Sentence examples for conviction in a proceeding from inspiring English sources

And they need to typically prove this after conviction in a proceeding in which they are not entitled to a lawyer.

Burton v. United States is the name of two appeals to the Supreme Court of the United States by Senator Joseph R. Burton (R-KS) following his conviction for compensated representation of a party in a proceeding in which the United States was interested: Burton v. United States, 196 U.S. 283 (1905) and Burton v. United States, 202 U.S. 344 (1906).

The distinction, upon which the contention is based, has regard simply to the difference in procedure between the case where the fact of former conviction is alleged in the indictment, and determined by the jury on the trial of the charge of crime, and the case where it is charged in the information, and determined by a jury in a proceeding thereby instituted.

The Caha case involved a perjury conviction where the defendant unsuccessfully argued that the federal court had no jurisdiction over a prosecution for the crime of perjury committed in a proceeding in a land office at Kingfisher, Oklahoma regarding ownership of real estate.

But in criminal cases a defendant whose conviction has become final on direct review in the state courts may nonetheless raise Federal constitutional objections to that conviction and sentence in a Federal habeas proceeding.

This is because someone who is convicted and sentenced to prison for a term of years in state court, and wishes to challenge that conviction and sentence in a Federal habeas proceeding, has every incentive to more promptly make that challenge.

Did the conviction result in a sentence?

The nullification trial reversed the conviction in part because the condemnation proceeding had failed to consider the doctrinal exceptions to that stricture.

Petitioner does not claim that his conviction of contempt for refusal to answer questions put to him in a state proceeding deprived him of liberty or property without due process of law in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment; that such a claim is without merit was settled in Twining v. State of New Jersey, 211 U.S. 78, 29 S.Ct.

"Investing is a conviction sport, and I developed a strong conviction in that meeting," he says.

Prosecutors proceeded with their case against Mr. Blanton and won a landmark conviction in May.