How To Use Convict In A Sentence

The warden of prisons was contacted for information on the convict's behavior on the chain gang, or in a few cases on the State Farm.
In a landmark case/decision, the Governor pardoned a woman convicted of killing her husband, who had physically abused her.
In summary, Dr. Green, after studying and researching this question for over 20 years, it is my firm conviction that aspartame lowers seizure threshold, mimics or exacerbates a wide variety of neuropsychiatric disorders, contributes to the incidence of certain cancers, and because of it's impact on the hypothalamic "appestat" plays a significant role in the world-wide epidemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes. Psychiatry Professor informs Hawaii House Health Committee of Dangers of Aspartame, as Medical Professional
The government is proposing tougher punishments for officials convicted of corruption.
There have been no arrests and police are set to offer a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the perpetrators.

This is the obedience of faith to which personal conviction leads.
Thelma has several drug-related convictions and is awaiting trial on a charge of violent disorder.
Citizenship status would have insulated her from deportation even after her drug conviction.
It was this conviction that made the intrigues at OKH, the disregard and "mislaying" of unwelcome instructions, such a personal affair in the first summer's campaign. Barbarossa
Those who were less keen to compete for migrants could resort to convicts as casual labour.
Jonathan's soothing assurances did not satisfy David, and he 'sware' in the earnestness of his conviction. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII
He is on hunger strike in protest at what he claims is his wrongful conviction for murder.
This World War II romance film makes Amanda feel all warm and cozy, as only stories of convicts and shell-shocked veterans can.
He said what had surprised him was that many of those arrested had no previous convictions.
MPs said that the public had a right to know the identities of those convicted of the most serious offences. Times, Sunday Times
one of his cardinal convictions was that Britain was not run as a democracy but as an oligarchy
His subsequent report threw doubt on the conviction of all ten and led to the cases being reviewed. Times, Sunday Times
A shuffling street drinker with a string of convictions over eight lost years, she is now notorious as the woman who exposes herself in public.
A day later, the state of Georgia executed Troy Davis, a black man accused of killing a white police officer more than 20 years ago, despite what GOP Rep. Bob Barr called the conviction's reliance on "the skimpiest of evidence," and, in the words of former FBI director William Sessions, "pervasive, persistent doubts" about Davis' guilt. Arianna Huffington: Sunday Roundup
We confirm he will appeal against the conviction. Times, Sunday Times
The lawyer-turned-playwright's "true story" of her friendship with a convicted "homegrown" terrorist does suffer from an unfortunate Pollyannaism, however. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
They were convicted on forensic evidence alone.
A lengthy police investigation failed to produce any evidence on which the suspect could be convicted.
We need reform so that a suspended sentence can be converted by the original judge if the convicted criminals bring it into disrepute by their behaviour. The Sun
Although I don't consider myself unintelligent or inarticulate, I don't tend to have the courage of my convictions when called upon to air my opinions.
Many of the events are informal and unscripted, and can afford glimpses of public figures talking unguardedly about their ideas, their life, and their convictions. The Story Behind the Story
Because he wants to get his picture, as the peer convicted of trigamy, on the back page of the '_Daily Mail_,' with the fourth wife inset. If Winter Don't A B C D E F Notsomuchinson
You can't possibly be successful if you haven't got convictions -- what I call bald-headed convictions. If Winter Comes
Interestingly, some jurists even asserted that judges who rely on a coerced confession in a criminal conviction are to be held liable for the wrongful conviction.
He had been convicted on his eighth impaired driving charge while driving a stolen car, his 18th possession of stolen property conviction.
Last year it was convicted and fined under the Trades Descriptions Act for placing For Sale boards on empty homes in the area.
As the law of 1580 prescribed a penalty of 50 years of banishment for adulterers, he was apparently convicted of adultery rather than incest.
The reader may not be persuaded by some of the cases, but the whole mass of them carries conviction.
They try, judge and convict individuals who cannot defend themselves from such virulent attacks.
He was convicted and jailed for four years and three months for evading 8,000 excise duty at Maidstone crown court. The Sun
It is my conviction , or my delusion , that crime brings its own fatality with it.
The government insists that 'prison works' and plans to introduce a tougher sentencing policy for people convicted of violent crime.
The two men were convicted on some extremely damning evidence.
Both were convicted of indecently assaulting one victim, two charges of kidnapping, one of attempted kidnapping and three of false imprisonment.
Their convictions were reaffirmed by the higher courts and their sentences were similarly upheld. Times, Sunday Times
The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.
You were convicted by a jury in 1984 of murder of your common-law wife and sentenced to life imprisonment, with the tariff set at 12 years.
