Sentence examples for reverse the conviction from inspiring English sources

He kept smiling as the assistant district attorney who tried the case against him, Joseph Alexis, moved to reverse the conviction.

A federal panel of judges ruled 2-1 to reverse the conviction against Mr Anwar, who was once considered the heir apparent of his mentor-turned-nemesis, the then prime minister Mahathir Mohamad.

But it may well reverse the conviction of Mr. Bruno, the former majority leader of the New York Senate who was sentenced last month to two years in federal prison after being convicted of two counts of honest services fraud.

Over Chris Landau's strong objection (according to former Supreme Court clerks) — and in spite of Scalia's vote to the contrary — Thomas voted to reverse the conviction of a man who had been charged with receiving child pornography through the mail, on the ground that he had been entrapped.

If the lawyers can prove that the agency illegally spied on the imam, Yassin M. Aref, they will try to persuade the Federal Appeals Court for the Second Circuit to rule that the program was unlawful and thus reverse the conviction.

In 1995, word of Mr. Bush's information finally made its way to Mr. Acevedo at the Attica state prison, where an inmate versed in criminal procedure wrote a motion to the Brooklyn Supreme Court justice, Anne Feldman, who had presided over Mr. Acevedo's trial, asking her to reverse the conviction.

Now it says it will do all it can to reverse the convictions on appeal.Mrs Kosor still insists that her aim is to finish talks on joining the European Union this summer.

The unanimous decision by a federal appeals court yesterday to reverse the convictions of three officers in the Abner Louima torture trial will force prosecutors to revisit a case that has, over the last five years, appalled and torn the city.

All New Yorkers should be deeply saddened by the decision of a federal appeals court to reverse the convictions of three former police officers in the Abner Louima beating (front page, March 1).

In a brief filed this month, Mr. Aref's lawyers urged the federal appeals court in New York to rule that the program was unlawful and to reverse the convictions.

Today, as a private investigator, he helps reverse the convictions of those imprisoned for murder. 1 Season for Apologies Several colleges have declared this spring the season for righting past wrongs.