After Mike Tyson was convicted of rape many blacks denounced the verdict as racist.
Even after they are convicted of corruption, many of the state's disgraced public servants continue to enjoy some degree of popular support when they return home, particularly from the political groups that propelled them to power.
An individual could be convicted of as many three federal misdemeanors and still qualify, and it is unclear if there is any limit on the number of state misdemeanor convictions (which include, in some cases, drunken driving, assault and some sexual offenses).
No one else in America has ever been convicted of killing so many people.
PML-Q has refused to back General Musharraf's more liberal initiatives, including at first his effort last year to overturn sexist laws of evidence that have ensured that over 80% of women prisoners in Pakistan are convicted of fornication, though many of them have been raped.
The doctor, Niels H. Lauersen, was convicted of something that many in his profession have quietly done for years: billing insurance companies for covered gynecological procedures to mask the uncovered fertility procedures he was performing.
Even if the two detainees are tried and convicted of the murder, many will want to know whose orders, if any, they were following.
More than 1,900 of them were not convicted of a crime, many of whom were being held in jail pretrial.
That said, it perhaps did not help that California registers so many people as sex offenders 63,000, including many convicted of relatively minor offences that it is hard to keep track of the most dangerous predators.
Hamas is demanding the release of 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Sergeant Shalit, including many convicted of deadly terrorist acts.
