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If millions are wagered on the belief that a defendant will be acquitted, could that make a jury more reluctant to convict?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

Critics say the court has focused too heavily on war crimes committed in Africa and failed to convict major political leaders.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Under US law, a jury must unanimously believe "beyond a reasonable doubt" that someone is guilty in order to convict them of a crime.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Reddington suggested that the holdout juror did acknowledge doubt, but still wanted to convict anyway.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026

“She was telling me about those convict baseballs.”

From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko

He had been placed in Atascadero State Hospital, a maximum-security prison for mentally ill convicts located between Los Angeles and San Francisco.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2026

Even charges like the ones Rojas faces can be devastating, whether or not a jury ever convicts.

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2026

"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

That compels convicts to start serving prison terms and other penalties before the appeals process has been exhausted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025

The vibrations of every step as the zombie convicts charge toward us has my heart racing.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

ProPublica last month featured a convicted felon’s accusations of corruption against Ms. Collins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Holmes was convicted in 2022 of defrauding investors in her failed blood-testing company and sentenced to more than 11 years in federal prison.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Two men were convicted and are due to be sentenced next week..

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

In January, a former Google software engineer was convicted of stealing thousands of pages of confidential information relating to the company’s AI trade secrets and giving the material to China.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Many others are prisoners who have been convicted of committing crimes.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman

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 judges acquitted Surinder Koli, saying courts had earlier mainly relied on his confession while convicting him, but they said they did not believe it had been voluntary.

From BBC ● Nov. 25, 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