Sentence examples for cases convicted from inspiring English sources

This means that in some cases, convicted dealers are back on the streets with their records wiped clean and sealed.

In some cases, convicted criminals have finished their sentences only to find themselves back in detention because their visas were canceled.

The charges roiled the states' leaders, in part because a steady stream of elected officials have been accused of wrongdoing, and in many cases convicted and imprisoned, in recent years.

On Feb. 5, the special tribunal hearing the cases convicted Abdul Quader Mollah, 65, now a leader of the Jamaat party, on charges of rape and mass murder and sentenced him to life in prison.

To his credit, Mr. Corzine kept enough of a distance from party bosses that he avoided any taint of personal corruption, even as a succession of New Jersey Democratic officials were investigated — and in many cases, convicted — for cashing in on their offices.

In several chilling cases, convicted "murderers" have endured torture and years in jail only to have their "victim" turn up alive.

A jury in a criminal case convicted Ms. Woodward, now 20, of second-degree murder on Oct. 30, 1997.

The jury in that case convicted Mr. Ragsdale but did not conclude that his motive was silencing a witness.

The British Columbia Securities Commission pursued the case, convicted the three in 1996 and, after having its position weakened on appeal, negotiated a settlement last year.

"The government prosecutes people and, in this case, convicted him probably because he didn't go out and take affirmative steps to find out where customers in Mexico, where they were buying their U.S. dollars," Mr. Ross said.

Since some of the refuseniks worked for Soviet defense outfits, the Soviet court, following much the same logic the Russian court seems to have followed in Kravtsov's case, convicted Shcharansky of divulging state secrets.