Sentence examples for conviction imposed on from inspiring English sources

In Offutt v. United States,239 acting under its supervisory powers over the lower federal courts, the Court set aside a criminal contempt conviction imposed on a lawyer after a trial marked by highly personal recriminations between the trial judge and the lawyer.

PAGE A10 APPEAL FOR REPORTER IN IRAN The chief of Iran's judiciary said that he had ordered a "careful, quick and fair" consideration of an appeal against the conviction and prison sentence imposed on an Iranian-American journalist.

That was after he finished 10 months of community service at a home for dementia patients – the sentence imposed on him following his conviction for tax fraud.

10 Thus Fiswick has a substantial stake in the judgment of conviction which survives the satisfaction of the sentence imposed on him.

The sentence imposed on LaRouche was excessive.

An appeals court in Brazil has unanimously upheld a corruption conviction imposed last July on ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

An equitable constitution would provide rights for all, including the religious, while ensuring that no minority convictions are imposed on the whole country.

Consistent with other recent work (Lott, 1992b), the results imply that increasing the arrest rate, independent of the probability of eventual conviction, imposes a significant penalty on criminals.

Mr. Erdogan, 48, was banned from taking part in the elections on Nov. 3, in which his party won an overwhelming legislative majority, because of a 1998 conviction for sedition imposed on him for reciting a poem with Islamist overtones at a political rally.

The organisation suggests that judges could also be involved in negotiations and evidence review to ensure that convictions are not imposed on the basis of unreliable confessions or guilty pleas alone.

"The United States is disappointed that today's appeals court decision in Iran does not overturn all of the convictions that were imposed on the 10 Iranian Jews," a State Department spokesman, Richard A. Boucher, said.