As I detail in my new book, "The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession," Traficant's history is much more sordid and disturbing than many realize, in ways that extend well beyond his conviction in 2002.
Fiorina, for her part, is ready with a poignant explanation for her position that goes beyond religious conviction — she's an irregular churchgoer, not devoted to any denomination — though she says that religion is part of it.
Today, few of Los Angeles's governing elites really know one another well, lunch together or golf together, or share much beyond a conviction that the whole notion of civic leadership must be broadened.
Their hostility toward the Administration is so consuming that it leaves little room for imaginative thinking about any alternative foreign policy beyond the conviction that, to paraphrase Kerry, we should be opening firehouses in New Orleans and closing them in Baghdad.
Black, renowned for his turns of phrase, also said he would like to move beyond his conviction rather than being "stigmatised for life, like a medieval leper, with bells on my head to warn the unsuspecting of the approach of moral taint and turpitude".
Aborn's progressive advocacy extends to other criminal justice issues beyond wrongful convictions, and that to me speaks to his authenticity on wrongful convictions as well as his being smart on crime.
"But the evidence was insufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt".
It's easy to forget three months have passed since conviction beyond a reasonable doubt took a holiday inside a courtroom in Perugia, Italy.
