Convicted Sentence Examples

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  • He was probably convicted, but nothing further is heard of him.

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  • How could you let a little girl be alone with a convicted criminal long enough to be kidnapped?

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  • At his trial he was defended and betrayed by the infamous Leonard MacNally, and was convicted of treason; and after delivering an eloquent speech from the dock, was hanged on the 20th of September 1803.

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  • The penalty for false witness was usually that which would have been awarded the convicted criminal.

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  • We lost his mother to cancer at an early age and his father is in jail, convicted of fraud.

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  • Both were convicted of bribery, and Paetus subsequently joined Catiline in his first conspiracy.

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  • Other Zulu chiefs were convicted of various offences and sentenced to imprisonment.

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  • The suffrage now belongs to all male citizens of the United States at least twenty-one years of age who shall have resided in the state for six months, and in some one county sixty days preceding an election, except idiots and persons insane or convicted of some infamous crime.

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  • In England, except in the peculiar case of imprisonment pending trial for heresy, or in the case of a clerk convicted of crime, these things could not be.

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  • It was said that persons of high position were concerned in the crime; but although the government offered rewards for the apprehension of the perpetrators, and although General Moyle wrote to the duke of Newcastle that the criminals were "well-known by many of the inhabitants of the town," no one was ever convicted of participation in the murder.

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  • Further floggings are inflicted with the "cat" upon convicted prisoners for breaches of discipline in prison.

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  • There is no penitentiary; the convicts are hired to the one highest bidder who contracts for their labour, and who undertakes, moreover, to lease all other persons convicted during the term of the lease, and sub-leases the prisoners.

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  • When a young man, in 1889, he had been convicted of high treason and had been exiled, but afterwards (in 1897) allowed to return.

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  • Krause, who was then in London, was arrested, tried and convicted for attempting to incite to murder, and sentenced to imprisonment.

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  • He held a prominent place in the New School branch of the Presbyterians, to which he adhered on the division of the denomination in 1837; he had been tried (but not convicted) for heresy in 1836, the charge being particularly against the views expressed by him in Notes on Romans (1835) of the imputation of the sin of Adam, original sin and the atonement; the bitterness stirred up by this trial contributed towards widening the breach between the conservative and the progressive elements in the church.

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  • Convicted of wearing his hat while a religious procession was passing - as well as of blasphemy - he was accused as well of having mutilated a crucifix standing on the town bridge.

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  • At the age of seventy, having been accused by Pythodorus, and convicted of atheism, Protagoras fled from Athens, and on his way to Sicily was lost at sea.

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  • On the 6th of December he protested with three other peers against the measure sent up from the Commons enforcing the disarming of all convicted recusants and taking bail from them to keep the peace; he was the only peer to dissent from the motion declaring the existence of an Irish plot; and though believing in the guilt and voting for the death of Lord Stafford, he interceded, according to his own account, 3 with the king for him as well as for Langhorne and Plunket.

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  • His recommendations were adopted by the House of Commons, but his unpopularity in South Africa was great, and in 1830 he was convicted of libelling a Cape official.

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  • He made a good defence, but on the absurdest of evidence the jury convicted him of treason, and on the 1st of July he was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn.

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  • They were easily repulsed in an attack upon the Providence town arsenal, and Dorr, after a brief period of exile in Connecticut, was convicted of high treason on the 26th of April 1844, and was sentenced to imprisonment for life.

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  • The suffrage is granted to all males resident in an election precinct for ten days, in the county for thirty days, in the state for six months, in the United States for one year, and 21 years of age, except those under guardianship or insane, and those convicted of treason or felony, unless restored to civil rights.

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  • A youth who has murdered his mistress takes the bread of the Eucharist in his mouth, and his two hands are at once withered up. The apostle immediately invites him to confess the crime he must have committed, " for, he says, the Eucharist of the Lord hath convicted thee."

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  • Soldiers and persons convicted of any criminal offence are not entitled to vote.

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  • After Liao-Yang there were no extended operations, the area of conflict being confined to the plain of the coast side of the Hun-ho and the fringe of the 1 As regards food and ammunition, the resources of the defence were not by any means exhausted, and General Stessel and other senior officers of the defence were tried by courts-martial, and some of them convicted, on the charge of premature surrender.

