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• n  a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison
• n  a person who has been convicted of a criminal offense
• v  find or declare guilty
  The man was convicted of fraud and sentenced

• HEARTS IN CHAINS: A photo of convict Emma Mayner and her children with a letter to her grandson and a hand-sewn "forget-me-not".
• She is a keening Irishwoman in Foggy Dew, a chain-gang convict in Take This Hammer, a deserted lover in Lass from the Low Country.
• After six days the convict gets so he thinks, "It ain't nothing but another moccasin," when he steps on a snake.

• con
• inmate
• yard bird
• yardbird

• acquit

News & Articles

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• Convict claims tainted jury in 2007 manslaughter case
  A man convicted of manslaughter in a stabbing death six years ago wants his verdict tossed, claiming the jury which found him guilty was tainted.
  June 21, 2013 - CNYCentral.com
• Ex-convict accused in shooting due in court
  An ex-convict accused of opening fire on a liquor store worker on Father's Day was scheduled to appear in a Las Vegas court room Wednesday.
  June 19, 2013 - FOX 5 Las Vegas
• Ex-convict accused of shooting Vegas store clerk
  An ex-convict charged with attempted murder is accused of shooting an east Las Vegas liquor store worker in the hand, according to police.
  June 18, 2013 - FOX 5 Las Vegas

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in FOXNews
  In February 2008, during his presidential campaign, Obama described the Guantanamo trials as "a flawed military commission system that has failed to convict any one of a terrorist act since the 9/11 attacks and that has been embroiled in legal...
• Miguel Estrada in The American Lawyer
  Reacting to the ruling, Black's lawyer, Miguel Estrada of Gibson Dunn, said in a statement, "Given that the jury already decisively rejected the government's attempt to convict Mr. Black for 'traditional' fraud, we are confident the lower courts...
• Conrad Black in Edmonton Sun
  I don't think he has any credibility,Black said outside the Chicago courtroom after Radler stepped off the witness stand Thursday afternoon. "I don't think any jury in the world would convict anybody on the basis of what he said. I repeat...