This would have involved a jury hearing details of the alleged abuse, and deciding whether it happened, without there being a possibility of Lord Janner entering a plea or facing conviction.
If a speaker purposely threatens someone, or knows that his statement "will be viewed as a threat", the court held, he could face conviction.
Mr. Navalny's assessment that he probably faces conviction, though possibly with a suspended sentence, is a departure from his earlier views on the cases against him, which are part of a larger crackdown on opposition figures here.
Asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her, she said: "He would, wouldn't he?" As he faced conviction, Ward took his own life.
"In my view there will be motorists who face conviction through ignorance rather than intention".
Unless of course the bad cop is making physical threats then it's up to you whether to speak and face conviction or say nothing and face injury.
Roman Polanski should be deported from Poland to the US to face sentence over a conviction for having sex with a minor in 1977, according to the leader of Poland's newly elected Law and Justice party.
One fifth of the current candidates are facing criminal convictions [according to research from the Association of Democratic Reforms].
The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida said Hunt was being criminalised for behaviour that "occurs every day in tens of thousands of high schools across the country, yet those other students are not facing felony convictions … and potential lifelong branding as sex offenders".
Arnold Friedman, facing certain conviction on pornography charges and hoping to separate his son's case from his own, pleaded guilty to the abuse charges in exchange for a promised sentence of 10 to 30 years.
