Sentence examples for definitive conviction from inspiring English sources

A definitive conviction would result in a five-year ban from public office for Mr. Berlusconi.

His opponents, meanwhile, say the definitive conviction means Berlusconi's eviction from parliament is a legal requirement.

In Italy, no one is considered guilty until a definitive conviction in this court.

Until Thursday night not a single one of Berlusconi's many court cases had ended in his definitive conviction.

Speaking in Florence, Stephanie Kercher, Meredith's sister, said Thursday's ruling had just been a "step" on the path to a definitive conviction.

His conviction for fraud may have been upheld by the supreme court, delivering a definitive conviction for the first time in his long career.

But Berlusconi has since been hampered by investigations into his own businesses and private life, although his conviction this year for tax fraud at his TV company was his first definitive sentence after he beat other convictions on appeal or saw them timed out by the statute of limitations.

Later, in the lower house of parliament, a vindicated Letta said it was time to call a halt to the threats and ultimatums which had dominated the coalition since Berlusconi's first definitive criminal conviction on 1 August.

Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's longest-serving postwar prime minister, has been handed his first definitive criminal conviction in more than 20 years of legal battles but the country's supreme court spared him the immediate prospect of being barred from public office.

Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's longest-serving postwar prime minister, has railed against the country's "uncontrollable and uncontrolled" judiciary and accused them of persecuting him with a "fury that has no equal anywhere in the civilised world" hours after being handed his first definitive criminal conviction in more than two decades of legal battles.

The original conviction was upheld on appeal, increasing the likelihood of a definitive sentence.