11.   Although the SJC determined that the manslaughter conviction was appropriate, the court made it clear it was not exonerating Woodward.

12.   An appeal is being argued currently over whether a conviction was sound even though the defense lawyer slept through key parts of the trial.

13.   And convictions are almost unheard of.

14.   And these convictions may be only the beginning of a legal purging of larcenous French pols.

15.   And then there are his convictions, including a brutal attack on a girlfriend.

16.   And there will be fewer convictions in court.

17.   Arrests only create more tension, and Lewis has found that convictions are hard to come by.

18.   As a result, convictions are rare.

19.   At the major classical labels, in contrast, a committee mentality is the norm, and conviction is in short supply.

20.   Because the forgery conviction was a violation of her probation on an earlier drug-possession charge, she was sentenced to six years in prison.