Sentence examples for became convicted from inspiring English sources

The next two mayors, Kenneth Gibson and Sharpe James, both African-American, also became convicted felons.

In the last week, John McCain died, there was a mass shooting in Florida, the pope was accused of covering up sexual abuse, and two of the president's close associates became convicted criminals.

Migrants in Australia who wound up involved in crime are outcasts in their own communities and are often ex-communicated when they become convicted as criminals.

In 2013 my stepbrother became a convicted terrorist – I watched on from the public gallery in the Old Bailey as he pleaded guilty to planning to join the Pakistani Taliban for terror training.

John Taht Washington, D.C. Danielle Allen's heart-achingly beautiful history of her cousin — who became a convicted felon at the age of fifteen, was incarcerated for eleven years, and was killed soon after his release — searches for explanations ("American Inferno," July 24th).

She'd been on the waiting list for public housing for two years, but after the robbery she became a convicted felon, which meant her chances of ever being approved were almost zero.

The accused, having become the convicted, shuffles sullenly back to his cell.

"What this case is about for Barry Bonds is not whether he goes to jail, not whether he becomes a convicted felon so much as it is his reputation," Mintz said.

I and my editor at SB Nation hoped to find possible answers as to what could have led to him to become a convicted rapist and sexual predator.

Second, prosecutors arbitrarily invoke a statute that is so vague, so poorly defined, and so ubiquitous that any man, woman, and child could become a convicted felon.

In the end of the two-part pilot, we see her become a convicted criminal, and that's just at the beginning of the series.