conviction
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A "pardon after completion of sentence" would mean that Bankman-Fried's conviction on various counts of fraud would be forgiven after he serves his jail sentence.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
Access to one of the world’s richest men, with his deep-pocketed foundation and unmatched convening power in global health, would have lent Epstein the legitimacy he was seeking after his 2008 conviction.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
"An era comes to an end with her passing. I feel, like so many French people, a deep nostalgia," said Sarkozy, who last year was briefly jailed over a graft conviction.
From Barron's • Jun. 6, 2026
Grossman’s attorney argued before an appeals court panel that the law allowed for a manslaughter conviction, not second-degree murder, which requires “implied malice.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026
The old conviction that there was no new knowledge had momentarily resurfaced, only to sink almost without trace beneath the tide whose very existence it denied.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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