Historically, the F.B.I. was oriented overwhelmingly toward finding admissible evidence for producing convictions in court.
Lawyers credited revelations from a "love triangle" for producing a rare conviction for insider trading today, as the former Belgo boss Tim Power admitted leaking price-sensitive information about the sale of the restaurant chain.
Our legal system is not a machine for producing the maximum number of convictions, regardless of the law.
But over the next couple of hours another 15 or so comments poured in, praising New York Life for supporting the LGBT community, for producing a dedicated (and "really useful") site, and for having the courage of our convictions.
The administration estimates that the $200 surcharge for an unsafe driving conviction will produce $45 million a year, and the added point charges, $5 million.
In October 2008 a federal jury convicted him of receiving $250,000 from an oil-services company for home renovations, a conviction that produced a frenzy of media reports about the senator's big-spending ways.
Rather, it is the ongoing product of faith and conviction, produced by charitable dollars and sweat.
"We will do this with absolute conviction that we are producing something extraordinary for Brazil and the world," Temer said.
Legal challenges after previous elections have failed to produce a single conviction for electoral fraud.Fit for exportBetter elections should in the end help resolve Nigeria's existential question whether this wildly diverse country of 150m people from 250 ethnic groups created by British colonial masters can work.
His recent criminal conviction for tax fraud, along with a related prohibition from holding public office for several years, hasn't produced the sense of release and new beginnings that you might expect.
