Sentence examples for convictions disappear from inspiring English sources

Commissioner Kerik, who appeared before the council committee with Steven M. Fishner, the mayor's criminal justice coordinator, said the proposal "would give drug traffickers the opportunity to make their convictions disappear".

A pardon is an extraordinary tool in the state constitution that makes a conviction disappear.

His federal conviction and sentence could disappear entirely or be reduced by a presidential pardon, although the New York attorney general is charging him with mortgage fraud and falsifying business records — which suggests that his legal woes are far from over.

Her political convictions never disappeared.

Mr Wales' point about local laws - which used to mean old convictions simply disappeared from the record after a certain time - is one of the reasons for that support.

After his conviction, Schmitz disappeared from public view, reappearing a couple of years ago in New Zealand, having legally changed his name to Dotcom.

Whether it's to collect on a life-insurance policy, escape a criminal conviction, or to simply disappear, people have been playing dead for centuries.

But rather than turn himself in to serve a five-year sentence after his conviction, Mr. Mechanic disappeared, resurfacing outside Phoenix two years later as Gary Robert Tredway, the significance of which, if any, he declined to discuss in an interview here at the apartment-hotel he owns and manages.

His deep convictions would not permit him to disappear.

The man, Ali Lutfi Jassar al-Rawi, was in custody and appealing his conviction when he disappeared.

"They want a conviction, and they want this guy to disappear and never to see civilization again," Savage said.