Sentences with phrase «as a sentencing justice»

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The change represents yet another way that Sessions, who served as a federal prosecutor at the height of the drug war in Mobile, Alabama, has reversed Obama - era criminal justice policies aimed at easing overcrowding in federal prisons and rethinking of how drug criminals are prosecuted and sentenced.

I dream of a movement of biblical Christians who even as they are carted off to jail will express Christlike tenderness to policemen, who even as they are sentenced will explain Jesus» way of love and justice to incredulous judges, who will even dare to risk their own lives in order to release the captives and free the oppressed.

The ho mose xual abomination still required a death sentence and still does as does every sin, not in hate but in justice for Love to be pure and Godly the sin must be punished.

8) The sentence of death may be improper if it has serious negative effects on society, such as miscarriages of justice, the increase of vindictiveness, or disrespect for the value of innocent human life.

Parole abolition, also known as «truth in sentencing,» is a criminal - justice fad that swept the nation in the mid-1990s.

Shaya, Shaou's niece, says justice has already been served for her uncle: a sentence from which he was released early and served as a model inmate.

To put the point in the blunt terms employed by Justice Harold Blackmun toward the end of his career on the bench, when he announced that he would henceforth vote (as Justices William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall had previously done) to overturn all death sentences, when I sit on a Court that reviews and affirms capital convictions, I am part of «the machinery of death.»

Its main point, which comes only two sentences from the end, is expressed this way: «To those to whom truth has been revealed, who continue in the tradition of the Holy One's followers, the call is not only to offer words of praise, confessing that Jesus is Christ the Lord, but to offer our lives as the instruments of this Lord of peace and justice.»

Nowhere is man's justice proportionate to God's; nowhere are his tribunals as fair, nor anywhere his sentences as wise.

«With today's sentencing, I want to state publicly that, like many, I took Leibell's recent requests for leniency, actually seeking «overseas nation building» duty in lieu of jail time, as a final indictment on his complete disconnect from reality and justice,» Ball said in his statement.

Yet shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan pointed out that there is a «black hole» in the department, and that today's National Audit Office report revealed there was a # 130m loss of savings, since the Tory - led government took over 28 months ago, as a result of sentencing reforms not going ahead.

Not just New Labour's overwhelming desire to amass all sorts of information about the individual and New Labour's managerial model of how to govern but also, in particular, a steady shift away from «justice» and towards «control»: towards the arbitrary, unconstrained use of power through the regular invocation of states of exception (terror legislation and Iceland is in this category); the creation of catch - all legislation whose operational interpretation is at the whim of the police (photography, questioning individual police officers); government attempts to constrain the judiciary through tick - the - box sentencing guidelines, and at an individual level examples such as David Milliband's quite disgraceful prevarication over torture allegations.

But the Criminal Justice Act of 2015 has also made provision for alternatives to sentencing, otherwise known as non-custodian sentencing.

A scheme to cut sentences for criminals who plead guilty was cancelled when Chris Grayling was installed in the Ministry of Justice as a gift to the Tory right.

Mr Justice Treacy said Gary Dobson and David Norris would have received a life sentence of 30 years at least if they had committed the crimes as adults now, because changes in the law in 2003 introduced racial aggravation to sentencing.

But the party faithful fear the negative headlines the story has generated, coming as Huhne faces a custodial sentence for perverting the course of justice, could irreparably damage the Lib Dem brand ahead of the next general election.

It is with great humility that I simply ask for Your Honor to render that tempers justice with mercy, a sentence that takes into consideration my life as a whole and not simply my misconduct and failings as Comptroller of the State of New York.»

Before the introduction of the residency test, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) described the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offences Act (Laspo) as «targeting legal aid at the most serious cases which have sufficient priority to justify the use of public funds».

Cuomo made a merciful decision by commuting the 75 - year - to - life sentence of convicted terrorist Judith Clark for her role in the deadly 1981 Brinks heist, supporters said, as critics continued to blast the decision as a mockery of justice.

By Section 270 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, a plea bargain agreement is allowed as in this case, wherein the first defendant has provided relevant information to aid the prosecution of this case... it appears to me that by the above provisions of the ACJA, under a plea bargain agreement, the appropriate sentence to be recommended should be within the appropriate range of punishment stipulated for the offence charged.

Extracts from the remarks of Mr Justice Sweeney as he sentenced the former cabinet minister and his ex-wife

ROW is asking the appeal court to declare that regulations introduced by the former justice secretary, Chris Grayling, as part of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) in fact «frustrate the purpose» of the legislation.

Secondly, he said that although judges were putting into effect their new powers to give indeterminate sentences under the Criminal Justice Act 2003, they were not yet using the power under that law to give more community orders «as fully as they might».

Figures released yesterday showed 945 criminals had been handed custodial sentences as a result of last summer's riots, putting further pressure on the UK's criminal justice system.

As with every other aspect of sentencing, one would expect the Lord Chief Justice, senior judges and the Supreme Court to issue sentencing guidelines.

Sampson was sentenced to five years prison in January on charges of obstruction of justice and lying to the FBI about illegally skimming more than $ 400,000 from foreclosure deals he worked on as a court - appointed referee.

The trial judge, Justice Babs Kuewumi, had subsequently convicted them as charged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission but reserved their sentencing till a later date.

Before proceeding to pronounce his sentence on the accused persons, Justice Ekwo said that mere denial did not suffice as defence in criminal trial.

