Sentences with phrase «as jail sentences»

Drivers are also subject to large fines as well as jail sentences.

What is notable about the case is that the Workers» Compensation Board sought a significant period of incarceration notwithstanding that jail sentences for civil contempt are approached with the same reservation as jail sentences for health and safety offences.

Not exact matches

In September, Shrem agreed to a forefeiture of $ 950,000 as part of a plea bargain that would provide a jail term of up to 60 months, three years longer than the sentence he received today.

Many entrepreneurs think of exercise as a sixty - minute jail sentence.

This might provide some insight as to why news editors are killing stories about curing cancer with cannabis, and why the government is still handing out lifetime jail sentences to dispensary owners for selling the possible cure to cancer to sick and dying patients.

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.

(UPDATED) Iranian pastor «silent» after release from jail, even as eight Iranian Christians sentenced for supposedly threatening the state.

«It's entirely appropriate that an individual who is convicted of a crime face the appropriate penalty, such as a lengthy jail sentence,» said World Relief's Tudi.

Both have been arrested and served six - month jail sentences for acts of civil disobedience in protesting the School of the Americas (now known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation)-- a military school in Fort Benning, Georgia, that has trained Latin Americans in tactics of war, terrorism and torture.

Does he go back in a cage forever as a failed experiment or only for a short jail sentence?

(CNN)- It has been more than 1,000 days since a Christian pastor was thrown into an Iranian jail for leaving Islam and sentenced to death for, as the U.S. State Department put it, «simply following his faith.»

And as a result, he violated that probation and was sentenced to 25 days in jail.

As word of Ruth's jail sentence spread, a crowd gathered on Mulberry Street, hoping for a glimpse of the great slugger.

Victim of the Drug War's harsh mandatory sentencing, as well as possible racial bias and entrapment, the onetime Rams star is 20 years into a 41 - year jail term.

He could be sentenced to as much as 20 years in jail and fined as much as $ 25,000.

As was learned earlier in the day, free agent WR Chad Johnson was sentenced to 30 days in jail after the...

As was learned earlier in the day, free agent WR Chad Johnson was sentenced to 30 days in jail after the plea deal broke for CJ after he slapped his lawyer's butt.

The song details his troubled past as he gets ready to serve a 60 - day jail sentence for body slamming a security guard at school.

Two and a half years ago, as a high school senior, Moss stomped a kid in a fight, pleaded guilty to two counts of battery and was sentenced to 30 days in jail and a year's probation.

The Prime Minister warned any club thinking of allowing a man to return to work after serving his jail sentence to «weigh the decision very carefully due to the position of footballers as role models,» an opinion that was seemingly echoed around the country.

The two men who oversaw prosecution of the pay - to - play pension fund scandal that resulted in former comptroller Alan Hevesi's jail sentence today both said the penalty should serve as a warning against other public officials seeking favors and gifts while in office.

«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.

The failure to fulfil the Tory pledge for automatic jail sentences for carrying a knife illegally and the fact the Human Rights Act still has not been replaced by a British Bill of Rights are certainly points against the Conservatives, but they were respectively scored by Ken Clarke and a Commission set up by the Prime Minister, so count as own goals.

Rochester City Court Judge Leticia Astacio has been sentenced to jail as a result of fallout from her earlier drunk driving conviction.

Mugabe, who was sentenced to a four - month jail term along with two other sympathisers of President John Mahama and the NDC, also took on journalists at TV3, describing them as «useless» and «irresponsible» for reporting that he had called for change in this year's elections.

Mario Cilento, President of the New York State AFL - CIO, said «The car wash industry is rife with abuses, including failure to pay minimum wage or provide workers compensation insurance; now this jail sentence should serve as a wake - up call to abusive managers that law enforcement is taking action.

Supporters of the NDC who believe the sentencing is harsh have mounted pressure on President John Mahama to use his executive powers as enshrined in Article 72 of the constitution to grant the three jailed persons pardon.

Burke is being held as a danger to the community in a federal jail, awaiting sentencing now scheduled for Aug. 25.

The right - hand man of the jailed terrorist known as «Hook» was given the maximum sentence of 20 years in prison Friday for planning to set up an al Qaeda training...

With Holder's death as motivation, Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis last session sponsored a bill to prevent criminals from getting out of jail, and on Thursday, repeated her calls for reform in drug sentencing.

The lawsuit involving Ontario and four other counties came as a result of a case involving a mother who was given a «felony» jail sentence despite having comitted a misdemeanor.

