Sentences with phrase «york penal»
Under New York penal law 225, a contest is illegal gambling if a player stakes «something of value» in a contest that the player does not «control or influence the outcome.»
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In his ruling, N.Y. Supreme Court justice Manuel Mendez wrote, «New York State penal law does not refer to «wagering» or «betting,» rather it states that a person, «risks something of value.
«New York State penal law does not refer to «wagering» or «betting,» rather it states that a person, «risks something of value.
Now, Leo Wolters Tejera is adding his voice to a growing number of salon and barbershop owners calling for a change to the New York's penal code.
The proposed legislation adds «synthetic cannabinoids» to the pre-existing crimes of selling marijuana under New York State's penal law.
The bill also legally defines criminal street gangs for the first time in New York's penal statutes.
Tedisco's bill, which is being drafted, would amend New York State's penal law to make any person regardless of their age who is convicted of knock out game individual assault or gang assault to face up to 25 years in prison (currently it's between 4 - 15 years depending on the age of the defendant).
Speaking Sunday at a press conference detailing the report, the head of the 27 - member commission, former New York Chief Justice Jonathan Lippman, excoriated Rikers Island as a «penal colony» physically and psychologically remote from the city at large that does far more harm than good to anyone who ends up there.
Various proposed penal reforms, allegations of abuse at the Fishkill Correctional Facility and the June escape of two convicts from Clinton Correctional Facility kept New York's prison guards at the center of attention for much of 2015.
«I don't believe current penal law statutes really address forms of criminal behavior of this magnitude,» said New York State Senator and Brooklyn Borough President - elect Eric Adams.
Named the best educational documentary by the New York Independent Film and Video Festival, The War on Kids argues that the U.S. public school system has more in common with a penal system than anything educational.