21.   But the Texas case is a civil action, and the oil workers are seeking not criminal convictions but more money.

22.   But the questions were a trap to set the president up for eventual criminal conviction for perjury.

23.   But their criminal convictions stripped them of their legal residency status and ended their chances of becoming naturalized citizens.

24.   But there is no notification of that in the public profiles, only the misleading statement that there are no criminal convictions.

25.   But there are no criminal convictions.

26.   But, he said, those presumed to be unfit parents because of their criminal convictions should have a chance to prove otherwise.

27.   But until Friday it was not clear that the government could take the next step and win a criminal conviction in a major case.

28.   But when the name was entered into the new nationwide database of criminal convictions this fall, Cook said that records were located in Tennessee.

29.   By that time, state Attorney General Winston Bryant had filed a petition in a state court to remove Tucker from office on the basis of his criminal convictions.

30.   But, as legal experts noted, prosecutors aiming at criminal convictions had no need to address the larger mysteries surrounding the defendant.