"While the N.Y.P.D. should continue to have the ability to stop and frisk people where there is a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity, I remain convinced that with better monitoring, supervision and accountability we can avoid the corrosive impact of a poorly targeted program," Ms. Quinn said in a statement.
By cobbling together a constituency of moralist, who are philosophically opposed to the death penalty, and fiscal conservatives, who believe the death penalty is a waste of taxpayer money, a disturbingly deceptive campaign almost convinced voters to overturn the ultimate criminal penalty in both past and future cases.
You feel convinced, when you convince someone.
Thompson, wearing aviator shades and Acapulco shirts and smoking with a cigarette holder, frequently tipped these bellhops to page R. Nixon or, more often, Martin Bormann, the Nazi war criminal who, Thompson had become convinced, was hiding out somewhere in the jungle.
Eslinger's office began a criminal investigation into the cafes and convinced Bondi and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to join in.
I am also convinced that, together, we will succeed in building this criminal justice area, this area of law which should characterise a community of citizens which quite rightly have the right to enjoy quality justice, in whichever Member State they find themselves.
While the BBC's Martin Bashir gave her a platform to declare her innocence, American media remained convinced of her guilt and named her the most "notorious criminal convicted in Massachusetts" 10 years after she was released.
It seems equally clear from Powers's review that Wright's point of departure for "A Father's Law" was Woolrich's "Charlie Won't Be Home Tonight" (Dime Detective, July 1939), in which a middle-aged cop (white, of course) slowly becomes convinced, as does Wright's black cop protagonist, that the criminal he's seeking is his son.
I came to the end no less convinced – as I'd guess Gove secretly was even then – that hanging criminals is a travesty, but buoyed in the belief that he could make a good Justice Secretary.
But Mr. Barry, who has helped to win the release of several inmates, is so convinced of Mr. Wong's innocence that, he said, "I would willingly cease practicing criminal investigations if I could be proven wrong".
