Sentences with phrase «appeal of his conviction of»

On June 14th the Supreme Court will hear Robert Latimer's appeal of his conviction of second - degree murder of his 12 year - old daughter Tracy.

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.

Still, despite what he feels is a weak case against him, he thinks the odds are he'll be found guilty, at least during this first trial; Japan, which has a more than 99 % conviction rate, is also one of a few countries that allows prosecutors to appeal an acquittal twice.

She's more emblematic of the 1990s than of the 2000s, but remember this: Martha Stewart bet that by not appealing her conviction (for lying to prosecutors, in case you forgot) and by simply getting her five - month prison stretch done with in March 2005, she would minimize the damage to her reputation and quickly get her company back on track.

The decision came down today from the Divisional Court which heard Ford's appeal of his November conviction.

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.

Ross Ulbricht, convicted ringleader of the drug trafficking website Silk Road, is appealing his conviction and lifetime sentence.

Although he managed to get two years knocked off the seven - year sentence he was handed in 2009, in September Ontario's Court of Appeal refused to overturn his conviction.

Making a Murderer is one of multiple examples of a true crime narrative so evocative that it revived momentum in a once dormant case, as Avery recently hired a new lawyer in the hope of mounting a fresh appeal of his 2007 conviction.

By killing himself in his prison cell while awaiting appeal of a murder conviction, former National Football League tight end Aaron Hernandez essentially died an innocent man under a Massachusetts law that once protected the assets of the late Enron CEO.

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Todd Newman and Anthony Chiasson's appeals of their insider trading convictions hinge on a fairly nit - picky legal point about jury instructions, although an important one that has an appeals court pretty riled up.

A U.S. appeals court vacated the conviction of former Jefferies Group trader Jesse Litvak, the latest turn in a case that has spanned more than five years and helped usher in changes to sales tactics on Wall Street.

The man convicted of shooting two Portland teenagers in 2012, killing one and severely injuring the other, is appealing his conviction.

The jury's verdict came on the same day that a federal appeals court reversed the conviction of a former Jefferies Group LLC managing director who is serving prison time for lying to customers about the prices of mortgage - backed bonds.

That decision was the second time in 2 1/2 years that the appeals court tossed out the conviction of Jesse Litvak.

The jury's verdict came on the same day that a federal appeals court reversed the conviction of a former Jefferies Group managing director who is serving prison time for lying to customers about the prices of mortgage - backed bonds.

Avery continues to appeal his conviction as well, which will be chronicled on the second season of Making a Murderer.

In general, while appeal to or reliance upon one's own intuition (in some technically unspecified sense of the term) may satisfy the informal demands of many ordinary, nontechnical contexts, such intuitive conviction — however important heuristically to the individual inquirer — may be of no logical relevance to the job of satisfying the technical demands constitutive of some formal arena of discourse.

Wesleyan evangelicals would have to join liberals in a broader appeal to the Bible's emphasis on God's care for each individual person and try to work out the implications of that central conviction for these difficult questions.

Sudanese authorities had said Ibrahim was guilty of rejecting Islam in favor of Christianity, but her conviction for «apostasy» and adultery was overturned last month on appeal, following weeks of international controversy.

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.

«My point is that any summary conclusion jumping from our conviction of the existence of such an order of nature to the easy assumption that there is an ultimate reality which, in some unexplained way, is to be appealed to for the removal of the perplexity, constitutes the great refusal of rationality to assert its rights.»

The fact that utilitarianism does not involve political or religious convictions, or a list of commandments, appealed to the irreligious Singer, who as a child had refused to have a Bar Mitzvah ceremony.

One may honorably aspire to becoming President, and one may even appeal for the support of those who share one's moral and religious convictions.

Obama has but one firm belief and one firm conviction... to get the votes... His record proves he is a pleaser of the people, or at least he tries to appeal to everyone.

A Clackamas County judge turned down a petition Monday for early release while the conviction of Shannon Mae Hickman, a member of the Followers of Christ church, is reviewed by the Oregon Court of Appeals.