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  • It has already been observed that paupers and convicted criminals are excluded in many states, illiterates in some states.

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  • He went from one Catholic family to another, administering the rites of his Church, and in 1589 became domestic chaplain to Ann Howard, whose husband, the first earl of Arundel, was in prison convicted of treason.

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  • In 1581 he became acquainted with Edward Kelly, an apothecary, who had been convicted of forgery and had lost both ears in the pillory at Lancaster.

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  • Though the jury found no witch-marks on his body he was convicted and executed on Gallows Hill, Salem, on the 19th of August, the only minister who suffered this extreme fate.

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  • The party convicted of adultery is forbidden to marry the co-respondent during the lifetime of the other party.

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  • Industrial schools are chiefly for vagrant and neglected children and children not convicted of theft.

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  • One scribbler abused Johnson for being blear-eyed, another for being a pensioner; a third informed the world that one of the doctor's uncles had been convicted of felony in Scotland, and had found that there was in that country one tree capable of supportin the weight of an Englishman.

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  • To meet this a further law was passed in the Prussian parliament, forbidding the exercise of ecclesiastical offices by unauthorized persons, and it contained a provision that any one who had been convicted, under the law could be deprived of his rights of citizenship, ordered to live in a particular district, or even expelled from the kingdom.

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  • Under this act powers are given to the secretary of state to make an order requiring an alien to leave the United Kingdom within a time fixed by the order and thereafter to remain outside the United Kingdom, subject to certain conditions, provided it is certified to him that the alien has been convicted of any felony or misdemeanour or other offence for which the court has power to impose imprisonment without the option of a fine, &c., or that he has been sentenced in a foreign country with which there is an extradition treaty, for a crime not being an offence of a political character.

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  • Acquittals and cases pending reduced the number of those actually convicted under the Espionage Act to about 600.

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  • As Argyll, in face of all warnings, went to court, he was arrested, and during the session of parliament of January 1661 was tried for treason, and, on the ground of his letters to Monk, was convicted and executed, as was the leading Remonstrant preacher, James Guthrie, accused of holding an illegal conventicle, " tending to disturbance,.

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  • He was convicted by the Queen's Bench on the 21st of May 1 593, and hanged on the 29th at the unusual hour of 4 p.m., the signature of his old enemy Whitgift being the first of those affixed to the warrant.

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  • He was convicted (February 1844) after the trials that followed, but they were not good specimens of equal justice, and the sentence of imprisonment for a year and a fine of £2000 was reversed on a writ of error by the House of Lords (September 1844), and he and his colleagues were again free.

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  • Several of the richest and best educated Filipinos were convicted of treason and banished.

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  • The system of the "star" class as originally established provided that the prisoner never previously convicted should be kept absolutely apart, at chapel, labour, exercise and in quarters, from his less fortunate fellows who had already been imprisoned.

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  • Only those never previously convicted, or known as of not habitually criminal or corrupt habits, are eligible for the "star" class.

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  • The intermediate class takes those not previously convicted but deemed unsuitable as "stars" from antecedents and generally unsatisfactory character.

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  • In Denmark all convicted prisoners pass through several stages, from cellular treatment to the intermediate prison and conditional liberty.

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  • The worst feature is the indiscriminate association sometimes seen of all inmates, bond and free, the convicted and accused; even witnesses against whom there is no shadow of a charge are sometimes imprisoned among felons.

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  • Prison management is essentially a local concern, but some general features are common to all states, such as the rule that while petty offenders and prisoners awaiting trial are under county and city jurisdiction, the state takes charge of all persons convicted of serious crimes.

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  • In especial it is an outstanding characteristic of the younger rivals to Aristotelianism that as they sprang up suddenly into being to contest the claims of the Aristotelian system in the moment of its triumph, so they reached maturity very suddenly, and thereafter persisted for the most part in a stereotyped tradition, modified only when convicted of indefensible weakness.

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  • Felons twice convicted may not be pardoned except on the recommendation of a majority of the judges of the supreme court.

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  • The charge of high treason was not proved, but Dinizulu was convicted of harbouring rebels and was sentenced to four years' imprisonment.

