Sentence examples for making a conviction from inspiring English sources

If we are to give effect to the purpose of Congress in making a conviction for wartime desertion result in loss of citizenship, we must hold that the dishonorable discharge, in order for expatriation to follow, need only be "the result of" conviction for one or more offenses among which one must be wartime desertion.

This criminal prosecution was already hanging by a thread; Diallo's own action makes a conviction even less likely.

But the 1996 Immigration Act makes a conviction for domestic violence an automatic, unreviewable ground for deportation.

Constitutional lawyers have suggested the courts would have to make a conviction before a minister exercised the discretion to remove citizenship.

"That person in front of you needs to be sent back to their family and the quality of the evidence you collect is what will help the courts make a conviction".

The laws in Maryland, where I live, were too weak to make a conviction possible, so I gave up on filing criminal charges and decided to change the laws.

Others argued that Ellis's ruling made a conviction more difficult because it required the government to prove the "defendant's bad-faith purpose either to harm the United States or to aid a foreign government". That standard gave Weissman's defense team confidence that he would be acquitted, but the case was a long way from resolution.

A pardon is an extraordinary tool in the state constitution that makes a conviction disappear.

However, whether Corey's decision to charge murder was a shrewd tactical maneuver to make a conviction more likely, or a tactical blunder in suggesting a bad faith motivation to "pile on" a charge higher than the evidence warrants, is difficult to determine.

Homosexual acts remain illegal, however, and carry a maximum prison sentence of 14 years, though authorities have yet to make a single conviction under the law.

Even assuming, therefore, as we have, that there might have been a Sixth Amendment violation which might have made invalid a conviction, if there had been one, in the Test Fleet case, the evidence supplied by Partin in the present case was in no sense the 'fruit' of any such violation.