Sentences with phrase «convicting people on»

I doubt that he'll get a jury to convict people on his rinky - dink charges.

It is extremely difficult to convict a person on dogfighting charges, a felony in all 50 states, because participants often monitor Animal Control activities or can easily say they are not involved while at the scene, McAloon - Lampman said.

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Also, take a page from my upcoming book on my convict period: When leading teams and people, recognize that it's critical that you understand how you show up.

She particularly focused on drug laws impacts on people of color, who have for decades been convicted under aggressive drug laws at disproportionately high rates relative to whites.

The most explosive point in the discussion came when Ramos would not embrace legislation to toughen penalties on people who cross into the US illegally after being convicted of an aggravated felony.

And earlier this week, in a self - penned essay for Time, he wrote, «On any given day over 400,000 people, convicted of no crime, are held in jail because they can not afford to buy their freedom.

In a letter to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Democratic and Republican leaders of the state House and Senate Wednesday, Schneiderman asked state lawmakers to pass legislation that would allow for prosecuting people on the state level for the exact crimes they were convicted of — and pardoned for — on the federal level.

Dr Antony McRoy's been speaking to Premier after Mr Choudhary was convicted of terror offences, having encouraged people to join Islamic State - a banned organisation which has waged war on Britain.

There was bad things done on both sides, but the Leader of the Mountain Medow was convicted, the people known to have killed people at Haun's Mill were never prosicuted.

As one who sat on a jury in a murder case in a state that is not shy about executions, I am aware of how important it is to make sure the right person is convicted.

The doctrine remains what it has been: that the State, in principle, has the right to impose the death penalty on persons convicted of very serious crimes.

However, the evidence on the deterring effect of capital punishment is not very persuasive, nor is it implausible to suppose that an innocent person could be convicted and executed, despite our extensive appeal system.

Jeremy Myers, i think you are wrong and David is right, so many out there are preaching you can live any way you want and be right that Grace covers any sin, they really believe that, that is not what the bible says, God was very concerned about sin so much he sent Jesus his son to die on a cross for us, if we accept Jesus as our savor then we are to obey his commandments, not break them, we are to live a righteous and holy life as possible, the bible plainly list a whole list of things if we live in will not to to heaven unless we repent, if we die while in these sins, we will not go to heaven, what is the difference, between someone who said a prayer and someone who did not, and they are living the same way, none, i think, if we are truly saved it should be hard to do these things let alone live and do them everyday, i would be afraid to tell people that it does not matte grace covers their sins, i really think it is the slip ups that we are convicted of by the Holy Spirit and we ask for forgivness, how can anyones heart be right with God and they have sex all the time out of marriage, lie, break every commandment of God, i don't think this is meaning grace covers those sins, until they repent and ask for forgiveness, a lot of people will end up in hell because preachers teach Grace the wrong way,, and those preachers will answer to God for leading these people the wrong way, not saying you are one of them, but be careful, everything we teach or preach must line up with the word of God, God hates sin,

This has really helped and I thank God our Father in Heaven for actually waking me up convicting me of being on my way to a legalist... lacking grace, mercy, love towards people.

What bothers me is that people are ready to convict priests and vilify the church on the basis of allegations alone.

But many people who attend church, but are at best only suspect believers, seem to move on from the churches that do preach the Word in favor of a less convicting enviroment.

Those who defend capital punishment on grounds of deterrence would have us take the lives of some — persons convicted of certain crimes — because doing so will discourage crime and thus protect others.

But evident reliability can be deceptive: persons have been wrongly convicted of murder on the positive identification of eyewitnesses.

When growing up and attending classes on how to witness one of the principles was to convict people of their sin otherwise they would not realize their need for Jesus.

Now a gay journalist, Stephen Jimenez, has written The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard, based on investigative interviews with over 100 people, including the convicted killers and friends of both the killers and the victim.

What you're basically claiming is that science can't really tell us anything that we can't see personally happening for ourselves which is utterly ridiculous considering that we convict people of murder often on the confidence we have in forensic science.

One conviction of abuse against a child or young person would be one too many but my attempts to gather reliable information on the number of priests convicted of crimes against children and young persons in the last thirty years have been unsuccessful.

Care to cite any cases where people have been convicted on charges of greed, lust, gluttony, envy, adultery etc.?

