"convict him for" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to indicate that someone is being held responsible for a particular crime or offense. For example: The jury found the defendant guilty and convicted him for first-degree murder.
"No one is going to convict him for just failing to file his financial reports," Mr. Brand said.
This was a reference to the imprisonment of the Chicago gangster for "tax evasion" in 1931 after the US authorities had failed to convict him for his criminal activities.
Describing how a young Tanzanian man had joined a crew of terrorists inspired by Osama bin Laden's call to attack Americans anywhere in the world, a federal prosecutor asked a jury in closing arguments on Monday to convict him for his role in the deadly bombings of two United States embassies in East Africa.
If there is reasonable doubt as to whether Trump could have formed the mens rea to obstruct justice due to mental disease, or if he appears mentally incompetent to be tried or to plead guilty, then Congress may be even less willing to decide to impeach and convict him for high crimes.
This may be why the jury found Mr Adoboli guilty only of two counts of fraud, but acquitted him of the four charges of false accounting he also faced (although it seems strange to convict him for dishonesty but not for the mechanisms that he is supposed to have used).Mr Adoboli's other line of defence was that UBS's management had encouraged him to take greater risk.
Speaking to the BBC, he said: "Obviously the jury didn't think it was serious enough to convict him for manslaughter".
Bonds, though, seemed to have a good day in court on Thursday if not in the court of public opinion, which has already convicted him for unrepentant surliness.
An Indonesian court sentenced a suspected member of the militant group Jemaah Islamiyah to death after convicting him for plotting the Bali nightclub bombing that killed 202 people in October.
His claims that the authorities wrongly convicted him for the attempted murder of two New York City police officers, then stuck him in a cell for nearly 19 years, have been around since the era when Huey P. Newton was raising his fist in a call for black power.
Khodorkovsky spent a decade in Russian jails, and when in 2010 a court convicted him for a second time, the lengthy prison sentence was announced on 30 December, when most Russians were focused on the new year holiday.
