Sentences with phrase «convict any person found»

The judge in his ruling based his conviction of the former Governor on section 58 (5) of the Public Procurement Acts, saying «the law hands of the laws are tied to convict any person found guilty of breach of procurement acts to be sentenced to less than five years imprisonment.

Not exact matches

None of the Reporting Persons nor any manager or executive officer of the Reporting Persons, has, during the past five years, (a) been convicted in a criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations or similar misdemeanors), or (b) been a party to a civil proceeding of a judicial or administrative body of competent jurisdiction and as a result of such proceeding was or is subject to a judgment, decree or final order enjoining future violations of, or prohibiting, or mandating activities subject to, Federal or State securities laws or a finding of any violation with respect to such laws.

and even if they are convicted, this is about these particular people and i find it outrageous that cnn would allow posts that are offensive to the country's largest religious denomination - 65 million proud roman catholics!

The study, by the National Registry of Exonerations, reviewed cases that happened over the last 30 years throughout the country and found that in addition to black people being wrongfully convicted, it took significantly longer for them to be exonerated than it did any other group, with black people having to wait an average of three years longer.

The review found that that played a role in 79 percent of wrongfully convicted sexual assault cases against black people versus only 51 percent of cases against white people.

Lawyers for three people convicted of murder for drunk - driving related offenses appealed, saying their clients were too drunk to be found guilty of murder.

Justice Buba found the nine persons guilty on a four - count charge and accordingly convicted and sentenced them to five years imprisonment on each of the count.

Hopeson Adorye, being a Deputy Communications Director of the party, it is clear that the NPP has come to the conclusion that the only way to effectively deal with Akufo - Addo's nasty reputation as an alleged drugs user and as someone who surrounds himself with persons convicted for drugs - related offences, is to find an equaliser.

Among the findings was that lifting restrictions on concealed carry guns increases violent crime and that laws restricting gun ownership for people convicted of domestic violence reduced killings of female domestic partners.

The person accused of the above mentioned crime in Seattle was found to have previously been convicted for assault in Washington in 1997 and battery in Idaho in 2009.

... except for «all idiots, imbeciles, feeble - minded persons, epileptics, insane persons; persons who have had one or more attacks of insanity at any time previously; persons of constitutional psychopathic inferiority; persons with chronic alcoholism; paupers; professional beggars; vagrants; persons afflicted with tuberculosis in any form or with a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease; persons not comprehended within any of the foregoing excluded classes who are found to be and are certified by the examining surgeon as being mentally or physically defective, such physical defect being of a nature which may affect the ability of such alien to earn a living; persons who have been convicted of or admit having committed a felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude; polygamists, or persons who practice polygamy or believe in or advocate the practice of polygamy; anarchists, or persons who believe in or advocate the overthrow by force or violence of the Government of the United States.»

A person subject to this subsection who is found ineligible for employment under s. 1012.315, or otherwise found through background screening to have been convicted of any crime involving moral turpitude as defined by rule of the State Board of Education, shall not be employed, engaged to provide services, or serve in any position that requires direct contact with students.

Rep. Miller also asked for a 2010 GAO report that confirms that convicted persons can and do find their way into our children's classrooms.

Pointing to studies that have found links between animal abuse and physical violence against people, supporters seek to prevent those who are convicted of these crimes from acquiring and harming additional animals.

(1) Subject to s. 487.053, if a person is convicted, discharged under s. 730 or, in the case of a young person, found guilty under the Young Offender's Act, c. Y 1 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, or the Youth Criminal Justice Act, of a designated offence, the court

Justice Coady of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia reviewed the law and the legal requirements for a convicted person to be found not criminally responsible.

Under s. 487.051 of the Criminal Code, a judge has to make an order authorizing the taking of bodily substances for DNA tests from a person who has been convicted, discharged, or found guilty as a young offender of any offence included in the list of «primary designated offences».

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.

The remand rate has nearly tripled in the past 30 years, and 2005 marked the first time in Canadian history that our provincial institutions were primarily being used to detain people prior to any finding of guilt, rather than after they had been convicted and sentenced.

In its 78 - page decision, the appeal court said that the combination of verdicts «presents an unusual, if not unique, result... In effect, the appellant has been convicted of attempting to murder the very same person he was found to have justifiably fatally shot just 5.5 seconds earlier.»

Despite the decisions below (which found it would be unfair to convict the Respondent on the included offence and that s. 258 (1)(c) should not apply), the Court of Appeal reasoned that, since the included offence is «embraced» by the charged offence, it is not «totally different» and, therefore, should not come «as a surprise» to the accused person.

Persons who find themselves charged with a criminal offence, or who have been convicted of a criminal offence, often find themselves a target of the police and the courts...

Again, and you did touch on it, for those individuals who find themselves convicted of a crime in this country, there is the fine option program available in seven of the provinces, which allows people to find other ways of contributing and dealing with their inability to pay the fine or the surcharge of the fine or the surcharge on their criminal conviction for a summary or indictable offence.

Drawing on Marcott, the court in R v Pollock convicted a person with bona fide belief in spiritualism, finding that,

(2) For the purpose of this section and sections 490.012 to 490.032, a person who is convicted of, or found not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder for, a designated offence does not include a young person

97.1 If, when a person is convicted of an offence under section 90, 94, 95, 96, 96.1, 96.2 or 96.3, the presiding judge finds that the offence was committed knowingly, the person is also guilty of a corrupt practice and is liable to one or both of the following:

Many people will have assumed from the outset that there was as much chance of Richards LJ being convicted as Elvis being found alive, a point of view that represents a kind of reverse prejudice but which is difficult to demolish.

For example if a person was convicted for kidnap, murder, and stealing a car, all adding up to a total of 120 years, but later was found to be a car thief who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and proven innocent of the kidnap and murder charges, that person would then only face the sentence from the car theft.

What punishments are usually given in cases such as these where the person who abandoned the child is found and convicted?

Check driving record details to find out which traffic violations you were convicted of are appearing on your person driving history report.

(2)(b) The parent's residential time with the child shall be limited if it is found that the parent resides with a person who has engaged in any of the following conduct: (i) Physical, sexual, or a pattern of emotional abuse of a child; (ii) a history of acts of domestic violence as defined in RCW 26.50.010 (1) or an assault or sexual assault that causes grievous bodily harm or the fear of such harm; or (iii) the person has been convicted as an adult or as a juvenile has been adjudicated of a sex offense.