Carolina Panthers defensive end Greg Hardy was sentenced to 18 months probation after being convicted on two felony counts of assault and communicating threats, according to Joe Person of the Charlotte Observer.

he has order of protection on 5 people which means he can not try in any way to get in contact with these 5 or else his bond will be broken and he would have to return to the states.after he is convicted and he will be as it is all on video, he will do time and be deported.

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.

As a person strongly convicted about right and wrong, it was exceedingly difficult for me to participate in on - going practices that I knew to be inappropriate simply because what is right, hadn't been approved by all the necessary committees and department heads.

Since the beginning of 2007, 57 people have been convicted on terrorist plots.

Neither do we convict people without trial on the basis of hearsay evidence, or indefinitely detain them without having committed a crime, or write legislation without being able to define the thing it is we are outlawing.

In person voter fraud pretty much never happens (though someone was convicted of it yesterday in Dallas (a convict on probation who voted even though she had no franchise)-RRB-.

To expand on your first point: it is actually possible / common to take away rights of people convicted of crimes.

The law requires any person convicted of driving while intoxicated to have an ignition interlock device installed on any vehicle they own or operate.

The Lagos State Government had said that the convict poured petrol on the deceased and five other persons and that Uzoh died on August 2, 2006; 11 days after the act was perpetrated on her.

The prosecutor, Mr. Abiodun Fagboyinbo who happened to prosecute the first case when he (Olajide) was convicted for three years imprisonment had also arraigned the accused person on 8th, December 2016.

On the death of the deceased, Justice Majebi held that the prosecution satisfactorily established that the death of the deceased was caused by the convicts as there was «a nexus between the acts of the accused persons and the death of the deceased.»

Currently, some people convicted of crimes on MTA subways and buses can be banned from using the system as part of their parole, Bratton said.

With potential campaign finance law violations under scrutiny, one person said, the Cohen investigation was assigned to career prosecutors in the office's elite public corruption unit, which has a track record of convicting politicians on both sides of the aisle.

Justice Buba found the nine persons guilty on a four - count charge and accordingly convicted and sentenced them to five years imprisonment on each of the count.

In any decent society where some premium is placed on human dignity, the accepted jurisprudential position is that, it is better for many suspects to escape unpunished than for one innocent person to be wrongly convicted.

In March, Cuomo's top aide, Joseph Percoco, was convicted on federal corruption charges for taking more than $ 300,000 from people who had business with the state.

Terry McAuliffe in 2016 announced convicted felons would have their voting rights restored, arguing the old system was based on denying people of color the right to vote.

The bill provides for an option of N4 million for persons convicted of false newspaper, radio and television statements and N2 million for offenders of false phone text messages or messages on Facebook, twitter, Instagram, or WhatsApp.

Mainline Democrats in the state Senate on Tuesday plan to push a package of gun control measures they say are needed given the Republican control of the White House and Congress — placing new restrictions on those convicted of hate crimes and limiting the number of guns a person can purchase in a month.

The judge in his ruling based his conviction of the former Governor on section 58 (5) of the Public Procurement Acts, saying «the law hands of the laws are tied to convict any person found guilty of breach of procurement acts to be sentenced to less than five years imprisonment.

Since the violence began eight years ago, only 13 people have been put on trial and just nine have been convicted, according to government figures.

Some people accuse Jeb Bush of rigging Florida 2000 by purging voter rolls of innocent voters on the pretext of them being convicted felons from out - of - state, when in fact they were not.

Bangladesh has been under intense pressure after two leading gay rights activists were hacked to death, the latest in a series of chilling attacks on intellectuals, writers and religious minorities for which only a handful of people have been convicted.

With the UN's road safety week and the government's consultation on a new victims» code coming to a close, Mark Spencer, MP for Sherwood, addresses sentences for people convicted for road traffic offences on Thursday.

On the vast lawn of the plaza near the courthouse in Brooklyn where Peter Liang, a former NYPD officer, was convicted in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man just over a week ago, a crowd of several thousand people gathered on Saturday in Liang's supporOn the vast lawn of the plaza near the courthouse in Brooklyn where Peter Liang, a former NYPD officer, was convicted in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man just over a week ago, a crowd of several thousand people gathered on Saturday in Liang's supporon Saturday in Liang's support.