The loss in court meant Armstrong faced an impossible choice: either go forward under accelerated USADA procedures that made a meaningful defense all but impossible, or wave the white flag and risk being branded guilty as charged.
First up was a short and stocky 36-year old Glaswegian who pleaded guilty to being drunk and abusive to staff at the homeless hostel where he was staying.
The Court of Appeal in Belfast rejected all grounds of challenge by Nigel Brown and Gary Taylor to being found guilty of the August 2005 stabbing.
The 49-year-old was sentenced by a court in Sofia last month to seven-and-a-half years in jail after being found guilty of heading an organised crime gang and money laundering.
Long's career has included a four-month suspension after being found guilty of betting against his own team and being thrown off Great Britain's Tri-Nations tour in 2006 after poor behaviour on a flight.
One led to former Montana football player Beau Donaldson pleading guilty to rape and being sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Mohamed Fadel El Anssari was sentenced to 11 years for sexual assault and 12 for attempted murder after being found guilty by a panel of judges.
The Juice has been dwelling in the high-desert prison after being found guilty of armed robbery and kidnapping in 2008.
All of the guilty five now face bans and being stripped of any medals after the confirmation of their failed second tests.
Mr Price remains on bail as part of the probe and was dismissed from his post after being found guilty of gross misconduct.
Mr Price remains on bail as part of the inquiry and was dismissed from his post after being found guilty of gross misconduct.
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The guilty Saints coaches and players are being cast against a backdrop of 31 other teams that have, according to the league, never done anything wrong.
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Vinokourov has faced doping suspicions after being linked to Michele Ferrari, an Italian doctor who won an appeal after being found guilty of sporting fraud and malpractice in 2004.
It ended up with people such as Stephen Fry standing up in favour of Paul Chambers, the man found guilty, and a second appeal being heard by the Chief Lord Justice who quashed the conviction.
Martinez has pleaded not guilty to bulk cash smuggling and is being held in a Laredo prison.
He served a six-game ban at the beginning of the season after being found guilty of approaching the Red and Whites while still under contract at the KC Stadium.
Do you think you're being guilty yourself of looking at the past and saying that will always be the same?
Even though boomers see themselves falling way behind in reaching their goals, nearly 90 percent that if they could push replay, they would again help out their kids, and some 20 percent said they felt guilty about not being able to provide financial assistance for them now.
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Seven members of a Liverpool gang have been found guilty of being involved in shootings, arson and drugs offences.
Two of those testifying, Karl Motey and Roomy Khan, were some of the first people to agree to cooperate with the federal government in its insider trading cases that have brought down billionaire Raj Rajaratnam (Serving 11 years in prison) and former McKinsey executive and Goldman board member Rajat Gupta (awaiting sentencing after being found guilty at trial).
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If that truth is the well being of the environment, thus the concept of innocent and guilty can be easily established: Chevron is the contaminator and the residents are victims.
The player at the centre of the controversy, Tom Williams, has been banned for 12 months after being found guilty of feigning a cut to the mouth and Quins' chief executive Mark Evans has since written to the fans to apologise.
Gary Dobson, 37, and David Norris, 36, were jailed for life in 2012 after being found guilty of the attack.
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Former owner and off-course bookmaker Owen Churchill was excluded for eight years after being found guilty of all four charges brought against him.
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Nightingale's friends and family have said the father-of-two only pleaded guilty after being warned by the court martial judge he could face up to five years' detention if he was found guilty in a trial.
Eating such products meant you were guilty of being a dietary Neanderthal, deliberately harming your health and violating the health ethos that so many Manhattanites profess to possess, and yet to judge by looking at pedestrians, not so many practice.
Chris Huhne, for the Liberal Democrats, argued that the plans put at risk the "cornerstone" of England and Wales's legal system, "the principle of being innocent until proven guilty".
Earlier Judge Burr explained to the jury that eight of the charges were being withdrawn and they would in time be directed to return a verdict of not guilty on each.
Reece Jackson, 19, of Holly Park Estate in Finsbury Park, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to burgle, but denies two counts of robbery and being in possession of an imitation handgun.
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