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And the retrial of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to begin April 16 after his conviction as similarly overturned.

Former members of Congress can continue to collect a pension after a conviction as long the appeals process is not fully exhausted.

Not exact matches

The Air Force Court of Appeals in May 2017 also reversed a conviction in the sexual assault case U.S. v. Boyce after finding that public statements by Sens. Claire McCaskill and Kirsten Gillibrand regarding the «Marines United» scandal earlier this year created «the appearance of unlawful command influence» in the case, as retired Col. Don Christensen, a former Air Force chief prosecutor and current president of the advocacy group Protect Our Defenders, told Task & Purpose at the time.

Dutch prosecutors have revealed that Slobodan Praljak died of a heart attack after drinking cyanide as his conviction and sentence for war crimes was affirmed by the the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands, on Wednesday.

Parker was acquitted in the rape case more than a decade ago and Celestin had his sexual assault conviction overturned on appeal (a higher court deemed his trial attorney ineffective), but the two men have come under fire once again as the media reports troubling details from the case, which included accusations that Parker and Celestin, then both 19, had sex with a Penn State freshman while she was unconscious after a night of heavy drinking.

«Jack Johnson's reputation was ruined by a racially motivated conviction more than a century ago after he was charged with transporting a white woman across state lines,» McCain said in 2017 as he unsuccessfully urged President Barack Obama to issue a pardon on his way out of office.

Mark Gonzalez has announced a new bureau to handle domestic violence cases after sharing data about the conviction rate involving those cases during his first year as Nueces County District Attorney.

So soon as the human race reaches the level of shared appreciation, ordered and agreed convictions as to ends or aims to be sought after and if possible achieved, and a pattern of common life in which the mutuality and sharing known at the personal level can be broadened in more or less formal communal patterns, we can speak of the appearance of civilization.

«The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.»

Whatever may have been the actual course of events, historically speaking, which the New Testament means to signify when it speaks of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, it is at least clear that it was the conviction of the New Testament writers, building on the testimony of the disciples after the crucifixion of Jesus — as it has been the continuing conviction of millions of Christian people since that time — that far from Jesus» being «put out of the way» by his death at the hands of the Roman authorities in Palestine, he was «let loose into the world.»

Is this not the sole certainty: that one's so - called conviction is not altered from moment to moment as a result of the different things that happen to one, things that momentarily alter a person and alter everything for a person so that today he has faith, and tomorrow he has lost it, and he gets it again day after tomorrow until something completely out of the ordinary happens, at which time he almost inevitably loses it, assuming that he has ever had it!

Hartshorne seems to hold that we shall engage in no personal actions at all after death; and, as for rewards and punishments, he declares his rather unconventional conviction that they are all received in the now of the present moment of action and at no other time or place.46

Writing in 1982, after a decade in which the church as a whole had pursued the inner mechanisms of congregations, several sociologists reported as follows: «We share the conviction that in recent years congregational analysis has over-emphasized the internal dynamics of congregational life and has failed to sufficiently account for the influence of the social and ecological context of the church's inner life.

But then the slow and inexorable gravity pull of the secularism dominant in the force - field of the academy begins to retard and then counteract the inertial momentum that has hitherto set the course of the Catholic college or university, until, after a period when the forms and symbols of Christian identity are gradually evacuated of their conviction, the institution finally emerges as a wraith of the Christian community it once was.

Our conviction is that adoption is one way we can live out our call as Christians to «look after orphans and widows in their distress» (James 1:27).

After all, Buber too, came to Palestine «from Hitler» as well as «from conviction.»

These convictions stem from the belief that human personality is so valuable that God conserves it even after death as the bearer of these values.

The millenialist sects have fallen into two groups, differing in their conviction as to whether Christ will return before the millennium (the pre-millenialists) or after the millennium (the post-millenialists).

Sitting on the sofa, I show him a few items: newspaper and magazine pieces about the Liston fights; Ali's conversion to Islam; the arrest for refusing military induction; the epic first battle with Frazier; the Supreme Court overturning the draft conviction; Foreman being voodooed by Ali; the Thrilla in Manila; the boxing lesson he gave Spinks in their second contest; a recent article about Ali buying buses for Chicago - area public schools (immediately after seeing a TV news story about how Dade County had no money for new buses, Ali sat down, wrote a check and mailed it, not using the gift as a tax deduction); and one about helping a young man wearing a hooded dark sweatshirt and jeans who crawled out on a high window ledge of a Wilshire Boulevard skyscraper in Los Angeles to kill himself.

It's just like me if I hadn't progressed the club after the ’94 team or the ’99 team I would maybe having the same problems as Arsene, but he's stayed with his conviction, he's stayed with what he believes in.

Thompson stayed on with CMA even after Bruno stepped down as the company's CEO following his conviction on two of eight federal corruption counts.

