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2 unusual facts about Conviction


Capital punishment in India

In recent years, the death penalty has been imposed under new anti-terrorism legislation for people convicted of terrorist activities.

Marty Grabstein

His television credits include parts on all three Law & Order series, Third Watch, and Conviction.


Abraham Hirschfeld

On at least three occasions, Hirschfeld called into The Howard Stern Show to discuss his conviction and jail time.

Åke Green

However, the Supreme Court also stated that the freedom of expression as well as freedom of religion provided by the European Convention on Human Rights, which is superior to Swedish law, gives him protection, since jurisprudence shows that a conviction would probably not be upheld by the European Court.

Al Rooney

Rooney was one of the first gang leaders to be imprisoned and, with his conviction of second degree murder in 1911, is considered one of the last generation gang captains of the "Gangs of New York" period.

Animal Liberation Leagues

The University of Surrey was raided by SEALL, but the only conviction was of a woman who had taken out a dog from the laboratory.

Anthony Hawke

Hawke sat with Lord Chief Justice Hewart and Mr Justice Branson in the Court of Criminal Appeal on 18 and 19 May 1931 to hear an appeal against a conviction for murder in R. v. Wallace.

Boyd v. United States

It is not the breaking of his doors and the rummaging of his drawers that constitutes the essence of the offense; but it is the invasion of his indefeasible right of personal security, personal liberty, and private property, where that right has never been forfeited by his conviction of some public offense, it is the invasion of this sacred right which underlies and constitutes the essence of Lord Camden's judgment.

Burton baronets

The fourth and last Baronet was imprisoned for debt in 1710 and following conviction for theft in 1722 was transported.

Columbia State University

In 1997 Pellar was convicted of criminal contempt for violating an earlier injunction against making false representations, issued in connection with a "permanent makeup" business and a paralegal training academy, and in 1998 he was sentenced to 67 months in prison for the contempt conviction.

Constantia Jones

Historian Peter Linebaugh asserts that regardless of her guilt or innocence, her conviction on such flimsy evidence indicates the bias of 18th-century English courts against the trade of prostitution and those who worked in the industry.

Criminal records in the United States

Congressman Charles B. Rangel proposed the Second Chance Act in 2007, 2009, and 2011, which was intended to "amend the federal criminal code to allow an individual to file a petition for expungement of a record of conviction for a nonviolent criminal offense".

Earl Washington

Earl Washington, Jr. (born 1960), former Virginia death-row inmate whose conviction was overturned

Georgia Alliance of African American Attorneys

The organization hosts Continuing Legal Education opportunities yearly, as well as its signature event at the State Bar Annual meeting, known as the "Conviction of Honor".

Gross indecency

It also titles a play by Moisés Kaufman about Oscar Wilde's conviction for the former offence: Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde.

Gu Chujun

As an outcome of the Lang–Gu dispute, in January 2008, Gu was sentenced to 12 years in prison and a fine of 6.8 million yuan after a conviction for falsifying corporate reports.

Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr

USAF Lieutenant Colonel Joseph L. Romano, at the time of the conviction commander of the 37th Training Group of the 37th Training Wing, and 21 of the American defendants received five-year prison sentences.

Irvin C. Scarbeck

He tried to appeal his conviction to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Israel–United Kingdom relations

The Crown Prosecution Service later revealed that it had received an application for an arrest warrant but no conclusion had been reached on whether there was sufficient evidence to support conviction.

J. Kanakaraj

Later this case was to lead to the conviction of former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa for granting an illegal exemption to the hotel.

Jack Thomas

Joseph T. Thomas, known as Jack, Australian citizen whose conviction for receiving funds from Al-Qaeda was overturned on appeal

Jeannemarie Devolites Davis

Devolites Davis also claimed that Petersen's campaign uploaded a video to YouTube which brought up her daughter's armed robbery conviction of several years ago.

Jesse Wayne Brazel

He had been involved in a gunbattle with Lee and another man while working on the Albert Jennings Fountain disappearance case, resulting in one of Garrett's deputies being killed, and the eventual arrest but not conviction of Lee.

John H. Hannah, Jr.

The investigation ended in the conviction of House Speaker Gus Mutscher for conspiring to accept bribes from promoter Frank Sharp, in the form of loans from the Sharpstown State Bank.

Joji Obara

Former prosecutor Takeshi Tsuchimoto, now a professor of criminal procedure law at Hakuoh University Law School, criticised the decision to acquit Obara for the murder of Lucie Blackman by pointing to the conviction of Masumi Hayashi due to circumstantial evidence.

Jon Riley

Because Riley deserted before the US declared war against Mexico, he was not sentenced to execution following his conviction at the court martial held in Mexico City in 1847.

José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz

Returning to world of high finance despite a 1992 conviction of operating a brokerage with a revoked licence, Martínez de Hoz became a member of the board of directors of two Arbitrage houses: Rohm Group and the Banco General de Negocios ("General Business Bank").

Lee Clegg

A set of appeals to the Court of Appeal and House of Lords led to the quashing of the murder conviction in 1998 and a re-trial in March 1999, on the grounds that new evidence suggested that the fourth bullet entered the side of the car.

