Sentence examples for been convicted for a from inspiring English sources

Mr. Clemmons had been convicted for a series of burglaries and robberies that began in 1989, and would not have been eligible for parole until 2021.

And where someone who wasn't a suspect becomes linked to a crime scene through a "hit" on the database, the vast majority of the time they are on the database because they have been convicted for a previous offence.

A Chinese-born researcher at Stanford University who was arrested here three years ago on charges of revealing state secrets has been convicted for a second time and given a 10-year sentence, according to relatives.

But I soon realized that what had seemed a smallish concern on the page could never pass muster on the screen: in the book, a white man in contemporary Missouri has been convicted for a murder actually committed by an African-American.

At their first sex offense, 49%% of these offenders were older than 21 years of age and 37 % had never been convicted for a prior sexual offense.

In this study, 24% of the study sample had been convicted for a hands-on sex offense against a minor.

"It does not feel right to me that someone who has been convicted for an extremely serious offence be able to return, in a way in which his victims were not able to, back to Libya," she said.

"But I became convinced more and more that he was convicted for a crime he didn't commit".

"Under both international and domestic law, a person is considered innocent until he is convicted for a crime," said Meenakshi Ganguly, the South Asia director for Human Rights Watch.

Similar incidents have occurred in the UK - in April, Robert Knowles became the first person in the country to be convicted for a drone-related offence.

Bulger soon resumed his criminal activities, and in 1956 he was convicted for a string of bank robberies committed in three states.