Sentence examples for long convicted from inspiring English sources

The case raises in an acute form the question of whether it is right that politicians should decide how long convicted murderers should stay inside.

SACRAMENTO -- Even though legal controversy remains over how long convicted murderers must remain in prison before a state parole board decides they can safely be released, the odds of those people seeing freedom have greatly increased under Gov. Jerry Brown.

Clemens was long ago convicted in the court of public opinion of being an arrogant bully, and you could pretty much put him on a poster advertising baseball's steroids era whether he was actually caught taking them or not.

"Clemens was long ago convicted in the court of public opinion of being an arrogant bully," my New York Times colleague Lynn Zinser wrote on Wednesday, "and you could pretty much put him on a poster advertising baseball's steroids era whether he was actually caught taking them or not".

As long as convicted drugs cheats like Justin Gatlin and Tyson Gay can race each other without event organisers batting an eyelid, athletics will have a doping problem.

If Heidelberg were to be exonerated, he would likely be the longest wrongfully convicted person to be freed in American history.

Four years in prison is a long time — as long as Britons convicted of manslaughter typically get, experts pointed out.

Convicted long ago of killing a little girl, he is now a prisoner in a fortress built for girls.

[C1.] Trial of Top Enron Executives to Begin Next Week In the court of public opinion, they were convicted long ago.

But the immediate concern is that kinship searches could produce a long list of convicted felons who are only partial matches to an unidentified suspect.

The Office of Inspector General OIGG) has long barred people convicted of certain offences from doing business with Medicare and Medicaid, along with doctors and nurses who lose their licences.