Sentence examples for sole conviction from inspiring English sources

"There was one, sole conviction on reckless assault misdemeanor, which is under appeal," Mr. Monserrate said.

At one point, a defense lawyer, Michael K. Bachrach, noted that along with the sole conviction, the jury had found Mr. Ghailani's conduct to have "directly or proximately caused death".

Citing the sole conviction and many acquittals, Rep. Smith added, "While the administration will no doubt try to spin the verdict as a success, the truth is this case was a close call".

"As part of the guidance issued to forces it was highlighted that individuals convicted of certain sexual offences under section 12 and 13 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956 should not have a DNA sample taken on the grounds of a sole conviction.

African leaders wanting to dodge or withdraw from the court were seeking a licence to "kill, maim and oppress their own people" without consequence, he wrote in the New York Times on October 10th.Although most of the court's work has been in Africa, and its sole conviction has been of an African (Thomas Lubanga of Congo), the archbishop rejected the idea that the ICC had an anti-African bias.

Earlier this month, former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich asked a federal judge to cancel his retrial, saying he is low on cash and would rather just be sentenced on his sole conviction from the first trial.

Antifraud laws that went on the books in 1963 have so far yielded only one conviction, and the sole insider-trading case prosecuted so far ended in January with the acquittal of a real estate executive.

The lawyers cited what they called "the irreconcilability between the sole count of conviction and Ghailani's acquittal on all other counts of the indictment, which, without dispute, all arose out of the exact same conduct and evidence".

The defense also cited the "irreconcilability between the sole count of conviction and Ghailani's acquittal on all other counts of the indictment, which, without dispute, all arose out of the exact same conduct and evidence".

It said that defendants did not have the right to legal representation, that confessions had been used as the sole basis for convictions, and that foreign nationals were reportedly not always given sufficient translation facilities.

So too hearsay evidence – long regarded as alien to the criminal process, mainly because it is inherently unreliable – is now routinely admitted, again for the sole purpose of increasing conviction rates.