His poor selection of an inexpensive tax firm caused him to be convicted of tax fraud a year ago.
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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.
His lawyers say they'll fight the state charges on grounds that Vick can't be convicted of the same crime twice.
The more offenses the biological parents had, the more likely it was that their offspring would be convicted of a crime.
Forty-year-old David Passaro is the first U.S. civilian to be convicted of prisoner abuse during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The law is clear that a person may be convicted of obstructing justice if he corruptly influenced the testimony of a perspective witness.
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.
Charles Taylor became the first former head of state to be convicted of war crimes by an international court since the Nuremberg trials after World War II.
In a private prosecution 12 years ago, a jury had been unable to agree whether Ch Supt David Duckenfield, in overall command at the match, should be convicted of manslaughter.
Gingrich can be convicted of an extraordinarily high self-regard.
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"Although the company is naturally disappointed to be convicted of one of the charges, it notes that this was of a technical nature and not connected to Mrs Young's death, " it said.
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Should the accused ultimately be convicted of the charges, we could each creatively dream up any number of punishments we would like to personally administer to such a sick and evil human being.
It is a staple of our civilized criminal justice system that you cannot be convicted of committing a crime unless you knew what you were doing and realized that it was against the law.
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It added that players would continue to be considered for England while police investigations were on-going, with their situation looked at on a case-by-case basis were they to be convicted of a serious criminal offence.
He was due to go on trial but changed his plea to guilty after district judge Roy Anderson indicated White would be convicted of the offence even if the animal was dead before it was cooked.
Samina Malik, a slight 23-year-old in a headscarf, last month became the first Muslim woman to be convicted of a terrorism offence in Britain when she was found guilty of collecting a library of jihadist manuals from the internet.
The study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found when people took their medication they were 32-41% less likely to be convicted of a crime than when they were off medication for a period of six months or more.
At the Thursday session, Parliament speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani read a letter from Sunni parliament members saying they will go along with the agreement if their demands are met for releasing those Sunni detainees who have yet to be convicted of crimes.
And it is extremely difficult to unseat the president if he refuses to quit: either members of the federal parliament would have to take a case against him to the constitutional court, or he would have to be convicted of a felony.
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We are not saying that the president, even though the weight of the evidence demonstrates it amply, should be convicted of the impeachment which has brought us to this floor because he committed perjury -- just because he committed perjury or obstructed justice.
To be included, an individual had to be convicted of tax evasion, or had to accept responsibility for the charges levied against him (as former Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-Hee did in April when he was indicted on charges of tax evasion and breach of trust).
And it is not too legalistic to point out that a president of the United States should not be convicted of perjury and removed from office over an argument -- a dispute about what is and what is not the commonly accepted meaning of words in his testimony.
Courts have concluded that no one should be convicted of perjury without demonstrating that the testimony in question was in fact false, that the person testifying knew it to be false, and that the testimony involved an issue that is material to the case, one that could influence the outcome of the matter one way or the other.
It's the law because our courts have recognized that if a criminal charge is to be based on the words uttered by a fallible human being, he must be allowed to defend the truthfulness of the specific words he used and not be convicted on the basis merely of some prosecutor's summary or interpretation.
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Meanwhile, earlier this month Det Ch Insp April Casburn, 53, of the Met Police was the first person to be convicted as a result of Operation Elveden.
That he will be convicted for abuse of power now seems such a foregone conclusion that even Mr Anwar says he expects up to four years in jail.
Unlike criminal forfeiture, where property is taken after its owner has been found guilty in a court of law, with civil forfeiture, owners need not be charged with or convicted of a crime to lose homes, cars, cash or other property.
The owner of the brain portrayed in the video receives a Drink Banning Order, which can be given to anyone convicted of a alcohol-related crime.
As with Faneuil, the government will go into court with case law supporting the notion that a defendant can be convicted solely on the basis of testimony even by a convicted felon--if the jury deems it credible.
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