One can certainly point out that after the Skelos and Silver convictions the definition of the law known as «Honest Services Fraud» was greatly narrowed by the U.S. Supreme Court in the corruption case of former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell.

Disgraced former Downtown power broker Sheldon Silver endured his first day back in court on Monday, as prosecutors try to convince a second jury of the former Assembly Speaker's quid - pro-quo corruption scheme after a prior conviction was thrown out on appeal.

The voices calling for state Sen. Hiram Monserrate (D - East Elmhurst) to step down after his misdemeanor conviction for assaulting his girlfriend got a little louder this week as the Queens Democratic Party unanimously approved a resolution to that effect Monday.

Grimm, 46, claims in new court papers that his conviction isn't as bad as others who have been suspended after doing far worse.

And as I wrote after Silver's conviction, these issues won't be seriously addressed as long as the people in power are reaping their benefits.

The conviction was reversed for faulty jury instructions after the Supreme Court narrowed the definition of an «official act» that must be performed as part of a criminal quid pro quo arrangement.

«As the former Assembly speaker and former Senate majority leader are about to be sentenced after their corruption convictions, corruption is very much the issue for New Yorkers right now,» said Siena pollster Steven Greenberg.

Bruno, who preceded Skelos as the Republican leader, was acquitted of federal charges after a prior conviction was vacated.

Lawmakers — as well as Cuomo — had been under pressure to approve some form of ethics and anti-corruption legislation in Albany after a parade of corruption arrests that engulfed the Capitol in recent years, including the convictions of the two former state legislative leaders last year, Dean Skelos and Sheldon Silver.

But public outrage, palpable after Silver's and Skelos» convictions, fueled the passage of the proposed amendment twice through the State Legislature in 2016 and 2017, as required, so it could be put before voters Nov. 7.

Ganim, after all, served a dozen years as mayor before a conviction for corruption sent him to federal prison for seven...

Speaking at the Independence Square on Saturday after taking his oath of office, President Akufo - Addo described Mr Mahama as a man who steered the affairs of the nation with conviction.

The most recent state campaign finance reports show that former Suffolk Conservative chairman Edward Walsh received $ 16,550 in wages for April and May even though he was automatically removed as party leader after his March 31 conviction on federal corruption charges.

On Monday, he again appeared in the courtroom as the verdict was read, and shook hands with prosecutors after the convictions were announced.

The conviction will force Silver, who resigned as speaker after being indicted earlier this year, to vacate his seat in the Assembly.

Bharara has already seen his record on Albany corruption tained after his high - profile convictions of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Nassau County) and ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan) were overturned on appeal as a result of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that came out after their trials that limited what is considered bribery.

Even though he was essentially convicted of selling his office, the State Constitution treats the pensions of all state employees — even ostensibly part - time legislators — as contracts that can not be impeded, even after a criminal conviction.

Vicky Pryce is being stripped of her status as Companion of the Order of the Bath after her conviction for swapping speeding penalty points with ex-husband Chris Huhne.

While Labour voters have always voted for the party because they believe Labour will look after them better than the Tories, it's self - interest, they have few if any socialist convictions, as we saw with the recent drift to UKIP.

Skelos resigned as Senate majority leader in May 2015 after federal prosecutors charged him and his son, and automatically lost his Senate seat with his conviction.

Leaders» ability to earn additional income is also greatly diminished after the convictions of Silver as well as his Republican Senate counterparts Joe Bruno and Dean Skelos, though Bruno's conviction was overturned and Skelos is trying to do the same.

Although their analysis does not include data after 2004, the researchers note that they doubt that the use of DNA identification technology would have much impact on false conviction rates — because DNA evidence is primarily used in cases such as rape rather than homicide.

Leading man Jordan delivers exceptional conviction as he quietly but powerfully relays Adonis» inner turmoil; after years of impressing us in such choice offerings as The Wire, Friday Night Lights, Chronicle and the aforementioned Fruitvale Station, this is his star - making turn and he deserves every ounce of the adulation that will undoubtedly come his way.

As the film opens, one of these members, Sharon Solarz (played with heartbreaking conviction by the great Susan Sarandon), has made the decision to turn herself in after decades of hiding.

The severity of Toller's convictions, as well as his disgust at the knowledge that his church has taken money from one of the town's biggest polluters, gives rise to an angry, confrontational question: Why have so many Christians rejected the science of climate change, effectively abdicated their God - given responsibility to look after the Earth?

As braindead yet puppyish receptionist Kevin, Thor hunk Chris Hemsworth acquits himself admirably, nailing misapprehension after misapprehension with lucid 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.

The department acted only after Michael P. Sharpe, director of a company the state picked to turn around Bridgeport's Dunbar School, was discovered to have convictions for forgery and embezzlement, and no doctoral degree, as claimed.

As a high - performance weapon, this car takes the idea of the original Giulia, which became a seminal car for Alfa Romeo after it launched in 1964, and reignites the passion with convincing conviction.