Sentences with phrase «court convicts a person»

454 (1) If a court convicts a person for a contravention of a by - law of the City or of a local board of the City without proof of the by - law, another court hearing a motion to quash the conviction may dispense with such proof or may permit the by - law to be proved by affidavit or in such other manner as it considers appropriate.

Not exact matches

(CNN)- A court in southwestern China has given heavy sentences to two ethnic Tibetans convicted of murder for «inciting» people to set themselves of fire, state media reported Thursday.

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....

Pinting to possibility of a mitigated punishment, Egbert Faibille advised the convicted persons to file an application in court and ask that the judges give them the chance to «go and purge themselves of contempt».

The Registrar of the court in which a compulsory treatment order or any order under section 24 or 34 of the Criminal Procedure (Mentally Impaired Persons) Act 2003 is made or in which any person is convicted of a corrupt practice must, not later than the fifth day of the month following the date of the order or conviction, forward to the Electoral Commission a certificate showing --

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville), the driving force behind passage of the landmark Buster's felony animal cruelty law to protect people and pets, today is blasting the shocking decision by Nassau County Supreme Court Judge Angelo Delligatti to free a convicted animal torturer potentially putting public safety and the well being of companion animals at risk.

This afternoon the House of Lords will debate Chris Grayling's final, and arguably, most controversial legacy: the criminal courts charge — a fixed and mandatory fee which applies to every person who pleads guilty or is convicted of any offence.

For the past century the probation service has worked with people in court for sentencing, people who are convicted and given community sentences and people coming out of long prison sentences.

This legislation enables a court to convict people if it deemed a message to be «grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character».

Edigbue told the court that the convict broke in and stole some items and damaged properties worth N250, 000 belonging to four persons.

He however regretted that the Federal Government by its actions against his person had convicted him in the court of public opinion even when his own side of the story has not been heard as demanded by the Constitution of the Federal Republic Nigeria.

The Assembly measures would keep firearms out of the hands of people deemed by courts to be a danger to themselves or others, set a 10 - day waiting period for delivery of a gun to a person who hasn't cleared a background check instead of the current three - day period, and prevent people convicted of domestic violence from buying a firearm.

While a President Trump would be able to appoint an Attorney General and fire that person if they failed to convict Hillary Clinton, just as Nixon sought to fire the special investigator investigating him, no President has direct control over the Court system or criminal proceedings.

Article 14 (1) Every person shall be entitled to his personal liberty and no person shall be deprived of his personal liberty except in the following cases and in accordance with procedure permitted by law; Article 19 (1) A person charged with a criminal offence shall be given a fair hearing within a reasonable time by a court; Article 19 (11) No person shall be convicted of a criminal offence unless the offence is defined and the penalty for it is prescribed in a written law; Article 19 (12) Clause (11) of this article shall not prevent a Superior Court from punishing a person for contempt of itself notwithstanding that the act or omission constitution the contempt is not defined in a written law and the penalty is not so prescribed; and Article 126 (2) The Superior Courts shall be superior courts of record and shall have the power to commit for contempt to themselves and all such powers as were vested in a court of record immediately before the coming into force of this constitucourt; Article 19 (11) No person shall be convicted of a criminal offence unless the offence is defined and the penalty for it is prescribed in a written law; Article 19 (12) Clause (11) of this article shall not prevent a Superior Court from punishing a person for contempt of itself notwithstanding that the act or omission constitution the contempt is not defined in a written law and the penalty is not so prescribed; and Article 126 (2) The Superior Courts shall be superior courts of record and shall have the power to commit for contempt to themselves and all such powers as were vested in a court of record immediately before the coming into force of this constituCourt from punishing a person for contempt of itself notwithstanding that the act or omission constitution the contempt is not defined in a written law and the penalty is not so prescribed; and Article 126 (2) The Superior Courts shall be superior courts of record and shall have the power to commit for contempt to themselves and all such powers as were vested in a court of record immediately before the coming into force of this constitCourts shall be superior courts of record and shall have the power to commit for contempt to themselves and all such powers as were vested in a court of record immediately before the coming into force of this constitcourts of record and shall have the power to commit for contempt to themselves and all such powers as were vested in a court of record immediately before the coming into force of this constitucourt of record immediately before the coming into force of this constitution.

A former Nassau County resident convicted of a misdemeanor in the 1980s became the first person to have his criminal record sealed by a Long Island court under a new state law aimed at giving nonviolent offenders a clean slate.

The program is also aimed at sending people convicted of certain gun crimes to federal court, where they face longer sentences in distant prisons.

They are done because you have evidence, the people who breached the law and thereby caused damage to the public interest... Strong evidence of wrong doing which a court of law can reliably use to convict,» he said.

This is the government that has taken people that are known as its supporters and sent to court, they went through due process, they were convicted and they were sentenced.

Backing his claim with Article 13 of the Constitution which says «no person shall be deprived of his life intentionally except in the exercise of the execution of a sentence of a court in respect of a criminal offence under the laws of Ghana of which he has been convicted,» the caucus leader and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs said, «I do not think that the constitution, in so far as a matter is criminal, frowns upon the use of force to the extent that it may even deprive some other people of their lives.

