He was convicted of the murder of his business partner, and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
His conviction for murder was overturned when the most important witness changed her testimony.
In order to convict the defendant, you must be certain, beyond a reasonable doubt, that he is
guilty.
He is a convicted drug dealer who is also serving time for theft and assault.
Lawyers for Paul Anderson have announced that they will appeal his conviction for murder.
He was convicted for his part in the bombing of an Air India flight.
They were
convicted of murder, and hanged.
I feel torn between my desire to live in a clean, orderly home, and my conviction that housework is for people with nothing better to do.
Harry Emerson Fosdick once said that democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary
possibilities in ordinary people.
In ancient Egypt, when a woman's husband was convicted of a crime, she and her children were punished as well.
Nearly 43 percent of convicted criminals serving prison sentences in the United States are re-arrested within a year of being released from prison.
On the way to the jail, the convict overpowered his guard, and escaped.
The first settlers from England, including a group of convicts, arrived in Sydney, Australia in January of 1788.
In March of 1995, boxing champion Mike Tyson was freed from prison three years after his conviction for the rape of a teenage beauty queen.
In 1925, John T. Scopes was convicted and fined for teaching evolution in a public school in Tennessee.
Blaise Pascal once suggested that men never do evil so cheerfully and so completely as when they do so from religious conviction.
Discussion question: Should someone who has been convicted of a crime be allowed to become a public school teacher?
Find someone who thinks convicted murderers should be executed.