Sentences with phrase «convicted felons did»

But prior to the order, convicted felons did not have their voting rights restored until completing their parole.

Not exact matches

Do we torture convicted felons?

And did they ever, releasing a statement slamming Donovan's hit as «the empty rhetoric of a Republican political machine hack who cavorted with convicted felon Bernie Kerik and took money from groups tied up in the mob.»

«Recycling Ed Cox and Rob Astorino's pathetic lies that hinge on the hearsay testimony of a convicted felon is a feeble attempt by Dean Skelos» heir apparent to distract from the fact that he, unlike Senator Kaminsky, doesn't support comprehensive ethics reform,» Azzopardi said.

Tedisco said the Majority's plan does not contain provisions for pension forfeiture for convicted felon elected officials who betray their oath of office, term limits for leaders, truth in spending to bring sunlight to state spending in the shadows to end quid pro-quos, or giving rank and file members the ability to bring legislation to the Floor for a vote and diminish the unbridled power that's been given to legislative leaders.

«It had to do with the legality as it related to how you would treat convicted felons and others who had already done their time, and whether or not what we we're trying to do was discriminatory against those individuals,» Oswego Common Council President Ron Kaplewicz said.

Days after Mayor Bill de Blasio said he has «full faith» in a City Hall staffer who is dating a convicted felon, the mayor claimed today that his decision to retain Rachel Noerdlinger did not contradict his past move to reportedly stop a press secretary from joining his administration after newspapers reported she was dating former Gov. Eliot Spitzer.

Not only do we have these convicted felons living unguarded in our residential neighborhoods, but they were placed there without proper warning or notification.

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.

According to Singas, her office's review has already found an unspecified contractor with ties to organized crime, a contractor barred from doing government business in another jurisdiction and a convicted felon with a bankruptcy.

I guess CM Wills didn't notice how well that strategy worked for his former boss and now convicted felon, ex-state senator Shirley Huntley.

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

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.

Yet, Chairwoman Stavisky didn't speak up to object to the presence of a convicted felon and admitted interloper on her Party's line.

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.

Once you have a full name and a birth date, you can do a full background to check to see if you're involved with a convicted felon or somebody who is a bad egg.

In college (biochemistry major) and working, I'll be 20 in September, love sports mostly football and mma, been practiceing martial arts since I was 12, convicted felon (please do nt let that scare you)

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

He doesn't allege that Johnston is a convicted felon, or eats babies, or once made some unflattering comments about Bear Bryant.

Though Berman doesn't believe that a Supreme Court decision recognizing a Second Amendment right to possess firearms would invalidate the federal felon gun possession law, he does foresee that it could lead to litigation in marginal cases — e.g. where an individual convicted of a non-serious felony might want to possess a handgun in the home.

I'm watching three: Ashcroft v. Raich, Pasquantino v. United States (does the federal wire fraud statute criminalize evading Canadian taxes) and Small v. United States (does the felon - in - possession statute prevent someone convicted in a foreign court from possessing a firearm in the United States).

My husband is a convicted felon for a theft, he did probation and his case is closed, we are planing to go on a cruise to the Bahamas, he is a florida resident.

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