Sentences with phrase «convicted felons»

I came into the industry in 1992 when the CB was going after several brokerages and individual realtors within my board for supposed uncompetitve practices, the CB primary witnesses were two convicted felons.

The complex is rising on land whose previous owners include two convicted felons, one with alleged mob ties.

While federal government programs seek to strengthen families by providing educational classes and mental and physical health treatment for convicted felons, many states have adopted statutes that permit a prompt termination of parental rights for incarcerated felons.

The State of Texas has filed suit against the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) over Guidance for use of criminal records of job applicants by employers for criminal background checks that may exclude convicted felons from employment.

She hired a reputable department store to clean her air ducts, and the company sent two convicted felons on the service call.

Collect and Analyze DNA samples of convicted felons to upload into FBI's CODIS (Combined DNA Index System) program.

It's already illegal for convicted felons, domestic abusers and dangerously mentally ill people to buy firearms and ammunition.

Convicted felons likely will have no problem obtaining a passport.

Auto insurance companies don't have a specific prejudice against convicted felons.

Based on a broad view of that precept, the courts below seemed to say that convicted felons are categorically barred from equitable relief as to their government - held property.

Migrants are detained in immigration holding centres or provincial correctional facilities, where they share facilities and space with convicted felons.

Americans are split on whether convicted felons should be allowed to vote, according to a new survey by FindLaw.

CTV News has learned that the government plans to introduce legislation on Thursday to end the «two - for - one» credit for convicted felons for time spent in pre-trial custody.

The fast - track provision of the PROTECT Act applies only to convicted felons, and so we consider whether the provision is rationally related to a legitimate government interest.

These options are less harsh and can help to rehabilitate convicted felons who may not necessarily benefit from traditional punishment.

Convicted felons may prejudice a jury and make them skeptical of the validity of their claims.

The judge said he compared two disparate groups in reaching his decision: convicted felons - turned - cooperators for whom prosecutors urge reduced sentences and community members who attested that Jemal's generosity changed their lives.

But, it is something entirely different when the votes contain dead people, convicted felons, and other such irregularities.

BUT many countries don't allow convicted felons to enter their countries anyway so this could be a moot point, but not all countries have that regulation.

In those meetings, breeders argued that those with felony animal cruelty convictions should be allowed to hold a breeder's license, or that convicted felons should be able to allow their child to hold the license for them.

The Miami Herald found that the majority of the state's mortgage professionals are unlicensed, and worse, more than 5,000 of them are convicted felons!

Bellwether Prize Winner Hillary Jordan's provocative new novel is the fiercely imagined story of a woman struggling to navigate an America of a not - too - distant future, where the line between church and state has been eradicated and convicted felons are no longer imprisoned and rehabilitated but chromed - their skin color is genetically altered to match the class of their crime - and then released back into the population to survive as best they can.

Nine male convicted felons, serving long sentences for violent crimes, meet regularly with a sensitive, witty female professor inside a maximum security prison to read and discuss works by literary giants like Conrad, Kafka, Nabokov, Poe and Shakespeare.

All they got to do is check their computers for convicted felons with one ear and they got you.

Having testified for Steve Perry's charter school and spoken at rally's in support of Perry's plan, Carl McCluster and Steve Perry certainly don't want to face what would be an awkward situation if Perry was required to reveal whether any of his governing board members are convicted felons.

Jumoke / FUSE hired convicted felons and engaged in financial improprieties.

Due to weak accountability and oversight, some have hired convicted felons or people who have been fired from other schools;

Whatever he's doing time for at MCI — Norfolk, a medium - security «warehouse» for nearly 1,500 convicted felons in Massachusetts, what matters now is that he is standing in front of my English class on a Wednesday evening in his t - shirt, sweats, and sneakers.

Whatever he's doing time for at MCI — Norfolk, a medium - security «warehouse» for nearly 1,500 convicted felons in Massachusetts, what...

Have I encountered any Sugar Babies who were convicted felons?

«There's no database, there's nothing I could do to possibly get all of the convicted felons,» said Vest.

In terms of them being convicted felons, there are sites and services that would allow dating services to do a background check.

KUTV — Oct 18 — TRUE promises safer relationships through background checks but admits that sex offenders and convicted felons can still make their way into the site.

At True.com 2 % of applicants are rejected because they are convicted felons.

True.com screens for convicted felons and married people, and requires all members to state that they are neither.

Designed to prevent certain people, such as convicted felons or those subject to a restraining order, from buying guns, background checks do reduce some gun violence.

The multi-family investment trio is said to have duped victims into putting money into Cobalt beginning in 2003, by misrepresenting Cobalt's track record and by concealing the fact that Stitsky and Shapiro were already convicted felons at the time.

The mechanism through which Mr. Cuomo plans to do so is unusual: He would consider pardons for all 35,000 people currently on parole in New York, as well as any new convicted felons who enter the parole system each month.

Governor Cuomo and the legislature announced in March that they had agreed on a process to change the state's constitution to revoke pension of legislators who are convicted felons, but the Assembly never actually approved the deal, offering an alternative bill instead.

It doesn't appear that state law would have stopped him, as New York has no direct prohibition on convicted felons lobbying.

Under current rules, lawmakers who are convicted felons are still allowed to collect their pensions.

«Convicted felons like Michael Grimm lost their rights as a price for their crimes,» she said in a statement that also noted Grimm couldn't vote for president in 2016, but would have been able to under Cuomo's order.

But there is a major stumbling block in Ganim's way: Under state law, convicted felons can not receive public financing in a political campaign through the Citizens» Election Program.

The move would be accomplished by pardoning convicted felons on parole, allowing Gov. Andrew Cuomo to sidestep the State Legislature.

Glenwood Management — headed by 102 - year - old Leonard Litwin — was a key player in the pay - to - play corruption cases of both convicted felons Silver and Skelos.

Under current state law, convicted felons can not qualify for the public funds.

Convicted felons may have served their time in prison but they have not yet fulfilled their debt to society

ALBANY — One of the state Legislature's proposed responses this year to the cloud of corruption caused by the convictions of its former leaders is actually something lawmakers gleefully agreed to do last year, but then didn't: strip state pensions from convicted felons.

The 1940 law allowed for convicted felons to regain their «honour» and register to vote.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli has had to calculate and sign off on the pensions for former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Leader Dean Skelos, who are both convicted felons, as well as several other lawmakers convicted of felonies.