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  • The assassin, who, it was for a time supposed, had been inflamed by the editorials and cartoons of the demagogic opposition press, but who professed to hold the views of that branch of anarchists who believe in the assassination of rulers and persons exercising political authority, was promptly seized, and was convicted and executed in October 1901.

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  • Suffrage is conferred upon both men and women, and the right to vote at a general election is given to all citizens of the United States who have attained the age of twenty-one years, are able to read the constitution, and have resided in the state one year and in the county sixty days immediately preceding, with the exception of idiots, insane persons, and persons convicted of an infamous crime; at a school election the voter must also own property on which taxes are paid.

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  • The process, as such matters often have been in Spain, was a slow one, and it was not until 1589 that Perez, after more than one arrest and imprisonment on a variety of charges, seemed on the eve of being convicted and condemned as the murderer of Escovedo.

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  • He was convicted and received a severe sentence, with repeated floggings, the execution of which was expected to kill him, and which was rigorously carried out; but to the astonishment of all he survived.

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  • On June 29 he was convicted and sentenced to death, and on the following day was degraded from his knighthood.

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  • He was especially urgent for the confirmation of his nominee Johannes Magni as primate, in the place of the rebellious archbishop Gustavus Trolle, who as a convicted traitor had been formally deposed by the Riksdag and was actually an outlawed exile.

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  • She had become an ardent freethinker, and shortly afterwards she was prosecuted and convicted, together with Charles Bradlaugh, for publishing " blasphemous " literature.

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  • No person can be elected who is an alien, is under the age of 30 years or over the age of 70 years, is in the employ of the government, is in the active service of the army or navy, has been convicted of any criminal offence, or is a bankrupt.

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  • A foreign subject implicated in a criminal suit cannot be pursued or molested in any way unless there exist full proofs of his having taken part in the crime imputed to him, and should he be duly convicted of the crime, he is handed over to his legation, which either sends him back to his own country to undergo the punishment established by law, or, according to more recent usage, punishes him in Persia by fine, imprisonment, &c. In this respect the powers of the foreign representatives in Persia, now numbering ten (Great Britain, Russia, France, Turkey, Austria-Hungary, Germany, United States of America, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands) vary considerably, some having the power of condemning a criminal to death, while others cannot do more than fine and imprison for short periods.

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  • The punishment for the offence is fine and imprisonment, with or without hard labour, if the party rescued has not been convicted of the offence for which he was in custody.

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  • It is to be observed that neither at common law nor under the act of 1679 was the writ the appropriate remedy in the case of a person convicted either on indictment or summarily.

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  • It properly applied to persons detained before or without trial or sentence; and for convicted persons the proper remedy was by writs of Dicey, Law of the Constitution (6th ed.), p. 195.

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  • Wykeham was convicted, and on the 17th of November his revenues were seized and bestowed on the 15th of March 1377 on the young prince Richard, and he was ordered not to come within 20 m.

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  • By these committees criminals were summarily tried, convicted and punished; suspicious characters were deported or intimidated.

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  • Ten prisoners, convicted of destroying the property of the mine-owners, were sentenced to twenty-two months in jail.

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  • The nobles of Bohemia and Moravia met at Prague on the 2nd of September 1415, and sent to the council the famed Protestatio Bohemorum, in which they strongly protested against the execution of Huss, " a good, just and catholic man who had for many years been favourably known in the Kingdom by his life, conduct and fame, and who had been convicted of no offence."

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  • Paupers, idiots, insane persons and persons who are convicted of crimes which exclude them from being witnesses and who have not been pardoned and restored to civil rights are disfranchised.

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  • The duty of the local supervising authority is to Midw exercise general supervision over all midwives practising within their area in accordance with rules laid down in the act; to investigate charges of malpractices, negligence or misconduct on the part of a midwife, and if a prima facie case be established, to report it to the Central Midwives Board; to suspend a midwife from practice if necessary to prevent the spread of infection; to report to the central board the name of any midwife convicted of an offence; once a year (in January) to supply the central board with the names and addresses of all midwives practising within their area and to keep a roll of the names, accessible at all reasonable times for public inspection; to report at once the death of any midwife or change in name and address.

