Sentence examples for said conviction from inspiring English sources

Kevin Pratt, insurance expert at Moneysupermarket.com, said conviction rates have tumbled this year.

Twelve oracles predicted a hung jury, six said conviction, three refused to answer, and one bet on acquittal.

The lawyer, Brian McClain, said conviction was impossible since the bullets had struck the victim below her waist, and he persuaded Mr. Cooper to reject an offer of four to seven years.

Administration officials said conviction that he may be alive appears to be an important factor in the surge of armed opposition against American forces.

The effect of a pardon is not to quash the conviction but releases the recipient from "all pains, penalties and punishments whatsoever that from the said conviction may ensure".

At the launch of the review last years, the solicitor general, Vera Baird, said: "Conviction rates are far too low... the Stern review should help us identify how we can improve the handling of rape complaints and drive up conviction rates".

Judge Peter Espinoza of Superior Court, who ordered the release, said convictions under the three-strikes law — which calls for heavy sentences for a third conviction — had often brought "disproportionate" sentences and "resulted in if not unintended, then at least unanticipated, consequences".

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in Wales said convictions had risen from 46.6% in 2006-7, to 59.3% in 2009-10.

"I have no interest in sitting back and doing nothing," he says, conviction burned into his eyes.

Rights groups say conviction rate in cases of sexual and other violence against women is "critically low".

In spite of reform in the law they say conviction rates are not encouraging and in most cases the killers escape justice.