We must fix the ex - convict up with at least an odd job.
On Sunday they did not do themselves justice tactically or in terms of conviction, but they are extremely lucky to have a chance of making amends so quickly.
The judge pointed out that the absence of previous convictions did not of itself mean that a defendant was innocent anymore than the existence of previous convictions meant that a defendant was guilty.
And the task of the mythographer is to ask what interests are served by the naturalization of particular convictions and values.
She was motivated by deep religious conviction.
They are convicted and must, if the US people are to reclaim their until now unchallenged position as torch-bearers for a better world, be booted out of office at the earliest opportunity.
She had a firm conviction that they would meet again in the hereafter.
She was alarmed to hear a very obvious lack of conviction in her voice, though.
Eighteen months later an appellate court reversed the convictions and criticized the conduct of the trial judge and the prosecution.
We do so out of the conviction that scholars of the world are a community and that harm to the academic freedom of some in that community injures the entire community.
Pride, conviction and family loyalty have held sway. Times, Sunday Times
Overseas Governments are not fooled by that concealment of convictions.
Another issue where Baird's courage and conviction have been demonstrated is in his approach to Gaza. James Zogby: "Mister Smith" Leaves Washington
But the conviction was overturned on a technicality.
He was convicted on the uncorroborated evidence of the alleged victim.
But convictions were secured against just 50, mainly because witnesses refused to testify against the rest. The Sun
To manipulate religious conviction into a political commodity is a contemporary form of simony.
For a convict sentenced to criminal detention, the detention house shall execute the sentence.
Pickron, who had experience in the background-screening industry, soon learned the landscaper was a convicted felon released from prison two years earlier. Azcentral.com | news
Stokton, a fishmonger, Thomas Yong, a saddler, and Robert Jakes, a shearman — all of whom had more than once been convicted of perjury, and on that account been struck off inquests — had contrived to get themselves replaced on the panel, and had been the chief movers in the recent actions against the late mayor and other officers of the city. London and the Kingdom - Volume I
Does he feel there would be fewer drunk driving convictions if these cases were judged by juries as opposed to a judge?
The judge will take into consideration any previous convictions.
The spectacle of Xerxes's defeat tremendously reinforced the traditional conviction that pride goes before a fall.
Conviction is everything in wishing. If you don't believe in your own power to make your wish come true, your wish will fly away, never to be seen again. But which leads to the most important point of all. If you're wishing for something possible, then it may be possible for you to do whatever you need to make it come true. The ultimate magic is not wishing, but doing.
It may be based on true events but its feel-good intentions often feel formulaic and it sometimes seems to lack the courage of its convictions.
The zombies clawed at the motorcade for a while, but you know how it is when you're playing to an empty hall - your performance is bound to lack conviction. Courageous park police save Lincoln Memorial from zombies
However, conviction of a single misdemeanor ( minor offense ) have no effect on a student's immigration status.
We refer to the rules which oblige a trial judge to warn the jury of the danger of convicting upon the uncorroborated evidence of an accomplice.
They lacked the conviction to press home their advantage and instead dropped too deep to protect it. Times, Sunday Times
The jury did not know he had convictions for kerb-crawling in 1994 and, the following year, for indecently assaulting a girl under the age of 14.
It's a show-stopping performance combining repulsive extremity with utter conviction. Times, Sunday Times
Following their conviction for tax crimes the lawyers have been given lengthy custodial sentences but pending the appeal process they are not in jail. Times, Sunday Times
She stood convicted of fraud.
Boxing champion Mike Tyson was, of course, convicted in the 1992 rape of a beauty pageant contestant.
Like a tiny seed, the strength of his convictions slowly began to shrivel. SEA MUSIC
Howard plays a convict conscripted with others to help battle a flood along the banks of the Mississippi in 1927.
But they were retried without being told - and convicted. The Sun
Jerry Brown last month signed into law a plan to move people convicted of crimes deemed "non-serious, nonviolent and nonsexual" to county jails with some of the costs paid by the state. Prison Ruling Rattles California Budget
New Zealand remain peerless but Australia are back with conviction. Times, Sunday Times
The programme which was intended to allow accomplices in serious crimes to turn supergrasses and give evidence in order to secure convictions was first introduced in 1997 in the wake of the Guerin murder.
Faced with the reality of being alone for the first time she talked openly and honestly with John about her feelings: her disgust with herself, her fear of failing at her job, her growing conviction that her childlessness was a punishment, and the frequent wish that she could simply die and put an end to her misery. Alcohol and The Addictive Brain
Had such been the case a century might have elapsed before the reproach of convictism had been removed from this hemisphere. A Source Book of Australian History
In order to be able to convict him, they're going to be able to tie him, circumstantially or through direct evidence, to the deaths of these individuals.
