He said he did not know how many of the 20 had been convicted before the dismissals.

The city - public, press, officialdom, politicians - has convicted the arrested gang members before trial, face it.

In the court of innuendo, he'd be convicted before noon.

And it applied the new definition retroactively, so that people who had been convicted before 1996 were subject to deportation.

Of the 27 criminal charges brought against him, he was only convicted of one, before his death at age 47 in 2001.

As someone convicted before 2003 Allison no longer faces a residency restriction.

He was convicted as an accessory before the fact to voluntary manslaughter.

In that case, two men were wrongfully convicted and spent 12 years in prison before the real killer could get anyone to believe his confession.

However, this law was not retroactive and did not include the re-trial of survivors convicted before 1992.

Lavy was never convicted, two days before Christmas 1995 he hanged himself while awaiting arraignment and trial.