Sentence examples for convicted state from inspiring English sources

As the son of convicted state enemies, Mr. Antonov-Ovseyenko was himself arrested in 1940.

If Mr. Monserrate is convicted, state law requires that he be expelled from the Senate.

They continue to receive tens of thousands of habeas petitions from convicted state prisoners, almost all of which will be denied.

By almost any measure, the use, and abuse, of habeas by convicted state prisoners is a failure, one that could corrode one of the most revered pillars of our legal system.

If habeas is chiefly seen as a way for convicted state prisoners to get federal courts to review countless meritless claims, this will diminish public respect for the writ and leave it vulnerable to broader attacks.

In relegating the fates of convicted state prisoners to discretionary acts of gubernatorial grace, the Supreme Court has thrown the fundamental question of guilt or innocence straight into the lion's dean of partisan politics.

And to ensure that no sober drivers are wrongly convicted, states should judge impairment by field sobriety tests of motor skills and brain function rather than arbitrary concentrations of THC in the bloodstream.

Technically, information about people convicted of state security offenses is a state secret, and officials who reveal it without authorization are subject to prosecution.

The state pays a slightly higher per diem than the city's rate to house OPP inmates convicted on state charges.

A Wisconsin jury convicted a state worker, Georgia Thompson, on that theory in 2006 (her conviction was quickly reversed in federal court).

Mr. Atwater already faces the death penalty if convicted on state murder charges.