There is no iron in the new faith because it lacks personal conviction.
A woman and a man have been convicted of assaulting a police officer following last month's demonstration.
Roger Daltrey, frontman of The Who, wore a T-shirt proclaiming Davis's innocence, with the convicted man's name daubed across railway and road bridges. BBC News - Home
Curtis earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance in 1958's "The Defiant Ones, " playing an escaped racist convict chained to a black prisoner, portrayed by Sidney Poitier.
‘This is about keeping a commitment, delivering promises and being true to our convictions,’ he said.
A person who has proof can therefore believe and can be compelled by belief to act with conviction.
In the light of this provision, we do not accept that H has grounds for contesting the element of indecency in his conviction.
We confirm he will appeal against the conviction. Times, Sunday Times
On Christmas Eve he started on his journey, and the next four years were spent among convicts in a prison at Omsk. He has described his experiences there in his Memories of the House of the Dead (1853) experiences which, though frightful in the extreme, seem to have strengthened rather than injured him in body and mind, though they may have embittered his temper. Biographical Note
So much the better! more room for others; and the missing guests, whose names will be made known on the morrow, will be convicted of a _servilism_ which will, we think, injure their influence with the population. The Deputy of Arcis
The trial judge had misdirected the jury, but the conviction was safe because no reasonable jury could have acquitted the defendant. Times, Sunday Times
Although many of his policies were unpopular, he had the courage of his convictions to see them through.
To remove a conviction so generally adopted, Quentin easily saw was impossible — nay, that any attempt to undeceive men so obstinately prepossessed in their belief, would be attended with personal risk, which, in this case, he saw little use of incurring. Quentin Durward
Anderson has been named by a "supergrass" convicted of conspiracy to murder who will give evidence next week. marcpen: A supergrass is a high level ex-gang member who 'turns Queen's Evidence' to become a prosecution witness. Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
They should also consider private prosecutions where a conviction is likely and it is in the public interest to prosecute.
Rubio, now 57, was convicted in 1972 of possession with intent to distribute marijuana.
He also admitted riding without a driving licence and insurance, and had previous convictions for drink-driving.
State-Zionism is an ideology based on an absolute conviction, one impervious to history and experience, to emendation and to compromise.
Miss Margland, who, sideling towards the window, on pretence of examining a print, had heard and seen all that had passed, was almost overpowered with rage, by the conviction she received that her apprehensions were not groundless. Camilla
The branks were also padlocked on women convicted of witchcraft and condemned to die at the stake - but for a different reason.
Now Israel and its leaders must boldly pursue its inherent, often unexpected, wisdom to dismiss with conviction and fortitude national leaders who demand their exilic state and to finally take its rightful place as the nation from whom other nations are inspired. Kevin Bermeister: The Neck And The Site Of The Temple
However, I have an equally strong conviction that a balanced-budget amendment is a threat to Social Security and our economic health.
He only had one tiny conviction for shoplifting so far, and felt sure that wouldn't be held against him.
They have a sincere and deep conviction about the license of free speech.
The sergeant has come instead for a blacksmith who can promptly mend the broken cuffs so that they can be put to use this afternoon in the hunt for two escaped convicts.
Any previous conviction or driving ban could then be revealed to the court after the jury returned a verdict.
One of her positive convictions was, that you ought not to give them any thing they _ought_ to provide for themselves, such as food or clothing or shelter. The Vicar's Daughter
Their conviction that human reason could acquire knowledge of supersensible entities, including the soul and God, necessitated, in Kant's view, a “critique.” Kant and Leibniz
It took three years and two trials to undo the damage and secure convictions. Times, Sunday Times
It would be all right, Jane thought without conviction.
Billy had told her of the great perch Cal Hutchins caught on the day of the eclipse, when he had little dreamed the heart of his manhood would be spent in convict's garb. CHAPTER XV
The convictions rest solely on disputed witness and confessional statements.
The officer was convicted of desertion at a court martial.
WHY their right to residency or asylum is not revoked the moment they are convicted. The Sun
Accused – while I agree with the death penalty in extreme circumstances, how many people have we seen not only come off of death row, but leave prison, exonerated from a conviction. Another superdelegate for Obama
This problem appears to demonstrate intent to manipulate elections, and was installed in the program under the watch of a programmer who is a convicted embezzler.
Trumped-up charges of conspiracy to overthrow the queen, and an unjustly conducted prosecution, brought conviction of treason and hanging at Tyburn.