«Kids for Cash» (2013): Prepare to be even more disgusted with the criminal justice system, as this film details the disturbing decision of a once - celebrated judge to sentence kids to outrageously long juvenile detention sentences in exchange for money from the private company building the detention center.

Despite countless «man - on - a-mission» flicks in recent years, DEATH SENTENCE, LAW ABIDING CITIZEN, even Cage's tepid JUSTICE, to name a few, as well as future projects such as Joe Carnahan's DEATH WISH remake or Albert Hughes» MOTOR CITY, I'm always a one for a great one of these efforts in this sub-genre, if done right... and heaps of violence!

The book it was based on, written by Brian Garfield and published in 1972, takes a different path — same liberal character whose wife and daughter are attacked, but his path to vigilantism results in a far more thoughtful examination of justice (and the movie's gleeful violence so upset Garfield that he wrote Death Sentence as penance).

As William Young, then chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Boston observed in a 2004 opinion: «The focus of our entire criminal justice system has shifted away from trials and juries and adjudication to a massive system of sentence bargaining that is heavily rigged against the accused.»

At sentencing, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Elliott Myers asked the jury — as the Criminal Code requires — to provide a recommendation on the period of parole ineligibility (between the minimum of 10 years and maximum of 25).

An accused who was previously eligible for a lenient sentence or who had racked up considerable pre-sentence custody could throw in the towel and make peace with Her Majesty but is now encouraged to take a shot at trial even where he assesses his own chances of winning the case as poor — if you're getting slammed by a mandatory minimum whether you plead guilty or not, you may as well spin the wheel of justice and see what happens.

For greater detail as to how this «trial penalty» system works, see: (1) «The Triumph of Plea Bargaining,» (2011), 85 Criminal Reports (6th) 29; and, (2) «Plea Bargaining Is Sentencing,» (2009) 14 Canadian Criminal Law Review 55, particularly this exchange of comments between a Superior Court Justice and the Crown, which clearly shows the presumptive power given the Crown's sentencing recommendations (Sentencing,» (2009) 14 Canadian Criminal Law Review 55, particularly this exchange of comments between a Superior Court Justice and the Crown, which clearly shows the presumptive power given the Crown's sentencing recommendations (sentencing recommendations (at p. 59):

The Ministry of Justice says it will support the Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Bill, meaning offenders who attack emergency service workers such as ambulance and NHS staff, firefighters, police officers etc. will receive a twice-fold maximum prison sentence.

Ellacott had been properly sentenced even though the Superior Court Justice had erred when he used Ellacott's testimony and his denial of guilt as aggravating factors in his decision.

Writing for five members of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, Mr. Justice David Doherty concluded his pure and unassailable legal analysis by finding that «the cavernous disconnect between the severity of the offence as described in my reasonable hypothetical and a three - year penitentiary sentence is determinative of the s. 12 analysis.

Now that even Newt Gingrich in the U.S.A. is saying much the same thing as folks at The Sentencing Project and other so - called «left - leaning» groups have been saying for some time, our neighbours to the south may be about to enjoy a «seismic shift in the legislative landscape» on criminal justice [see Douglas A. Berman... Continue Reading →

[74] Publicly accessible records of this Court demonstrate that the failure to implement and adhere to an objective protocol for the random assignment of judges has resulted in significant discrepancies in both the number of sentencing panels on which some judges of the Court sit and a marked difference in the number of sentence appeals heard by certain justices of the Court as compared with their colleagues.

93 Here, while the Charter violations bear the «necessary connection to the sentencing exercise» as contemplated in Nasogaluak and Glykis, to open the door to a sentence reduction as a possible Charter remedy, the nature and degree of the state misconduct demand a remedy that goes beyond an adjustment to the sentence - a remedy that appropriately responds to the damage that misconduct such as this does to the foundation of our system of justice.

The current New Zealand reform of sentencing likewise rejected the Minnesotastyle sentencing grid system as «too crude and blunt to ensure justice in the individual case».

As detailed in this post, Justice O'Connor's «evolving skepticism about capital punishment» during her tenure on the Supreme Court seemed to shift her from a fairly consistent vote to uphold death sentences to an unpredictable vote in capital cases.

But, as evidenced by rulings like Cunningham, Justice Breyer has limited ability to prevent — and perhaps limited interest in preventing — the Court's Sixth Amendment jurisprudence from knocking down other structured sentencing reforms.

As I re-read Justice Breyer's opinion for the Court in Rita, a particular sentence (at slip op. 18 - 19) kept drawing my attention:

Federal prosecutors previously asked St. Eve, who presided over Black's four - month trial earlier this year, to sentence the silver - haired press lord to federal prison for as long as 24 years for his July 13 convictions on three counts of mail fraud and one count of obstruction of justice.

R v. Nasogaluak, 2010 SCC 6 where Andrew Lokan and Danny Kastner represented the Canadian Civil Liberties Association at the Supreme Court of Canada and successfully argued that sentence reductions, even below mandatory minimum sentences, ought to be available as a remedy for unconstitutional state conduct in the criminal justice process.

So long as we have not abandoned the primary goal of our criminal justice system — rehabilitation — an equitable system of parole is a positive sentencing force that should be strengthened and encouraged rather than being vilified and attacked.

The clear exclusion of such proceedings is preceded, though, by an odd and confusing sentence according to which «This Directive should apply only to criminal proceedings as interpreted by the Court of Justice of the European Union (Court of Justice), without prejudice to the case - law of the European Court of Human Rights.»

I am sure sentencing issues will not be the main focus of discussion as the media and blogsphere discusses the news of Justice O'Connor's announced retirement and her potential replacement.