Sentence examples for first ever conviction from inspiring English sources
Significantly, the International Criminal Court (ICC) began seeking their first ever conviction of illegal forced displacement in 2014, in the Bosco Ntaganda case.
This landmark ruling may result in the first ever conviction for the recruitment of child soldiers.
In fact, Devcon says it assisted law enforcement in the first-ever conviction for online ad theft and money laundering, which resulted in a four-year prison sentence.
The June, 2001, trial resulted in the first-ever convictions of Guatemalan military officers for a state-sponsored execution.
The court has issued the first ever genocide conviction by an international tribunal, as well as the first conviction in which rape was considered a crime of war.
This is the first ever espionage conviction against a whistleblower.
Assange went on to call Lind's ruling "the first ever espionage conviction against a whistleblower," and, in turn, "a dangerous precedent and an example of national-security extremism".
To have amassed the evidence to secure the first ever criminal convictions for cricket corruption is a major breakthrough, a genuine triumph of investigative journalism for the News of the World and its reporter Mazher Mahmood, who has always insisted it did not involve phone hacking.
The conviction is the first ever against a major accounting firm and was based on the first criminal indictment stemming from the government's investigation into the events that led to Enron's collapse in December.
Re "Justices Agree to Take Up Life-Without-Parole Sentences for Young Offenders" (news article, May 5): There are currently almost 2,500 people serving sentences of life without parole for crimes committed before age 18. Fifty-nine pereceivedceived their sentences for their first-ever criminal conviction.