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  • On the death of King Frederick, Tausen, at the instance of Ronne, was, at the Herredag of 1533, convicted of blasphemy and condemned to expulsion from the diocese of Sjaelland, whereupon the mob rose in arms against the bishop, who would have been murdered but for the courageous intervention of Tausen, who conducted him home in safety.

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  • When a man is convicted of murder, he is handed over to the relatives of the deceased, who may either put him to death or accept a ransom.

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  • Every citizen of the United States, male or female, twenty-one years old or over, who has lived one year within the state, four months within the county and sixty days within the precinct has the right of suffrage, except that idiots, insane, and those convicted of treason or crime against the elective franchise are disfranchised; but in elections levying a special tax, creating indebtedness or increasing the rate of state taxation, only those who have paid a property tax during the preceding year may vote.

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  • According to Sadducean principles the man who was convicted of falsely accusing another of a capital offence was not put to death unless his victim was already executed.

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  • Ferreira and four companions were tried for murder and convicted, February 1907, the death sentences being commuted to terms of penal servitude.

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  • Idiots, insane persons and persons convicted of serious crimes are disfranchised.

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  • A public official may be tried for incompetence, corruption or malfeasance according to the regular procedure in criminal cases, and if convicted he may be dismissed from office and receive such other penalties as the law provides.

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  • Since that date those who may vote have been all male citizens twenty-one years old and upward who have lived in Indiana six months immediately preceding the election, and every foreign-born male of the requisite age who has lived in the United States one year and in Indiana six months immediately preceding the election, and who has declared his intention of becoming a citizen of the United States; but the General Assembly has the power to deprive of the suffrage any person convicted of an infamous crime.

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  • The latter measure at once brought to a crisis the so-called rebellion of 1848, for his share in which Smith OBrien, an Irish member of parliament, was convicted of high treason.

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  • The secretary of state is exofficio auditor; and he acts as governor if the regularly elected ' Excepting persons under guardianship, those weak-minded or insane, those convicted (without restoration to civil rights) of treason or felony, and those who have engaged (directly or indirectly) in a duel.

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  • Oldcastle was convicted, but was imprisoned for forty days in the Tower in hope that he might recant.

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  • Sir Alexander Fitton, a man convicted of forgery, became chancellor, and but three Protestant judges were left on the bench.

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  • Carey embarked for South Africa in the following July, and was murdered on board ship by Patrick O'Donnell, who was brought to England, convicted, and hanged on the 17th of December 1883.

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  • Three IrishAmericans were convicted, of whom one, John Daly, who was sentenced to penal servitude for life, lived to be mayor of Limerick in 1899.

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  • Idiots, insane persons, paupers, convicts and persons convicted of certain crimes (enumerated in the constitution) and not pardoned by the governor are disqualified from registering or voting.

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  • Fouch corresponded with Austria in 1809 and 1810, entered into an understanding with Louis, and also with England; while Bourrienne was convicted of peculation.

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  • All male persons who are citizens of the United States or have declared their intention to become such at least thirty days before an election have the right of suffrage provided they have attained the age of twenty-one years, have resided in the state six months, are not of unsound mind, and have not been convicted of treason or felony.

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  • In 1677 Muggleton was tried at the Old Bailey, convicted of blasphemy, and fined Soo.

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  • The right of suffrage is given to every male citizen of the United States who has attained the age of twenty-one years and has been a resident of the state for one year, provided he has paid his poll tax and has not been convicted of bribery, larceny or other infamous crime.

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  • The act for establishing the Tennessee Reformatory for Boys provides that the institution shall be governed by a board of trustees consisting of the governor and five other members, one retiring each year; that boys under eighteen years of age who are convicted of a penitentiary offence shall be sent to it; that the trustees may transfer incorrigible boys to the penitentiary, put others out in', the service of citizens on probation, or recommend them to the governor for pardon.

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  • Convicted of sedition, he was sentenced to 18 months' rigorous imprisonment, but he was released within a year under pledges of good behaviour.

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  • He was convicted of an offense contrary to section 3 of the law.

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  • Maynard and his alleged accomplice Reg Dudley were convicted of murder at the Old Bailey in 1977 and had an appeal dismissed in 1979.

