Sentences with phrase «criminal convictions become»

Criminal convictions become «spent» after a certain period of time, which varies depending on the sentence for the offence.

Not exact matches

Though it will likely be spiritually challenging, if you seek to reconcile with a criminal before conviction you will reduce his likelihood of becoming a repeat offender.

The party office of any member of the Executive Committee or officer of the County Committee or any District or Divisional Committee shall become vacant upon the conviction of such person in any state or federal court of a criminal offense that constitutes (or, had such offense occurred in New York, would have constituted) a felony under the laws of the State of New York.

According to the Albany County District Attorney's website, eligible participants will have the opportunity to take accountability for criminal actions, repair harm to victims, and become contributing members of the community, without having a felony criminal conviction or time served in state prison.

It's not exactly the most reassuring state of affairs as the UK once again becomes a state where it can forcibly remove citizens away from their homes without even a criminal conviction.

Sexting has also become a prominent issue in school online safety, with students as young as 14 finding themselves with criminal convictions after sending naked photos to their peers.

In part, the judge based his decision on The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, an English law that allows criminal convictions to become «spent» after a prescribed period of time.

Short of criminal convictions for reckless or illegal driving, your license is pretty much a permanent possession, regardless of how much your skills and attention behind the wheel slip over the ensuing decades, how careless you become with rolling stops or how incompetent you remain at parallel parking.

The modern realities of the trial penalty (where defendants get 10 + more years for a crime because they go to trial), and the fact that 95 % of all convictions are from pleas, shows in another way how our justice system has become a (prosecutor - controlled) inquisitorial system of criminal justice.

Employment and educational opportunities, securing a loan for a car or house, and obtaining a lease can all become much more challenging when an arrest or conviction shows up on your criminal background check.

HELD Upholding the conviction: (i) Many judges would have taken the view that even if such evidence was technically capable of being admitted under the bad character provisions of the Criminal Justice Act 2003, they would not admit it because of the risk of the trial and the summing up becoming unduly complicated by collateral issues.

The Certificate of Restoration of Opportunity (CROP) became available to persons with a criminal conviction on June 9, 2016 after the unanimous passage of ESHB 1553 in the 2016 -LSB-...]