Sentence examples for conviction sets from inspiring English sources

The decision to uphold Oskar Gröning's conviction sets an important precedent for German prosecutors' efforts to pursue others who allegedly served at Nazi death camps.

Another suggestion might be that all is due to an opinion or judgement: some evil seems to have befallen the man or his belongings and this conviction sets up a state of trouble in the body and in the entire Animate.

You might not expect a rural Alabama mother with a felony conviction to have in her corner a national army of feminists, civil libertarians and gynecologists, but Kimbrough's case has attracted the interest of groups like Planned Parenthood, the A.C.L.U. and the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, who all maintain that her conviction sets a dangerous precedent.

But what of the youth, personality and vitality of others who might be affected by the precedent this conviction sets?

"This conviction sets a powerful precedent," said UNICEF Child Protection Specialist Pernille Ironside, an expert on the use of children by armed groups.

(a) Where, as here, a defendant who is convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment succeeds in having the conviction set aside on appeal, jeopardy has not terminated, so that a life sentence imposed in connection with the initial conviction raises no double-jeopardy bar to a death sentence on retrial.

His commitment and conviction set the tone as much as his suffocating defending.

Amazingly, no one who was framed by Perez and had his conviction set aside has been arrested again.

1075, 47 L.Ed.2d 267 (1976), or succeeded in having a conviction set aside on a ground other than the insufficiency of the evidence.

Both defendants were found guilty, and after unsuccessful efforts to have his conviction set aside, respondent applied for habeas corpus relief.

The tax fraud conviction set in motion a chain of events that many analysts believe could end Mr. Berlusconi's political career.