A U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation did result in convictions against the McDougals for their role in the Whitewater project, but the Clintons themselves were never charged, and Clinton maintains innocence in the affair.

Much later, a new trial was ordered by Yugoslavia and the convictions were overturned.

In inflicting it, they were guided only by their conscientious convictions of duty ; they had to take an oath that they would act biased by neither partiality nor favour ; and, in addition to this, they were bound in every case to state in their lists, opposite the name of the guilty citizen, the cause of the punishment inflicted on him, Subscriptio censoria.

The convictions were upheld on direct appeal.

Following their convictions, Echols, Misskelley and Baldwin submitted imprints of their teeth that were compared to alleged bite-marks on Stevie Branch's forehead not mentioned in the original autopsy or trial.

He concluded that a severe backlash against suspected Catholics would have followed, and that without foreign assistance a successful rebellion would have been unlikely ; despite differing religious convictions, most Englishmen were loyal to the institution of the monarchy.

However, Hippocrates did work with many convictions that were based on what is now known to be incorrect anatomy and physiology, such as Humorism.

Eleven convictions resulted, some of which were vacated on appeal.

However, in upholding the securities fraud ( insider trading ) convictions, the justices were evenly split.

He imposed heavy sentences on those who were convicted ; some of the convictions were reversed on appeal, and other sentences were commuted.

They appealed their sentences and convictions on the grounds that they were not informed of their right to consular assistance, and that with consular assistance they might have been able to mount a better defense.

North's convictions were vacated, after the appeals court found that witnesses in his trial might have been impermissibly affected by his immunized congressional testimony.

While biographers such as Ackroyd have taken a relatively tolerant view of More's campaign against Protestantism by placing his actions within the turbulent religious climate of the time, other equally eminent historians, such as Richard Marius, have been more critical, believing that persecutions -- including what he perceives as the advocacy of extermination for Protestants -- were a betrayal of More's earlier humanist convictions.

But, Taft conceded, with his extensive involvement as the most prominent member of the cabinet, that he was the most " available " man ; thus he agreed that were he to be nominated for president, he would put his personal convictions aside and run a vigorous campaign.

Kosovo Police established a special investigation team to handle cases related to the 2004 unrest and according to Kosovo Judicial Council by the end of 2006 the 326 charges filed by municipal and district prosecutors for criminal offenses in connection with the unrest had resulted in 200 indictments: convictions in 134 cases, and courts acquitted eight and dismissed 28 ; 30 cases were pending.

In August 1976, Science published a retrospective cohort study by Educational Testing Service psychologist Herman Witkin and colleagues that screened the tallest 16 % of men ( over 184 cm ( 6 ' 0 ") in height ) born in Copenhagen from 1944 – 1947 for XXY and XYY karyotypes, and found an increased rate of minor criminal convictions for property crimes among sixteen XXY and twelve XYY men may be related to the lower intelligence of those with criminal convictions, but found no evidence that XXY or XYY men were inclined to be aggressive or violent.

Later, radical activists Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, and three other members of the " Chicago Seven " were convicted of crossing state lines with the intent of inciting a riot as a result of these confrontations, though the convictions were overturned on appeal.

Their convictions about the nature of consciousness and its relation to external nature, about the fundamental separateness of individuals that involves both isolation and love, about the human and non-human nature of time and death, and about the ideal goods of truth, love and beauty – all these were largely shared.

In a blow to the Mafia, the Maxi Trial convictions were upheld by the Supreme Court in January 1992.

A Federal Bureau of Investigation investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95 % of the $ 17. 3 million in cash which had been taken.

An FBI investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95 % of the stolen cash.

Intense as were his Christian convictions, he could sanction nothing that would do deliberate violence to the convictions of another ; and he had a faith that Christian truth would eventually prevail on its own merits, and need never fear to be set side by side with the truths that other religious systems contain.

Especially Christian IV of Denmark encouraged this practice, which eventually resulted in hundreds of people burnt because of convictions of witchcraft.

The prosecution that followed was partly prompted by a public interest petition ( see Vineet Narain ), and yet the court cases of the Hawala scandal eventually all collapsed without convictions.

His political convictions ( which he was inclined to share with others with some frequency ) eventually proved to be too liberal for the Austrian authorities.

Their convictions, obtained by use of testimony obtained by beatings and torture through electric shock, in a trial atmosphere dominated by mobs of armed whites milling around the courthouse, were eventually reversed by the United States Supreme Court in Moore v. Dempsey.

Many of the British North American colonies that eventually formed the United States of America were settled in the 17th century by men and women, who, in the face of European religious persecution, refused to compromise passionately held religious convictions and fled Europe.

The Guildford Four and the Maguire Seven were two sets of people whose convictions in English courts for the Guildford pub bombings in the 1970s were eventually quashed.

All convictions resulting from the arrests were eventually overturned.

Intense as were his Christian convictions, he could sanction nothing that would do deliberate violence to the convictions of another ; and he had a faith that Christian truth would eventually prevail on its own merits, and need never fear to be set side by side with the truths that other religious systems contain.

While the defense could show no specific instance where any part of North's congressional testimony was used in his trial, the Court of Appeals ruled that the trial judge had made an insufficient examination of the issue, and ordered North's convictions reversed.

** Iran Contra Affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of 5 charges for his part in the scandal ; the convictions are later reversed on appeal.

The U. S. Supreme Court later reversed some convictions under the Smith Act as unconstitutional.

He was convicted in April 1990 of multiple felonies as a result of his actions in the Iran-Contra affair, but his convictions were reversed on appeal in 1991.

The convictions were reversed in 1991 on appeal.

Convicted of multiple felonies in the Iran-Contra affair, convictions were reversed upon appeal.

On May 11, 1972, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals vacated all of the contempt convictions, and on November 21, 1972 reversed all of the substantive convictions on a number of grounds.

While five of the defendants were initially convicted of crossing state lines to incite a riot, all convictions were soon reversed in appeal court.

On November 21, 1972, all of the convictions were reversed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on the basis that the judge was biased in his refusal to permit defense attorneys to screen prospective jurors for cultural and racial bias.

On January 6, 2005, a Texas Court of Appeals reversed the convictions, because California psychiatrist and prosecution witness Dr. Park Dietz admitted he had given materially false testimony during the trial.

In a landmark decision, the United States Supreme Court reversed the convictions on the ground that the due process clause of the United States Constitution guarantees the effective assistance of counsel at a criminal trial.

The court reversed the convictions for a second time on the basis that blacks had been excluded from the jury pool because of their race.

However, in early 2008, the Nevada Supreme Court reversed both the convictions of husband and wife as to the extortion and conspiracy charges, on grounds that the couple had not been allowed to submit evidence showing that the sexual assault actually occurred.

Several convictions were reversed, and many more came under review.

A three-judge panel of the 11th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta overturned their convictions in 2005, citing the " prejudices " of Miami ’ s anti-Castro Cubans, but the full court later reversed the five's bid for a new trial and reinstated the original convictions.

In the 1990s, the Federal Republic of Germany reversed the convictions of Tesch and the other men who were executed, clearing their names.

Although a panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals initially reversed the convictions because of the way in which the district court conducted the voir dire, that decision was vacated by the court's decision to re-hear the case en banc.

As ex post facto application of criminal statutes violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Court reversed the convictions.

This decision resolved a circuit split on the issue, and reversed the lower ruling of the Third Circuit that the law did apply to foreign convictions.

She appealed her three convictions, and, in May 2001, the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal reversed two of them, and she was then released from prison.