Sentence examples for obtaining a conviction from inspiring English sources

But the judge, Diane O. Leasure of Howard County Circuit Court, also dealt a severe blow to the case by suppressing the testimony of Ms. Lewinsky and another witness that may be crucial in obtaining a conviction.

The Crown Prosecution Service has decided not to go ahead with three cases in which Mahmood would have given evidence because the prospect of obtaining a conviction was now deemed to be unrealistic.

In this case, however, because the young woman succumbed to the injuries she sustained during the rape, Mr. Mohan said he would use her "dying declaration," which could play a crucial role in obtaining a conviction.

The prosecutor, Stephen F. Montanarelli, said he had abandoned the case because a judge suppressed testimony by Ms. Lewinsky that Mr. Montanarelli said was crucial to obtaining a conviction.

A bloody thumbprint on a cashbox became the first used in obtaining a conviction in 1905, sending to the gallows the Stratton brothers who battered an elderly couple to death in a bungled raid.

The prosecutor, Stephen F. Montanarelli, said it would be impossible to successfully pursue a trial, which was to begin on July 10, because a judge this month suppressed testimony by Ms. Lewinsky that, Mr. Montanarelli said, was crucial to obtaining a conviction.

Benton J. Campbell, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of New York, formed a mortgage fraud squad a year ago and recently obtained a conviction of the owner of Olympia Mortgage for defrauding Fannie Mae, the federal mortgage giant, on hundreds of mortgages.

Shortly after Mumia's trial, one third of the police officers involved in collecting evidence in his case were convicted of corruption and tampering with evidence to obtain a conviction.

A special prosecutor's office was created; it never obtained a conviction.

As prosecutors, we are obligated to uphold justice long after we obtain a conviction.

But prosecutors needed to prove very little by way of concrete conduct to obtain a conviction under the law.