The government should have the courage of its convictions over the new high-speed rail link as well. Times, Sunday Times
‘Not only were you guilty of the offence of which you were convicted, but you were also in my view guilty of dishonourable conduct,’ he said.
Whether or not he testified on the issue of guilt or innocence or as to matters in extenuation or mitigation, the accused may make an unsworn statement to the court in mitigation or extenuation of the offenses of which he stands convicted, but the right to make such an unsworn statement does not permit the filing of the affidavit of the accused. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10214
Her explanation failed to carry conviction in the face of the facts.
A conviction for corrupting judges on a grand scale would be more difficult to shrug off.
Short-term projects to improve customer service might buck up the conviction of those managers.
Obviously, it is good to get dangerous people off the streets, but this law allowed courts to incarcerate individuals who had never been convicted of any crime, based on a guess about future dangerousness. The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
Politicians who objected to Mrs Thatcher and her radical conviction politics suffered the anguish of apparently unresolvable frustration.
It was the custom then to hang a convicted man on the spot where he committed the crime, and then display the corpse on a gibbet beside the public highway.
I repeat my conviction that sexual reproduction, Mendelian (allelic) genetics, natural selection, all these, are anti-evolutionary processes serving only to stabilize the species for as long as possible exactly as Leo Berg insisted 87 years ago. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
The former president's brother, Raul, is in prison on a murder conviction and corruption charges.
The past five years have reinforced the belief that politicians have no firm convictions. Times, Sunday Times
Now the figures in Canada, certainly of the conduct of released convicted murderers whose sentences have been commuted is not as accurate. The Death PenaltyFor and Against
That is so, in the same way that if after a verdict of guilty an appellate court concludes that the conviction is unsafe and unsatisfactory it quashes the jury's verdict.
Despite his apology, a religious court convicted him of using insulting language.
Atheists are people who think for themselves and defenders of reason, and their conviction that God does not exist is making a significant contribution to the development of thinking, rational and open- minded people. Dr T.P.Chia
Two convicts escape while handcuffed together, and are pursued by police and the press while attempting to track down their former associates.
The arguments therefore tend to focus on three borderline questions: What is the minimum fault required for conviction of murder?
Turned out the woman had been convicted of fraud, and her alma mater was the continuing education program at the women's state prison. Hire With Caution
This was not a line he was peddling, this was his heartfelt conviction. Times, Sunday Times
David was not convicted of a criminal offence after the age of majority.
his rather unstable religious convictions
In Kansas with an outgoing Attorney General that hired an arrested and convicted clinic blockader on the state's payroll, and allowed at least one convicted clinic bomber to work in his recent failed re-election bid. Hamilton Spectator - Sniper - The True Story of James Kopp
The CJM's court had convicted him for the killing of two chinkara deer on the night of September 26-27, 1998 at Bhavad village while acquitting seven others.
Publication in contravention of this provision is an offence punishable on summary conviction with a fine not exceeding ￡1,000.
It is tempting for trendy writers to portray him as a tool of rich imperialists oppressing the poor convicts.
No one who has been finally acquitted or convicted of, or pardoned for, an offence shall be tried or punished for it again.
In case it should appear that any have committed the irremissible blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, and the total apostasy from the illuminating convictive powers of the Christian religion, it should seem that they are not to be prayed for at all. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
Mr. Thaksin, who was ousted in 2006 by military junta, is now living in self-exile to evade imprisonment on a corruption conviction. Moody's Lifts Thai Outlook
They are another important building block in the case for a review of his conviction. Times, Sunday Times
Murderers and convicted racketeers will no longer be permitted to drive hazardous materials on the nation's interstates.
Aline's insight underlined my conviction on holiday that this was one tale not for retelling.
If the child believes in what she is saying, she will carry conviction .
You can't convict a man of a crime on circumstantial evidence alone.
It was a reasonable explanation, but his voice lacked conviction .
It is the "absoluteness" of the proponents 'convictions and the ruthless persecution of anyone who doesn't share their views that prevents not only a real conversation but new approaches or solutions to some of the problems facing our country. Old Enough to Vote, Enlist and Marry, but to Drink?
Paul Mormando and Anthony Miccio were convicted on misdemeanor assault and discrimination charges.
The convictions rest solely on disputed witness and confessional statements.
He was poor himself but passionate in his conviction that Modigliani deserved a sponsor.
In the letter, Traficant rails against the U.S. Department of Justice, which put him in prison until 2009 after successfully convicting him on bribery and corruption charges.
