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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.
Sonia Sotomayor
Man
Justice
Innocent
Job
Guilty
Prosecutor
Convicted
Served
Just because you're convicted in a court room doesn't mean you're guilty of something.
Charles Manson
You
Guilty
Something
Because
Court
Just
Just Because
Mean
Room
Convicted
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.
Tupac Shakur
Crime
Half
Months
Spent
Wrongly
Got
Five
Times
Commit
Jail
Just
Convicted
Shot
Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.
Phil Donahue
Man
Innocent
Cheating
Recognition
Come
Proves
Reporter
Public
Convicted
Should
Who
Insider trading is hard to prove. To be convicted, a person must have bought or sold a stock based on material information that is both unknown to the general public and likely to have had an important effect on a company's stock price.
Alex Berenson
Important
Unknown
Sold
Must
Insider
General
Both
General Public
Price
Had
Bought
Likely
Material
Prove
Trading
Effect
Stock
Person
Information
Public
Convicted
Hard
Company
Based
One of the things that I somewhat realized, especially right after I was convicted, was that sometimes really, really horrible things happen for no reason.
Amanda Knox
Sometimes
One Of The Things
Horrible
Horrible Things
No Reason
Somewhat
Happen
After
Convicted
Realized
Really
Reason
Right
Things
Things Happen
All wrongfully convicted people are portrayed as monsters. But there's a special kind of monster that is a woman.
Amanda Knox
Woman
People
Monster
Monsters
Kind
Wrongfully
Convicted
Special
Portrayed
The commanding general publishes, for the information of all concerned, that hereafter all persons found within our lines who commit acts for the benefit of the enemies of our country will be tried as spies or traitors, and, if convicted, will suffer death.
Ambrose Burnside
Death
Enemies
Will
Country
Benefit
Our
Spies
Tried
General
Concerned
Within
Commanding
Lines
Traitors
Commit
Information
Convicted
Persons
Who
Found
Suffer
Acts
Hereafter
You have to realize that myself and others that have been wrongfully convicted of crimes, we've dealt with the situation. You realize that you're not going to survive in prison or progress as a human being if you allow yourself to continue to hold on to this negative energy.
Brian Banks
Myself
You
Yourself
Human Being
Progress
Negative
Prison
Situation
Energy
Negative Energy
Others
Crimes
Allow
Wrongfully
Dealt
Continue
Been
Survive
Going
Human
Being
Hold
To Survive
Convicted
Realize
Bullies have played a dirty trick to force me out of office by re-drawing my Congressional district to cover a largely rural area of north Florida and include 22 prisons, and convicted felons can't vote.
Corrine Brown
Me
Vote
Out
Trick
District
Rural
Area
Dirty
Force
Prisons
Cover
Bullies
North
Office
Convicted
Congressional
Include
Largely
Florida
Played
Control orders put people not convicted of any crime under virtual house arrest based on scant evidence. Billed as a security backstop, they proved unreliable.
Dominic Raab
People
Crime
Control
Virtual
Evidence
Security
Scant
Unreliable
Put
House
Arrest
Proved
Any
Orders
Convicted
Based
A statute that lets some wrongfully convicted individuals seek restitution but denies that right to others is an unjust and unequal application of the law.
Eric Schneiderman
Law
Unjust
Others
Some
Seek
Individuals
Wrongfully
Denies
Unequal
Convicted
Lets
Right
Application
If we can't remove a member of Congress who has been convicted of 10 felonies - including using his office for personal gain - we risk losing the faith and trust of the American people that we have.
Gene Green
Faith
Trust
People
Losing
Remove
Congress
Member
Has-Been
Risk
Been
His
Office
American
Personal
Gain
Convicted
American People
Who
Using
Including
Failure to deport aliens who are convicted for criminal offenses puts whole communities at risk - especially immigrant communities in the very sanctuary jurisdictions that seek to protect the perpetrators.
Jeff Sessions
Failure
Alien
Criminal
Immigrant
Seek
Risk
Puts
Protect
Very
Sanctuary
Convicted
Communities
Who
Whole
Since the September 11 attacks, nearly 400 individuals have been arrested by the Justice Department as a result of ongoing investigations into international terrorism. Of that total, over half were convicted as a result of their actions.
