He promised to help the Venetian Navy, at the Arsenale, regain its primacy, by using physics to improve the placement of oars on the convict-rowed galleys.
These self-styled bohemians argue passionately that the Cross is a state of mind rather than a mere postcode, a place where the louche and laconic charm of this convict-established city has always been evident, and where creativity can flourish.
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals made it more difficult for federal prosecutors to use one of their favorite tools to convict white-collar criminals, or pry more lengthy sentences out of them in plea negotiations: Money laundering.
The FBI also searched the Worcester home of an ex-convict who has a history of art theft.
The hero of the novel, Dean Moriarty, is based on their friend Neal Cassady, an ex-convict and a Casanova of astonishing energy.
An ex-convict suspected in the death of Colorado's prisons chief shed a parolee monitoring device days before the murder, officials have said.
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The final highly-moving chapter focuses on the ex-convict's memories of the week and the subsequent slings and arrows of his life up to now.
The ex-convict was caught and disarmed shortly after the robbery, but it took police considerable time to find out "where he had put the fruit", the newsru.com website reports.
Though that idea was quickly chucked, several works from that first issue are in this collection, including a story by David Foster Wallace, delivered languidly and without paragraph breaks from an ex-convict, and an essay by Zev Borow about the Hawaiian secessionist movement.
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The slayings came less than two weeks after Colorado's prison chief was shot to death at his front door, apparently by an ex-convict, and a couple of months after Kaufman County Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse was killed in a parking lot a block from his courthouse office.
"It will be very difficult to convict him on second-degree murder charges, " he said.
Cooperating witnesses are powerful in persuading jurors to convict and getting other co-conspirators to plead guilty.
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But to actually convict a mother of second-degree vehicular homicide for it?
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They had enough to send these defendants away for decades for just their executive decisions -- without having to convict them of physically injuring any person.
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.
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.
In the Martin case, the roles are reversed as many African-Americans seem quick to convict Zimmerman and many whites urge us to wait for the evidence to come in.
In addition to pursuing Mr. Musharraf, Mr. Zulfikar was also the state prosecutor in the slow-moving case that seeks to convict the men who planned the 2008 attack on the Indian city of Mumbai, which killed more than 160 people.
But a jury found him not guilty, ending a four-year effort by US federal prosecutors to convict him.
To protect the endangered creatures, the chief warden at Chitwan has quasi-judicial powers, including the authority to convict and jail alleged poachers for up to 15 years.
This leafy plaza, within view of the Thames, is where Pip, the main character in Great Expectations, was living when the convict Abel Magwitch turned up one night to reveal a life-altering secret.
The emails helped the government convict Warshak on a host of fraud, conspiracy, and money-laundering charges.
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Discharging such people skews the jury pool towards those who are more rule-bound, trusting of authority, and likely to convict.
One reason it had the market to itself for so long was that indexing was extremely labor-intensive -- so much so that someone long ago suggested that convict labor be used to keep down costs.
Rather than using the email correspondence to convict bad guys for doing bad things, Spitzer made the whole kit-and-caboodle part of the public record.
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Ashton, a 30-year veteran who was on the team that failed to convict Casey Anthony of murder in 2011, was sworn in as the area's top prosecutor in January after beating his former boss in a hotly contested election.
Prosecutors in New Jersey recently used the Patriot Act to convict Yehuda Abraham, whose services were used in a plot to sell shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles to terrorists with the understanding that they were going to be used to shoot down U.S. commercial aircraft.
At the Court of Criminal Appeal hearing in Edinburgh, the Crown conceded that without the evidence obtained when Mr Chamberlain-Davidson was first interviewed, there would not have been enough to convict him.
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