252, 17 L.Ed.2d 189, we reversed a conviction on the basis of Griffin v. State of California, 380 U.S. 609, 85 S.Ct.
The legal system cannot take away Mr. Holland's right to challenge his conviction on the basis of inexcusably awful lawyering.
I would reverse the petitioner's conviction on the basis of the general rule stated in Arndstein v. McCarthy, 254 U.S. 71, 41 S.Ct.
Mecartney and Soller were the only co-conspirators of petitioner named in the indictment and the setting aside of their convictions makes it impossible to sustain petitioner's conviction upon the basis of count 7, the conspiracy count.
In January of this year, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit threw out the conviction on the basis of its earlier ruling, in another detainee's case last October, that material support for terrorism was not a valid military commission charge.
Thus as we read the opinion of the Court of Appeals, it reviewed the judgment of conviction on the basis that all four confessions to the police had been submitted to the jury.
This conviction has some basis in fact: though the big Wall Street banks' net incomes are declining, the five largest commercial banks did still hold forty-five per cent of the industry's total assets at the end of 2014.
She talked about her conviction that the basis of global economics is driving both climate change and the financial crisis and she called on her rich audience to take up the challenge of finding a new way to tackle trade.
The Court unanimously affirmed Mr. Hirabayashi's conviction on the basis that "residents having ethnic affiliations with an invading enemy may be a greater source of danger than those of a different ancestry".
If the new evidence cited by Mr. Conrad is simply Mr. Gore's most recent statements, it is unlikely that a special prosecutor could get a perjury conviction on that basis.
In the Clinton case, conversely, Democrats stuck together and voted en masse against the House impeachment, and Republicans were unable to secure a conviction on the basis of just their own party's votes in the Senate.
