Sentences with phrase «conviction against»

The moral conviction against porn remains strong, but there is also sympathy for its consumers.

Once you have been convicted of a specific traffic violation, the VA Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) places the conviction against your report and assigns you driving points which vary based on the severity of the offense.

A drunk driving conviction against the intoxicated driver will help you achieve a sense of justice, but it will not compensate you for your injuries and losses.

The conviction against Kazenelson arose from the events of December 24, 2009, when the scaffolding on which six men were working collapsed, killing four of the men and severely injuring the fifth.

It would shock informed members of the public to enter a conviction against Mr. Bellusci for having uttered verbal threats recklessly provoked and unlawfully punished by the prison guard to whom the threats had been made.

In the alternative, the Crown attempts to secure a conviction against the Respondent on the included offence of care or control over 80.

While charges against Mr. Fogle are still pending, the District Attorney has said publicly he does not anticipate trying to secure another conviction against Mr. Fogle.

-- Courts often seal material, both temporarily and permanantly — Persons can apply for pardons, reversing previous convictions — the Supreme Court recently reversed a contempt conviction against the CBC, for not removing archival copies of information about a case for which a publication ban was ordered.

However since many game developers release a variety of unique preorder bonuses that tempt people into buying them (IE: I preordered Total War Warhammer 2 and got Norsca DLC for «Free») that largely becomes irrelevant because people want the goodies more than they have conviction against preordering.

I think people can really only judge your level of analysis & conviction against whether you actually own a stock — and, of course, by how much stock you own!

Scoring a conviction against Skelos, who is currently on trial, in addition to Silver, would solidify Bharara's legacy, but taking on shady Albany politicians is just one feather in his cap.

A bevy of high - profile supporters are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out the public corruption conviction against former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell (R), McDonnell's team announced Monday.

A New York state appeals judge upheld a conviction against former Goldman Sachs programmer Sergey Aleynikov on Thursday — likely...

Now Bharara is looking for a similar conviction against the former head of the Senate, Dean Skelos — who's also on trial for corruption.

The meeting came on the one - year anniversary of Bharara's winning a corruption conviction against former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, indicating that Bharara was trying to highlight his successes to keep his job.

In July 2014, Bharara landed a bribery conviction against Councilman Dan Halloran (R - Queeens), who allegedly tried to finagle state Sen. Malcolm Smith (D - Queens) onto the Republican ballot for mayor in 2013.

The EFCC had on March 6 secured a conviction against the ex-governor who was arraigned before an Adamawa State High Court on 17 charges bordering on award of contract without due process to the tune of N167.8 m.

In July, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, and this week the corruption conviction against former Senate Masjority Leader Dean Skelos was also vacated.

The family and supporters of Akai Gurley said they are outraged that the prosecutor who got a felony manslaughter conviction against the police officer who shot and killed the unarmed Brooklyn resident is now recommending the shooter serve no jail time.

Fliedner was also the prosecutor who won a manslaughter conviction against NYPD cop Peter Liang for the 2014 accidental shooting of Akai Gurley in a darkened housing - project stairwell.

«In my opinion there is insufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction against any person identified in the New York Times article.

Even amid intraparty warfare among New York Democrats, ongoing questions about Cuomo's ethics in light of a corruption conviction against his former aide and a gubernatorial run from «Sex and the City star» Cynthia Nixon, Molinaro would still have to run against an incumbent.

Even securing a successful conviction against men who upload the images is difficult.

How can any Christian argue with much conviction against capital punishment if God effects his purpose in such an unwaveringly bloody way?

I think that about the only conviction against Gay marriage comes from traditonal bible teaching homes.

Prosecutors failed to get a conviction against Democratic Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina on charges that he received illegal contributions and falsified documents to pay for the silence of his pregnant mistress as he campaigned for president in 2008.

Tyler's petition for clemency argued that if he were charged today prosecutors probably wouldn't have used his prior convictions against him.

Pongsak's lawyer notes that his sentence has broken the record for Thailand's convictions against the country's harsh lèse - majesté rules, which makes it illegal to defame Thai royalty.

My convictions against many of their ideas, and those of many other bands I used to love, was much greater than my appreciation of the music.

If you don't have the stomach to hold on to your convictions against all odds, then you have no convictions at all.

Bharara, the prosecutor who has already won convictions against former Senate leader Dean Skelos and Assembly leader Sheldon Silver, has issued subpoenas for records related to the Buffalo Billion projects, state contracts with COR Development for Central New York projects, and for a controversial energy project in Orange County, among other things.

Yet the initial surge of «Buffalo Billion» investment was clouded last year by federal indictments in a «pay - to - play» investigation led by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, whose office had registered high - profile corruption convictions against former state Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver and former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

In the following four years, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara won convictions against or guilty pleas from former senators Dean Skelos, Carl Kruger, Hiram Monserrate, Malcolm Smith, Nick Spano and Tom Libous, as well as former Assembly members Sheldon Silver, Eric Stevenson, Nelson Castro and Gabriela Rosa.

Bharara's prosecutors won corruption convictions against Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Democrat, and Senate Leader Dean Skelos, a Republican, before both were granted new trials.

In his seven years on the job, Christie truly shone, amassing a staggering record of convictions against public officials.

Katko also won convictions against Schenectady police officers on corruption charges.

HARTFORD — The Chief State's Attorney's office asked the state Supreme Court on Tuesday to reinstate 5 - year - old corruption convictions against former Hartford Mayor Eddie A. Perez — exposing Perez to a prison sentence if the high court agrees.A Superior...

A consistent pattern from the convictions against sitting lawmakers has been their use of public office for private gain.

Bharara prosecuted and won convictions against several members of the New York City Council for misappropriating funds from non-profits they controlled through discretionary «slush funds.»

United States Attorney Preet Bharara, who prosecuted both cases, has now won convictions against 11 lawmakers in the past six years.

Bharara — who already has won corruption convictions against former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos since Cuomo disbanded the Moreland Commission on corruption at the state Capitol — also declined to say if investigators had interviewed the governor as part of the continuing probe.

Silver aside, Bharara has won convictions against some of New York's most notorious white collar villains, corrupt politicians and international terrorists, including ex-NY Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and al Qaeda terrorist Khalid Al - Fawwaz.

In the same vein, the Commission has charged to court and secured convictions against a number of lawyers.

But Mr. Bharara's prosecutors won major convictions against terrorists like Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, a son - in - law of Osama bin Laden and one of his spokesmen; Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, the first Guantánamo detainee to be tried in the civilian system; and Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani immigrant who in 2010 tried to detonate a car bomb in Times Square.

She has achieved several impressive criminal convictions against animal abusers.

Medical science was not damaged by the RICO Act convictions against the tobacco industry and no one was jailed for disagreeing that tobacco is harmful.

As a result, the Court of Appeal quashed all convictions against the defendant and ordered a new trial.

Second, the convictions against Korematsu and Hirabayashi were overturned in the 1980s based on evidence being possibly concealed by the government.

In Newman, the Second Circuit vacated convictions against two tippees, Todd Newman and Anthony Chiasson, based upon a finding that a tippee may only be held criminally liable if he or she knew that the tipper provided information in exchange for a personal benefit and that benefit represented «at least a potential gain of a pecuniary or similar nature.»

Mr. Christiansen's convictions were set aside; the Crown «appropriately conceded» that, if the general warrant is found to be invalid (and if the evidence obtained as a result of that warrant were excluded) the convictions against Mr. Christiansen could not stand.