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Also, a binder with Complaint and Register of Actions were provided showing convictions on 6 selected cases, including intentional abuse, hoarding, sexual abuse, dog in hot car, and mass commercial dog breeder.

The Vigilante Author: When I write fiction, I wear my convictions on my sleeve, so to speak.

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[28] But when employers are prohibited from asking about prior convictions on a job application, they may illegally attempt to use other observable characteristics — such as race, gender, and age — to infer an applicant's likelihood of having a criminal history.

«The influence of ideological convictions on life satisfaction is not quite as high as, for example, personality or social relations.

Blagojevich was found guilty last week of lying to the FBI, but escaped convictions on 23 other counts in a trial seen as a partial victory for the former governor.

In District 21, where Council Member Julissa Ferreras - Copeland is stepping down at the end of her current term, two Democrats are facing off in the primary: Assemblymember Francisco Moya and Hiram Monserrate, a disgraced former state Senator and Council member who is attempting a comeback after a checkered recent past that includes separate criminal convictions on fraud and assault charges.

A proposed bill by Common Council Majority Leader Demone Smith would prohibit employers from requiring job seekers to disclose any criminal convictions on their application.

Schumer called the bill a critical first step in the fight against heroin and opioids, expanding the availability of naloxone — also known as narcan — to law enforcement and first responders, improving prescription drug monitoring programs, shifting resources to identifying and treating incarcerated people suffering from addiction, and prohibiting the Department of Education from questioning students about prior drug convictions on financial aid forms.

A New York federal judge ruled Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son can stay free on bail while appealing their convictions on corruption charges, saying jury instructions in their trial could be flawed in light of a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

He said: «If there is a point at which we have to put party loyalty on one side and national interest and our own convictions on the other, then the national interest is going to win.»

For a state capitol that began the legislative session shellshocked by the convictions on corruption charges of two of its most powerful leaders, Sheldon Silver and Dean G. Skelos, the most significant action was perhaps the pension - forfeiture measure, which had fizzled last year.

Since then, New York has seen a governor, Eliot Spitzer, depart office in a prostitution scandal and a steady lineup of state lawmakers departing their jobs because of convictions on everything from bribery to theft of state grants to embezzlement or, in what appears to be a reliable failing in Albany, sexual harassment of staff members.

At 10:25 a.m., Brian Lehrer will interview US Attorney Pret Bharara about the recent convictions on federal corruption chafes of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam; WNYC.

«Today, we are a state that is transformed and once again the progressive capital of the world,» Cuomo continued, failing to mention the convictions on corruption charges of the former leaders of the «progressive» capital's Legislature, the state's bottom - of - the - barrel rating as a place to do business, and the state's massive population losses — more than 500,000 people since he took office.

Bharara did not mention the two convicted legislative leaders by name, though he referred to their recent convictions on multiple felony charges.

The operator of the boat, Keir Weimer, was drunk at the time of the incident and had two drunken driving convictions on his record.

Both are facing new charges after their convictions on fraud and corruption were overturned last year based on a narrowed definition of theft of honest services.

The other lot don't have the courage of their convictions on this — they're saying nothing at all.

Setting aside my personal convictions on the issue, the need for a debate on the death penalty is highly questionable.

Joe Percoco, the disgraced former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, will be able to cash in once again on his time in government and collect his pension — despite three felony convictions on corruption charges.

Republican former Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son Adam are due in court this morning to be sentenced following their December convictions on corruption charges.

During this current pregnancy I have not been able to make every moment healthy, tranquil, and peaceful for our growing LF # 5 despite my strong convictions on the subject, my personal commitment to «practicing what I preach», or the knowledge I have from my many trainings or certifications.

Fortunately, there are steps the AP parent can take to both reduce the amount of criticism received and reinforce their own convictions on the matter.

Lori — your strong voice and even stronger convictions on this topic will, indeed, change the world — one family at a time.

Such people do appear to create a predicament for other people with strongly held convictions on gender issues, don't they?

t just seams wrong to me to push my religious convictions on others, these are the things I do, it's unreasonable to ask others to make that choice.

At stake in the SOGI dispute are the local, state, and federal laws governing whether religious institutions or businesses owned by people of faith must serve LGBT individuals despite their convictions on sexuality and gender.

We have seen in particular how these laws are used by the government in an attempt to compel citizens to sacrifice their deepest convictions on marriage and what it means to be male and female, people who serve everyone, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, but who can not promote messages, engage in expression, or participate in events that contradict their beliefs or their organization's guiding values.

The high court's decision will impact wedding vendors across the country who do not want to service same - sex celebrations because of their religious convictions on marriage.

Or suppose our interest lies in predicting the impact of denominational loyalties and religious convictions on a congressional or presidential election.

In order to see clearly what the issues are let us begin by briefly recalling the bedrock convictions on which all Christian thought is raised as superstructure.

It was an illusion of Horace Mann and the other reformers who shaped our educational system in conscious opposition to «sectarian» schools that a coherent «common» education could be provided by stressing only those convictions on which «men of good will» agreed.

In a widely shared New York Times piece «Death, the Prosperity Gospel, and Me,» the author of Blessed reflected on her research and how it informed her convictions on suffering and faith.

The Utah Supreme Court has reversed Warren Steed Jeffs» two convictions on charges of rape as an accomplice and ordered a new trial, saying instructions given to jurors were erroneous.

We are trying to keep the notion of freedom, especially freedom of speech, while we give up the basic convictions on which freedom depends.

cannabis prohibition is a stumblingblock that causes a person to become desensitized to his convictions on his conscience, and it is our lawful Christian duty to speak against this evil tyranny in our land.

I pretty much judge a person's Christian convictions on how they act and the way they speak.

The confusion in understanding the church's place in God's mission (missio Dei) and the conflicting convictions on God's work in secular history led to the difficulty in identifying what is involved in Christian mission.

Hutchinson, a mother of 15 children, dared to challenge the male Calvinist clergy about whether they were being true to their theological convictions on questions of grace.

But some religiously orthodox wedding vendors are finding themselves compelled by the civil authorities to affirm an answer to that question that violates their religious convictions on the subject, and some religious institutions — from universities to social service agencies to private companies owned by orthodox believers — are finding themselves forced to take part in the enactment and enforcement of a moral code they are obliged to reject.

These positions were consistent with the support for conscientious - objector status, for they felt that removing clergy exemption would force clergy to clearer expression of their convictions on the issue (February 1, 1967).

And this is regardless of my own personal convictions on the subject.

Each time they write a song, poem, novel, or paint a canvas, build a sculpture, or perform in a play, they are revealing their convictions on how Christianity and culture should relate.

However, I have no strong convictions on U.S. equities.

«The schools have reasonably concluded that they are quite likely to become the next target of OCR if they follow their religious convictions on these matters,» said Baylor, whose Christian legal advocacy group has advised some colleges on how to seek the exemptions.

The future of Martha Stewart Living looked to be in serious jeopardy after her 2004 conviction on insider trading charges.

If you have conviction on a particular direction even though there's no consensus, it's helpful to say, «Look, I know we disagree on this but will you gamble with me on it?

The jury convicted all defendants on three counts of mail fraud, and Black nabbed an additional conviction on obstruction of justice.

The former New York congressman is serving a nearly two - year federal prison sentence following his conviction on charges that stemmed from sexting with a 15 - year - old girl.