Kaye asked Burleigh if Italian prosecutors had conducted a "witch hunt" in convicting Knox.
High-profile arrests are one thing: actually convicting a wrongdoer in a timely and transparent fashion quite another.
If they want to charge someone, they plan on convicting that person.
The first attempt at convicting them on multiple counts of grand larceny and securities fraud ended in a mistrial last year.
In convicting Bonds in April, jurors said he was "evasive" in his testimony to the federal grand jury investigating steroid use.
American juries have certainly succeeded in convicting in recent big corporate scandals, including Bernie Ebbers of WorldCom and, last week, Tyco's Dennis Kozlowski.
His gifts in life will be all the men and women he's got out of jail and convicting the ones that need to go.
In June the court disqualified Yousuf Raza Gilani as PM after convicting him of contempt for failing to pursue corruption cases against Mr Zardari.
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Badash argues that many prosecutors and judges are wary of prosecuting or convicting Beduin for fear of revenge attacks against themselves and their families.
But the eight men and four women on the panel didn't buy it, convicting Arias of first-degree murder after only about 15 hours of deliberations.
Clearly the judge saw the absurdity of convicting a mother who had just lost her 4-year-old to a hit-and-run death, whose only crime was jaywalking.
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And I think that we have to do both, and we're convicting people for drug violations and we're also convicting people for violent crime offenses.
After convicting Beasley last week on 26 counts of aggravated murder, kidnapping, aggravated robbery and more, they unanimously recommended that he be sentenced to death.
The term itself arose out of the difficulty of convicting someone of accepting a bribe from a third party when nobody else suffered a tangible loss.
But by convicting two more junior officials, each given three-year jail terms, the judge made quite clear that he believed Italian agents had provided operational backup.
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Despite mounds of evidence, convicting them will be agonisingly complicated.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky entered a Moscow courtroom earlier today to applause from supporters waiting to hear the ruling of his appeal against a December 2010 verdict convicting him of embezzlement.
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This tactic, which has become infamous due to its abuse in drug cases, allows the police to seize property without convicting, or even indicting, its owner of any crime.
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Last month, a Turkish court sentenced three former army generals to 20 years in jail each for plotting a coup, convicting nearly 330 officers of involvement in the plot.
On July 5, 2011, a jury found Anthony not guilty of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and aggravated manslaughter of a child, while convicting her on the four "false information" counts.
The threshold for convicting an auditor in a lawsuit in America, says Mr Coffee, should be lowered: it should be enough to prove negligence rather than direct participation and intent to deceive.
Ex-New York Governor Spitzer, who skyrocketed to national fame when he was Attorney General, by indicting but never convicting even one high profile Wall Street executive had a devastating setback this week.
MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- A Spanish court Wednesday delivered an unexpectedly mixed verdict in the trial of 28 defendants charged in the 2004 Madrid train bombings, convicting three of mass murder but delivering lesser convictions against the others.
The four-day bail hearing encapsulated the arguments from both sides, highlighting the state's challenge of convicting Mr. Pistorius of premeditated murder and his defense team's task of showing the death of girlfriend, the model Reeva Steenkamp, was a tragic accident.
The jury took six days to deliberate before acquitting Nacchio on 23 counts and convicting him on 19 for actions that took place between April and May 2001 after Qwest released its first-quarter results without informing shareholders of the financial situation.
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