Sentence examples for state conviction from inspiring English sources

A state conviction was overturned on grounds of prejudicial news coverage.

His lawyer, Diane Polan of New Haven, is appealing the state conviction.

(The United States Supreme Court overturned the state conviction on the ground that television and radio coverage of his pretrial hearing had violated his rights).

Justice Sotomayor wrote that it was not clear whether the formal elements of Mr. Moncrieffe's state conviction fit within the federal exception.

He faces one-year sentences, to be served concurrently, on each state conviction and up to five years for his tax conviction.

As for violence against women, the state conviction rate for rape and abduction of women are among the lowest in India.

And the great majority of challenges to state convictions had no merit.

Plea bargaining defines the criminal justice system: 97 percent of federal convictions and 94 percent of state convictions come through guilty pleas negotiated between prosecutors and offenders.

The point matters because a 1996 federal law limits federal court review of state convictions where an argument has been "adjudicated on the merits" by a state court.

Joseph L. Hoffmann and Nancy J. King may be premature in their call for a formal limitation on the scope of federal habeas corpus review of state convictions.

But given what is at stake, it's only right that state convictions be carefully considered if they are used under the federal statute to lengthen criminal sentences.