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  • Jonathan Woodgate was found not guilty of GBH but convicted of making an affray and given 100 hours of community service.

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  • The Glasgow convicts, 22 in number, were convicted at the last assize.

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  • The defendant was convicted in April 2005 of keeping a brothel.

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  • A series of in-depth interviews were conducted with convicted burglars who were serving prison terms.

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  • What the wrongfully convicted seek, are legal solutions to legal wrongs not situations that only compound their problems.

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  • The approach he advocates could have been enormously helpful to women who were wrongly convicted of killing their dead children.

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  • Even convicted criminals often escaped the death penalty by securing a Royal Pardon.

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  • Police want reporter Bill Dunphy to turn over all records of his interviews with convicted drug dealer Paul Gravelle between 2001 and 2005.

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  • Ingram was convicted of one offense of deception, and one of attempted deception perpetrated against the Direct Line Insurance Company.

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  • The court will have power to order convicted defendants to repay some or all of the cost of their defense.

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  • The defendant was convicted of excise evasion on the 22nd September 2005.

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  • The jury convicted Dr. King of draft evasion, sentencing him to 18 months in prison.

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  • I think it's only fair to tell you that the trapped men are convicted felons serving a twenty year term for armed robbery.

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  • He is a convicted forger, who then resigned from the bar before disbarment proceedings ran their course.

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  • At the top of the lane, near the boro boundary, we see the town gallows where convicted thieves end their lives.

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  • The BNP will stand a complete list in this election headed by Jason Douglas, a convicted football hooligan from Redbridge.

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  • In these circumstances, a properly instructed jury would undoubtedly have convicted.

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  • Malone denied murder but was convicted by the jury.

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  • Unsurprisingly, the all-white jury convicted Satpal of murder within about half an hour.

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  • Last year, in France, he was convicted of paying kickbacks to the oil firm Elf.

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  • You get to plow through the FBI crime manual and a dossier that documents actual statements from convicted killers.

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  • Prosecutors have this week accused the label of writing checks to a convicted drug kingpin 's company in exchange for " dirty cash " .

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  • Thus, the man convicted of grand larceny a second time would no longer be subject to death.

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  • The criminal law provides adequate safeguards against violence, and there is power to deport those convicted of offenses.

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  • A scruffy, antisocial misfit, she's been convicted of murder and sentenced to die.

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  • Carl Waters, a convicted murderer, is set free at the same time.

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  • Or is it really Elizabeth, a convicted former murderess?

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  • March 24 th 1845 Sarah Osborne aged 11 years was convicted of stealing a flannel petticoat from Jane Mudd of Gedding.

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  • Mirza immediately went to the nearest police station and was subsequently charged, convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of the driver.

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  • He has been convicted for possessing child pornography in Britain in 1999 and had undergone a four-month jail sentence.

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  • How to arrange a visit If the person you are visiting is a convicted prisoner they will need to send you a Visiting Order.

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  • In September 2000 a woman in London was convicted of riding an electrically propelled scooter on the road without insurance.

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  • Alfie Bain from Grenada, West Indies, was convicted of killing a prostitute in 1970.

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  • Two men convicted a year later for the brutal rape and murder of another young girl are his prime suspects.

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  • A Croatian, he is a convicted rapist who has never served time for his crime.

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  • For some, the BNP seems an attractive protest over the shambolic " loss " of hundreds of convicted foreign rapists and killers.

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  • Draft of the oath offered by the convicted recusants.

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  • In the same year, John Wright and his wife, and servant Thomas Haward and his wife, were convicted as popish recusants.

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  • He claimed that Julius had given atom bomb secrets that he in turn passed to Harry Gold, a convicted Soviet spy.

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  • Marshall was reportedly close to connecting Lyndon Johnson to fraudulent activities involving businessman and convicted swindler Billy Sol Estes.

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  • What would be thought of a tribunal which convicted a notorious thief of petty larceny on such evidence as this?

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  • For sixteen years Stefan Kiszko suffered unimaginable torment in prison, having been wrongly convicted of her murder.

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  • In 1969 they were exchanged with British spy Gerald Brooke (some said convicted in Russia on trumped up charges ).

