Sentences with phrase «day in prison»

As an obvious example, I suspect that many people would be prepared to spend one day in prison in exchange for never again having to pay taxes.

If it was just a few days in prison it might seem worth it for saving this guy a broken nose, but if it's a couple years, maybe not..

A Brooklyn federal judge last week sentenced former state Sen. Shirley Huntley to a year and one day in prison for stealing taxpayer dollars,?

He gallantly refused, even though they were estranged and headed for divorce, went on trial and was sentenced to 30 days in prison after a trial as tumultuous as one of his later paintings of the Maine coast.

There are many laws that are unquestionably constitutional, but that, over time, might prove to be more onerous than a single day in prison.

Buari's early days in prison went by slowly, punctuated by bouts of anger and self - loathing.

Gillian Gibbons had been sentenced to 15 days in prison by a court in the country over the naming of a teddy bear used in class.

He subsequently joined the party's communications team and made headlines after he was sentenced together with Ken Kuranchie to three days in prison during the 2012 election petition hearing for contempt.

The applicant, Badmus, who was arrested at his Ajipowo hotel residence on August 24 and subsequently remanded in Olokuta Medium Security Prisons on the order of Justice O. O. Akeredolu of the Ondo State High Court, was later arraigned before an Oke - Eda Chief Magistrate's court and granted bail onSeptember 1, after spending eight days in prison custody.

That may be the central paradox of Robert Mitchum — with his heavy lids, infamous marijuana bust (costing him 43 days in a prison farm), and Out of the Past catchphrase «Baby, I don't care,» he's easily mistaken for a sleepwalking star, coasting on languid charisma.

A regional politician in Germany has been sentenced to pay a fine of 1,500 euros or spend 50 days in prison because he allegedly called Thilo Sarrazin, the author of an incendiary book about Muslim immigrants, an «ass.»

Former state senator Shirley Huntley was sentenced to one year and one day in prison for stealing public money meant to go to nonprofit organizations to serve her constituents.

I almost got trampled by a hippopotamus, got shot at a few times and spent 10 days in a prison in Malawi.

The cumulative effect of paying taxes over decades could be far more burdensome than a single day in prison; but is trite that when the government levies a tax, it does not «deprive» an individual of his or her liberty (even allowing for some flexibility in interpreting that term).

In a subsequent interview with the New York Times, he also suggested that he was treated harshly while the bankers who caused the 2007 - 2009 market meltdown never saw a day in prison.

But while Libby himself never served a day in prison, Judith Miller's long career at The New York Times came to an inglorious end.

assuming every single person who spends even one day in prison is raped, I think you might be off by about a factor of 12.

Judge Baugh sentenced Rambold to 30 days in prison, saying that the girl, Cherice Moralzez, was «as much in control of the situation» as her teacher was and that she was «older than her chronological age,» whatever that even means.

On December 21, Farshid Fathi, one noteworthy believer championed by Elam Ministries and Voice of the Martyrs, was released after 1,821 days in prison.

Sentenced to a year and a day in prison, he spent five months in Manhattan's West Street Jail.

«People have found no better thing than this to do for kings at their crowning and for criminals going to the scaffold; for armies in triumph or for a bride and bridegroom in a little country church; for the wisdom of a Parliament or for a sick old woman afraid to die... tremulously, by an old monk on the fiftieth anniversary of his vows; furtively by an exiled bishop who had hewn timber all day in a prison camp; gorgeously for the canonization of St Joan of Arc.»

He stayed in the Premiership and continued his fine form with Birmingham City but was then sentenced to ninety days in prison for drink driving; it didn't affect his form and OPTA statistics showed he came back to finish the 05/06 season with the most amount of crosses in the league.

How could our democratic government, founded on principles of freedom and self - determination, make laws requiring children and adolescents to spend a good portion of their days in prison?

A founding member of the Chi - Lites soul group was sentenced to a year and a day in prison Wednesday for helping several people pay bribes to obtain Dixmoor Park District Police Department badges.

DIXMOOR — A founding member of the Chi - Lites soul group was sentenced to a year and a day in prison Wednesday for helping several people pay bribes to obtain Dixmoor Park District Police Department badges.

The man identified as Paul Schiro, a reputed mob figure, actually was Marshall Thompson, who was sentenced Wednesday to a year and day in prison for helping people pay bribes to obtain Dixmoor Park District Police Department badges.

(Queens Sen. Shirley Huntley was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for siphoning state money she steered to a non-profit she controlled.

Silver was proclaiming his innocence, and the SCOTUS decision in the McDonnell case this week may ultimately prevent Silver, convicted on all seven corruption counts last year, from ever spending a day in prison.

What: Sentenced to one year and one day in prison in 2012 after pleading guilty to a federal tax - evasion charge.

She was sentenced in October 2014 to a year and a day in prison.

She was sentenced to a year and a day in prison in 2013.

For acts considered to be contemptuous of the court, the Federal High Court, Jos, has commited the League Management Company Chairman Shehu Dikko and the Chief Operating Officer Salisu Abubakar to 14 days in prison.

As if pulling a page from a well - worn cliche prison drama, Gonzalez with a laugh revealed that sometime during the course of his five years 7 months and 9 days in prison, he became supervisor of his camp's law library.

On Thursday, a federal judge on Thursday sentenced former Sen. Shirley Huntley, who is African - American, to a year and a day in prison, and her attorney suggested the lawmaker had seen senators carrying suitcases of cash in the state Capitol.

Former state Sen. Shirley Huntley — sentenced yesterday to a year and a day in prison — has turned New York state government into a giant game of Clue.

He faces up to 20 years behind bars, but former state Sen. John Sampson has asked a federal judge to go easy on him by sentencing him to just a year and a day in prison.

A former New York state senator who admitted embezzling nearly $ 88,000 from a state - funded nonprofit she controlled has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison.

Former southeast Queens lawmaker Shirley Huntley leaves Brooklyn federal court after being sentenced to a year and one day in prison.

Former state Sen. Shirley Huntley (c.) leaves Brooklyn federal court after she was sentenced to one year and a day in prison after pleading guilty to fraud.

A 19 - year - old unemployed man, Musa Ali, is to spend the next 90 days in prison for stealing a phone valued at N32, 000...

A first offense is punishable by up to a $ 250 fine or 15 days in prison.

The 74 - year - old former state senator who secretly recorded seven elected officials last summer was sentenced to serve one year and a day in prison for a mail - fraud conviction.

The sentencing of Sampson, who has urged no more than a year and a day in prison, is set for July 20.

If caught going on these secret missions for Stark, Peggy could be targeted as a traitor and spend the rest of her days in prison — or worse.

In 1988, when he was 16, actor Mark Wahlberg spent 45 days in prison for attacking a Vietnamese man.

Joseph Immitt, former assistant director of adult education for the Parsippany - Troy Hills school district, was sentenced to one year and one day in prison.

Sila spends her days in the prison quarry, breaking stones for Cape Town's streets and walls.