convicted

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On Wednesday, the now 36-year-old has been reconvicted in an ongoing slander case surrounding Knox falsely accusing her boss, Patrick Lumumba, of killing her roommate, Meredith Kercher, The Associated Press reported.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2024

A court in Florence has reconvicted Amanda Knox for slander, years after she was acquitted of murdering her British roommate Meredith Kercher in 2007.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2024

But of those who participated for at least nine months in programs such as Amistad, 92% are not reconvicted of a new crime in their first year of release.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 2023

For example, among homicide offenders released after age 55, only 0.4 percent were reconvicted of any new crime within the next three years.

From Slate • Mar. 27, 2020

Now, this is exactly the position of many habitual criminals, and more especially of that large class of them which is being continually convicted and reconvicted of petty offences.

From Crime and Its Causes by Morrison, William Douglas