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  • Have you ever been arrested or convicted for an offense involving moral turpitude?

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  • The governor and his subordinate plundered in concert, till in 78 Dolabella had to stand his trial at Rome, and was convicted, mainly on the evidence of Verres, who thus secured a pardon for himself.

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  • Himself a stalwart weaver, he was opposed to physical force movements and did all he could to restrain the violent resistance to trade oppression which was so common; yet through attending and speaking at the meeting (1819) at Peterloo, Manchester, which was intended to be a peaceful gathering to petition for Parliamentary reform and a repeal of the Corn Law but ended in a massacre, he was arrested for a breach of the law, convicted and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment.

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  • When serious proof existed against one who denied his crime, he could be submitted to the question by torture; and if under torture he avowed his fault and confirmed his guilt by subsequent confession he was punished as one convicted; but should he retract he was again to be submitted to the tortures or condemned to extraordinary punishment.

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  • In consequence of his prominence as a labour protagonist of the war, his life was threatened, along with the Prime Minister's, by the conspiracy of a Derby family of anarchists, who were duly convicted, and sentenced to considerable terms of penal servitude, in March 1917.

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  • This exception remained in force until the ist of December 1908, after which time all who were on the list became (unless disqualified because convicted of felony) life voters, but new applicants had to stand the educational test.

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  • The promise of the railways to give every purchaser of a ticket a rebate check until the question of the validity of the act should be decided by the courts was not satisfactory to the state authorities, who arrested a ticket agent of the Southern railway, convicted him of violating the law, and sentenced him to the chain-gang for thirty days.

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  • It enacts that after the death of a person simoniacally presented the offence or contract of simony shall not be alleged or pleaded to the prejudice of any other patron innocent of simony, or of his clerk by him presented, unless the person simoniac or simoniacally presented was convicted of such offence at common law or in some ecclesiastical court in the lifetime of the person simoniac or simoniacally presented.

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  • And as to Christians, Tertullian about 210 tells how the presbyter who, in proconsular Asia, had " composed the Acts of Paul and Thecla" was convicted and deposed, for how could it be credible that Paul should confer upon women the power to "teach and baptize " as these Acts averred ?

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  • From the suffrage and the holding of office are excluded idiots and insane persons and all those who have been convicted of treason, embezzlement, malfeasance in office, bribery or larceny, or any crime involving moral turpitude and punishable under the laws of the state by imprisonment in the penitentiary - this last disqualification, however, is removable by a pardon for the offence.

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  • The act further provides that if any one for the purpose of earning interest, commission, reward or other profit sends or causes to be sent to a person whom he knows to be an infant any circular or other document which invites the person receiving it to borrow money or to apply to any person or at any place with a view to obtaining information or advice as to borrowing money, he shall be liable, if convicted on indictment, to imprisonment with or without hard labour, or to a fine, or to both imprisonment and fine.

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  • Men had been convicted for criticizing the Red Cross, doubting the utility of knitting socks for soldiers, using abusive and intemperate language in arguments about the war or producing such a motion picture as The Spirit of '76 which in one part represented British soldiers using bayonets at the Wyoming valley massacre.

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  • That Calvin was actuated by personal spite and animosity against Servetus himself may be open to discussion; we have his own express declaration that, after Servetus was convicted, he used no urgency that he should be put to death, and at their last interview he told Servetus that he never had avenged private injuries, and assured him that if he would repent it would not be his fault if all the pious did not give him their hands.'

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  • In practice this effects people who have been convicted of a criminal offense which is punishable by a prison sentence.

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  • A man who was convicted of the murder of a Kilmarnock woman has had his sentence quashed by appeal court judges.

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  • Instead he was convicted of the lesser charge of scandalous conduct.

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  • After the demonstration at Clontarf in 1843 O'Connell was arrested and early in 1844 was convicted of seditious conspiracy.

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  • In 1969 they were exchanged with British spy Gerald Brooke (some said convicted in Russia on trumped up charges).

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  • Many miners were sacked after they were convicted on trumped-up police evidence.

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  • Back in the 1990s, in Greece, some JW Elders were actually arrested and convicted of secretly videotaping members and ex-members.

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  • Sue was surprised when her neighbor was convicted for being an abettor of the neighborhood break-ins.

