21.   The earlier conviction was successfully appealed because of defense claims that police used legally questionable interrogation methods.

22.   The Supreme Court on Friday ordered a new trial into corruption charges against former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, suspending an earlier conviction and five-year jail sentence.

23.   Yodchat concealed an earlier conviction for rape when he joined a monastery in western Kanchanaburi province nine months ago.

24.   Former Korea First Bank president Lee Chul-Soo was jailed again Thursday as part of the Hanbo investigation after a court withdrew probation granted for an earlier conviction.

25.   Susan McDougal, who was sentenced to two years in prison on the earlier conviction, had been free while appealing the case.

26.   The appeals court had been expected to overturn earlier convictions in which the defendants were found guilty of spying for Greece.

27.   The court also took into account an earlier conviction against the Turkish-born leader for human trafficking in France.

28.   The court was then upholding an earlier conviction, and its sentence was declared final.