Malice Green

In March 2003 this conviction was overturned by the Michigan Court of Appeals, but in September 2003, the Michigan Supreme Court upheld that conviction.

Michael Francke

In February 1991, prior to Gable's conviction, the Michael Francke story was featured on an episode of the TV program Unsolved Mysteries.

Mirko Vidović

Due to the practical concerns of religious service of his faith, Vidović soon came into conflict with the contemporary Youth Committee of the SKBiH: his public act of grief for the death of the Pope Pius XII brough him he conviction of ten days in prison.

Morgan Dana Harrington

Crimestoppers has offered a $100,000 reward and the band, Metallica, has added an additional $50,000 reward for information leading to a conviction.

Nasser Mohammadkhani

His mistress, Shahla Jahed, was convicted of the murder, and was executed in 2010, following the completion of the appeals procedure after Supreme Court judges ruled that her initial conviction (based as it was on a confession she made under duress) was unacceptable.

New York Court for the Trial of Impeachments

Votes against conviction: Judges Ward Hunt (Rep.), Lewis B. Woodruff (Rep.), Charles Mason (Rep.), William J. Bacon (Rep.), Thomas W. Clerke and Charles C. Dwight; State Senators Chapman, Banks, Campbell, Hubbard, Humphrey, Kennedy, Mattoon, Morgan, Wicks, Palmer, Parker, Thayer, Van Patten - 19

New York's 27th State Senate district

It was represented by Senator Carl Kruger (D) until he resigned in December, 2011, after conviction for bribery conspiracy, triggering a special election.

Nick Davies

After the London Daily News folded he moved to the USA for a year, where he wrote White Lies, about the wrongful conviction of a black janitor, Clarence Brandley, for the murder of a white girl.

Ottawa Fringe Festival

Ottawa playwright and actor Pierre Brault's one person show, Blood on the Moon, tells of the trial, (perhaps wrongful) conviction, and execution of Patrick J. Whelan for D'Arcy McGee's murder.

Robert Aspland

On his recovery in 1819, he brought about the formation of the Association for protecting the Civil Rights of Unitarians; and that being the year of the conviction of Richard Carlile for publishing Tom Paine's The Age of Reason, Aspland was engaged in controversy on the subject in the columns of The Times.

Robert Lowry, Baron Lowry

He also presided over the supergrass trial in 1983 where Kevin McGrady, a former IRA member, gave evidence which led to the conviction of seven out of ten defendants.

Satyakam

Satyapriya's conviction is guided by his ascetic grandfather 'Daddaji' Satyasharan Acharya (Ashok Kumar)'s world views, whose pursuit of truth has led to him living in isolation in a Gurukula studying religious philosophy and observing a variety of rigid rituals.

Scott Harshbarger

Amongst the cases his office handled he obtained the conviction of Gerald Amirault and other employees of the Fells Acres Day Care Center in Malden, Massachusetts.

Shaka Sankofa

Sankofa's supporters, including Coretta Scott King, bishop Desmond Tutu, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and celebrities Danny Glover, Kenny Rogers, Lionel Richie, Harry Belafonte and Ruby Dee, brought his case international attention, arguing that his conviction was based on the claim that the testimony of a single eyewitness who said she saw him for a few seconds in the dark parking lot committing the murder.

Sheffield incest case

The Sheffield incest case concerns the conviction in November 2008 in Sheffield Crown Court of a 54-year-old English businessman who, undetected over a period of 25 years, committed rape of his two daughters, fathering seven surviving children with them.

Stephanie Marie Rose

Rose's work in the U.S. attorney's office has involved some controversy surrounding the Postville Raid and the conviction and sentence of Agriprocessors kosher slaughterhouse chief Sholom Rubashkin of Postville, Iowa on 86 financial fraud-related federal charges and his subsequent 27-year sentence in federal prison.

Thatcher baronets

Following Mark's conviction for his part in the 2004 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état attempt there was pressure from some MP's for him to the stripped of the title.

The revival of viable hereditary titles was a matter of some controversy at the time of its creation and again in 2004 following Mark Thatcher's conviction in relation to the 2004 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état attempt.

Triple modular redundancy

The three pre-cogs in Minority Report lead to a conviction, even when one is in the minority.

Vincent Leibell

After a long career in the New York State Legislature, Leibell ran for and was elected county executive in 2010, but resigned prior to taking office following an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation which led to his arrest and subsequent conviction on federal corruption charges.

Was Justice Denied?

The show features Burton Roberts, Charlie Stone and Jeralyn Merritt, as they reviewed the facts surrounding the 1996 conviction of Dale Helmig for the murder of his 55-year-old mother, Norma, who was found floating in the Osage River in Linn, Missouri.

The second case involved the 1992 conviction of Beverly Monroe for the shooting death of her wealthy, long-time lover, 60-year-old art collector Roger de la Burde in Powhatan, Virginia.

Yi I

He also participated in the writing of the Myeongjong Annals and at 34, authored Dongho Mundap, an eleven-article political memorial devoted to clarifying his conviction that a righteous government could be achieved.

Yung Krall

She played a role in the capture and conviction of North Vietnamese spies Ronald Humphrey and David Truong.


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