He himself was once convicted of painting erotica and jailed for 24 days -- the first three of which he spent desperately trying to make paintings on the wall with his own spittle.

Pope was convicted last year of having aided North Celebes rebels by flying bombing missions.

Petitioner, who claims to be a conscientious objector, was convicted of violating 12a of the Universal Military Training and Service Act by refusing to be inducted into the armed forces.

When authorities convicted him of practicing medicine without a license ( he got off with a suspended sentence of three years because of his advanced age of 77 ), one of his victims was not around to testify: He was dead of cancer.

He was also at the same time gaining practical experience as a safe breaker and highwayman, and learning how to shoot to kill from a Neanderthal convicted murderer named Gene Geary, later committed to Chester Asylum as a homicidal maniac, but whose eyes misted with tears when the young Dion sang a ballad about an Irish mother in his clear and syrupy tenor.

The wife of convicted bank robber Lawrence G. Huntley was arrested in Phoenix, Ariz., last week and will be returned to Portland to face charges of assault and robbery, Portland detectives said Friday.

After all, Alger Hiss, subsequently convicted of perjury in denying that he gave secret State Department documents to Soviet agents, was at Yalta.

In July 1862, the Second Confiscation Act was passed, which set up court procedures that could free the slaves of anyone convicted of aiding the rebellion.

Poirot thus was forced to kill the man himself as otherwise he would have continued his actions and never been officially convicted.

Some convictions triggered an automatic penalty, but where this was not the case the two litigants each proposed a penalty for the convicted defendant and the jury chose between them in a further vote.

Alford was faced with the possibility of capital punishment if convicted by a jury trial.

Alford pled guilty to second-degree murder, and said he was doing so to avoid a death sentence if he had been convicted of first-degree murder after attempting to contest that charge.

In May 2007 the executor of his widow's estate, French foreign minister Roland Dumas, was convicted of illegally selling Giacometti's works to a top auctioneer.

The auctioneer, Jacques Tajan, was also convicted.

One anarchist, Robert Thaxton, was arrested and convicted of throwing a rock at a police officer.

Paoli was convicted in absentia, a warrant was sent for his arrest ( which could not be served ) and Napoleon was dispatched to Corsica as Inspector-general of Artillery to take the citadel of Ajaccio from the royalists, who had held it since 1789.

Callender was convicted, fined $ 200 and sentenced to nine months in jail.

Capone was convicted on federal charges of tax evasion, and sentenced to federal prison.

On 10 June 2004, Bardot was again convicted by a French court for " inciting racial hatred " and fined € 5, 000, the fourth such conviction and fine from a French court.

In 2008, Bardot was convicted of inciting racial / religious hatred in relation to a letter she wrote, a copy of which she sent to Nicolas Sarkozy when he was Interior Minister of France.

In 1988, Colin Pitchfork was the first person convicted of murder with DNA evidence, which led to growth of forensic science.

( Jelke later served 21 months when he was found guilty of masterminding a ring of high-priced call girls.

Negri was charged with a number of offences including leadership of the Red Brigades, masterminding the kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro and plotting to overthrow the government.

Israel later claimed that the assassination of PFLP spokesman Ghassan Kanafani was a response to the PFLP's involvement in masterminding the latter attack.

In 1991, a blind Muslim preacher, Husein Ali Al Habsyie, was sentenced to life imprisonment for masterminding a series of bombings in the mid 1980s including the temple attack.

Dissidence also increased within the Pakistan Peoples Party ( PPP ), and the murder of a leading dissident Ahmed Raza Kasuri's father led to public outrage and intra-party hostility as Bhutto was accused of masterminding the crime.

Negri was charged with a number of offenses, including leadership of the Red Brigades, masterminding the 1978 kidnapping and murder of the President of the Christian Democratic Party Aldo Moro, and plotting to overthrow the government.

Kim was charged with masterminding accounting fraud worth 41 trillion won ($ 43. 4 billion ), illegally borrowing 9. 8 trillion won ($ 10. 3 billion ) and smuggling $ 3. 2 billion out of the country, according to South Korea's Yonhap News Agency.

With him in the vehicle at the time of his death, was a senior al Qaeda leader, Abu Ali al-Harithi, who is suspected of masterminding the October 2000 attack on the destroyer.

As leader of higher and further education policy group, who produced the paper ' Quality, Diversity and Choice ' which is now party policy, Sharp was widely attributed as masterminding the Liberal Democrat's rejection of top-up fees, which contributed to the party's success in taking a number of university seats at the 2005 general election.

Carol Ruth Silver, she was the biggest snake ... and Willie Brown, he was masterminding the whole thing.

Tom Terrell, who would later serve as their manager, was instrumental in masterminding the U. S. premiere of Steel Pulse on the night of Bob Marley's funeral, which was broadcast live around the world from the 9: 30 Club, 930 F Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. on 21 May 1981.

Others have stressed that by 1857, some Indian soldiers, reading the presence of missionaries as a sign of official intent, were convinced that the Company was masterminding mass conversions of Hindus and Muslims to Christianity.

Carol Ruth Silver, she was the biggest snake ... and Willie Brown, he was masterminding the whole thing.

Benjamin Silman of New York is a former student turned campus bookmaker who was jailed for masterminding a point shaving scandal at Arizona State University.

The militant Islamic group Hezbollah was suspected of masterminding the attack, even though Panama had no connection with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Jazz Workshop was his first album as leader, and one where he played relatively little, as opposed to masterminding the events ( rather like his colleague Gil Evans ).

Charles Cholmondeley was made a Member ( MBE ) of the Order for masterminding the plan.

His main task, however, was masterminding the preparation of the SNAE scientific reports.

For many years Wilmers worked on a book, published in 2009 as The Eitingons: A Twentieth Century Story ( London, Faber ; ISBN 978-0-571-23472-1 ), recounting the story of her mother's Russian relations, including the psychoanalyst Max Eitingon as well as her grandfather's cousin, Leonid Eitingon, an agent in Joseph Stalin ’ s NKVD who was responsible for masterminding the assassination of Leon Trotsky.

Washington music programmer and writer Tom Terrell was instrumental in masterminding the U. S. premiere of reggae band Steel Pulse on the night of Bob Marley's funeral, which was broadcast live worldwide from the 9: 30 Club on May 21, 1981.