Sentence examples for uphold a conviction from inspiring English sources
The court should also have ordered an appeals court in Louisiana to reconsider its decision to uphold a conviction for murder and armed robbery.
Both cases come from the victims' accounts, and as in all military criminal cases, the person in charge of deciding whether to prosecute and whether to uphold a conviction was a senior commander — the boss — of the accused.
The accusation describes only a single offense, yet, by the addition of the words 'at divers times,' that document is held to justify a trial and uphold a conviction for 307 distinct offenses, only one of which is set forth in the accusation, and that defectively, all the others being brought within it by use of those words.
And a verdict is expected on March 23 in the appeal trial to uphold a conviction on charges of tax fraud.
Scales is the only Supreme Court decision to uphold a conviction based solely upon membership in a political party.
Hale's writings have been cited as recently as 1993, in the case of R v Kingston, where the Court of Appeal relied on his statement that "drunkenness is not a defence" to uphold a conviction.
But on August 25th the court upheld a conviction for sedition against Lim Guan Eng, a prominent DAP member of Parliament, and packed him off to prison.
In Pasquantino v. United States, the Supreme Court upheld a conviction for defrauding the Canadian treasury out of tax revenue from smuggled cigarettes.
1375, 92 L.Ed. 1787 19488), we upheld a conviction based upon records of sales provided under compulsion of a regulation under the Emergency Price Control Act, 56 Stat.
An appeals court in Milan upheld a conviction on Wednesday of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for tax fraud, sentencing him to four years in prison and imposing a five-year ban on holding public office.
Mr. Berlusconi's political future has been uncertain since August, when Italy's highest court upheld a conviction against him for tax fraud, a verdict he has bitterly criticized.
