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Now must we sing and sing the best we can, But first you must be told your character: Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain. -- William Butler Yeats
I'm presently incarcerated. Convicted of a crime I didn't even commit. Hah! "Attempted murder"? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry? Do they? -- Matt Groening
A Pennsylvania woman convicted for shoplifting was sentenced to wear a badge that reads "Convicted Shoplifter." However, her lawyers hope to plea bargain down to a bumper sticker reading "I'd Rather Be Stealing!. -- Jimmy Fallon
I am here wrongfully convicted and wrongfully sentenced. -- Lorenzo Snow
I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime. -- Tommy Chong
I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form. -- Wesley Snipes
Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent. -- Phil Donahue
My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner. -- Maajid Nawaz
If he is convicted, Dr. Kevorkian says he will die a martyr's death by going on a hunger strike. -- Bill Dedman
Federal law prohibits anyone convicted of a felony from owning a gun. Seems like kind of a good idea, no? -- Timothy Noah
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
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
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
My job as a prosecutor is to do justice. And justice is served when a guilty man is convicted and an innocent man is not. -- Sonia Sotomayor
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
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
Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges. -- Robert Kiyosaki
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
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
Amazon webhosting dropped Wikileaks as a customer after receiving a complaint from U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman, despite the fact that Wikileaks had not been charged, let alone convicted, of any crime. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
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
If you're Obama, can you imagine being lectured to about honesty and integrity from a convicted perjurer, Bill Clinton? My gosh, folks, I mean, literally how far has one fallen when that is the case? -- Rush Limbaugh
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
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
Insider trading is hard to prove. To be convicted, a person must have bought or sold a stock based on material information that is both unknown to the general public and likely to have had an important effect on a company's stock price. -- Alex Berenson
No matter how convinced we are that someone is nasty, evil or just plain criminal, if they have not been convicted of any crime and support views that are upheld and defended by many law-abiding citizens, the only way to tackle them is through democratic debate. -- Julian Baggini
When I first came to Hollywood, the blacklist was just starting, and they were having hearings in Washington. What most people don't know is the judge of these hearings himself was later convicted of misappropriation. 'Spartacus' helped break the blacklist, because Spartacus was a real character. -- Kirk Douglas
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
Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know that for every 1,400 forgers arrested, only about 123 get convicted and about 26 go to jail. So the rewards are great, but the risks are very slim. So that's one of the reasons that make it very popular. -- Frank Abagnale
It's very difficult to trace convicted paedophiles -- Rebekah Brooks
I hate it when people are wrongly convicted. -- Lyudmila Alexeyeva
In a legal sense, I am a convicted criminal. -- Wolfgang Beltracchi
The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine. -- Horace
The fact is I have never been convicted of a crime. -- Paul Watson
Rapists who might've been convicted were free to assault other women. -- Terry Gross
Anybody who understands the justice system knows innocent people are convicted every day. -- Gerald Kogan
Just because you're convicted in a court room doesn't mean you're guilty of something. -- Charles Manson
Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted. -- Seneca the Younger
Conviction is not repentance; conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance. -- David Lloyd-Jones
I should never have been convicted of anything more serious than running a cemetery without a license. -- John Wayne Gacy
People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom. -- Assata Shakur
Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Paul Rudnick
I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers, still crazy after all these years. -- Paul Simon
May your wife and children get raped, right in the ass. (to the jurors who convicted her) -- Aileen Wuornos
The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it. -- Brennan Manning
People are sometimes losing their homes before being convicted of a crime, or their cash or their cars. -- Sarah Stillman
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You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime -- Dan Barker
You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime. -- Dan Barker
Miracles arise from conviction. Be convicted about these things: Miracles can happen. Miracles do happen. Love makes them happen. -- Marianne Williamson
Martha Stewart's a convicted felon and they gave her another television show. What's next, the Scott Peterson Fishing Hour? -- Christopher Titus
Those who are most conscious of forgiveness are invariably those who have been most acutely convicted of their sin. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
We don't want you convicted for condiment theft. You go to that prison, you'll meet big-time operators. Maple syrup stealers. -- Deb Caletti
