Sentences with phrase «after his conviction last»

Silver, of course, was forced from office after his conviction last year on federal corruption charges.

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Then, Shkreli went to court, where to his apparent surprise, a judge revoked his $ 5 million bail after a stock fraud conviction last month, and sent him to prison — where he'll wait until at least next January.

Last May, he walked out of the Stormville, New York, facility a free man, after a judge vacated his conviction.

After her appeal in Lahore's High Court was unsuccessful in October 2014, this is now the last chance for Noreen, the mother of five children, to appeal that her conviction should never have been allowed, due to inadmissible evidence.

After the Supreme Court upheld Qadri's conviction last fall, Christians expressed tentative optimism in the face of a blasphemy boom.

Former boxer Mike Tyson lost his cool live on TV in Canada last night after CP24 interviewer Nathan Downer mentioned his 1992 rape conviction.

The last upstate speaker was Binghamton's James Tallon, who only held the position for a few days after the conviction on federal fraud charges of former Speaker Mel Miller, who was later exonerated.

He was convicted of manslaughter last year after shooting girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, but the conviction was changed to murder by an appeal judge this week.

This comes after a spate of corruption arrests and convictions that have engulfed the Legislature in the last several years and amid calls for broad ethics reform.

He fought that conviction for 17 months, but this past March was ordered to start serving his sentence after a midlevel appellate court denied his last appeal in February.

Both are facing new charges after their convictions on fraud and corruption were overturned last year based on a narrowed definition of theft of honest services.

Two veteran Assembly members and an official from the governor's office said they expect a deal will be struck on the popular ethics measure this legislative election year after an unprecedented string of corruption convictions within the last 12 months.

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.

Republicans are turning to a law enforcement figure after the ouster of Libous last month following his conviction on a charge of lying to the FBI.

Former Senate Deputy majority Leader Tom Libous has officially appealed his felony conviction, making good on a pledge to continue his legal battle after he was sentenced to six months of house arrest and fined $ 50,000 last month.

Calls for anti-corruption legislation grew late last year after the convictions of the former Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, and ex-Majority Leader Dean Skelos in the Senate, in separate corruption cases.

The third man, Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, promised sweeping reforms to New York's anti-corruption laws after last year's convictions.

Last year, despite the allocation of funds in Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's executive budget for legislation changing the conviction age and bolstering the family court system, the move was eventually taken out of the final budget after a tepid response from Republican leadership in the Senate.

Tensions between upstate and downstate Republicans boiled over during a leadership fight last year after previous Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos gave up his leadership post following his arrested - and subsequent conviction on federal corruption charges.

McDonnell's bribery conviction was tossed last month after the Supreme Court ruled that his conduct — accepting lavish gifts from a businessman in exchange for meetings and a lunch at the governor's mansion — fell short of bribery because the government could not prove he accepted the gifts in exchange for an «official act,» like legislation.

In the last three years, the Long Island Nine has become the not - so - solid seven with the conviction of ex-GOP Senate Majority leader Dean Skelos on federal corruption charges and the election loss of freshman Sen. Michael Venditto after federal charges were leveled against his father, former Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto, who is now on trial.

Silver's initial conviction was tossed out last June after the Supreme Court redefined the standard for public corruption cases.

The third man in the room, Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, promised sweeping reforms to New York's anti-corruption laws after last year's convictions.

Former New York state Assembly member William Boyland was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison last September after his conviction on bribery charges.

The measure gained traction after last year's convictions of Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos.

The request comes after the U.S. Supreme Court last week declined to hear Nassau's appeal of the 2014 award to John Restivo and Dennis Halstead, whose convictions in the rape and murder of Lynbrook teenager Theresa Fusco were overturned after they had spent nearly 18 years in prison.

Our Love is Here to Stay — Billie Holiday After Louie's hope comes Billie's conviction: this is love that's going to last.

The former head of SPCA of Connecticut was sentenced last year to prison after his second conviction on charges of animal mistreatment.

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.

With all the stories and rumors I heard after it was revealed that Johnson would be taking over the role, I figured Splinter Cell Conviction would be the last time Ironside we'd hear Ironside in that role.

On Oct. 31, a federal judge at long last vacated the convictions of Danial Williams (top left) and Joseph Dick (top right)-- two of the «Norfolk Four «-- after finding them innocent of a 1997 rape and murder.

The opinion prompted the Commonwealth of Virginia to stop defending the conviction after more than a decade, and just last month, Judge Gibney vacated their convictions, giving the Commonwealth of Virginia 60 days to decide whether to retry them.

After his conviction was changed to murder by the Supreme Court last year, Pistorius appealed to South Africa's highest court, the Constitutional Court, to review his case.

Kentucky passed kind of sweeping expungement legislation in the last year and for the first time, basically ever, in Kentucky, people with old, low level felonies and almost any misdemeanor can apply after a certain period of time to have the conviction vacated and then expunged, meaning the conviction will be voided from their record as though it never happened and then it will be removed from the public databases and presumably it's not supposed to show up in private background checks as well for pre-employment screenings.

So, if I could have just a minute, Kentucky passed sweeping expungement legislation in the last year and for the first time basically ever in Kentucky, people with old low - level felonies and almost any misdemeanor can apply, after a certain period of time, to have the conviction vacated and then expunged.

Last week, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. moved to dismiss the conviction after evidence of serious prosecutorial misconduct emerged, including the failure of prosecutors to disclose evidence that might have helped the defense.

I wish judges were required to impose the last best plea offer as a sentence after a conviction.

Last year, the project presenting its findings to the state's attorney's Conviction Integrity Unit — the first of its kind in Maryland — which, after its own investigation, agreed that Johnson was innocent.

I start with the premise that it is better to proceed to trial than plead guilty, when the conviction and sentencing after a trial conviction is unlikely to be worse than the conviction and sentencing that would apply from the last status of plea negotiations.

Or no insurance company will approve them for at least 2 years for life insurance after their last DUI conviction.