Sentences with phrase «actually convicted people»

Judges have actually convicted people who were preparing to travel to Syria / IS - territory for it.

Not exact matches

This has really helped and I thank God our Father in Heaven for actually waking me up convicting me of being on my way to a legalist... lacking grace, mercy, love towards people.

Actually, all this judge's reasoning states is that people shouldn't be convicted without being proven guilty.

To expand on your first point: it is actually possible / common to take away rights of people convicted of crimes.

The premise for Serial is basically the investigation of a murder case from years ago and whether or not the person convicted was actually guilty.

The «about to commit a crime» justification for a Terry stop makes it, in practice, much broader than probable cause for an arrest, which requires that the police believe that a crime has actually already been committed or is in progress, not just that someone is about to commit a crime (a person may be subjected to a Terry stop even if his actions which tend to show he is about to commit a crime have not yet progressed to the level of an attempted offense for which someone may be convicted and are not truly imminent).

The prostitute was actually an LAPD Officer working undercover, and Zambia was arrested and later convicted of the crime of pandering, as one who «induces, persuades or encourages another person to become a prostitute.»

Pretrial custody occurs before an accused person has actually been convicted of a criminal offence.

Actually, for everyone interested, I posted a question maybe last week or the week before whether you can be convicted for both first degree murder and second degree murder for killing a person, and it was exactly this case that inspired the question.

If, however, you were convicted, and the Court found that you knew that the victim hadn't died at the time of trial, but you did not raise the fact that the victim wasn't dead, it isn't clear if you could have the original conviction vacated because it was a fair trial and you knew evidence sufficient to get yourself acquitted (which you may have refrained from presenting to avoid conviction on a lesser charge like kidnapping or aggravated assault), and the status of an «actual innocence» grounds for vacating a conviction after trial is hotly disputed, conservatives like the late Justice Scalia generally say «no», liberals generally say «yes», moderates like to say «yes» but make it almost impossible to establish except in rare cases like one where a live person walks in when there was a murder conviction for killing that actually living person.

For example, if you possess a bank account number, credit card number, or PIN, and you «conspire, confederate, or combine with another» person who actually commits fraud or theft using that number, then you can be convicted of the same crime.

To date, there have been 240 exonerations of wrongfully convicted but actually innocent inmates due to post-conviction DNA testing which revealed that the person convicted was not the perpetrator of the crime.

Importantly, this applies whether or not the convicted person is actually a named defendant in the action, meaning the conviction operates as proof there was wrongdoing even against non-offending defendants to a civil suit.

The Pennsylvania Innocence Project is a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization whose mission includes securing the exoneration, release and restoration to society of persons who are actually innocent and have been wrongly convicted.