Sentence examples for to avoid convictions from inspiring English sources

She said: "The original bill was more stringent, but nonetheless, the new law will deter honour killings in the future because perpetrators will not be able to avoid convictions".

It is also possible that Soering's errors were deliberate, an attempt to avoid conviction.

Judge Gilmore, for instance, said Mr. Guerinot "made an imperfect attempt to avoid conviction and death".

Or, as the prosecution believes, is it all a ploy to avoid conviction?

The Louisiana House voted to impeach on eight counts, but Long was able to win over just enough senators to avoid conviction.

Political odds makers have calculated that Mr. Estrada had enough votes to avoid conviction since the trial began on Dec. 7.

Having enlisted in the military as a way to avoid conviction for car theft, Hendrix "hated the army immediately"; he was horrified by its ritualised sadism.

Mr. Karagounis, who has seen his prison budget cut 50 percent, is proposing that some tax offenders be put under house arrest, or — more controversially — be allowed to pledge their property to the Greek government to avoid conviction.

A Navy reservist agreed Tuesday in Federal District Court in Miami to enter a pretrial diversion program to avoid conviction on a passport violation that could have prevented him from becoming the American citizen he says he believed he already was.

His defence strategy, it appeared, was "confess and avoid" – to admit to the lesser charges in an attempt to avoid conviction for the two more serious child sexual abuse offences.

Mr. Gotti's defense is that he withdrew from the Gambino family before July 1999; if true, that would allow him to avoid conviction because of the statute of limitations on the racketeering charges.