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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

Times, Half, Crime

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
Thomas Aquinas

Power, Death, Put

Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
Angela Davis

Crime, Slavery, Amendment

Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.
Phil Donahue

Cheating, Public, Innocent

I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime.
Tommy Chong

Good, Serious, Crime

I think most defense attorneys honestly believe the principle that says, 'Better 10 guilty go free than even one possibly innocent person be convicted.'
Alan Dershowitz

Person, Free, Guilty

I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form.
Wesley Snipes

Failure, Three, File

And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.
John Grisham

Work, Future, State

With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.
Kamala Harris

Death, Guilty, Crime

You do not have to be convicted or even charged of a crime to be able to demonstrate that you've violated a personal conduct policy, and reflect poorly not only on themselves, but all of their teammates, every NFL player in the league, and everyone associated with the NFL.
Roger Goodell

Everyone, Able, Personal

Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not necessarily lead to people being prosecuted and in many cases needs to remain confidential.
Gijs de Vries

Used, Public, Security

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

Justice, Since, Result

The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.
Thomas Francis Meagher

Sacrifice, Stand, Guilt

Sadly, every year hundreds of children are victimized by a convicted sexual offender. Convicted predators should be put in prison where they belong and kept away from our Nation's children.
Jim Costa

Children, Put, Away

We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.
Daniel Berrigan

Him, Three, Community

Since September 11th, federal terrorism investigations have resulted in charges against more than 400 suspects, and more than half of them have been convicted.
Jim Sensenbrenner

Against, Since, Half

I am here wrongfully convicted and wrongfully sentenced.
Lorenzo Snow

Here, Sentenced, Wrongfully

Just because you're convicted in a court room doesn't mean you're guilty of something.
Charles Manson

Mean, Guilty, Room

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