Russia's richest man, Yukos Oil boss Khodorkovsky, was marched off to prison on a conviction for tax evasion and fraud.
They acted on a conviction that rings as true today as it did two centuries ago: unlocking a nation's potential depends on empowering all its people.
WHITEHOUSE: Presidential Proclamation -- Bill of Rights Day, 2012
Lohan was on probation for a 2011 conviction on charges she stole a necklace, but that probation was jeopardized in November 2012 when the city attorney in Santa Monica, California, filed four charges against her in connection with a car crash last summer.
Beasley, who returned to Ohio from Texas in 2004 after serving several years in prison on a burglary conviction, testified that he met with Davis and Davis had pulled a gun in retaliation for Beasley serving as a police informant.
Summers was released from prison in July on a petty theft conviction as part of a California law designed to ease crowding in state prisons.
Ranta's story is set to change in dramatic fashion on Thursday, when prosecutors say they'll ask a judge to vacate his conviction based on a recent review that cast doubt on witness testimony and concluded detectives had mishandled aspects of the investigation.
We all know that the best responses are those that invoke confidence, a firm grip on the situation and a conviction that you know what to do.
In March, a Los Angeles judge removed Lohan from probation from the two 2007 drunken driving convictions, but the actress remains on informal probation for two more years on a misdemeanor shoplifting conviction from last year.
Meanwhile, a report in The New York Times says President Bush has seized on the conviction of Hussein as a "milestone in Iraq" while seeking to rally Republican voters on the issue of national security.
It describes the problems that fundamentalism creates for a country founded on religious tolerance: a court threw out the conviction of one of the brothers, on the grounds that anyone who argued that he answered to the laws of God and not of man was incompetent to stand trial.
Mr. Morales has a criminal history that includes a conviction on an attempted-murder charge in 1998, the official said.
King was 25 and on parole after a robbery conviction in March 1991.
He also was appealing a conviction on a different charge of indecent exposure.
Sheen currently is on probation for a battery conviction against a former girlfriend.
This could reflect a conviction on the part of the candidate that Wall Street is not in need of a radical overhaul.
Mr Bryant says any conviction on a murder charge would carry a sentence of life imprisonment or death, and that he will not agree to charge Mr Rideau with the lesser crime of manslaughter.
Despite the fact that the American experience was built around women who ventured off to create homes in an unexplored continent, there had always been a presumption that a proper woman didn't move around too much, and there was certainly a conviction that sending a woman on a business trip raised far too many risks of impropriety.
In about a tenth of these cases, the match was with someone who was on the database despite not having a conviction.
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The victim's step mother Julie Martin called Deighan "a liar" and accused him of "putting on the waterworks" to get a lesser conviction.
The trouble with a diagnosis based on conviction rather than measurement is that it is vulnerable to external influence.
Earlier Saturday, police announced that Smith, 30, had been wanted on a parole violation related to a first-degree robbery conviction.
The court on Tuesday also upheld a slander conviction against Knox.
She is now worried about the effect of a criminal conviction on her record and does not know whether she will return to driving when the ban ends.
The ruling on Wednesday tossed out a fraud conviction against Rambus for withholding information from a chip industry consortium, which adopted Rambus' protocols for memory transfer without knowing Rambus had patents on the technology.
Dalton Smith, who was wanted on a parole violation related to a first-degree robbery conviction, attempted to rob the off-campus home where he and Hofstra junior Andrea Rebello were fatally shot, Nassau County police said.
The samples may not be processed without suspects' consent until they are arraigned, must be destroyed if charges are dismissed or the suspect is acquitted, pardoned or has a conviction reversed on appeal, and can only be used for "identification" purposes.
The district attorney is reviewing the evidence compiled by the police agencies that investigated the Camacho murders, but is waiting for Ortiz's lawyer to file a motion to vacate his client's conviction before taking a position on whether to support or oppose that motion.
One of them, police said, was 36-year-old Benjamin Hudon-Barbeau who had beaten a double murder conviction on an appeal.
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