Sentence examples for the first conviction from inspiring English sources

Mr Lubanga was convicted by the International Criminal Court in March, the first conviction since the court was set up 10 years ago.

And after procedural problems caused the first conviction to be thrown out, he was tried and convicted again.

It made headlines recently when one of its targets was convicted in Newcastle and imprisoned for two years, apparently the first conviction in the UK as a direct result of vigilante activity.

Nobody ever talked about the first conviction.

(The first conviction was overturned on technical grounds).

The first conviction was overturned because of a procedural error.

The first conviction was set aside because of erroneous instructions on the defense of insanity.

The case was thought to be the first conviction of an optometrist for gross negligence manslaughter.

The landmark case is the first conviction for forced marriage in England.

His was the first conviction under a 1996 federal law prohibiting aid to designated terrorist groups.

He served a year for the first conviction and two and a half years for the second.