He's the first lawmaker to plead guilty or to be convicted in this case.
Megrahi is the only person to be convicted over the 1988 bombing which claimed 270 lives.
Even human-rights activists agree that it was right for Mr Dunlop to be convicted.
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Speaking outside the court, Pryce's solicitor Robert Brown said she was "naturally very disappointed to be convicted".
In turn, Sharif tabled a new bill allowing him the right to appeal should he be convicted.
Should they be convicted and hanged in time for the next election, that would handily weaken the opposition.
His poor selection of an inexpensive tax firm caused him to be convicted of tax fraud a year ago.
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Though there has been no verdict announced, he is expected to be convicted and receive a long prison term.
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Doctors must sign for each free dose they receive, and if they falsely bill Medicare, drugmakers can be convicted of criminal fraud.
He is the second police officer to be convicted under Operation Elveden, following the case of ex-counter-terrorism detective April Casburn.
His lawyers say they'll fight the state charges on grounds that Vick can't be convicted of the same crime twice.
The next year she would be convicted on terror charges for running the site and handed a suspended prison sentence.
The more offenses the biological parents had, the more likely it was that their offspring would be convicted of a crime.
Prosecutors haven't yet given their summation, but they have previously said Tarloff knew what he was doing and should be convicted.
Forty-year-old David Passaro is the first U.S. civilian to be convicted of prisoner abuse during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Muhammad, 42, is the first person to be convicted under Virginia's terrorism law, passed after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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Two men have become the first football supporters in Scotland to be convicted and sentenced under new offensive behaviour at football legislation.
The law is clear that a person may be convicted of obstructing justice if he corruptly influenced the testimony of a perspective witness.
He is likely to be convicted as his brother Miguel, who is still behind bars, has already pleaded guilty to the same crime.
Many analysts in Jakarta believe that Mr Tandjung knows far too much about the murky past of too many politicians to be convicted.
Because Judge Lake charged that Lay and Skilling can be convicted based on "conscious avoidance, " the prosecution's burden of proof will be easier met.
They ought to be just convicted like the inside players in the derivatives debacle that caused the 2008 financial meltdown ought to be convicted.
No drug should be convicted until it is conclusively proven to be very unsafe, no matter how many people get hurt in the meantime.
In July of this year, a 22-year-old man became the first person in the UK to be convicted for modifying a video games console.
Whether you can be convicted for this, however, is another story.
No matter how Mr Holmes pleads, he could still be convicted.
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He became the first former head of state to be convicted of war crimes by an international court since the Nuremburg trials of Nazis after World War II.
There is no doubt that William Dunlop, the first person to be convicted under the new rules, did assault Julie Hogg sexually and murder her in 1989.
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First of all, it means that Judge Nixon can be convicted, even if two-thirds of the Senate does not agree, in which his political statements were false.
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