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Wildeblood and had
He had been a staunch public supporter of Lord Edward Montagu and his lover Peter Wildeblood after the two were jailed for breaking anti-gay laws in the early 1950s, and visited them regularly in prison.

Wildeblood and convicted
The Report of the Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution ( better known as the Wolfenden report, after Lord Wolfenden, the chairman of the committee ) was published in Britain on 4 September 1957 after a succession of well-known men, including Lord Montagu, Michael Pitt-Rivers and Peter Wildeblood, were convicted of homosexual offences.

Wildeblood and Winter
Getting gay men to give evidence was of considerable difficulty for the committee: Wolfenden considered placing an advert in a newspaper or magazine, but the committee instead decided to locate three men willing to give evidence: Peter Wildeblood, Carl Winter and Patrick Trevor-Roper.

Wildeblood and was
") Nevertheless, he was imprisoned for twelve months for " consensual homosexual offences " along with Michael Pitt-Rivers and Peter Wildeblood .< ref >
Journalist Peter Wildeblood was imprisoned in ' The Scrubs ' in 1954.
He was also a junior counsel in the unsuccessful defence of Peter Wildeblood, tried with Edward Montagu and Michael Pitt-Rivers for gross indecency in 1954.

Wildeblood and .
Several of the characters from Illuminatus !, for example, Markoff Chaney (" The Midget ") and Epicene Wildeblood, return in Wilson's Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy, which also carries on some of its themes.
* Epicene Wildeblood, a. k. a. Mary Margaret Wildeblood, a transsexual woman who throws great parties
* Peter Wildeblood, journalist and playwright and celebrated gay rights campaigner.
In his book of 1955 ( Against the Law ) Peter Wildeblood refers to Nott-Bower's role in the ' Great Purge ' quoting an article written by Donald Horne for the Sydney Morning Telegraph printed on October 25th, 1953.

had and been
If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.
They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.
They greeted the news angrily, as though they had been cheated of purpose.
With every leaping stride of the horse beneath him he crossed one more patch of earth that had been his, that he would never see again.
He had been carrying an Enfield rifle and a holstered navy cap-and-ball pistol.
But the luck that had been running their way left him.
His shout had been taken up and repeated.
A sizable supply of powder had been touched off.
The worst part had been the waiting ; ;
The war captain had been badly wounded and was fighting to hold his seat.
And one had been too many.
That afternoon when they had pulled up in front of the broken-down ranch house, his hopes had been high.
The place had been cheap -- just the little he had left after Amelia's burial -- and it would serve its purpose.
I had for some time been hoping, in vain, for one of the dim figures to pass between the fan vents and myself.
Although I had been inside it I had not yet seen it functioning.
No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.
He had been worried that with Miller and Rankin added to the escape party they would be short.
He had been one of the original Night Riders, one who had escaped the trial.
He had been the auditor for the mining syndicate, and he had stolen fifty thousand dollars of the syndicate's money.
Then the vein had petered out and the whole project had been abandoned.

had and convicted
If a defendant has been convicted and can prove that his lawyer did not adequately handle his case and that there is a reasonable probability that the result of the trial would have been different had the lawyer given competent representation, he is entitled to a new 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.
Upon receiving an Alford guilty plea from a defendant, the court may immediately pronounce the defendant guilty and impose sentence as if the defendant had otherwise been convicted of the crime.
That same day convicted murderer Richard Wayne Snell, who had ties to one of the bombers, Timothy McVeigh, is executed in Arkansas.
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.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Cuba openly supported the black nationalist and Marxist-oriented Black Panther Party of the U. S. Many members found their way into Cuba for political asylum, where Cuba welcomed them after they had been convicted of crimes in the U. S.
Hence the Roman censors might brand a man with their " censorial mark " ( nota censoria ) in case he had been convicted of a crime in an ordinary court of justice, and had already suffered punishment for it.
According to the National Security Archive, Oliver North had been in contact with Manuel Noriega, the military leader of Panama later convicted on drug charges, whom he personally met.
A defendant who had been convicted of an offence could be given a second trial for an aggravated form of that offence if the facts constituting the aggravation were discovered after the first conviction.
Some years later he had confessed to the crime, and was convicted of perjury, but was unable to be retried for the killing itself.
** Imperial Princess Ihane-hime or Ihakumo, Ise Virgin ; had to resign her charge being convicted of intrigue with her half brother Imperial Prince Mubaragi
It involved the execution of Patrick Morrissey, who had been convicted of murdering his mother.
These groups — the Nazi party and government leadership, the German General Staff and High Command ( OKW ); the Sturmabteilung ( SA ); the Schutzstaffel ( SS ), including the Sicherheitsdienst ( SD ); and the Gestapo — had an aggregate membership exceeding two million, making a large number of their members liable to trial if the organisations were convicted.
The rest of those indicted or convicted were all pardoned in the final days of the presidency of George H. W. Bush, who had been vice-president at the time of the affair.
The journalist R. Foster Winans was also convicted, on the grounds that he had misappropriated information belonging to his employer, the Wall Street Journal.
At an early stage in the trial however, it became apparent that he had lied under oath, and he was subsequently ( after the Major government had fallen from power ) convicted of perjury and sentenced to a term of imprisonment.
Fuster had been previously convicted for manslaughter and for fondling a 9 year old child.
In 1988 McGhee was convicted for smuggling 40. 000 pounds of marijuana, as punishment he had to organize an anti-drug campaign.
* 1762 – French Huguenot Jean Calas, who had been wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities ; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform.
A few years into the price-fixing investigation, Whitacre confessed to his FBI handlers that he had been involved with corporate kickbacks and money laundering at ADM. Whitacre was later convicted of embezzling US $ 9 million ; some of this criminal activity occurred during the time he was cooperating with the FBI.
A further brush with the law came in 2005, when he was convicted of fraud and had to pay € 1, 500 for stolen goods.
Of the 13 maltreated males with low MAO-A activity, 11 had been assessed as exhibiting adolescent conduct disorder and 4 were convicted for violent offenses.
Salii's personal assistant had been imprisoned several months earlier after being convicted of firing shots into the home of the Speaker of the House of Delegates.

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