Sentences with phrase «convicted person spending»
Even assuming that Brown didn't do anything untoward, the sad reality is that innocent people often do pay for things they never did, and Brown losing a privilege barely compares to a wrongly convicted person spending any time in prison.
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By the age of 17 I had been arrested multiple times, convicted of multiple crimes, had spent some time in Rikers Island — I wanted to die and take as many people with me as possible.
Most people know of Jerry Sandusky, the man who was convicted on 45 counts of sexually abusing boys and will spend...
Most people know of Jerry Sandusky, the man who was convicted on 45 counts of sexually abusing boys and will spend the rest of his life behind bars.
NYC spent more than $ 1 billion to settle claims and lawsuits in fiscal year 2017, with the biggest payouts going to «Black Sunday» firefighters and their families, men wrongfully convicted, and people hurt by cops, with a 6 percent rise in personal injury claims.
Abimbola in the statement said that 13 convicts had their life sentences reduced to a term of years, having spent considerable terms in prison, while one person had his death sentence commuted to a life sentence.
Many advocates for juvenile justice reform applauded a plan by Cuomo to offer pardons to thousands of people who were convicted of nonviolent felonies or misdemeanors when they were 16 or 17 and have spent at least 10 years since without any additional convictions.
New York City has agreed to pay $ 40 million to settle civil rights lawsuits filed by five people who claimed they were wrongfully convicted of murder in the Bronx and who each spent more than 17 years in prison.
The city spent more than $ 1 billion to settle claims and lawsuits in fiscal year 2017, with the biggest payouts going to «Black Sunday» firefighters and their families, men wrongfully convicted, and people hurt by cops.
Having already reformed before he was convicted, he goes the rest of the way and decides to spend what time he's been given, and use the skills he still has as a gunman and soldier of fortune, on the side of the angels, helping people who need it.
(3) In determining the sentence to be imposed on a person convicted of an offence, a court may take into account any time spent in custody by the person as a result of the offence but the court shall limit any credit for that time to a maximum of one day for each day spent in custody.
Further, the Commission's work, insofar as it uncovers cases of wrongful conviction, would save considerable public funds that would otherwise be spent in the continued imprisonment of the wrongly convicted person.
Although the Ministry of Justice has spent the last two years reviewing homicide law, there still remains a serious problem around «one - punch killers» which means punishment for bad luck, according to: Barry Mitchell, Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Coventry University Law School One of the criticisms the writer and others have of the current law is that it makes it too easy for a person to be convicted of manslaughter, essentially because the law pitches the minimum level of culpability too low.
«It is a tragic fact that people who fall under the jurisdiction of mental impairment legislation can spend longer in custody than offenders who have been convicted of similar crimes.»