Leandra Medine

As long as you are promoting something that you really believe in - yes, it's incredible to see that designer earn the esteem they deserve - but there's something to be said about the fact that if you're convicted about an opinion, and you really believe something's great, you're not going to credit yourself for their success.

American Author

Sadiq Khan

Legal aid is crucial in ensuring those truly guilty of crimes are convicted after due process, and those innocent are able to clear their names, by ensuring that access to legal representation is available for everyone, regardless of ability to pay.

British Politician

Kool Moe Dee

I can appreciate that on one side, but we have to remember that the system is designed corruptly, and works against us, so you cant convict those who can benefit from the system, because its not neccesarily their fault.

American Musician

Duane Chapman

And I used to say, 'I'm black, too.' In other words, I - my whole life I've been called a half-breed, a convict, king of the trailer trash, this and that. I take that and stand.

American Celebrity

Tupac Shakur

I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.

American Rapper

Sonia Sotomayor

My job as a prosecutor is to do justice. And justice is served when a guilty man is convicted and an innocent man is not.

American Judge

George Jackson

Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.

American Activist

Julien Baker

Those parts of myself that are too ugly or dangerous are precisely the things I feel convicted to share.

Tommy Chong

I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime.

Canadian Actor

Raquel Welch

Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.

American Actress

Use 'convict' with awareness of human dignity. It labels a person by their crime.

Human Dignity

'Convict' carries a stigma; it is often associated with a loss of reputation.

Stigma Attached

'Convict' refers to individuals after sentencing, not at the time of arrest.

Before vs After

'Convict' used as a verb is specific to legal contexts and is a formal act by authorities.

Legal Precision

The past tense 'convicted' is more commonly used in news and reports.

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'Convict' doesn't mean the person is actually guilty; wrongful convictions happen.

Not Always Guilty

 So let me tell you I know there are days it looks like the whole world is dancing in the streets when you break down like the doors of their looted buildings You are not alone and wondering who will be convicted of the crime of insisting you keep loading your grief into the chamber of your shame You are not weak just because your heart feels so heavy

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 And I began giving her my rap. "We're trying to challenge injustice. We're trying to help people who have been wrongly convicted. We're trying to confront bias and discrimination in the administration of criminal justice. We're trying to end life without parole sentences for children. We're trying to do something about the death penalty.

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 So for comparison's purposes, let's think about some other walk of life you may expect might be extremely risky. Let's say that you were a murderer and you were convicted of murder, and you're sent to death row. It turns out, the death rates on death row from all causes, including two percent a year.

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 And subsequently charged and then convicted. So this was somebody who was was it someone who had quite a big following on Instagram? Was it just a random Instagram account? I think they did. They had quite a large following and they decided to branch out into a fashion brand.

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 to which he's never been, but changed his life forever. So photographing there, I was hoping to highlight the tenuous relationship between truth and fiction, in both his life and in photography. Calvin Washington was convicted of capital murder.

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 irrespective of how many young people we send to prison. We tend to think about justice in a pretty narrow good and bad, innocent and guilty. Injustice is about being wrongfully convicted. So if you're convicted of something you did do,

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 It turned out that one of the people involved in the loan was trying to enlist someone else in a fake attack. Aref didn't know. For that, he was convicted of conspiracy to provide material support to a terrorist group.

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 was tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Now, when a jury has to make the decision between life in prison and the death penalty, they base their decision largely on whether or not the defendant

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 committed the murders to justify ordering their extradition but there was one potential and very important obstacle and that was if ultimately convicted burns and rafi could be

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 and drugs well that's the life of a convict you got to survive in this institution and basically survive when you're not free is by all means then and

Convict

A person declared guilty of a crime by a court.

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To declare someone guilty of a crime in a court of law.

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