Sentence examples for convicted of serving from inspiring English sources

Nearly three years ago, the two men, Stephen Caracappa and Louis J. Eppolito, were convicted of serving as assassins and spies for the Mafia while they were employed as detectives for the Police Department.

Reporting from London -- John Demjanjuk, a retired Ohio autoworker convicted of serving as a guard at a Nazi extermination camp and being complicit in the deaths of more than 28,000 people, died Saturday in Germany.

German police say John Demjanjuk, who was convicted last year of serving as a Nazi death camp guard, has died.

A German court convicted him of serving as a guard during World War II at the Nazis' Sobibor death camp where a quarter million Jews are estimated to have been murdered.

Most countries have prison systems where those convicted of crimes serve out their sentences.

The District follows federal prison rules, and all those convicted of crimes serve at least 85percentt of their sentences before probation.

Jackson's son, former U.S. Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-Ill)., convicted of fraud, served 23 months in federal prison in Butner, North Carolina.

Last January, a full-time soldier became the 11th person to be convicted of murder while serving in the regiment, although not all the cases have been sectarian.

He was convicted of manslaughter and served two years in prison for the crime.

Mr. Havel was quickly arrested, tried and convicted of subversion; he served three months in prison.

It is rare for high-profile Brazilian politicians convicted of crimes to serve time in prison.