Juan Alvarez, 29, gazes twoard the ceilling after his conviction of 11 counts of first-degree murder had been read in court on June 26, 2008 in Los Angeles,CA. He was convicted of causing a 2005 rail disaster that turned two commuter trains into a tangled mass of smoking wreckage littered with victims. He had claimed he had only been trying to commit suicide when he started the deadly chain of events, looked on stolidly as the Superior Court jury returned verdicts that could lead to the death penalty. The jury also convicted Alvarez of one count of arson and found true the so-called special circumstance of multiple murders, but acquitted him of a charge called train wrecking. AFP PHOTO/POOL/ Bob Chamberlin/NO SALES