Sentences with phrase «against sentence rose»

Appeals against conviction rose from 1,530 in 2005 — 06 to 1,598 in 2006 — 07, while appeals against sentence rose from 4,914 to 5,176 in the same period.

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In looking for sources of inspiration for the White Rose, Inge Scholl quotes at length the protests from the 1942 sermons of Count Galen, Bishop of Muenster, who forcefully spoke out against the Nazi death sentence for «life which does not deserve to live» (Unwertesleben).

Bouncing between Molly's rise in L.A.'s Viper Room to her fight against legal investigation and total bankruptcy, Sorkin's drama shuffles language like a deck of cards, the staccato sentences of his poker - playing spitfires punctuated by the witty English equivalent of flops, turns, and rivers.

There has been a rise in both appeals against conviction and sentence in the past year, the latest annual review of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) reveals.

would give rise to the possibility that one of two public servants found guilty of the same offense in the same circumstances could suffer the vacancy of their employment, and the other avoid such vacancy, for the sole reason that one of them pled guilty shortly after arrest (and thus had no pre-sentence custody to be credited against sentence), and the other pled not guilty and had many months in pre-sentence custody to be credited.