Instead of finishing his term running the capital city through October, Ahok will now have to appeal his conviction from jail.

An appeals court has upheld a ruling by a federal judge that effectively overturned his conviction in the sexual assault and murder of Teresa Halbach more than 10 years ago.

I might admire the conviction of the believer and the good deeds of the church, and crisis - of - faith stories still had their appeal, but faith lay on the other side of a mental wall.

In seeking to render a concluding evaluation of Harts - home's theological significance, the most salient feature in my mind is the clear conviction that he is more dependent upon Christian revelation than he admits and that his theology could gain in needed concreteness by a still more explicit appeal to Christian revelation.

Like the title of the earlier piece, «Faith and Truth,» it reflects my continuing conviction that there are and must be two poles to theological reflection insofar as the claims of Christian faith finally appeal for their credibility to our common experience as human beings.

Unified mission funding was designed to bring order to the proliferation of mission agencies with independent fund - raising appeals and to express the conviction that, while it takes various forms in different settings, there is one mission.

The vital matter in the New Testament's appeal from the injustice of the present world to the justice of the final arbitrament lies not in any special formulation, whether it be that of Jesus or of Paul but in the deep conviction that the «one far - off divine event» will be ethically adequate.

By what Whitehead styled «the appeal to the direct intuition of special occasions --» he was referring to the primitive days of the Church in which Jesus» impact was known as a reality — we may possess, and Christian conviction affirms that we do possess, a key or clue «of universal validity, to be applied by faith to the ordering of all experience.»

At first this expectation was doubtless emotional in its appeal, as Mussolini stirs Italians now by pictures of a new Roman Empire, but as the centuries passed and the powerful theological conviction that Israel was a chosen people in special covenant relationship with Yahweh blended with the national dream, the coming Messianic age became increasingly a fixed idea and a cherished dogma.

Mr Mossayebzadeh, Mr Fadaie and Mr Omidi are additionally awaiting the outcome of their appeal against a sentence of 80 lashes each that was handed down in 2016, following their convictions for drinking wine during a communion service.

This led to his conviction for draft evasion, his expulsion from professional boxing, and a long series of appeals.

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HBO's Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight, which debuts on Oct. 5 and is directed by Stephen Frears (The Queen), is a glossy and engaging docudrama that focuses on the Supreme Court's inner - chamber battles in 1971, when the justices ruled on Ali's appeal of the conviction that had cost him 3 1/2 years of his career and threatened to send him to jail for five more.

Ciccarelli, whose lawyer, Donald Houston, is appealing his conviction, was in custody for a total of four hours.

Essentially, the appeals court agreed with him, ruling in part that the lack of decorum in the courtroom had deprived McLain of a fair trial and overturning the conviction.

As former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, gear up for sentencing in their respective public corruption convictions today, the elder Skelos has hired noted appeals lawyer Alexandra Shapiro to help him argue his way out of prison.

Disgraced former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver will remain free until at least Oct. 27 as he seeks bail pending appeal of his November 2015 conviction on corruption charges.

The late Sen. Tom Libous's conviction was overturned in May due to his pending appeal at the time of his death after a battle with cancer.

The corruption conviction of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on Tuesday was overturned by a federal appeals court, dealing yet another blow to the prosecutors who had sought to crack down on Albany's unseemly way of doing business.

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.

Miller's conviction was overturned on appeal by a unanimous vote of a federal appeals court in 1993.

The Supreme Court's ruling in McDonnell's case set a precedent that could help others accused of public corruption, including Sen. Robert Menendez (D - N.J.), who is awaiting an appeals court ruling in a corruption case; and former New York State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver (D), who is aiming to overturn his corruption conviction.

Silver's conviction on charges that he took payoffs disguised as legal fees in return for using his clout in Albany to benefit developers and a cancer researcher was overturned last year by the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals because of flawed jury instructions.