He's angry at the criminal justice system because his mother was murdered by somebody who was on probation after an earlier homicide conviction.

Upon his resignation in July 2010, he achieved a 99 percent conviction rate as a prosecutor with more than 1500 convictions, and 18 homicide convictions.

Likewise, the criminally negligent homicide convictions had to be thrown out, the court said.

A Florida judge said the state's case could not add up to a homicide conviction.

But, as Mr. Kornak's homicide conviction indicates, the authorities have attributed one death directly to his fraud.

Hynes managed to secure three homicide convictions against the defendants, who would subsequently be sentenced to prison terms of varying lengths.

At that point, the police said, Kenneth, who had served nine and a half years in prison on a homicide conviction, stabbed Frank.

The State Supreme Court, in a 3-to-2 decision, upheld the homicide conviction of a woman whose cocaine use killed a fetus she was carrying.

Mr. Tindell, who was paroled in February after serving four years for a vehicular homicide conviction, ran away, as did his companion.

In the process, he'd shed not only his past, but the taint of I the homicide conviction.