Sentence examples for risk conviction from inspiring English sources
They are seeing defendants falling foul of a perverse incentive to plead guilty and swallow a £150 charge for a summary offence rather than risk conviction and a £520 charge after trial.
"We are greatly concerned that innocent people risk conviction, and are left without a defense," Troy Barber, a steering committee member at Sensible Washington, said in an e-mail.
Even the act of speaking to journalists, as Mohammed Abdel Marla al-Hariri experienced last month, risk conviction of treason by the Assad regime.
This reticence may result from cultural characteristics attendant to the students' early stage of professional development, a belief that sexual activity among adolescents carries only rare and inconsequential risks, conviction that making recommendations in this area is inappropriate or futile, or to personal discomfort with the topic.
She also points out that they have a higher risk of conviction, since they're more likely to be stopped.
"This is definitely not a normal trial procedure, so I feel the risk of conviction is high," she added.
There would be no injustice, Condorcet argued, in exposing innocent defendants to a risk of conviction equal to risks they voluntarily assume without fear, such as crossing the English Channel from Dover to Calais.
I want everyone to know that I agree, based on the information that so far has been made available to me, that you, Dr. Lee, faced some risk of conviction by a jury if you were to have proceeded to trial.
In other words, the increased risk of conviction among the cases may partly or fully be explained by disadvantageous socioeconomic conditions.
The overall risk of conviction (excluding traffic offenses) was moderately increased in men with 47,XYY or KS; however, it was similar to controls when adjusting for socioeconomic parameters.
We interpret this as indicating that a main explanation of the increased risk of conviction is due to unfavourable living conditions associated with these syndromes.
