conviction
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She was sentenced to life in prison, but now she's back in court this week trying to get her conviction overturned.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
“I felt,” Whitman later wrote, “the clear and unmistakable conviction to disobey all, and pursue my own way.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
He became “the first person executed in the United States for a conviction based on the DNA-matching technology popularly known as genetic fingerprinting.”
From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2026
She said she and her siblings felt "so much unhappiness" during the important life stages that followed her mother's disappearance and her father's conviction.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Clinic staff often lacked conviction in their voices, he told Farmer.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
Through May, prosecutors had charged fewer than four dozen people with crimes related to noncitizen voting, ProPublica’s analysis of DOJ data and federal court filings shows, getting convictions or guilty pleas in 14 cases.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
DNA is now a gold standard, used to expose false convictions.
From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2026
Fraud convictions could sink the antiracism nonprofit, known for its courtroom wins against the Klan decades ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
A retrial briefly reinstated their convictions in 2014, but Italy's top court overturned them again in 2015.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
It was the plainspoken convictions of one of Atlanta’s numerous young black collegians who often visited our local Temple Fifteen.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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