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.

The convictions were eventually reversed on appeal, and the government declined to bring the case to trial again.

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

* October 17 All of Lay's convictions are officially vacated because he died before the appeals could be heard.

Based on Reyes ' confession, the DNA evidence, and the questionable confessions, Morgenthau recommended that the convictions be vacated.

The five defendants ' convictions were vacated by New York Supreme Court Justice Charles J. Tejada on December 19, 2002.

As Morgenthau recommended, Tejada's order vacated the convictions for all the crimes of which the defendants had been convicted.

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.

In Moore v. Dempsey, the United States Supreme Court vacated six of the convictions on the grounds that the mob-dominated atmosphere of the trial and the use of testimony coerced by torture denied the defendants ' due process required by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

The special court was replaced in 1693 by the Superior Court of Judicature, on which Hathorne was not immediately seated ; it cleared most of the accused it tried of any wrongdoing, and the few convictions it handed down were vacated by Governor Phips.

On June 4, 2008, a 3-judge panel of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the convictions of the " Five " but vacated and remanded for resentencing in district court the sentences of Guerrero, Labañino, and Fernando González.

Dec. 14, 2010 ) 631 F. 3d 266, upheld Steven Warshak's convictions and all convictions against Harriet Warshak except for money laundering and vacated their sentences, remanding the sentencing to the lower court.

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.

On August 1, 2011, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit vacated the five Gen Re and AIG defendants ’ convictions and remanded for a new trial, holding that the reported drop in share prices could not be attributed to the two reinsurance deals.

The Court affirmed Allen's murder conviction, after having vacated his two prior convictions for the same crime.

The convictions were later vacated in 2002 when another man said he attacked the victim.

Because of this, a significant number of cases were dismissed due to a lack of evidence, and Phips vacated the few convictions that were made.

Recent scandals include the convictions of the mayor, David Delle Donna, and his wife, a member of the town planning board, on federal extortion and mail fraud charges ; a former mayor, Peter LaVilla, who pleaded guilty in 2003 to misappropriating campaign funds and using the money for a private brokerage account ; a councilman who resigned after being accused of receiving illegal advances on his salary ; and a chief financial officer, who pleaded guilty in 2002 to misappropriation of funds.

In 2002, another man's confession, plus DNA evidence confirming his crime, led the district attorney's office to recommend vacating the convictions of the teenagers originally accused and sentenced to prison.

* Prolific Christian author R. T. Kendall ( born 13 July 1935 ), who pastored the Westminster Chapel for 25 years ( 1977 – 2002 ), was born into a Nazarene family in Ashland, Kentucky, named for general superintendent Roy T. Williams, graduated from Trevecca Nazarene University ( 1970 ), and commenced his ministry in the denomination before his Calvinistic convictions necessitated his resignation.

After Knoller's and Noel's convictions in 2002, the State Bar of California suspended their law licenses.

Eagleson was removed from the Order after being jailed for fraud in 1998, Ahenakew was removed in 2005 after being convicted of promoting anti-Semitic hatred in 2002, Singh was removed after the revocation of his law licence for professional misconduct, and Fonyo was removed due to numerous criminal convictions.

* 2002: The Christian Patriot Association, an " ultra-right-wing group ", is shut down after convictions for tax fraud and tax evasion.

I place His precepts and His leadings above every seeming probability, dismissing cherished convictions and holding the wisdom of man as folly when opposed to Him.

We have lived up to our convictions .” In any case, lack of accreditation seems to have made little difference during the post-war period, when the university more than doubled in size.

This piece stands today as " a moving testimony to what can be achieved when an artist's political convictions are directly manifested in his work ".

His " strong personality " and religious convictions began to concern local church authorities when he refused to attend church services or take communion.

The rules for appointing the president and the leader of the government, in some republics permit the appointment of a president and a prime minister who have opposing political convictions: in France, when the members of the ruling cabinet and the president come from opposing political factions, this situation is called cohabitation.

From then on, all dissolutions that were not a consequence of convictions for treason, were legally " voluntary "-a principle that was taken a stage further with the voluntary surrender of Lewes priory in November 1537, when for the first time the monks were offered life pensions if they co-operated, and were not accorded the option of transfer to another house.

" In the New Statesman two years later, when there had still been no convictions for the crime, Peter Tatchell, gay human rights campaigner, said, " In the days leading up to his murder in south London in November 2000, he was subjected to vicious homophobic abuse and assaults ," and asked why the authorities had ignored this before and after his death.

The same can be said of Simmel when he says that, " the vitality of real individuals, in their sensitivities and attractions, in the fullness of their impulses and convictions ... is but a symbol of life, as it shows itself in the flow of a lightly amusing play ," or when he adds: " a symbolic play, in whose aesthetic charm all the finest and most highly sublimated dynamics of social existence and its riches are gathered.

The CRC's bail fund gained national attention on November 4, 1949, when bail in the amount of "$ 260, 000 in negotiable government bonds " was posted " to free eleven men appealing their convictions under the Smith Act for criminal conspiracy to teach and advocate the overthrow of the United States government by force and violence.

The legendary Mustang Ranch operated from 1971 through 1999, when it was forfeited to the federal government following a series of convictions for tax fraud, racketeering, and other crimes.

The 1980s also saw an end to the Westies ' reign of terror, when the gang lost all of its power after the RICO convictions of most of its principals in 1986.

It was Buñuel's intention to shock and insult the intellectual bourgeoisie of his youth, later saying: " Historically the film represents a violent reaction against what in those days was called ‘ avant-garde ,’ which was aimed exclusively at artistic sensibility and the audience ’ s reason .” Against his hopes and expectations, the film was a huge success amongst the French bourgeoisie, leading Buñuel to exclaim in exasperation, " What can I do about the people who adore all that is new, even when it goes against their deepest convictions, or about the insincere, corrupt press, and the inane herd that saw beauty or poetry in something which was basically no more than a desperate impassioned call for murder?

This is important as a preliminary stage, but philosophy properly begins when it attempts to coordinate or systematize those convictions in harmony, to conciliate apparent contradiction and opposition, as between the correlative notions of finite and infinite, the apparently conflicting notions of personality and infinitude, self and not-self ; in a word, to reconcile the various sides of consciousness with each other.

The programme led a campaign to prove the innocence of the Birmingham Six in 1985 when researcher Chris Mullin questioned the convictions and by 1991 the men had been released.

Conscience may be defined as the practical reason employed when applying moral convictions to a situation (" critical conscience ").

A power struggle ensued between the king and the pope, which was settled in August 1308 when they agreed to split the convictions.

The ' Stockade ' prosecution ended in failure when the Court of Appeal quashed convictions against seven people accused in connection with the alleged diversion of £ 105 million in excise duty ( VAT ).

Prosecutors are protected from civil liability even when they knowingly and maliciously break the law in order to secure convictions, and the doctrine of harmless error is used by appellate courts to uphold convictions despite such illegal tactics, thus giving prosecutors few incentives to comply with the law.

The operation ended when police arrested several of LaRouche's followers ; there were no convictions, and LaRouche maintained they had acted in self-defense.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer echoed the convictions of Athanasius when he wrote " He became like human beings, so that we would be like him "

These experiences deeply influenced Ray Ginger's political convictions and much of his historical work: in later life he frequently recounted his childhood humiliation when sent to collect the bag of flour that was the only form of public welfare available, and also the intense personal rage that dominated his youth.

Parkes had always been a free-trader and no doubt his convictions were strengthened when in England by contact with Cobden and other leading free traders.