But a conviction of Jeffrey Skilling cannot be accomplished without a thorough lashing of Lay in this trial.
Not only is the crime of which he is accused a serious one, but the consequences of a conviction are severe.
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And, Barack, thank you, because there are some countries whose alliance is a matter of convenience, but ours is a matter of conviction.
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Jurors in Yates' first trial found her guilty of capital murder in March 2002, but the conviction was overturned in 2005 because of the erroneous testimony of a prosecution witness.
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We fight with the force of our conviction, but we never use violence.
In other words, with a reversal of his conviction all but guaranteed on appeal, prosecutors were hoping that Bruno would agree to be tried again.
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These are politically pragmatic decisions when someone is planning to run for the Republican nomination, but they are not the actions of a conviction politician.
"Both in the interests of protecting children, but also of staff who have been placed on the list without any criminal conviction, it is essential that referral cases from provisional to permanent status are dealt with as quickly as possible, " she said.
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"The Mist" may not be Oscar bait, but it's a horror movie of real conviction.
But I know his energy, his strength of conviction and his talent as a debater.
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The United States has loudly protested the prosecution and conviction of Yulia Tymoshenko, but trumpeters of American liberty should be careful not to be too shrill.
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But the time is right for a new display of conviction, of effectiveness, of leadership.
Mr Bush is flawed but his conviction and commitment are at the core of his awkward style.
In every case it turns out that the transformative leader is just plain smarter than his peers but is also a person of great personal courage and conviction.
Sgt Mark Andrews was accused of dragging a woman into a cell but his conviction for assault was quashed on appeal and the High Court ordered Wiltshire Police to re-employ him.
What this comes down to is proving to the courts that there is reasonable suspicion - essentially the hurdle police need to jump to justify an arrest - but obviously short of what is necessary to get a conviction.
But first, the Supreme Court today overturned the conviction of a black death-row inmate in Texas on the grounds that prosecutors unfairly excluded blacks from his jury.
But the Enron conviction, achieved with scarce direct evidence of fraud, might indicate that white-collar crime is becoming more like the rats in the warehouse.
But sometimes it is the price of leadership and the cost of conviction.
The conviction of Warren Jeffs is good news, but the culture he came from, and helped to shape, remains very much intact without him.
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They need passion, conviction and confidence too, but not at the expense of humility.
In 1987, a year after the scandal had broken, he resigned, but was spared the ignominy of even a trial, let alone a conviction, when George Bush senior gave him a presidential pardon shortly before leaving office.
But the commonly-expressed conviction that technological innovation will immiserate broad segments of society is only somewhat less irrational.
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Following her conviction, the prosecution recommended 15 years imprisonment but a panel of judges later sentenced Sandiford to death.
Dr Savage came second in Labour's PCC selection process but became the candidate when Bob Ashford stepped down because of a childhood criminal conviction.
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It didn't get the cash back, but the court vacated the conviction and sentence (including an additional order of restitution) and dismissed the original indictment.
Mr Ryan speaks with conviction about the imperative of reining in the deficit, but the underlying premise of his ideas is not so much fiscal rectitude as small government.
The writer-director team of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck want to overturn the usual triumphalist sports narrative, but the elements of their counter-narrative are sketched in without any particular conviction or strength.
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