Sentence examples for a conviction saying from inspiring English sources

WASHINGTON — In a final plea to jurors in the Roger Clemens perjury trial, prosecutors on Tuesday urged a conviction, saying it was obvious that Clemens had lied to Congress about his performance-enhancing drug use and concocted an elaborate cover-up to save his reputation.

At a hearing on Nov. 7, a juror, Shelly McGraw, testified that two jurors who were also educators tried to persuade the others toward a conviction, saying that teachers undergo training not to touch their students, and that since Mr. Scerbo had admitted to allowing children to sit on his lap, he must then have molested them.

"There is no joy in a conviction," said the Stevens County prosecutor, Tim Rasmussen.

"We need a conviction," said Marion Gray-Hopkins, the mother of Gary Hopkins, a college student who was killed by police 1999.

The law allows victims to sue for money, but only after a conviction, said Janine Kava, a spokeswoman for the state's Office of Victim Services.

"Full justice requires not just charges but a vigorous prosecution and a conviction," said attorney Demario Solomon Simmons.

Baker has a "conviction", said a columnist on Sunday in the Washington Post, "that Iraq is the central foreign policy issue confronting the US".

Baker has a "conviction", said a colleague in the Washington Post on Sunday, "that Iraq is the central foreign policy issue confronting the United States".

They have to be having some sleepless nights knowing that they were hours away from a conviction," said Robert A. Mintz, a former federal prosecutor and a partner at McCarter & English.

"My hope, and the hope of the community, is that the D.A. pursue this and get an indictment and a conviction," said Deborah Rose, who represents northern Staten Island on the City Council.

"I realized that relative to other stages in the system, like sentencing, there was not nearly as much research on pretrial detention, even though we could make an argument that this earlier stage may be more important because it could lead to someone avoiding a conviction," says Yang, who worked on the project with colleagues from Stanford and Princeton.