Sentence examples for failed to convict from inspiring English sources

They said the obstruction conviction would not stand because the jury failed to convict Bonds on any of the counts that directly alluded to Bonds's suspected drug use.

But the jury failed to convict the bankers.

Five police investigations over more than two decades have failed to convict the murderer.

The true injustice of the situation, Sick Boy notes, is that callous officials who specialize in keeping down the "lower orders" failed to convict the killer.

The cases have become a battleground between the executive branch of government and the judiciary, which have failed to convict a single prominent organized-crime suspect.

A federal jury failed to convict any of the former leaders of a Muslim charity charged with financing Middle Eastern terrorists.

In many cases, those governments conduct halfhearted investigations and fail to convict offenders.

He also noted that Russian courts almost never fail to convict, so a guilty verdict is virtually assured.

The premise underpinning its justice system is that it is far worse to convict wrongly than to fail to convict at all.

Yet how can this be if the prosecutor is made subject to suit by those whom he accuses and fails to convict?

"If the judges fail to convict Karadžić for genocide in 1992 in Prijedor, it will be a slap in the face of the victims.