convictable

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• If convicted, Silento could be sentenced to a maximum of six years in prison.

• Dongfan “Greg” Chun, the first person convicted under the Economic Espionage Act, is sentenced to 15 years in prison.

• Raniere has since been convicted on felony sex trafficking, wire fraud, and other charges.

• Legal scholar Jennifer Taub tracks how we got here—from post-Enron failure of prosecutorial muscle to the growth of “too big to jail” syndrome—and pose solutions that can help catch and convict offenders.

• All 16 involved were convicted, and the ringleaders received death sentences.

• A cheerful convict was found dead by his devoted caretaker one morning.

• I spent four years in a prison where each handicapped convict was issued an underpaid inmate assistant.

• As in most prisons, the “trusty” was a convict the warden trusted and thus had special privileges.

• And revolutionary courts often convict and sentence journalists to prison on these baseless charges.

• The jury decided that the case was not strong enough to convict.

• Weary of the day's routine, I welcome the solitude of the cell, impatient even of the greeting of the passing convict.

• While a jury might refuse to convict on circumstantial evidence a detective is not so deterred.

• It is hard to forgive an inferior for the wrong which he may convict us with; hence he grew heated as his daughter cooled.

• For six long months a court of inquiry sat, but it could not get evidence enough to convict a single man.

• At the dinner hour Schiller left my fare to the convict Kunda, who brought me some water, while Schiller stood outside.