In numerous other cases, recanted testimony by prosecution witnesses, improper rulings by the judge or misconduct by the prosecutors resulted in convictions that had to be reversed.
But even in convictions that hold up on appeal, there comes a problem at sentencing: high-profile white-collar crime is not usually an activity of repeat offenders.
Reuters calculated the total by reviewing court documents and press releases from prosecutors for 21 cases resulting in convictions that involved the making of false statements from December 2004 to March 2012.
Prosecutors worked for years to build the case against Mr. Killen, as other cases from the civil rights era were successfully reopened, resulting in convictions that at had one time seemed impossible.
(The first trial ended in a conviction that was later overturned, and the second in an acquittal).
His first trial resulted in a conviction that was later overturned.
One answer, no doubt, lies in a conviction that runs throughout American history.
Our journalism is rooted in the conviction that success results from free enterprise, the entrepreneurial spirit, smart investing and living a life beyond the mere accumulation of dollars.
Her first trial ended in a conviction that was later overturned.
But the prime clue to later Coward lies in his conviction that art flourishes in isolation.