Jo Bonner
Terrorism
Justice
Result
Half
September
Total
Ongoing
Attacks
Investigations
Individuals
Over
Since
Arrested
Were
Been
Department
Justice Department
Convicted
International
Actions
International Terrorism
Nearly
When I first came to Hollywood, the blacklist was just starting, and they were having hearings in Washington. What most people don't know is the judge of these hearings himself was later convicted of misappropriation. 'Spartacus' helped break the blacklist, because Spartacus was a real character.
Kirk Douglas
Character
People
Judge
First
Later
Having
Know
Most
Himself
Because
Real
Real Character
Came
Were
Just
Break
Hollywood
Convicted
Helped
Washington
Starting
Public housing is off-limits to you if you have been convicted of a felony. For a minimum of five years, you are deemed ineligible for public housing once you've been branded a felon. Discrimination in private housing market's perfectly legal.
Michelle Alexander
You
Legal
Market
Once
Minimum
Perfectly
Felony
Housing
Private
Been
Years
Five
Discrimination
Branded
Public
Convicted
Public Housing
Deemed
Amazon webhosting dropped Wikileaks as a customer after receiving a complaint from U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman, despite the fact that Wikileaks had not been charged, let alone convicted, of any crime.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Alone
Crime
Wikileaks
Complaint
Despite
Charged
Joe
Fact
Had
Dropped
Been
Amazon
Senator
Any
After
Customer
Convicted
Receiving
Under international law, defendants convicted in absentia have the right to a retrial, unless the prosecutors for the authorities who do finally capture them can show that the defendants knew they were under indictment.
Ronen Bergman
Law
Unless
Finally
Indictment
Knew
Prosecutors
Were
Authorities
Them
Convicted
Show
Who
International
Capture
International Law
Right
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.
Sadiq Khan
Legal
Innocent
Pay
Aid
Crimes
Everyone
Those
Ensuring
Guilty
Ability
Able
Crucial
Clear
Names
Access
Due
Truly
Representation
After
Regardless
Process
Available
Convicted
Victims want to know that the true perpetrators of their crime are convicted - legal aid helps achieve this.
Sadiq Khan
Legal
Achieve
Crime
Aid
True
Know
Want
Victims
Convicted
Helps
The person who has been convicted has served their time. Why would we continue to punish and exclude them from housing and jobs? Those are the primary areas that allow people to get their lives back on track.
Susan Burton
Time
People
Back
Punish
Those
Has-Been
Jobs
Would
Area
Allow
Primary
Exclude
Track
Housing
Continue
Been
Person
Get
Them
Convicted
Who
Why
Lives
Served
I was at MSNBC; I was constantly saying to them during Bridgegate, 'You've convicted Governor Christie without one iota of fact attaching him to the decision to stall the traffic on the bridge. Why don't we wait until the federal government or the state government... completes its investigation.'
Tom Brokaw
Government
Saying
You
Wait
Decision
State
State Government
Constantly
Attaching
Fact
Federal
Federal Government
Investigation
Until
Him
Iota
Without
Traffic
Governor
Them
Stall
Convicted
Bridge
Why
I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime.
Tommy Chong
Good
Crime
Never
Boy
Been
Convicted
Really
Serious
If Judge Steven T. O'Neill sent Mr. Cosby away for the rest of his life, that sentence couldn't undo what he's convicted of having done to Andrea Constand, his accuser in two trials. It also can't undo what he once did for me, which was to make me believe in myself.
Wesley Morris
Life
Myself
Me
Trials
Judge
Rest
Believe
Once
Cosby
Having
He
Also
Steven
Make
His
Undo
Did
Accuser
Done
Which
Sent
Sentence
Convicted
Away
Two
Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges.
Robert Kiyosaki
Legal
Problems
Conspiracy
Enron
Way
Fraud
Charges
Lay
He
His
Escape
Died
Being
After
Former
Convicted
Chairman
Found
Ken
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