Sentence examples for swift conviction from inspiring English sources

Prosecutors got a swift conviction.

The police, out for a swift conviction, use a policewoman to seduce the vulnerable and inadequate Doll into describing his violent fantasies into her tape recorder; the press impose their own judgments on Leanne by referring to her always as 'the homeless girl' and never by her name.

Unlike complicated accounting transactions, bribes are easy for juries to understand, and theres nothing a federal prosecutor likes more than a swift conviction.

The trial is expected to lead to swift convictions for Gu, 53, and Zhang, 33.

In similar cases in the past, trials have led to swift convictions followed by summary expulsions.

Although the Bush administration established the military commissions system with an eye toward providing flexible trial rules and swift convictions, the system has had a rocky history.

Sent to England by the French government specifically to inquire into the system and conduct of juries, Charles Cottu reported in the 1820s that the English were practically "indifferent whether among the really guilty such be convicted…" Cottu believed that the English public wanted resolution above all; that they sought swift convictions in order to cauterise their fear of violent crime.

Movement against Mr. Monserrate from within his own party has been surprisingly swift since his conviction last week.

But his fall from grace in Moscow was swift, leading to his conviction in absentia of "economic crimes".

Look at Giovanni Arcuri, for instance, effortlessly imposing in his bulk, and therefore cast as Caesar, or at Juan Dario Bonetti, swift and puckish, with his conviction for drug trafficking and his devil's grin.

His fall was swift and steep: a misdemeanor conviction for drug possession and later, a drug-related murder scandal during the filming of "The Cotton Club" that further damaged his reputation, although he was ultimately cleared.