Sentence examples for convicted for contempt from inspiring English sources

He was convicted for contempt of court, a conviction that was finally overturned by Congress in 1962.

In a separate trial on this charge, he was convicted for contempt of court.

He continued, "I met Kevin doing community service, when I was convicted for contempt of court.

In 1958, Frank was convicted for contempt of Congress, and served 9 months in a Federal prison.

THE prime minister of Pakistan, Yousaf Raza Gilani, was convicted for contempt of court today, but judges who handed down his verdict have spared him time in jail.

One of Rehnquist's close associates there was Richard Kleindienst, who became President Nixon's assistant attorney general and was later convicted for contempt of Congress in the Watergate scandal.

In 2007 two journalists from the Herald Sun, Gerard McManus and Michael Harvey, were convicted of contempt for failing to reveal their source for a story about the Howard government scaling back recommended benefits for war veterans.

That same year he was convicted again, for contempt of a grand jury, and for the next several years served out his several sentences, obtaining release on June 20 , 1961 but losing U.S. citizenship that same year.

In 1951, as secretary of the bail fund of the Civil Rights Congress -- an organization designated a Communist front by the attorney general -- he was convicted of contempt of court for refusing to reveal who had put up bond for four Communists who had jumped bail.

They were convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to testify unless the hearing was opened to the public.

Istvan and Peter Toth were jailed for five years and four years respectively for the same offence, but both had nine months added to their sentences after being convicted of contempt of court for breaking bail.