Sentence examples for convicted whether from inspiring English sources

And we know that legal experts tend to believe that it will be very hard for Special Prosecutor Angela Corey's team to get Zimmerman convicted, whether for second-degree murder or some lesser offense.

As the legal commentator David Allen Green has pointed out, there is no reason why this provision could not be extended to cover all those convicted, whether living or dead, without the requirement for a personal application.

Although for a while Mrs. Patavino and her supporters asserted that she was being persecuted for her religion, Mr. Beck said that the state's evidence was strong and that she probably would have been convicted "whether she was a witch or a werewolf".

"The key thing is they are going to be investigated by the police and when they get investigated by the police and when the truth is out, it won't be a question of whether or not they have jobs or whether or not they resigned from those jobs, it's a question of whether they are going to be prosecuted, whether they are going to be convicted, whether they are going to be punished".

Among the properties confiscated are homes owned by women whose partners are accused of selling or storing drugs in their homes (they need not be convicted), whether or not the women were aware of their partners' activities.

Given the hodgepodge of state compensation laws, an exonerated prisoner's chances of receiving any significant sum depend on the state where he was convicted and whether he can find a lawyer willing to litigate a difficult case.

In the ruling Friday, however, three senior Scottish judges at the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh said "the critical question" in light "of the atrocity of which the applicant stands convicted" was whether the court should release him on compassionate grounds because of his health.

Ultimately, whether or not Lonina gets convicted will likely depend on whether the defense can successfully argue she was at the crime scene under duress or that she was merely trying to document the crime by posting it on Periscope, as her attorney has claimed.

The test for limiting our freedoms under the HRA, as in all modern bills of rights, lies in the necessity to take proportionate measures to prevent us doing harm to others or to protect the common good, not whether an individual belongs to a particular category of people, whether convicted prisoners or battlefield soldiers.

Constitutional experts are also looking at whether convicted terrorists who hold dual nationality can be stripped of their French citizenship.

Campaigners want the law updated to mean perpetrators can be convicted regardless of whether they intend to cause embarrassment or distress.