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  • If convicted, the accused may have to pay a sizeable fine and go to federal prison.

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  • If convicted, the singer could be facing up to six months in jail and a fine.

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  • If convicted, the Monday Night Football theme singer faces up to a year in jail and a $2,500 fine.

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  • In the case of Galanis, Campbell paid an undisclosed amount and was not convicted.

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  • This latest incident could land her seven years in jail if she is convicted.

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  • An admitted gang member, he was arrested and convicted of cocaine trafficking at an early age.

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  • Richie faces up to a year behind bars since she was previously convicted on another DUI charge.

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  • If convicted, he faces up to one year in county jail plus fines.

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  • Sutherland was also convicted in 1993 for alcohol-related reckless driving.

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  • Each of them face up to five years in prison if convicted on the charges brought before them.

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  • If convicted, he faces up to four years in prison.

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  • Everyone already knows the man has been tried and convicted in the court of public opinion and more importantly, by the Jackson family.

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  • When convicted in 2008 he was sentenced to 33 years, but may be eligible for parole in as little as nine.

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  • According to the Higher Education Act of 1965, students who have been convicted of the sale or possession of illegal drugs can not receive aid from federal programs.

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  • These early theories centered on the 19th century case of von Zastow, a convicted rapist whose excessive sleepiness attributed to excessive masturbation and repressed homosexuality.

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  • I have been convicted of 2 misdemeanors in my past.

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  • Confirm that you're over 18 years of age, that you're legal to work in the United States, and whether you've been convicted of a crime.

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  • Applicants must disclose whether they have ever been convicted of or pleaded guilty or no contest to a misdemeanor or a felony offense for which they have not received a pardon.

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  • This is of particular importance when communicating with convicted felons.

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  • All three men were convicted of plotting against King Charles I, and even though they were already dead and interred at Westminster Abbey, they were found guilty by the court.

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  • In January of 1573, French hermit and cannibalistic serial murderer Gilles Garnier was convicted of being a werewolf and burned at the stake.

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  • The ship had 309 people aboard that included three convicted criminals as well as a U.S. Consul General.

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  • Many a convicted criminal made an Alcatraz trip across the San Francisco Bay.

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  • Robert Franklin Stroud - The infamous "Birdman of Alcatraz," Stroud, convicted for manslaughter, was famous for raising and selling canaries and other birds from his cell.

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  • Decades later, in San Francisco, George Monty Davis, known as the "Naked Yoga Guy", was arrested but not convicted for practicing on the waterfront in 2004.

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  • T.I. had been charged and convicted of distributing cocaine and manufacturing and distributing a controlled substance in 1997.

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  • You cannot have ever been convicted of a felony, misdemeanor or ever had a restraining order issued against you.

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  • He was convicted on all counts and is currently serving prison time for his crimes.Tina Wesson was the first woman to win Survivor.

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  • Now a born-again Christian committed to catching fugitives and promoting safe neighborhoods, Chapman was a gang member in the 1970s and was convicted in court for the murder of a man.

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  • Matt was convicted of DUI in 2003 and was charged with DUI again in 2007.

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  • The judge dismissed his DUI charge but convicted him for improper lane changing and refusing a breathalyzer test.

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  • Furious, Harry gathers his things and leaves in the middle of the night only to discover that a convicted murderer and supporter of Lord Voldemort, Siris Black, has escaped from the wizard prison, Azkaban.

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  • In early episodes, there was significant antagonism between the Commander and Lt. Tom Paris (Robert Duncan McNeill), the Starfleet-Maquis convicted traitor who was assisting Voyager in tracking the Maquis ship.

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  • He served his time for the crime they convicted him of doing; apparently it was not the murder and definitely not the murder of Annie Abbott.

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  • Paupers, insane, and those convicted of treason, felony or bribery in an election are barred, " while the disability continues," and no person in the military, naval or marine service of the United States is deemed.

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  • This time the family refused to condone his proceedings; he was tried with his confederates at Lancaster assizes, March 1827, convicted, and sentenced to three years' imprisonment in Newgate.

