Sentence examples for convicted him for from inspiring English sources

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.

Cuban authorities arrested Gross, now 65, in 2009 on suspicion of espionage and he was later convicted him for distributing banned technology and trying to set up internet service.

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.

The old man refused to confess to something he had not done and spent several weeks chained up in jail before a jury - hand-picked by Sir Herbert Lloyd, of course - convicted him for sheep stealing.

He successfully appealed the sentence that would have convicted him for supposedly gathering and colluding to harm national security.

The unlucky visitor, Harry Wu, is no friend of officialdom in Beijing he became famous for exposing China's exploitation of prison labour, for which, in 1995, the regime convicted him of "spying for Taiwan" and expelled him.

"No one is going to convict him for just failing to file his financial reports," Mr. Brand said.

"And now, now of all things, the commonwealth wants you to convict him for documenting the abuse that occurred in the archdiocese, … the evil that other men did.

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.

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.