The split decision meant that the conviction stood, but it established no precedent on securities fraud.

He simply ignored decades of decisions holding that a conviction based even in part on a coerced confession "cannot stand."

Key facts were not clear and the Court let the convictions stand.

Had the conviction stood, Jones would have been disqualified from Parliament.

If it merely defined a penalty provision, then the conviction and sentence could stand.

According to German law, no conviction stands until all appeal rights have been exhausted.

Batchelder agreed with the court opinion that Brown's conviction of perjury should stand.

Corporate culture and conviction, once prized, now often stand in the way of necessary change.

Four months earlier it had ruled, by a majority of six to three, that the conviction would stand.

Those outcomes will decide whether any convictions stand and whether the 12 people might return to prison.