Convicted Quotations

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.

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.

By the age of 24, I found myself convicted in prison in Egypt, being blacklisted from three countries in the world for attempting to overthrow their governments, being subjected to torture in Egyptian jails, and sentenced to five years as a prisoner of conscience.

I was at MSNBC; I was constantly saying to them during Bridgegate, 'You've convicted Governor Christie without one iota of fact attaching him to the decision to stall the traffic on the bridge. Why don't we wait until the federal government or the state government... completes its investigation.'

Federal law prohibits anyone convicted of a felony from owning a gun. Seems like kind of a good idea, no?

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.

One of them was convicted just three months ago. In all, 18 were tried. Seven were convicted of Civil Rights violations and got a few years. The others were acquitted.

My hope is that they would be convicted and put behind bars. They'll never stop doing this unless they get help. We're not doing them any favors by letting them be free.

One in every three people convicted for DWI in Los Alamos County is under 21 years of age.

One lesson that we might draw from this incident is that we shouldn't be asking so many questions of jurors. Maybe we should just be asking if they have ever been convicted of a crime, that we ought to know. But, do we really need to know about every arrest and every civil lawsuit and what television programs they watch?

never hire, nor retain on my staff someone convicted of such crimes against children. Councilor Burton has acknowledged and apologized for his mistake and poor judgment. If he does indeed seek re-election, this is a matter that his constituents will have to weigh in deciding whether to support him.

I don't feel like I'm abandoning the ship. ... We worked for two years getting ready for trial, and Dr. Al-Arian was not convicted of anything.

Millions of American citizens who have been convicted of crimes in the past are denied the ability to cast ballots in elections.

She is a convicted criminal who stole thousands of rands of taxpayers' money to fund her own lavish lifestyle.

When you're arrested in New York City, there's a good chance you'll do the time without being convicted of doing the crime. It's a perversion of justice.

I have mixed feelings. I welcome this opportunity to present my side because I was denied that right in the impeachment trial when prosecutors walked out. I was convicted in the streets.

I would think if he gets convicted of something there may be some changes. We still go by innocent until proven guilty.

has not been convicted of drug offenses or (a) crime of violence.

If a person is convicted of something while in state service, they do not automatically lose their benefits. There's no provision in state law for something like that.

If an elected official is charged with a felony, the governor will suspend them from office, then if they were convicted they would be removed, and if they are acquitted they would be reinstated. But misdemeanors are all handled case-by-case and there is no certain time to have that done.

if (Black is) charged, if there's a trial, and if there is a conviction, we would be looking at a sentence along the high end of the corporate executives who already have been convicted and sentenced in the United States - into two decades.

Barry hasn't been convicted of anything; it's unfair at this point, ... The sport is having a great year. Has Barry's absence helped or hurt? I don't know, I really don't know.

Basically what we found was that for instance with murderers only 14-percent of the people arrested by the police department for homicide were ever convicted of homicide.

He has been convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole, ... So from a public perspective, he is a very dangerous individual.

He has never been convicted of a crime in any state in the United States, anywhere. Were there other instances? Sure, just like there are other instances with other members of the community every day.

hit intentionally by a driver and we convicted him and put him in jail for a year.

He sees death in convicted thieves, the burglars, the muggers, the con men, the pimps, a death imposed by law, the gradual death of confinement behind bars.

He needs American support for the war against terrorism, but a convicted terrorist goes free, the U.S. government knows it is coming, and they don't do anything to prevent it and afterward they don't say anything about it.

Martha in jail would be fairly disastrous for the company. She cannot remain on the board of directors as a convicted felon.

That a terrorist linked to the 9/11 attacks has now been convicted is proof that Germany is fighting Islamic terror with efficiency and success.

Our original films tend to go after an issue or chew on a nerve. But this movie, more than anything, defined for us an almost Greek-like version of drama and a dramatic question of: Can a man redeem himself? In this instance, can a man who's been convicted of the most heinous of human acts redeem himself?

People in the commonwealth are asking what went wrong with the capital-justice system that permitted a completely innocent man to be convicted and come within nine days of execution. This trial will answer that question.

I support the governor's decision on the moratorium. I think he is right to review all of the cases on a case-by-case basis. I think that is a moral obligation. He's been right to do that. But I disagree with his decision to provide blanket clemency. I think a blanket anything is usually wrong. There is no one-size fits all approach to this. We're talking about convicted murderers. And I just think that -- that is a mistake.

I think what we want to do is make sure that the people who are buying handguns have a clean record and at a minimum aren't people who have been convicted of criminal activity in the past, even if it is a misdemeanor activity.