A jury had convicted Ghailani in November on one count of conspiracy while acquitting him on more than 280 other counts stemming from the truck bombings at the U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. 224 people died, and thousands more were injured in the attacks. Guantanamo Detainee Sentenced to Life in Prison
Except in the case of conviction for a criminal offence, there is no mechanism for removing them except at the ballot box. Times, Sunday Times
At the core of our convictions is belief in individual liberty.
If he is convicted of first-degree murder, that would also kick in whether there are special circumstances.
They faced years in jail if convicted but nine months later all charges were dropped without explanation.
I used to have no interest in politics or any politic conviction.
{193} "Corresponding to our progressive perception of nature and our immovable conviction of the truth of the evolution theory, our religion can be only a _religion of nature_. The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
Regrettably, neither these nor any other conflicts emerge with any conviction from 7:84's dull and disappointing production.
The conviction for drink-driving was allowed to stand, but the prison sentence for that offence was quashed. Times, Sunday Times
Politicians who objected to Mrs Thatcher and her radical conviction politics suffered the anguish of apparently unresolvable frustration.
Wherefore, such opinions and persuasions are gradually insinuated into the mind, and are admitted insensibly without opposition or reluctancy, being never accompanied at their first admission with any secular disadvantage; -- but these divine convictions by the word befall men, some when they think of nothing less and desire nothing less; some when they design other things, as the pleasing of their ears or the entertainment of their company; and some that go on purpose to deride and scoff at what should be spoken unto them from it. Pneumatologia
Q Joe, Howard Wolfson, who is the spokesman for Mrs. Clinton's exploratory committee, says, "she stands by her Saturday statement," which was that the FALN convicts '"absence of a response speaks volumes," and the commutation is a mistake. Press Briefing By Joe Lockhart
And I think he was discharged without a conviction, is that right?
I have found that one employee has a conviction for speeding and so now becomes ineligible to use company cars. Times, Sunday Times
The ruling dashes Ms. Kissel's chances of securing a release through a retrial after Hong Kong's highest court early last year threw out her 2005 murder conviction, citing procedural flaws in what became widely known as the "milkshake murder" trial. Hong Kong Jury Finds American Expatriate Nancy Kissel Guilty of Murder
Vidal D. Mason, 23, will serve the term consecutive to a five-year sentence imposed for violating the terms of his parole from an armed robbery conviction in 2006, according to online court records. JSOnline.com
Wall was also convicted of conspiracy to rob. Times, Sunday Times
Let us gloss over the fact that one of those convicted for exposing her name is his own cousin. Times, Sunday Times
The court was driven to conclude that the jury would not necessarily have convicted had it been correctly directed.
It helps that their eternally optimistic manager exudes a permanent air of calm and conviction and has no trouble sleeping. Times, Sunday Times
That is, they must convict him of the offence which they think he probably did not commit.
If he had been convicted under the assault charge he would not have been eligible for early release.
Given that the DA will see his chances for re-election dwindle if he/she is perceived to be soft on a multiple felony slam-dunk conviction case against a spoiled, arrogant, crime-committing, room-temperature-IQ behemoth, I suspect the moron in question (e.g., the football player), after considerable wheeling and dealing by his zealous defense attorney -- who is just doing his job, will likely receive felony deferred adjudication from the appropriate court. No Prison for Plaxico?
Two years past, he had managed to work a parole from the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville for a celebrity convict author, a man who had been in and out of reformatories and jails since he was sixteen. The Glass Rainbow
Their physical bodies and ethical convictions were put to the test on a daily basis.
These two movements have one thing in common: they have sprung spontaneously from the individual's deep and firmly rooted conviction that the ordinary man and woman is capable of making a meaningful contribution to peace. The Nobel Peace Prize 1977 - Presentation Speech
And why do I speak with such unshakeable conviction? Times, Sunday Times
Our whims and caprices are discanted on with apparent earnestness of truth, and seeming sincerity of conviction. The Drama
We may conclude, for example, that 90 percent. of convictions were factually correct.
She had put serpent-shaped silver barrettes in her hair, and she played with fearful but clear conviction.
Some states also limit the governor's power to commute sentences and pardon convicted criminals.
Each was unanimously convicted of ‘corruptly accepting’ the seven-figure inducements between January 24 1995 and February 7 1995.
It is the firm conviction of the governors that this child should not be admitted to the school.
At the moment, DNA profiling can only be used to match DNA with the profiles of known, convicted criminals held on computer databanks.
She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime
His conviction carried him along in his research.
These applicants were on the agreed facts rightly convicted and I would therefore refuse the leave sought.
Citizenship status would have insulated her from deportation even after her drug conviction.

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