Bad convictions have cost California millions of dollars, report says.
Whether or not that argument has legal merit, Hood is not obligated to defend bad convictions.
Smith told me, "I have two big convictions: one is environmentalism, and the other is that war is bad".
And it is what good actors bring to movies, even bad ones: discipline, conviction, the ability to help us suspend our disbelief by persuading us that they believe in what they are doing.
But it was also because, like Dr Feelgood's Lee Brilleaux, Black Sabbath seemed to believe that rock'n'roll was fundamentally "music about bad luck", a conviction they clung to in the teeth of vast commercial success.
Steinbrenner told The New York Times in 1988 that he felt bad about the conviction and was willing to bear responsibility for the crimes, but said they happened because he did not understand what the campaign finance act required of him.
Though the cast are all pros who do their darndest to deliver the bewilderingly bad dialogue with conviction, even an Oscar winner like Theron can't sell lines like, "A humble pawn can bring down kingdoms".
(She sang "Take Off Your Shoes," a new song conceived as God's rejoinder to the Vatican, blunting a dissenter's conviction with bad lyrics: "You're running out of battery/And I don't see no bunnies 'round here").
They summoned Eichmann to his feet and gave him the bad news about his conviction, which had not been expected until the very end of the two-day reading of the judgment.
Judged by motives, it may be done in good faith or bad faith, out of conviction, boredom or vanity, by genuinely well-intentioned business leaders or by cynical bosses looking to dupe their consumers.
