| On December 18, 1792 Thomas Paine was tried in absentia in England for sedition, and convicted. |
| He has a string of prior convictions and was arrested and was later convicted of abducting a prostitute and threatening to kill her. |
| The jury convicted and the Court of Appeal refused to quash the conviction. |
| Murderers and convicted racketeers will no longer be permitted to drive hazardous materials on the nation's interstates. |
| A federal jury convicted him on ten counts of bribery, corruption and racketeering. |
| In the mid-1990s he was fined for clocking cars and, more recently, was convicted of a passport fraud. |
