Sentences with phrase «convicted in absentia»

In 2010, three Google executives were convicted in absentia in Italy for allowing the posting of a YouTube video that showed a disabled teenager being bullied.

Mr Melloni was convicted in absentia to a ten - year sentence for bankruptcy fraud by Italian courts.

Therefore, in light of European case law, the SCC concludes that the absolute content of the right to a fair trial does not require that a person convicted in absentia has the chance of applying for retrial if the right has been voluntarily and unequivocally waived and the person was duly summoned and defended at trial by counsel.

[41][42] In May 2012, the tribunal again under a purported exercise of universal jurisdiction took testimony from victims of torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and convicted in absentia former President Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former Deputy Assistant Attorneys General John Yoo and Jay Bybee, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and former counselors David Addington and William Haynes II for conspiracy to commit war crimes.

He had been convicted in absentia of more than a dozen murders as well as of being part of the Mafia's leadership who ordered the 1992 bombings that, in separate attacks, killed Sicily's top two anti-Mafia investigators, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.

In November 2011, the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission purportedly exercised universal jurisdiction to try and convict in absentia former US President George W. Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair for the invasion of Iraq.

Not exact matches

He argued that his surrender to the Italian authorities would infringe his right to fair trial enshrined in Article 24 (2) of the Spanish Constitution, because he had been convicted for a very serious offence in absentia without him having the possibility of challenging his conviction.

If you have been convicted «in absentia» (in your absence), you have only 21 days to file a Request for Trial De Novo in order to appear in court to contest your case from the date of mailing on your Notice of Decision on Trial in Absentia.

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