I'm humbled by this opportunity and feel fortunate that ownership has shown confidence in me to build this team both for the short and long term. We are going to be accountable to our fans and ownership and we're going to make tough decisions, not easy ones. I eagerly accept this challenge. We are going to stay convicted to our core goals and, in doing so we can accomplish everything that we set out to do.

Just because someone's convicted of a large fraud, you don't have to give him a life sentence. White collar crimes are deterred by even short sentences. White collar people don't need to see a 65-year-old get 25 years to be deterred.

I think he realized he might be convicted this time -- that he might not get a chance to walk out. And we believe he came with the intent of making sure that that didn't happen,

I think people around the world are going to be scratching their heads at that sentence. The conduct of which this soldier was convicted is highly offensive, and if this is all one gets it's not impunity, but it's getting real close.

It is a good judgment and I am pleased that three of the defendants are now convicted for this crime. These three were the most important.

I think it was amazing he was convicted the first time. He lacked opportunity to commit the crime, he lacked motive and he had a real shoddy defense.

I think we prefer to go to instant check on an immediate basis and try to accelerate implementing instant checks so that you could literally check by thumb print whether there was a convicted felon with dangerous behavior or dangerous mental behavior. Instant check is a much better system than the Brady process.

I was not able to defend myself and was convicted in the street.

Those kids turned themselves in and the reason they felt so convicted was because they had caused him so much work. They knew they could trust him, but they also knew he wouldn't let them get away with things.

We anticipate and hope the DNA results will be released early next week. It's unfortunate that these young men have been vilified by the press, the community and the university they attend. It's a real miscarriage of justice for them to be convicted in the public's mind before everything is known. It is unfair. The allegations against them do not contain a kernel of truth.

We know she doesn't want him convicted of this murder, ... She wants him out so they can have their life together.

You call them rebels, ... I call them by their names: They are killers, they are convicted killers, they are terrorists.

My bill would expand that to include anybody ever convicted of these crimes.

We have no way of knowing if they were a convicted felon, or whether they were telling the truth if they said they weren't one.

We're dealing with young people who want to go to school. People who are convicted of a drug offense should be encouraged to get an education.

There already have been seven people released in the United States who were wrongfully convicted and confessed to the crime. Twenty-two years ago, I wouldn't have believed this. But after what I lived through, I know that it happens. Something needs to be changed.

We will continue to work with law enforcement agencies in other countries to return their convicted criminals and to insure the integrity of the immigration system.

We should make no mistake. The president has used his constitutional power to release convicted terrorists, despite the opposition of federal law enforcement officials, despite objections from the law enforcement community and despite the pleas of the victims and families of the dead -- killed in their wave of bomb attacks.

Unfortunately, no tangible breakthrough was made with regard to crime in the army, where hazing accounts for 25% of crimes. Altogether, 2,609 servicemen were convicted of crimes of this kind.

Ultimately, it came down to a choice, ... This way, I could make sure both defendants were convicted and sent away for a long time.

DNA has shown, whether it's the death penalty or not, there are flaws with eyewitness testimony, false confessions and crime labs. We know many more people have been wrongfully convicted than anyone thought.

Correctional officers are just like police officers on the streets of any community. But for correctional officers, everyone they work with is a convicted felon and nearly half have committed a violent offense. They never get to rescue a kitten from a tree.

As soon as one or more of these major corporate figures is indicted and convicted for the thievery that occurred at the expense of the American investor, I think confidence will gradually come back.

These men are on-the-run terrorists, convicted of terrorism in a Colombian court.

Bring the perpetrators to trial and have them convicted and go to jail.

Officials in the United States have cracked down considerably on spammers by giving out harsh sentences to those convicted -- that's good news for organizations and consumers. Unfortunately, email users around the world are still being bombarded by unsolicited messages.

Two, I had to look at the bigger picture. I got him convicted. He is a convicted felon. He is out of office. The Whitley County Jail will reopen. It will save taxpayers thousands of dollars. It is a decision I had to make.

A literal view of the Bridge of Sighs is beautiful in itself, but our educational interpretation declared that the bridge was so named because it was where convicted prisoners had their final view of the city.

A mere tap on the wrist for abusing prisoners gives the appearance that once again that the United States is not serious about its responsibility to discipline those convicted of human rights violations.

People who have viewed the film -- and that includes several Toronto journalists and our curators -- indicate that it certainly does not allow room to sympathize with the actions of the convicted criminals portrayed in the documentary and shows them to be morally bankrupt.

People shouldn't get benefits if they're convicted of a felony,

There's going to be no deal here with Aleman on the part of the United States, ... a convicted criminal.

