He does, however, confront them with having failed to supply a convincing response to the radical critique Nāgārjuna had made of the very enterprise of grounding convictions on indisputable foundations.
The trouble was that Aiken wasn't authoritative, or rather that, as his letters and his poems show, his authority wasn't grounded in conviction.
Both the hidden assets and the use of a false name, if true, would be grounds for conviction on a charge of graft.
Federal prosecutors acknowledged that Mr. Milan never did any favors for the mob, but said that under federal law, simply taking a bribe was grounds for conviction.
Judge J. L. Edmondson asked if the jurors in the original trial had been given alternate ways to convict Mr. Siegelman and Mr. Scrushy, and suggested that if some of those grounds for conviction had been invalidated, "that's problematic".
They ruled that the confession by his alleged co-conspirator Abd al-Nasser al-Khamaiseh was admissible evidence but insufficient grounds for conviction, even though Abu Qatada had been sentenced to death on the same evidence 14 years ago.
But that obligation does not require my ferreting out of the record technical grounds for reversing a particular conviction, grounds which could not possibly have affected the jury's verdict of guilt as a factual determination.
Finally, a dual citizen will lose Australian citizenship if convicted of certain crimes: the conviction ground.
The stereotype has it that religiously grounded political convictions arise from otherworldly sources, are inscribed unambiguously in sacred texts (or interpreted unambiguously by irrefutable authorities) and must be followed almost slavishly.
It is not the function of this Court, in reviewing, on constitutional grounds, criminal convictions by state courts, to weigh the evidence on which the jury has pronounced its verdict, also in the light of the arguments of counsel, or to sit as a superjury.
Perhaps most damaging of all is his claim that Brown lacked "practical, on the ground, everyday-life conviction".
