Sentences with phrase «case after a conviction»

Court officials said the display focused on a mix of civil and criminal cases in which the appeals court made new law, and was tilted toward convictions because appeals generally occur in a criminal case after a conviction.

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.

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.

Mark Gonzalez has announced a new bureau to handle domestic violence cases after sharing data about the conviction rate involving those cases during his first year as Nueces County District Attorney.

The two victims in this current case came forward after hearing of Mr Storey's previous conviction.

The following is relevant in this case: a) If a competent expert, after a renewed serious investigation of all grounds, arrives at the positive conviction that the teaching is erroneous, he may withhold assent, but not embark on an open dissent.

Pfizer / Wyeth received a criminal conviction in 2003 for a «cyncial and deliberate breach of the regulations» after Birmingham Trading Standards brought a case over an advertising campaign — click here.

One can certainly point out that after the Skelos and Silver convictions the definition of the law known as «Honest Services Fraud» was greatly narrowed by the U.S. Supreme Court in the corruption case of former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell.

Boyle had been endorsed in March by the county Conservative Party committee to run for the post after members there were upset when the incumbent sheriff, Vincent DeMarco, testified in a case that ultimately resulted in the conviction of a party functionary, Ed Walsh.

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.

A lawyer for former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver says the U.S. Supreme Court should look at his case after a federal appeals court tossed out his conviction and ordered a retrial.

In a 15 - page decision, the court pointed to the corruption case of former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell, whose conviction was thrown out after the Supreme Court narrowed the definition of «official action.»

His conviction was vacated a year later, after Ippolito died in prison while his case was on appeal.

The conviction ended a bizarre two - month trial in which Karas rejected Halloran's bid to pursue an insanity defense related to a brain tumor he had removed in 2012 and also saw Halloran proceed with the case without Smith and another co-defendant, former Queens Republican Vice Chairman Vincent Tabone — even after a mistrial was declared.

Consider the case of former Senate Republican Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, who faced retrial on two honest services mail fraud counts after his initial conviction was overturned.

Good government groups are needless to say, disappointed in the court ruling in the Dean Skelos case, just like they were after the Sheldon Silver conviction was vacated.

The endorsement follows the backing Boyle received from the local Conservative Party, which had sought out an alternative candidate after the incumbent sheriff testified in a case that saw the conviction of a local party official.

Calls for anti-corruption legislation grew late last year after the convictions of the former Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, and ex-Majority Leader Dean Skelos in the Senate, in separate corruption cases.

They pointed to the impending glut of corruption cases that former New York officials will appear in during the next six months — two of Cuomo's former top aides will be tried, former legislative leaders Dean Skelos and Sheldon Silver will each reappear in a courthouse after their prior convictions were overturned on technicalities, and former state Sen. George Maziarz stands accused of hiding the destination of his campaign funds several years ago.

After the conviction of former Bronx assemblyman Eric Stevenson on bribery charges, Bharara emphasized that the case was just one step in a larger quest.

«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.

The denim connection to sexual assault awareness originated from a 1998 Supreme Court Case in Italy in which a rape conviction was overturned after the judge reasoned the victim's tight denim jeans meant that she had to have helped her attacker remove them, implying consent.

Silver's initial conviction was tossed out last June after the Supreme Court redefined the standard for public corruption cases.

After reviewing 30 cases of potential wrongful imprisonment for murder from the tenure of his controversial predecessor Charles Hynes, Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson's office has begun to investigate the former prosecutor's non-homicide felony convictions, too.

While there's no apparent effort to force him out, Johnson may be sick of the gig and ready to be replaced after nearly 25 years on the job — and after a torrent of criticism of his low conviction rate and his poor relations with the NYPD for declining to prosecute cases that arise from certain types of stop and frisks, sources told the News.

Syracuse, NY — Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick began his second crack today at convicting Ronald Meadow in the cold - case strangulation of his estranged wife in 1985 after a conviction two years ago was tossed on appeal.

And the fifth case is Ruben Wills, removed from office after a recent corruption conviction, who is likely to be replaced by a woman, Adrienne Adams, the favorite in the race.

Though previously sentenced to 12 years in prison, Silver appealed his 2015 conviction after a landmark Supreme Court decision changed the definition of what constitutes «official acts» by politicians in corruption cases.

In a 54 - page decision, the court cited the case of Bob McDonnell, Virginia's former governor, whose corruption conviction was tossed after the US Supreme Court narrowed the definition of «official action.»