In a verdict that U.K. scientists see as a turning point in efforts to protect animal researchers against illegal attacks, a British court yesterday convicted four people of conspiring to blackmail companies that supply an animal testing laboratory.

Yet American courts continue to convict people who are likely innocent of the crime.

If used in court, these tools could vastly reduce the number of people convicted of crimes they didn't commit.

Witnesses in court will usually tell what they see or remember as the truth — but how many innocent people have been convicted based on the testimony of a sincere and objective bystander who is, unwittingly, mistaken?

The Court of La Unión de Tres Ríos made a major ruling in favor of animal welfare in Costa Rica after convicting a person for breeding dogs in an illegal breeding facility, or puppy mill.

While the whole mess is completely ridiculous, as Noriega is a convicted war criminal and murderer who's reputation could not possibly be any worse, the people at Activision still have to defend themselves and thus have motioned for the lawsuit to be dismissed in a California court of law.

Merely being suspicious may not convict anyone in a court of law, but in the court of public opinion Abraham Lincoln's statement kicks in, «You can fool some of the people some of the time...»

Originally, if a person of sufficient social standing in a community walked into a court and told the judge that you confessed your crime last night, you would be convicted on the good character of the witness (him being a Duke, and all).

Ultimately, the defendant was convicted and appealed, arguing that the «trial court's remarks during voir dire trivialized the reasonable doubt standard, diluted the concept of reasonable doubt and lowered the People's burden of proof, constituting structural error.»

Twelve people were convicted by a French court for participation in a scheme to pass off some sort of fermented, grape - derived liquid as Pinot Noir from the Languedoc - Rousillon region of France.

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.

(1) Subject to s. 487.053, if a person is convicted, discharged under s. 730 or, in the case of a young person, found guilty under the Young Offender's Act, c. Y 1 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, or the Youth Criminal Justice Act, of a designated offence, the court

The new evidence should have been accepted by the Ontario Court of Appeal because it raised the very real possibility that a young person had been tried and convicted by a court that had no jurisdiction as a result of hisCourt of Appeal because it raised the very real possibility that a young person had been tried and convicted by a court that had no jurisdiction as a result of hiscourt that had no jurisdiction as a result of his age.

14 This was an important consideration in the context of that case which dealt with whether a person whose driver's licence was suspended by the province could be convicted under the Criminal Code of driving while disqualified, as it was then worded, for driving in a parking lot which the court held did not require a licence.

Justice Coady of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia reviewed the law and the legal requirements for a convicted person to be found not criminally responsible.

If the Minister is satisfied that those matters provide a reasonable basis to conclude that a miscarriage of justice likely occurred, the Minister may grant the convicted person a remedy and return the case to the courts — a referral of the case to a court of appeal to be heard as a new appeal, or a direction for a new trial.»

The Delaware Supreme Court reviewed the question of whether a person can be convicted of carrying a concealed weapon in his own home.

Another aspect that we can point to as a challenge is the change of understanding in our Supreme Court regarding when a convicted person must start serving their sentences.

No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.

Human Rights — Privacy — Retention of fingerprints and DNA samples S and another v United Kingdom (App Nos 30562 / 04 and 30566 / 04) European Court of Human Rights, 4 December 2008 The blanket and indiscriminate nature of the powers of retention of fingerprints, cellular samples and DNA profiles of persons suspected but not convicted of offences constitutes a violation of Art 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights

But there's still no assurance that junk science won't be used in court to convict an innocent person of an arson - related offense.

A commitment order can be imposed against «a person of unsound mind» deemed to be dangerous who has been convicted in the criminal courts and served a sentence for certain types of sexual offence.

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.

It is regrettable, but true, that many people being convicted in the Magistrates» Courts — particularly where their case has been funded by legal...

When a person is in trouble with the law and they are convicted of a drug crime, they may be able to obtain alternative sentencing through drug court instead of being incarcerated.

The Supreme Court has upheld a tribunal decision that a school acted reasonably in dismissing a head teacher who did not disclose her relationship with a person convicted of making indecent images of children.

According to previous case law of the Constitutional Court, the right to a fair trial in the Spanish Constitution requires that, if a person has been convicted in his absence, a surrender for the execution of that conviction must be made conditional on the right to challenge the conviction in order to safeguard that person's rights of defence, even if he had given power of attorney to a lawyer who effectively represented him at the trial (paras 20 and 22).

(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.

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.»

The court ruled that because we had a motor vehicle statute that requires drivers to show licenses on demand, the absence of such a statutory requirement meant a person could not be convicted of interfering with a police officer for failure to produce a license...»

It may be morally offensive or whatever, but to label a procedure whereby a person is tried and convicted in a court of law, gets numerous appeals and who is put to death in a manner that at least is designed to be painless «barbaric» is to stretch the meaning of «barbaric» beyond its breaking point.