The phrase "allows for conviction" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to indicate that something provides the opportunity or means for someone to be convinced or to reach a conclusion.
Example: "The evidence presented in the trial allows for conviction, as it clearly demonstrates the defendant's guilt."
Alternatives: "enables conviction" or "facilitates conviction".
But its lawyers deny that any official proceeding was under way, so no crime could be committed; federal prosecutors dismiss that argument, saying that the obstruction law allows for convictions even if the document destruction takes place before a preliminary inquiry has begun, so long as the defendant was trying to impede a future, easily anticipated inquiry.
The law, originally drawn up to target corrupt public officials, allows for the conviction of people who deprive constituents, employers or shareholders of their entitlement to "honest services".
The law allows for the conviction of gangsters, hit-men and getaway drivers, but lawyers worry that it also leads to people like Conteh being scooped up into convictions for crimes that they never intended to happen.
His argument makes sense: allow for religious conviction to enter into public discussion, but cut off government financial support for religious programs of any sort.
The same problems that allowed for the conviction of innocents have also left brutal crimes unsolved, leaving those affected to grieve and worry, with little hope of closure.
For example, the bill would allow adults to possess, purchase, ingest, smoke or grow marijuana; creates a process for the reclassification of marijuana convictions and resentencing of those currently incarcerated for marijuana-related offenses and allows for records of marijuana convictions to be sealed so as to not become an issue before an immigration judge.
Federal prosecutors now say Snipes should get the maximum three-year prison term allowed for his convictions, not only because of the amount of money involved–$14 million in gross unreported income in 1999, 2000 and 2001 alone but also because of the problematic publicity generated by the split decision in his case.
Not every state has a statute allowing for post-conviction hearings, and not every state gives defendants a right to counsel at those hearings — Maryland does.
Clarke was instrumental in helping us pass a DNA statute in California that allowed for post-conviction DNA testing [of evidence].
The South African legal system allows for different kinds of murder convictions, and the one that's relevant here is what is known as common-law murder with indirect intentions – or "dolus eventualis".