A day after former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's conviction, legal experts said Tuesday appeals are likely to focus in part on the government's aggressive use of «honest services fraud» charges in public corruption cases — the same issue ex-Senate leader Joe Bruno used to erase his corruption conviction.

That law was prompted by the case of former state Sen. Ernie Newton, who served time in federal prison after a conviction related to taking a bribe and two other felonies.

Caproni said both sides in Silver's case will be given five weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court rules on McDonnell's appeal of his corruption conviction to file a revised motion and rebuttals.

The conviction ends a bizarre two - month trial in which Karas rejected Halloran's bid to pursue an insanity defense related to a brain tumor he had removed in 2012 and also saw Halloran proceed with the case without Smith and another co-defendant — even after a mistrial was declared.

After Willingham was executed, the Innocence Project, a national nonprofit legal organization focused on overturning wrongful convictions, assembled a team of leading arson investigators, who concluded that none of the evidence for arson in the case was scientifically valid.

Although their analysis does not include data after 2004, the researchers note that they doubt that the use of DNA identification technology would have much impact on false conviction rates — because DNA evidence is primarily used in cases such as rape rather than homicide.

Dee has enough problems just getting on with life - trying to raise her children, with her children's deadbeat dad and his abusive girlfriend in the same building, and yet even after her conviction is overturned, her subsequent case (spearheaded by the A.C.L.U.) puts her in the D.A.'s crosshairs - who uses his substantial infuence to not only prevent her from returning to her job of 7 years, but even makes sure that she is terminated from the minimum wage job she finally manages to procure.

John Goodman is awaiting retrial in his case after his original conviction was overturned because of juror misconduct.

That is, until The Possible, a hit investigative podcast, chooses to focus on Crystal's case more than a decade after the conviction.

In any case, it's too little late for Obama's injustice department to get any such convictions, but perhaps President Trump or Cruz should use RICO to go after radical Warmists all over the world.

After you fulfill this obligation, you need to file a motion to the court and they will dismiss your case resulting in no points and no conviction.

Even after my conviction, I managed to stay out of custody while my case was on appeal.

After all, as any honourable Crown prosecutor is well aware, the nondisclosure of exculpatory evidence has been identified as a hallmark of so many wrongful conviction cases.

Suppose that you are convicted of a crime, but after your conviction, a court holds as a binding precedent in another case, that the crime that you were convicted of is unconstitutional or otherwise invalid in your circumstances (e.g. in a U.K. scenario, you are convicted of trespassing on the walkway to someone's front door since that is private property, but a later precedent hold that members of the public are legally entitled to use such a walkway unless there is a «no trespassing» sign posted which no one disputes wasn't present in your case).

Overall, the lesson these cases provide for individual supervisors, managers, directors and officers is that being locked up in jail after an OH&S conviction is an increasing risk.

After his conviction was changed to murder by the Supreme Court last year, Pistorius appealed to South Africa's highest court, the Constitutional Court, to review his case.

House, which I think of as the innocence case, produced a 5 - 3 ruling in favor of a death row defendant's right to use DNA evidence to try to establish his innocence 20 years after his original conviction.

The Livent case, after all, did end in a conviction, as did the prosecution of lawyer Stan Grmovsek, who pleaded guilty to insider trading in 2009.

If, however, you were convicted, and the Court found that you knew that the victim hadn't died at the time of trial, but you did not raise the fact that the victim wasn't dead, it isn't clear if you could have the original conviction vacated because it was a fair trial and you knew evidence sufficient to get yourself acquitted (which you may have refrained from presenting to avoid conviction on a lesser charge like kidnapping or aggravated assault), and the status of an «actual innocence» grounds for vacating a conviction after trial is hotly disputed, conservatives like the late Justice Scalia generally say «no», liberals generally say «yes», moderates like to say «yes» but make it almost impossible to establish except in rare cases like one where a live person walks in when there was a murder conviction for killing that actually living person.

An assault conviction can affect your life in many ways, even after a case has been resolved.

Justice Antonin Scalia opened the Supreme Court's new term Tuesday by questioning whether a man deported to Mexico after a drug conviction would be «abstaining from tequila» for fear of violating his U.S. parole terms.The remark came as justices heard an immigration case involving a Texas man, Reymundo Toledo - Flores, who was deported in April after being convicted of illegally entering the United States.