Sentence examples for convictions set from inspiring English sources

Although District Attorney Denis Dillon agreed to have the convictions set aside, he stopped short of dropping the original charges, pending a review of the evidence.

"I am keenly aware that there are convictions set aside all over the country when we learn later during deliberations a juror looked up the keyword or the key name," the judge said at the hearing, held this month.

"These convictions set an important precedent, since just over a year ago seeing Hosni Mubarak as a defendant in a criminal court would have been unthinkable," said Joe Stork, HRW's deputy Middle East director.

That same year, Fred Korematsu and Gordon Hirabayashi filed petitions to have their convictions set aside for "manifest injustice".

In the 261 exonerations based upon DNA evidence, clear evidence of innocence, approximately 20percentt of the convictions set aside were based upon false confessions.

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

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

Julian Assange, who struck up a relationship with Manning as the private leaked information, said the espionage conviction set a "dangerous precedent".

But Mr. Reyes failed to have the conviction set aside when Judge Breyer denied a motion to throw out the case.

The following year they were back at BAM, this time playing on the big Opera House stage with Pièces en Concert and Stabat Mater, a work about religious conviction set to music by Pergolesi.

In the Jeffrey Blake case, as soon as we suspected that Mr. Garner had lied, we conducted our own investigation and as a result joined with the Legal Aid Society to have Mr. Blake's conviction set aside.