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He reminded the panel they must unanimously believe beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty in order to convict her of a crime.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Federal agents have legal protections that can make it challenging to convict them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

The Constitution requires a two-thirds vote in the Senate—67 senators—to convict in an impeachment proceeding.

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026

“It’s hard for a jury to convict when they feel no empathy for the victim. They dirtied up the victim and made her repugnant to the jury.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

“You get a convict baseball, you’ll show it to me first, right?”

From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko

But Amanda Seyfried’s Karen, a creative-writing teacher of convicts in Oklahoma, is nonetheless drawn to this man, someone who pays her the attention she is otherwise lacking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

Even charges like the ones Rojas faces can be devastating, whether or not a jury ever convicts.

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2026

"This court finds the accused guilty of all 21 charges and convicts the accused accordingly," Judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah said.

From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025

That compels convicts to start serving prison terms and other penalties before the appeals process has been exhausted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025

Some convicts were whitewashing stones along the edge of a pathway that came toward the gate near where he stood.

From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong

Rees, of Harcourt Avenue, Sidcup, was convicted in January at Woolwich Crown Court of causing an explosion likely to endanger life.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Pinto has described himself as a whistleblower, but was convicted in Portugal of offences including illegal access to data and attempted extortion and given a four-year suspended sentence.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

But on July 8, 2022, the jury acquitted me on four counts and convicted me on two.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Shipp was convicted and received a life sentence, while Peterson pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact and testified against the other two.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Several years earlier, the US government had convicted Abel of running a network of Soviet spies in the United States.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

State officials rarely prosecute federal agents for actions related to their official duties because the agents have legal protections that can make convicting them difficult.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026

Hoppock worries that by moving straight to deportation proceedings, the federal government has found a way to skip prosecuting and convicting.

From Salon ● May 14, 2026

It’s true that we don’t want juries convicting simply because they don’t like the defendant.

From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2026

In the other case, Hochman’s staff came closer to convicting a cop for an on-duty shooting than anyone else has in L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026

This was the first evidence we presented that suggested that people in law enforcement had been so focused on convicting Walter that they were prepared to ignore or even hide evidence that contradicted their case.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson