Word: convicted
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...judge] said because my character was not under question and because I had no prior conviction, he saw no reason to convict me on this charge,” Mughogho said...
According to Michael Bonds, an ex-convict who now works with the community-based activism group BLACKOUTBoston, the government has many economic incentives to keep a large prison population...
...exemplary conduct in jail warranted his parole. But last week that same judge reversed himself, arguing that Mesbah, 28, was better off behind bars. Early release, the magistrate reasoned, would make Mesbah a victim of France's double peine - a "double jeopardy" law allowing the deportation of foreign convicts once they've done their time. Mesbah's case has provoked renewed outcries for the abolition of double peine, which affects thousands of forgotten foreign convicts each year, most of them of North African descent. Mesbah, like so many others in his predicament, was raised, educated and spent most...
...moment, Tse is wearing another unfashionable uniform: that of a convict in the Hong Kong penal system. A judge last week found him guiltyof "conspiracy to commit perversion of public justice," a fancy way of saying Tse tried to weasel out of an embarrassment and, in doing so, committed a crime...
When juries usurp the role of the legislature by deciding the wisdom of a law, there can be terrible consequences—exemplified by the refusal of some Southern juries to convict defendants for lynching blacks in the late nineteenth century. Jury nullification undermines the fairness of the legal system by making the enforcement of what should be a uniform standard of conduct dependent only on the opinion of a 12-member jury—without any accountability to the citizenry at large. South Dakota’s proposed Amendment A circumvents the democratic judicial process, and should be voted...