Sentences with phrase «against her conviction on»

APPEAL by accused against conviction on one count of assault causing bodily harm, sentence to two - year term of probation and $ 1,000.00 fine, and order to provide DNA sample.

The client would have to appeal against their conviction on the grounds that it was based on inadmissable evidence.

He appealed against his convictions on three grounds, two of which related to procedural issues not relevant for present purposes.

[3] The appellant now appeals against her conviction on two grounds.

The appellant appealed against conviction on the basis that the statement was privileged.

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Prosecutors failed to get a conviction against Democratic Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina on charges that he received illegal contributions and falsified documents to pay for the silence of his pregnant mistress as he campaigned for president in 2008.

CNN: Sandusky's pastor addresses conviction from pulpit Jerry Sandusky sits in a county jail cell in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, but his presence and the weight of the 45 guilty verdicts rendered against the former Penn State football coach on Friday night hung in the air Sunday morning at the State College church where he and his wife are longtime members.

I was born a Muslim, but actually embraced Islam on conviction when I grew up, after setting it and other religions against logic.

Despite the strong public sentiment against such convictions after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon, a perusal of public statements made by the leadership of the historic peace churches clearly indicates that, while they have repeatedly called for the perpetrators to be held accountable, they have not backed away from their commitment to nonviolence.

cannabis prohibition is a stumblingblock that causes a person to become desensitized to his convictions on his conscience, and it is our lawful Christian duty to speak against this evil tyranny in our land.

Parkman, like Foote, wrote history from a point of view: in Parkman's case, the Whiggish conviction that, when Wolfe defeated Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham in 1759, North America was won for liberty against popish authoritarianism.

The war on terrorism is a war against al - Qaeda, not Islam, he says, and the reason for the war is our foes» clear aggression against innocent people, not their religious convictions.

If you don't have the stomach to hold on to your convictions against all odds, then you have no convictions at all.

The influence of Niebuhr on the Chicago school thus counted against ready acceptance of the message of political theology in the sixties despite the agreement of its concern for social salvation with Niebuhr's own convictions.

On Tuesday Mr Scoffield said the case, a simple transaction, raised an issue of principle since those with deeply - held religious or philosophical convictions could be compelled to act against their beliefs.

In all honesty, the «religious people» that don't legislate against things based solely on their religious convictions and thereby hurt the rights of individuals, and who don't condemn science and medicine and societal progression and other religions and other denominations and people who are not religious, and who don't claim to know that something is true beyond all other truths, are probably a very slim minority, and I'd have to argue that they aren't really religious, they are just doing whatever makes them feel good, which could be accomplished through secular means as well.

A Christian case against these developments seems unlikely, on present evidence, to be put with any coherence or conviction by anyone but Catholics: so of course, it will be thought that «religious objections» are obscurantist and irrelevant.

One conviction of abuse against a child or young person would be one too many but my attempts to gather reliable information on the number of priests convicted of crimes against children and young persons in the last thirty years have been unsuccessful.

Wyeth already has a criminal conviction for breaking the Infant Formula and Follow - on Formula Regulations and complaints against its formula advertising have been upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority.

Sen. Andrew Lanza, who co-chaired the committee that ultimately called for the expulsion of former Sen. Hiram Monserrate following his conviction on a misdemeanor charge of abusing his girlfriend, said yesterday that a «precedent» was set with the ex-Queens lawmaker — a precedent that, out of fairness, should now be the standard against which other misbehaving senators are measured.

He has also done much work on injustice issues, including campaigning against the wrongful conviction of the Guildford Four.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who got the ball rolling against Pedro Espada Jr. during his stint as state attorney general, clearly feels vindicated by the jury's conviction today of the former Senate majority leader on four counts of theft from his taxpayer - funded Bronx health clinic.

According to Uche, both the oral and documentary evidence the EFCC brought against his clients were unreliable, adding that no court or tribunal could rely on it to make a conviction.

Prosecutors drop the case against former Virginia governor Robert McDonnell and his wife after the Supreme Court overturned his public corruption conviction on June 27, 2016.

Mr Duncan said: «We know which Labour ministers and MPs are against post office closures - we will see on Wednesday the true extent of their conviction.»

