convict
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The pictures he took were used in court as evidence and helped convict the company as well as accelerate environmental awareness globally.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Jurors would have to find there was extreme atrocity or extreme cruelty or both to convict Clancy of this, and it would mean the prosecution had proven there were no mitigating factors.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
The Constitution requires a two-thirds vote in the Senate—67 senators—to convict in an impeachment proceeding.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
“It’s hard for a jury to convict when they feel no empathy for the victim. They dirtied up the victim and made her repugnant to the jury.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
And he felt a jury would be much less inclined to convict Reggie if the best the prosecution could do was show that Reggie was texting thirty seconds before the wreck.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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A South Carolina investigator has secured warrants for cybercrimes against more than two dozen convicts across at least eight Georgia prisons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Even charges like the ones Rojas faces can be devastating, whether or not a jury ever convicts.
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2026
The ruling irons out recent judicial efforts to protect California convicts from what Associate Justice Goodwin H. Liu called “cascading consequences” of administrative debt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2025
"This court finds the accused guilty of all 21 charges and convicts the accused accordingly," Judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah said.
From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025
I know the convicts aren’t allowed to talk, but how could some 300 men not make more sound?
From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko
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The accused cannot be convicted but they can be acquitted if the jury decide they didn't commit the acts alleged.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
He’d been stunned by his star’s nearly centurylong sentence and came away from a review of the case suspecting that Walters may have been wrongfully convicted.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
The US House of Representatives has agreed to hold billionaire Leon Black in contempt of Congress for defying legal summons related to its investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
She was convicted in 2023 and has twice been denied permission to appeal against her convictions.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
The memorable thing about him was how insistent he was that he'd been wrongly convicted.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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Hoppock worries that by moving straight to deportation proceedings, the federal government has found a way to skip prosecuting and convicting.
From Salon ● May 14, 2026
It’s true that we don’t want juries convicting simply because they don’t like the defendant.
From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2026
The letter argued that the legal standard for convicting someone of a crime shouldn’t be used when deciding whether Khan should continue to serve as chief prosecutor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
The key witness in convicting the suspects - Jack Whomes and Michael Steele - was police informer and so-called supergrass Darren Nicholls, from Braintree, who gave evidence against his former friends at their trial.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2025
This was the first evidence we presented that suggested that people in law enforcement had been so focused on convicting Walter that they were prepared to ignore or even hide evidence that contradicted their case.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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