Sentence examples for a controversial conviction from inspiring English sources

And they shared a controversial conviction.

It was a groundbreaking case that ended in Carter's controversial conviction.

After 13 years in custody, Khadr, 29, was released from an Edmonton prison on $5,000 bail in May pending his appeal of his controversial conviction for war crimes by a military tribunal in the US.

Dawson's office was sensitive to charges of Bush Justice Department politicization of recent public-corruption prosecutions, most notably the controversial conviction of Alabama's Governor Don Siegelman, a Democrat, in 2006.

With apologies to Billy Wilder and William Holden as Joe Gillis in "Sunset Boulevard," that is how Cameron Todd Willingham's voice-over might begin "Incendiary," a wildly and broadly appealing, nearly completed documentary about his controversial conviction and eventual execution in Texas.

Mr. Kuh, who was then an assistant district attorney in Manhattan, was the prosecutor who won the controversial conviction of Lenny Bruce on obscenity charges.

Wakefield's least controversial conviction may be the belief that some symptoms of autism — repetitive body movements, leaning over furniture, self-injury — might be symptoms of gastrointestinal distress in an autistic population unable to verbalize that discomfort.

Given the kudos he gets when politically controversial conviction rates go up, you would think that the director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer, would be delighted that fewer cases were being referred to his team, possibly suggesting that they are the cases police consider most likely to succeed.

Foreign investors shied from Mother Russia in the wake of the controversial conviction of ex- Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

Glossip's legal team released "dozens" of pages of documents that cast further doubt on his controversial conviction.

(Granted, Hollande's personality wasn't the most engaging up until last year, and Ségolène Royal regularly stole his thunder, but Hollande's transformation in 2011 was not just physical – the man found a voice and strong, controversial convictions in the process, all of which Bayrou still sorely lacks).