Karim Wade the son of Senegals former President, Abdoulaye Wade, is serving a SIX YEAR JAIL SENTENCE for fraud and corruption during his tenure as a Government Minister.

Montie FM presenter Salifu Maase, popularly known as Mugabe, will begin hosting his «Pampaso» show from next week, days after being remitted of a four - month jail sentence by President John Dramani Mahama.

Ry - Ann Hermon, who served as Boyland's chief of staff and was also romantically involved with the pol, is asking Judge Sandra Townes for no jail time ahead of sentencing in Brooklyn federal court Friday.

Leeds said the sentences with DWI cases can vary — from as little as a fine to as much as a year in a local jail.

Ever since the death sentence was handed down in 2004, the absurd case had been bouncing between Libya's courts as the medics languished in jail; there had been at least one suicide attempt among them.

Dick's statistics are distressing, as with the fact that few, if any, perpetrators ever serve jail time, and even when they do, they rarely get sentences that are a year or longer, which would make them felonies and place said criminals on the National Sex Offender Registry.

The film stars Dwayne Johnson as a father whose son is wrongly accused of a crime and sentenced to 10 years in jail.

The transaction lands Ned an eight - month jail sentence and establishes him as not the sharpest guy in New York.

It is a hell of a plight, after all, as originally sketched in Victor Hugo's 1,400 - page historical novel: Sentenced to 19 years in jail for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister's family, the stolid, pious Valjean breaks parole upon his release and goes on to become a respectable small - town mayor under an assumed name.

Josh Hartnett plays the former hockey player in question who, as the story begins, is not only battling with drug addiction, but also facing a possible jail sentence for reckless driving.

Of those taken to court, 12,479 were found guilty and 9,214 fines were issued, as well as 18 jail sentences.

As for the youth in Güzeltepe, their display of their rage on the street at small demonstrations deemed marginal by neighborhood residents and their subsequent retreats leads not only to the marginalization of youth in the eyes of the neighborhood, but also results in harsh prosecutions, jail sentences, or youth being wounded or even killed [21] by police bullets, since such demonstrations take place in a neighborhood under constant police surveillance.

Their owners, Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noelle, received jail sentences for involuntary manslaughter after a long debate on whether the San Francisco courts should treat the attack as a murder.

Cruelity to animals shoudl carry the same sentence as cruelity to humans... They do jail for fighting dogs right??? So lets Jail them to the chamber real slow where they know what the poor animalsjail for fighting dogs right??? So lets Jail them to the chamber real slow where they know what the poor animalsJail them to the chamber real slow where they know what the poor animals do.

Their art collective staged numerous incendiary performances such as an orgy in a biology museum to parody then - President Dmitry Medvedev's plans to boost the birth rate, and a giant penis painted on a drawbridge in St Petersburg.Three members of the punk band were each sentenced to two years in jail for performing an anti-Putin song in Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral in a «feminist attempt to take Russia from the Middle Ages to the modern era».

As late as 1957, Virginia trial court Judge Leon Bazile sentenced an interethnic couple who had married in Washington, D.C. to jail writing, «Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, Malay and red, and he placed them on separate continentAs late as 1957, Virginia trial court Judge Leon Bazile sentenced an interethnic couple who had married in Washington, D.C. to jail writing, «Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, Malay and red, and he placed them on separate continentas 1957, Virginia trial court Judge Leon Bazile sentenced an interethnic couple who had married in Washington, D.C. to jail writing, «Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, Malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents.

Just as Stockholm district court judge Tomas Norström found the four men guilty on Friday and sentenced each to a year in jail, it was revealed that he is a member of two pro-copyright groups, including one whose members include three of the lawyers who represented the plaintiffs in the trial.

That jail over-crowding in terrible conditions such as in Toronto's Don Jail, soon led to plea bargaining as we know it now, wherein the Crown's recommendation as to length of sentence is taken as a «presumptive sentence» — a rebuttable presumption for defence counsel to overcjail over-crowding in terrible conditions such as in Toronto's Don Jail, soon led to plea bargaining as we know it now, wherein the Crown's recommendation as to length of sentence is taken as a «presumptive sentence» — a rebuttable presumption for defence counsel to overcJail, soon led to plea bargaining as we know it now, wherein the Crown's recommendation as to length of sentence is taken as a «presumptive sentence» — a rebuttable presumption for defence counsel to overcome.

So in effect, the sentencing function is turned over to the Crown as a way of coping with, increasing pre-trial jail populations, bad jail conditions, and case loads.