Sentence examples for grounds for a conviction from inspiring English sources

Proof that an insider traded on secret information material to a stock's value has long been grounds for a conviction.

The European Court of Human Rights rejected his argument that French law on insider trading was not sufficiently clear to provide grounds for a conviction.

From the beginning, Juror 9's attitude had been that the defendant had done the wrong thing, that he had almost certainly gotten involved in something risky and stupid, but that this alone was not grounds for a conviction.

It's been a while since the mere possession of a downtown address has been grounds for a conviction that you're in on anything that's really worth being in on, now that the artists and hipsters have been replaced by day-trippers bearing Prada shopping bags and millionaires buying apartments — the kind of people who, in their search for edge, have erased any remaining traces of it.

It's been a while since the mere possession of a downtown address has been grounds for a conviction that you're in on anything that's really worth being in on, now that the artists and hipsters have been replaced by day-trippers bearing Prada shopping bags and millionaires buying apartments the kind of people who, in their search for edge, have erased any remaining traces of it.

Newly discovered evidence of innocence, said the court, was not sufficient grounds for overturning a conviction.Once the appeals are exhausted and execution day approaches, the case is considered by the Board of Pardons and Paroles.

First came the acquittal of George Zimmerman, in July, and the public outcry about what it means that a young black teen-ager, Trayvon Martin, could be left dead on the ground with no definitive basis for a conviction.

They just don't happen to be grounds for a murder conviction.

In a characteristically deft addition, Macintyre quotes the judgment of the appeal court in the case of one of his victims: "Discourtesy, even gross discourtesy, to counsel, however regrettable, could not be a ground for quashing a conviction".

Both the hidden assets and the use of a false name, if true, would be grounds for conviction on a charge of graft.

This claim that he "continued to follow" is key to the case, because it helps the prosecution prove he had an intent to kill, which is grounds for a 2nd degree murder conviction.