And think of the poor set: crouched like a convict inside a dubious piece of furniture.
And such a prison was holding a convict who fashioned himself as a modern-day gangster.
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On another episode of the same show, actor Jack Thompson learned that his great-great-great grandfather was a convict from Ireland, charged with highway robbery.
The island has had a varied career over the years, serving as a convict stockade, explosives store, police station, boat yard and film set.
Then there is the story of Charlotte Badger, a convict who was one of the first white women to land in New Zealand, in 1806.
The last few chapters, which describe Wainewright's arrest, trial, conviction and then his brutal experiences as a convict in Van Diemen's Land, are powerfully evocative.
Yet controversy has long swirled around habeas corpus on the question of whether it is aimed at assuring only that certain procedures be followed, or whether a case can be revisited, years or even decades later, if evidence arises that a convict turns out to be demonstrably innocent.
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There he is dimly recognized as a former convict by Javert (Russell Crowe), the local police inspector.
This strikes me as a pretty high threshold given that for a jury to convict there should evidence beyond a shadow of a doubt that the defendant is guilty.
Annabel Pitcher has been nominated for her second novel, Ketchup Clouds, about a girl with a terrible secret who confesses all to a death row convict, while Skin Deep by Laura Jarratt follows Jenna, who has been left permanently scarred following a car crash that killed her best friend.
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Kramer Levin got a jury to convict Facebook on patent infringement against Leader Technologies.
For at least a century after convict transportation ended in 1868, the Australian colonies tried to hide their founding legacy.
But to actually convict a mother of second-degree vehicular homicide for it?
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They identified the man who was gunned down in his car in the town of Calvi on Friday as a recently released convict.
He is a holy fool, a young escaped convict inspired by the 2, 000-year-old philosophy of the Stoics, which he garners from a mutilated volume of Epictetus.
If McQueary's honest testimony enables a jury to convict Sandusky, at least he will have made the most of his second opportunity to do the right thing.
On the other hand, he had a powerful incentive to come up with a story that helped the government convict Mr Skilling:by cooperating, and entering a plea bargain, Mr Fastow was sentenced to only six years in jail.
The hero of the novel, Dean Moriarty, is based on their friend Neal Cassady, an ex-convict and a Casanova of astonishing energy.
In addition, although Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder, even if the jury rejects the self-defense claim and believes the killing was homicide, they may choose to convict of a "lesser included offense" such as manslaughter.
Though, in one recent case, a court threw out the black box evidence used against a California man to convict him of vehicular manslaughter because the police pulled the data from the black box of his SUV without getting a warrant first.
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The convict era left behind a number of landmarks throughout the country for locals and travellers to explore, including the Tasmania Convict Trail, the 11 Australian Convict Sites (now World Heritage Sites) and Ned Kelly tours.
The emails helped the government convict Warshak on a host of fraud, conspiracy, and money-laundering charges.
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The FBI also searched the Worcester home of an ex-convict who has a history of art theft.
That confession was used as evidence to convict her before a military tribunal.
Either they go or I go ... if they go that means they'll never convict me in a court of law.
To convict Zimmerman, a jury would have to find that there is no reasonable view of the evidence that would justify his lethal actions.
If prosecutors can convince jurors that Skilling and Lay knew Enron was skidding toward collapse, it's a small additional step to convict them both of fraud.
Judge Burr said Mr Thorley was not on trial for acting inappropriately or inadvisably and a jury properly directed by a judge could not safely convict on eight of the charges.
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