No family should have to endure the loss of a loved one at the hands of a previously convicted violent criminal. -- Niecy Nash
Martha Stewart was convicted of four counts of lying and obstruction of justice and could serve up to 20 years in Congress. -- Craig Kilborn
It made me in all matters a fundamentalist. I didn't go to 'take it in.' I went to be convicted. -- Denis Johnson
The code of Hammurabi in ancient Babylon prescribed this punishment for a doctor convicted of inept surgery: amputation of the hands. -- L. M. Boyd
A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen. -- Jean de la Bruyere
We are challenged these days, but not changed; convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not; and thereby we deceive ourselves. -- Vance Havner
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
Now is the hour we should humbly prostrate ourselves before God, willing to be convicted afresh of our sins by the Holy Spirit. -- Watchman Nee
Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as "cruelty. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I'd have been convicted for high treason. -- Jane Fonda
Many of the Nazis were convicted after the war, but they were not convicted for being 'unreasonable'. They were convicted for being gruesome murderers. -- Jostein Gaarder
The frogs hopping indoors agree that we are on a prison planet. They themselves are frog criminals that were convicted of doing frog crimes. -- Philip K. Dick
I'm many things: I'm a convicted rapist, I'm a hell-raiser, I'm a father, a loving father. I'm a semi-good husband...I'm pretty much a tyrant-titan. -- Mike Tyson
Last week convicted Enron crook Ken Lay died of a heart attack. They announced they were going to cremate him. Where he's going, why bother?. -- Jay Leno
If you have truly been born again, it was the Holy Spirit who convicted you of sin and drew you into a relationship with Jesus. -- T. B. Joshua
One is a criminal to some people and an artist to others. I can understand that. In a legal sense, I am a convicted criminal. -- Wolfgang Beltracchi
Hard to imagine 40 years ago people could be convicted of a crime, fined, sent to prison for using the most common forms of birth control. -- Dick Durbin
The United States remains deeply concerned that, to date, no individuals have been convicted for the 1999 killings of U.S. citizens Agron, Ylli, and Mehmet Bytyqi. -- Victoria Nuland
There is nothing attractive about the gospel to the natural man; the only man who finds the gospel attractive is the man who is convicted of sin. -- Oswald Chambers
If people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up. -- Rush Limbaugh
Had the jury convicted on proper instructions it would be the end of the matter. But juries are not bound by what seems inescapable logic to judges. -- Robert H. Jackson
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After Galileo was convicted (for heresy by the Spanish Inquisition) for his theory that the Earth revolved around the sun, ... he replied, `Still, the Earth is moving.' -- Junichiro Koizumi
Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of murder -- John Green
I have never been able to soothe myself with the sugary delusions of religion; for these things stand convicted of the utmost absurdity in light of modern scientific knowledge. -- H. P. Lovecraft
The average term length of a member of congress is approaching 15 years, and the average term length of a convicted criminal is less than three. We've got that backward. -- Oliver North
(on forgiveness) Didn't he and I stand together before an all seeing God convicted of the same murder? For I had murdered him with my heart and my tongue. -- Corrie Ten Boom
We have one of our priests in prison right now for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons. -- Daniel Berrigan
The government considers the aborting of innocent unborn children a natural right. Yet, there is widespread debate still about whether the death penalty for convicted murderers is "cruel and unusual punishment." -- Joseph Farah
It is of major importance for the future of our country that through his defence and the fact he died without being convicted, Milosevic had managed to defend national and state interest. -- Ivica Dacic
Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught, when convicted of his error; and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces the truth, though with the sacrifice of favorite opinions. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
I've never been disbarred, committed or convicted of moral turpitude, and the only time I was arrested, it was a case of mistaken identity...I didn't know the guy I hit was a cop. -- Paul Levine
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I do realise that talk of natural kinds dates back to Aristotle, but I'd better not say too much about ancient philosophers lest I be convicted of practicing history of philosophy without a license. -- Hilary Kornblith
The media is trying to portray that [Donald] Trump supporters are on the verge of abandoning him right now by highlighting how many of them wanted Hillary locked up, prosecuted, convicted, and all that. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
The media is trying to portray that [Donald] Trump supporters are on the verge of abandoning him right now by highlighting how many of them wanted Hillary locked up, prosecuted, convicted, and all that. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
We are not saved by feelings of sorrow over Jesus' death. We are saved when the Word of God 'pierces' our hearts (Hebrews 4:12), when we are convicted of our sins and trust Christ by faith. -- R. L. Hymers, Jr.
That is entirely fitting I'm sure, but I personally can't get over the memory of 2005. When Michael Jackson stood essentially alone and accused and convicted in the minds of many of the most perverse crime. -- Geraldo Rivera

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