Long Island Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a former federal prosecutor who was elected in 2016 running on an anti-corruption platform following Skelos» conviction (but was not involved in either the Silver or Skelos cases), released a statement saying the Silver decision demonstrates the need for state lawmakers to stop relying on the feds to bring corruption cases against state - level elected officials, and also pass more anti-corruption measures, which lawmakers declined to do this past session.

Silver, who would become the longest - serving speaker in state history next year, has survived previous ethical scandals, including widespread complaints over his handling of sexual harassment charges against former Assemblyman Vito Lopez and the earlier conviction of his top aide, Michael Boxley, on a charge of sexual misconduct.

Serving Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has opened up on the campaign against corruption, stressing that the Federal Government's approach to the fight was defective and yet to produce any serious conviction after three years.

On the heels of former New York State Senate leader Pedro Espada's conviction, the state's ethics commission is pursuing a complaint against one of Albany's most prominent lawmakers.

But using the standard that Bharara used in the Silver case (and, arguably, his case against former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who was busted on similar charges and is also appealing his conviction), the prisons would be filled with people who made a campaign contribution so they can get a meeting with a politician.

Ted Stevens lost his bid for a seventh Senate term against Begich in November following a conviction of seven counts of lying on Senate ethics reforms.

Ethics regulators on Friday announced a case related to the perjury conviction of the late Sen. Tom Libous was resolved with a $ 10,000 settlement levied against a lobbyist who had hired the lawmaker's son.

Instead, what we are seeing time and again is the courts upholding the rights of people not to be discriminated against on the arbitrary convictions of someone who does not wish to treat them equally.»

In his seven years on the job, Christie truly shone, amassing a staggering record of convictions against public officials.

``... If they feel the fines are not big enough, then the AG could appeal against not the conviction, but the sentencing; the amount of the fine, to give another court the opportunity to review,» Mr. Ankomah opined on Eyewitness News.

Katko also won convictions against Schenectady police officers on corruption charges.

HARTFORD — The Chief State's Attorney's office asked the state Supreme Court on Tuesday to reinstate 5 - year - old corruption convictions against former Hartford Mayor Eddie A. Perez — exposing Perez to a prison sentence if the high court agrees.A Superior...

The EFCC had on March 6 secured a conviction against the ex-governor who was arraigned before an Adamawa State High Court on 17 charges bordering on award of contract without due process to the tune of N167.8 m.

«It's just surreal,» said Jaron Benjamin a week after the conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and on the day of closing arguments in the federal corruption case against former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, knowing that those cases may have been bolstered by work he did years ago in the fight to strengthen the state's rent laws.

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.

Bharara — who already has won corruption convictions against former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos since Cuomo disbanded the Moreland Commission on corruption at the state Capitol — also declined to say if investigators had interviewed the governor as part of the continuing probe.

Schumer called the bill a critical first step in the fight against heroin and opioids, expanding the availability of naloxone — also known as narcan — to law enforcement and first responders, improving prescription drug monitoring programs, shifting resources to identifying and treating incarcerated people suffering from addiction, and prohibiting the Department of Education from questioning students about prior drug convictions on financial aid forms.

But Belling, forced to leave the Erie County district attorney's office at the end of last year, may be best known for two high - profile cases: the acquittal on the most serious charges against Dr. James G. Corasanti and the murder conviction (later resulting in a manslaughter plea) of Jeffrey J. Basil.

The meeting came on the one - year anniversary of Bharara's winning a corruption conviction against former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, indicating that Bharara was trying to highlight his successes to keep his job.

Former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos» conviction Friday on all eight charges that he «monetized» his office to help get his ne'er - do - well son work from those with important business before the state came days after ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was found guilty of all seven corruption counts against him.

On Tuesday, Democratic Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky will face off against Republican Chris McGrath to fill the seat vacated upon the felony conviction of former senator Dean Skelos last year.

Supreme Court justices on Wednesday seemed prepared to overturn the 2014 corruption conviction of former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell and perhaps make it harder for prosecutors to bring charges against politicians who provide favors for their benefactors.

Now Bharara is looking for a similar conviction against the former head of the Senate, Dean Skelos — who's also on trial for corruption.

A New York state appeals judge upheld a conviction against former Goldman Sachs programmer Sergey Aleynikov on Thursday — likely...

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's conviction on Monday was a huge blow against Albany's culture of corruption, but it was also a major personal victory for Preet Bharara, the crusading U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.