Sentences with phrase «after early convictions»

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver faces a new trial on public corruption charges, after his earlier conviction was overturned on appeal.

Mr. Silver, the once powerful Assembly speaker in New York, is being retried on public corruption charges, after an early conviction was overturned.

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.

But here, too, there is little that is actually new, although there is detail that confirms what shrewder observers of Vatican life pieced together after the events of early 2013: that Benedict XVI's poorly - planned 2012 visit to Mexico and Cuba convinced him that he could no longer travel; that he believed the Pope must be present at World Youth Day 2013 in Brazil, a conviction that became the terminus ad quem driving the timing of the abdication and what immediately preceded it; and that, contrary to speculations that have become more lurid over time, Benedict's concern about his increasingly frailty, which fuelled his concern that he would be increasingly unable to give the Church what she deserved from a pope, was the sole motive behind his decision to renounce the Oice of Peter — not Vatileaks, not concerns about financial and other corruptions inside the Leonine Wall, not blackmail.

After all, they had sufficient conviction in their myths to die for them, an act by some early christians that some use to argue for the validity of the jesus death cult.

Bakare had earlier said the Federal Government's approach in fighting corruption was defective and yet to produce any serious conviction after three years.

Monserrate, who represented the district in the early 2000s, was booted from the state Senate after a 2009 misdemeanor assault conviction for slashing his girlfriend.

In addition to facing prison time, the conviction means Mr. Silver has been automatically expelled from the State Assembly, where he'd held onto his seat even after giving up his leadership position earlier this year.

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

The results are another reminder of McDonnell's steep fall from grace, even after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned his public corruption conviction earlier this year.

Both Silver and Skelos lost their powerful posts earlier this year, and more recently their legislative seats after convictions in separate corruption trials.

The reason for the game going silent after its original announcement back in the summer of ’08 was given by CEO Yves Guillemot early last year; the company has been «totally re-engineering the product» on the Splinter Cell: Conviction game engine.

Such wrongful convictions are very rarely discovered, and when they are: (1) it is long after the sentence is served; and, (2) they are inadvertently discovered, as was that of Hanemaayer, who had pleaded guilty almost 20 years earlier.

After Tariq's sexual assault conviction earlier this year, his father was asked what had happened when he had previously acted as Tariq's surety following the dangerous driving charges.

Expungement: As mentioned earlier, California has very liberal expunction laws, so after a waiting period, many people are able to remove criminal convictions from their records and keep them hidden, at least for most purposes.

In addition, the employee's subsequent conviction could be relied upon as after - acquired cause to support the employer's earlier decision to dismiss the employee.

Nassau County's own DA moved earlier this month to vacate Mr. Jackson's 25 - year to life murder conviction after conceding Brady violations.

If that official conviction comes more than 36 months after your first conviction — even if you received your ticket earlier than that — you might avoid a premium hike.