Sentences with phrase «convicted people like»

Consider crime statistics: the data on which a computer will base its predictions may reflect factors logically not connected with particular defendants: arrest patterns that match or do not match the characteristics of the accused person; the impact of poverty or race on conviction rates of people «comparable» to the accused; hard - to - quantify characteristics of accused or convicted people like educational achievement or religious practices.

Not exact matches

One in five incarcerated people is convicted for a drug - related offense like trafficking or possession, according to the report.

I hope that more wolves among us are exposed, and our own wolf - like tendencies are convicted and squashed by God before they hurt more people like you.

Bostontola — I don't know if you are new to CNN, buddy, but ATHEISTS Paint all people of a religious group with a broad brush is worse than lack of forgiveness, it aims to convict people with no evidence much like racism.

Painting all people of a group with a broad brush is worse than lack of forgiveness, it aims to convict people with no evidence much like racism.

its a «common» in the priesthood, common being that there have been over 10,000 charged and convicted in the US, the church has paid out over 3 BILLION in out of court settlements... and its people like you ignoring the facts that propogate the problem by diverting the truth....

of convicting people of their sin, and forming them to look more like Jesus Christ.

You can have people like Jones who hits pregnant women, Daley who hits people after the bell, Aleksandr Emelianenko who is a convicted rapist, Gus who was convicted of deomestic abuse, and countless other fighters who are fan favorites despite big fuck - ups.

This was one of my favourites, but mostly because I liked to grab people's bottoms with it as they walked past me — Grandad had one of those things that convicts in America pick rubbish up with to help him pick things up off of the floor or grab things which were out of reach and it was really useful once his mobility became restricted.

No, it may not stop someone from murdering their child, just like being arrested and jail time doesn't stop people from commiting crimes, but maybe, just maybe in this case, the jury would have had a light bulb moment and said, «Hey, there is something that we can convict her on.

«But as I've come to learn, like many people convicted of domestic violence he could be very charming and he lured me back.»

See what life was like aboard a convict ship and learn how the expedition forged peaceful relations with the local Aboriginal Minang Noongar people.

But some policies, like expanded screening, treatment of mental illness, and restrictions on gun sales to people who have been convicted of stalking, were still considered effective in reducing gun homicides.

In my opinion, the answer is because the hacker - criminals would be locked up in a federal prison where they belong, and politicians like Cuccinelli would no longer be able to use the convicts» slick lies to confuse people and to persecute climate scientists.

California's highest court will now examine whether a defendant like Zambia can be convicted of encouraging another person to become a prostitute when that person already appears to be working as a prostitute.

Mr Marper and S argued that by retaining their DNA the government was treating them like convicted offenders as opposed to other innocent persons whose DNA information is not on the database.

Perhaps surprisingly, this possibility is given greater consideration in places like France than in the U.S. Indeed, the NLJ article reports that it is illegal in France to publish photos of defendants in handcuffs unless the person is convicted.

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.

AIDWYC contends that Canadian cases of alleged wrongful convictions should «not [be] examined from the adversarial perspective of trying to show that the convicted person was rightfully treated by the court system» as occurs at present through the Minister of Justice's current practice under section 696.1147 Rather, AIDWYC argues that an independent review board like CCRC should «undertake a fresh review without bias.»

According to the Immigration law of Canada, permanent residents (i.e. a person who is not a Canadian citizen yet but has the legal right to live in Canada) and foreign nationals (i.e. those who do not have permanent legal status in Canada like visitor, foreign students, temporary workers) who have been convicted either in Canada or abroad of certain criminal offences may be denied admission to Canada or deported from Canada if they are criminally inadmissible.

«Wrongful Conviction Day is not only important for wrongly convicted people, like myself, but for all people globally.

The committee concludes that the entry of stays of proceedings for those persons already convicted of a heinous crimes like murder or child sexual assault — or who have been charged but whose trials have not been completed — shocks the conscience of the Canadian community and brings the administration of justice into disrepute.

Section 119 was drafted a long time ago, when legislators still used words like «corruptly», and added them all over the Code to ensure that people weren't convicted for acts that didn't warrant criminal sanction.

During the past 18 years, I have placed the likes of reformed convicts and people with backgrounds as juvenile delinquents in suitable positions, where they are thriving and providing immense benefit to the companies that they have been placed in.