11.   A fourth defendant was convicted on lesser charges and sentenced to probation and community service.

12.   A sad reality of the criminal justice system is that in all too many cases, defendants are convicted of serious crimes on the flimsiest of evidence.

13.   Added together, it was the kind of circumstantial case that could have gotten a defendant convicted.

14.   After four and a half hours of deliberation and four secret ballots, we finally agreed unanimously to convict the defendant.

15.   All four defendants were convicted last week on every count brought against them.

16.   All four defendants were convicted in U.S. District Court in Manhattan of participating in a conspiracy against Americans that spanned much of the last decade.

17.   All three defendants were convicted of subversion.

18.   All three defendants were convicted of rape and torture, and two of them were convicted of enslaving the women.

19.   Four other capital trials ended with the juries convicting the defendants of first-degree murder but sentencing them to life in prison without the chance of parole.

20.   He was given the assignment following the kidnapping of a prominent Dutch couple in which the defendant was convicted on the strength of an earprint left on a door.