Sentence examples for ever being convicted from inspiring English sources
With David Remnick June 3, 2016 In 2014, the New Yorker staff writer Jennifer Gonnerman wrote about Kalief Browder, a teen-ager from the Bronx who spent three years jailed at Rikers Island without ever being convicted of a crime.
By The New Yorker June 3, 2016 Kalief Browder was jailed at Rikers Island at the age of sixteen; he spent three years locked up without ever being convicted of a crime, and much of that time was spent in solitary confinement.
A 16-year-old transgender girl spent 77 days alone in a Connecticut prison without ever being convicted of, or even charged with, a crime.
Eventually, he's questioned by the authorities, detained for five years, and deported to a Kurdish city in Iraq without ever being convicted of a crime.
He spent years in some of the world's most notorious detention camps on suspicion of terrorism, without ever being convicted of any crime.
A Miami Herald report focused on Earl Sampson, a black man who had been stopped 258 times and jailed 56 times in four years, all without ever being convicted of a single crime.
She hopes to get a second job, Ms. Johnson said, but the first question on a supermarket application was, "Have you ever been convicted?" The court hearing on Wednesday will address three convictions for prostitution in 2006, when she was 17.
If – as is probable – they escape conviction by the ICC (only one man has ever been convicted by it, and even that took six years), the message created to accused politicians will be a simple one.
For example, if the job application specifically asks whether you have ever been convicted of a felony, you do not need to disclose misdemeanor convictions.
