Sentence examples for lesser conviction from inspiring English sources

And, as was famously the case with Al Capone, sometimes a lesser conviction is the best on offer.

But it would be better to settle for a lesser conviction that would still mean long imprisonment.

The doorman on the jury was open-minded, Mr. Naughton said, but also favored a lesser conviction.

Mr. Roeder's defense team had hoped the judge in the case, Warren Wilbert, would instruct jurors that they could take into account Mr. Roeder's motive and consider a lesser conviction of voluntary manslaughter if they believed he held, as Kansas law states, "an unreasonable but honest belief that circumstances existed that justified deadly force".

But the judge let stand the lesser convictions of involuntary manslaughter against her and her husband, Robert Noel.

In a stunning reversal, a judge today threw out the murder conviction of a woman whose dog mauled a neighbor to death, letting stand the lesser convictions of involuntary manslaughter against the woman and her husband.

Even with the lesser manslaughter conviction, though, Mr. Rodriguez's prosecutors might still have fared better than they would have with a plea bargain.

(Wilson received a lesser sentence).

Rather than contagion, it is an emergent norm or rule that governs external appearances and, to a lesser extent, internal convictions in collective behaviour.

Conviction on lesser charges could mean 10 years in prison, he said.

Death sentences must be unanimous; two-thirds or three-quarters may be sufficient for conviction of lesser offenses.