistakable conviction that one purpose in life is to fully illustrate how a day without poetry is a day lost forever. |
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In some neighborhoods with high rates of felony conviction, this creates a situation where many felons live with a constant threat of being arrested for violating parole. |
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In some states, all or most felonies are placed into one of various classes according to their seriousness and their potential punishment upon conviction. |
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A person who has committed a felony is a felon, and upon conviction of a felony in a court of law a person is known as a convicted felon or a convict. |
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The RSPCA were well aware that ratting was legally ambiguous, and when they received a report of a conviction for ratting in Hull in 1868 they doubted the legality of it. |
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Adolphus Egerton Ryerson was his full name, but he insisted on being called Egerton Ryerson, under the mistaken conviction that this was much more matey than Adolphus. |
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