The only thing I can tell you is she hasn't been charged with any lobbying violation, and she hasn't been convicted of anything, and there's no reason to terminate for cause.

We think they are being inappropriately detained. Their presumption of innocence has been eviscerated. They are being punished for a crime they were not convicted of.

We had a convicted felon as the president. ... And no organization.

This is a different jurisdiction. He hasn't been convicted of any offense in Hong Kong. There's no reason why he should not be able to return to his job.

They were convicted almost immediately in March of 1960, but the appeals lasted 5 years. And it was hard on them, as you can imagine, and hard on Truman.

You see hardworking prosecutors who are trying to get the best jury they can to get a person convicted of a crime.

This is not somebody who made some inadvertent false statement, ... This is a case where a jury convicted a CEO for lying to two different government agencies. That's a big deal.

I'm confident he will not be convicted of second-degree murder. He was the one that came forward.

I just believed him, ... I never believed for one minute that I'd be convicted or sitting here (on death row).

I'm disappointed. I support my client and I am hopeful that the matter will openly be resolved. It's already on appeal and I'm hoping DCA will reverse the underlying ruling that allowed him to be convicted in the first place.

take into account that she is a convicted felon.

Any time there is a convicted felon, their sample is entered in the database, which can then be compared to any forensic unknown samples.

Congressman Tom DeLay has not been convicted of a crime. We will look into whatever we have to, but we will not be returning the money. We will reserve the right to return the money at the appropriate time if we feel it necessary.

It's pretty obvious that, on the surface, they have a hard argument to make that all of this was reasonably necessary. You've got two unusual facts: Someone convicted of a sex offense was assigned to this, and the second is that the amount of money it took (to investigate) was the absolute maximum.

I want him to be under the same conditions as someone who is on parole for bond-jumping, which usually means you report once a month by mail. The bottom line is that they put Bob on the kind of parole restrictions that are reserved for people who have been convicted of violent crimes, and he has not.

The issues at the federal level relate more to the disturbing racial composition of those who have been convicted and the apparent fact that almost all the convictions are coming out of just a handful of states, which raises the question of whether -- even though there is a uniform law across the country -- what your prosecution is may turn solely on where you committed the crime,

They convicted an innocent man. The jury made the wrong decision. It's a human system, and the human system has let us down.

I think a blanket anything is usually wrong. We're talking about convicted murderers, and I think that is a mistake.

Clinton's personal foibles and failings have nothing to do with the fact that Al Gore went to a Buddhist temple to raise money and that his closest associates and fund-raisers were convicted of multiple felonies in regard to that event.

I just don't understand how they could have convicted her on the trafficking, especially with those tapes.

I just think it's so outrageous that fifteen years is the kind of minimum amount of time that any wrongfully convicted person spends in prison.

In my state, from the time ... the most hardened criminals are convicted of the most heinous crimes ... their case is reviewed by not only a jury of 12 of their peers but up to 23 different judges ... perhaps even more.

I razed them... we specified the farmland of those who were convicted and I signed.

The two players could be suspended for life if convicted in a court of law.

They want to get easier convictions, ... When you have a military tribunal, there are very few people who don't get convicted in them just as a matter of course.

They weren't providing him with the forms he needed to get the public defender, and they told him about a case where another convicted killer got the death penalty because his lawyers told him not to talk. That constitutes a threat.

It was a heart-to-heart talk where he was feeling very badly that two of his friends had been accused and convicted of something which he had done, and it was his desire to do something to make the truth appear and he wanted to make public the fact that he was responsible and they were not,

The bottom line is that the public doesn't understand why a person who has been convicted of a heinous crime has not been disciplined earlier, or why they are still on the payroll.

As a mother, as a lawyer, I find it unbelievable that we would let children be near convicted sex offenders. We need to do everything we can, including at the city ordinance level, to make sure we keep our kids safe.

The general public thinks somebody gets convicted of something like this, and they go off to prison for life.

The heart of the tape is a convicted felon saying he is going to roll over one more time and a federal employee saying to her husband, 'I'm being squeezed by the White House.' That's the heart of these tapes,

This is a company and a brand that's tied to one person. A guilty verdict will further damage the business because people generally don't like to be associated with a person convicted of a crime. Can the brand survive? I think it will.

This is a convicted felon. This goes to a larger issue: Bob Menendez has based his entire political fund-raising machine on his ability to work with developers like Charlie Kushner. It's the company you keep.

A guilty plea is a guilty plea the way I look at it, ... He is found guilty legally. There is no difference. He is a convicted felon at this point. He is out of office. I'm OK with it.