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  • Insane persons and persons under guardianship are excluded by the constitution, and " all persons convicted of bribery, perjury, larceny or of infamous crime, or who shall make or become directly or indirectly interested in any bet or wager the result of which shall depend upon any election," or who shall participate as principal, second or challenger in any duel, are excluded by legislative enactment.

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  • The Quakers of Pennsylvania possibly began the work of the mysterious Underground Railroad; the best known of them was Thomas Garrett (1789-1871), a native of Pennsylvania, who, in 1822, removed to Wilmington, Delaware, where he was convicted in 1848 on four counts under the Fugitive Slave Law and was fined $800o; he is said to have helped 2700 slaves to freedom.

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  • Thus in Nuremberg a regular saffron inspection was held, and in the 15th century we read of men being burned in the market-place along with their adulterated saffron, while on another occasion three persons convicted of the same crime were buried alive.

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  • It is the duty of the surveyor to keep the highways in repair; and if a highway is out of repair, the surveyor may be summoned before justices and convicted in a penalty not exceedin ordered to complete the repairs within, a limited time.

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  • Having been convicted of the libel he was liberated later in the year under circumstances that only became clear in 1864, when six letters were discovered in the Record Office from Defoe to a Government official, Charles Delaf aye, which, according to William Lee, established the fact that in 1718 at least Defoe was doing not only political work, but that it was of a somewhat equivocal kind - that he was, in fact, sub-editing the Jacobite Mist's Journal, under a secret agreement with the government that he should tone down the sentiments and omit objectionable items. He had, in fact, been released on condition of becoming a government agent.

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  • The whipping-post was in 1908 still maintained in Delaware, and whipping continued to be prescribed as a punishment for a variety of offences, although in 1889 a law was passed which prescribed that " hereafter no female convicted of any crime in this state shall be whipped or made to stand in the pillory," and a law passed in 1883 prescribed that " in case of conviction of larceny, when the prisoner is of tender years, or is charged for the first time (being shown to have before had a good character), the court may in its discretion omit from the sentence the infliction of lashes."

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  • Consequently the levy court of New Castle county was indicted in the United States circuit court in 1872, and one of its members was convicted.

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  • A petition for a divorce may be presented after a residence within the state of one year immediately preceding, and a decree may be granted against the defendant if judged guilty of adultery, desertion for two years without reasonable cause, habitual drunkenness, such inhuman treatment as to endanger the life of the plaintiff, or if convicted of felony after marriage.

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  • And that the censures of admonition and excommunication be in due manner executed, for sinne, convicted, and obstinately stood in.

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  • He and his son-in-law, Jacob Milborne, were charged with treason for refusing to submit to Ingoldsby, were convicted, and on the r 6th of May 1691 were executed.

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  • The state commission of prisons consists of seven members appointed by the governor with the consent of the Senate for a term of four years, and the institutions under its supervision in 1910 were the Sing Sing State Prison,' at Ossining, the Auburn State Prison at Auburn, the Clinton State Prison at Dannemora, the New York State Reformatory at Elmira, the Eastern New York Reformatory at Napanoch, five county penitentiaries, and all other institutions for the detention of sane adults charged with or convicted of crime, or retained as witnesses or debtors.

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  • In the state reformatory at Elmira (which, like that at Napanoch, is for men between sixteen and thirty years of age who have been convicted of a state prison offence for the first time only), the plan of committing adult felons on an indeterminate sentence to be determined by their behaviour was first tested in America in 1877, and it has proved so satisfactory that it has been in part adopted for the state prisons.

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  • The Remonstrants were asked to file copious explanations of the five points in dispute (Sententia Remonstrantium), but objecting to the manner in which they were catechized, they were, at the 57th sitting, dismissed from the synod as convicted "liars and deceivers."

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  • Through Bristow's efforts more than 200 men were indicted, a number of whom were convicted, but after some months' imprisonment were pardoned.

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  • No one ever excelled him in daring and resource as a naval officer, but he suffered from serious defects of character, and even those who think him guiltless of the charge on which he was convicted in 1814 must feel that he had his own imprudence and want of self-command to thank for many of his misfortunes.

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  • In the autumn Caesar held a conference at Durocortorum (Reims), and Acco, a chief of the Senones, was convicted of treason and flogged to death.

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