If you have reliable new evidence - comes to light, and a judge can look at it and say, you know, if the jury had heard this at the time of the trial, they probably wouldn't have convicted this person.
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He was part of the Union of Congolese Patriots rebel group, led by Thomas Lubanga who last year became the only person convicted by the ICC.
This means he could be up for parole in about 25 years, though it is rare for a person convicted of killing a police officer to earn release.
Antonucci eventually pleaded guilty to many of those charges and sealed his fate in history as the first person convicted of attempting to steal from the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP.
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North London woman Saeeda Khan was believed to be the first person convicted under that law when a jury found her guilty of trafficking a Tanzanian woman into the country to work as her domestic slave.
In the 112 years since the foundation of the exchange, not a single person was convicted.
Home Office minister Lord Henley defended the government's plans, saying it was "not acceptable" that the DNA "should be retained indefinitely regardless of whether that person is convicted of an offence".
Megrahi is the only person to be convicted over the 1988 bombing which claimed 270 lives.
Muhammad, 42, is the first person to be convicted under Virginia's terrorism law, passed after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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The Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER) told CNN just one person had been convicted since the Act came into force in 1992.
The law is clear that a person may be convicted of obstructing justice if he corruptly influenced the testimony of a perspective witness.
Instead the cases involved situations where there was "no result" in DNA tests, which would have meant that potentially a guilty person was not convicted.
There is no doubt that William Dunlop, the first person to be convicted under the new rules, did assault Julie Hogg sexually and murder her in 1989.
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Meanwhile, earlier this month Det Ch Insp April Casburn, 53, of the Met Police was the first person to be convicted as a result of Operation Elveden.
"I think that is a bit like the person who is convicted of shoplifting saying the public prosecutor has a terrible problem because he now has no case to prosecute, " Mr Clancy says.
Although no person has been convicted and removed for obstruction of justice, the nature and gravity of this crime, punished more harshly under our laws than bribery, clearly is also a sufficient cause for conviction and removal.
Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi is the only person to have been convicted in connection with the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Scotland in 1988.
Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is the only person to have been convicted of the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Scotland in which 270 people were killed.
In July of this year, a 22-year-old man became the first person in the UK to be convicted for modifying a video games console.
The plot in outline is a noir trope: An innocent man is wrongly convicted for murdering his wife, and the one person who can save him by providing an alibi has seemingly vanished.
He resigned to allow another person to head the Church, since those convicted to the mines tended never to return.
No priest in the diocese was convicted of having committed an offence against a child or young person.
One person hanged in 2012 was Majid Jamali Fashi, who was convicted of killing an Iranian scientist.
"The traditional mug shot is a process (or space) where a person is automatically marked as a criminal (although not yet convicted), it is combative, accusing, dehumanizing, " says Wicks.
Last month, a jury at Portsmouth Crown Court convicted him of four counts of human trafficking and four counts of keeping a person in servitude.
Instead, the person is charged with other criminal charges and the median sentence for those convicted of "international terrorism" crimes is only 14 days.
Since 2009, every person charged in the Southern District of New York has either pleaded guilty or been convicted at trial.
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The last person to be hanged at Hull Prison was Ethel Major in 1934, who was convicted of killing her husband Arthur by poisoning his corned beef with strychnine.
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