When asked by a student how she has managed to maintain her conviction in principles, she was blunt: "Discipline.
You might not expect a rural Alabama mother with a felony conviction to have in her corner a national army of feminists, civil libertarians and gynecologists, but Kimbrough's case has attracted the interest of groups like Planned Parenthood, the A.C.L.U. and the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, who all maintain that her conviction sets a dangerous precedent.
The realm of truth is never fixed, and neither should the way our minds maintain its convictions.
"I wouldn't be doing this today if I didn't think I would maintain these convictions for the rest of my life," she says.
Because as we fight year after year to show our innocence, these prosecutors use their unlimited resources to maintain our convictions by any means necessary.
We can't all be Olympians but we can identify and strive for our personal best and maintain our convictions and faith as well.
To be clear, this article in is no way directed at those government agents and prosecutors who do not abuse their power to seek or maintain false convictions.
7 This belief bias for social anxiety convictions is merely problematic because it logically acts to maintain convictions that are dysfunctional.
He spells out integrity as (a) a disposition to develop and maintain convictions in an epistemically responsible way; (b) self-awareness of the quality of one's judgment in matters of conviction; (c) a disposition to do justice to one's convictions in action.
Lapan pointed out that Montes was convicted of shoplifting in 2016, but his lawyers maintain that conviction has no bearing on his DACA status, which is subject to a background check.
Though the trial is behind her, Manning maintains a fierce conviction that her leak posed no threat to U.S. soldiers or local sources in Iraq or Afghanistan, a view disputed by the government and by many N.G.O.s, including leading human-rights groups.
