Sentences with phrase «decades in prison for»

In total, Lorenzo served nearly two decades in prison for a crime he did not commit.

Based on the files of the lawyers who freed them, the podcast features interviews with men and women who have spent decades in prison for crimes they did not commit — some of them having been on death row.

This week, an Illinois man who spent nearly two decades in prison for sexual assault was released after DNA evidence exonerated him.

Plaintiff spent several decades in prison for murder, whose conviction was eventually...

«It is absurd that Zunar is facing potentially decades in prison for a series of tweets.»

«A man who faces decades in prison for his own vast and hidden criminality struck a cooperation deal... in a desperate effort to save himself,» Keating said at the time.

They say their clients were unjustly charged after a lobbyist made up lies to try to escape decades in prison for his crimes.

«The release of Singh's plea confirms what we all knew — a man who faces decades in prison for his own vast and hidden criminality struck a cooperation deal... in a desperate effort to save himself,» said Mangano's attorney, Kevin Keating of Garden City.

Edward Mangano's attorney, Kevin Keating of Garden City, said in a statement, «The release of Singh's plea confirms what we all knew — a man who faces decades in prison for his own vast and hidden criminality struck a cooperation deal, which stunningly included his release on bail, in a desperate effort to save himself.

Nassar, who is named as a co-defendant in the lawsuit, is serving decades in prison for molesting some of the sport's top athletes and others as well as child pornography crimes.

MAY 15, 2018: Today, the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office moved to withdraw all charges against Dontia Patterson — after he served over a decade in prison for a crime he -LSB-...]

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Those who are today 20 or 30 are today planning how they will live afterward,» said the oligarch - turned - dissident, who spent a decade in prison seen as punishment for his political ambitions.

A federal lawsuit filed on behalf of the estate of the late Cleve Heidelberg is asking for over $ 100 - million for the five decades he spent in prison

«Another time, undercover police were following us, and all they needed to put my little drug ring in prison for a decade was a photo of us consuming.

It turns out that Jeffs, 55 and serving a life - plus -20-year prison sentence, is likely to be replaced as head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) in the relative near term, even if he survives for decades to come.

I've seen 18 year old black kids sentenced to 20 years in prison for selling cocaine to adult buyers; these predatory priests should be looking an serious issues of prison time · (measured in decades) while their purple - robed protectors deserved to be confined with them.

Philosophy, theology, and science have been struggling to escape from this prison for many decades now Quantum physics is merely one chapter in this struggle.

She was warden at a female correctional facility before being appointed to run an all - male prison in Marion, Ohio, that was in such poor condition that it had been under federal court monitoring for decades.

Jehoiachin gives himself up and the city is spared destruction for another decade; but the young king spends the next thirty - seven years in Babylonian prison until he is finally released in 561 (see Jer.

Premier Cru Owner Sentenced to Six and a Half Years Behind Bars for Wine Ponzi Scheme John Fox, the wine store proprietor who admitted to conducting a Ponzi scheme for two decades, was sentenced in federal court yesterday to six and a half years in prison...

He was sentenced to up to 175 years in prison for abusing gymnasts and other athletes at Michigan State under the guise of medical treatment for two decades.

«We all know that Shelley Mayer learned her brand of politics at the hip of Malcolm Smith and John Sampson, who were convicted of corruption and sent to prison for their crimes, and she has spent three decades in Albany,» said Senate GOP spokesman Scott Reif.

Successive British governments have battled for more than a decade to deport the cleric, who is wanted in Jordan on terror charges and has been in and out of prison since his first arrest in 2001.»

Last year's outcomes in prisons were the worst for a decade.

Silver, a Manhattan Democrat who has run the Assembly for two decades, was arrested and faces up to 100 years in prison if convicted on all counts.

In the last several weeks, the governor has made multiple moves on criminal justice reform, announcing that he would overhaul solitary confinement in state prisons as well as conditionally pardoning individuals who committed a non-violent felony or misdemeanor at the age of 16 or 17 and have lived a law abiding life for a decadIn the last several weeks, the governor has made multiple moves on criminal justice reform, announcing that he would overhaul solitary confinement in state prisons as well as conditionally pardoning individuals who committed a non-violent felony or misdemeanor at the age of 16 or 17 and have lived a law abiding life for a decadin state prisons as well as conditionally pardoning individuals who committed a non-violent felony or misdemeanor at the age of 16 or 17 and have lived a law abiding life for a decade.

When Dan Walker died last week, it was hard for obituary writers not to note that he was one of four Illinois governors over the past five decades who ended up in prison.

Cornell University has been teaching college classes in Upstate New York prisons for well over a decade.

In the decades ahead there will be pressure to spend more on the essentials - whether that's care for the older generation, equipment for our armed forces, or more prisons and police.

Howe pleaded guilty to eight federal charges, and defense lawyers have argued that he lied on the witness stand to try to escape the potential for decades in prison.

Former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who endured for decades as one of the most powerful figures in state government, was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in federal prison after being convicted in November on multiple corruption charges.

A federal judge approved a sweeping plan to reduce solitary confinement in New York state prisons, saying she hopes the deal to end decades - old practices becomes a model for other states confronting the harmful effects of extreme isolation.

ALBANY — In a Manhattan courtroom, Sheldon Silver, a force who dominated state government for parts of three decades, met his fate Tuesday, sentenced to 12 years in a federal prison for using his position to enrich himselIn a Manhattan courtroom, Sheldon Silver, a force who dominated state government for parts of three decades, met his fate Tuesday, sentenced to 12 years in a federal prison for using his position to enrich himselin a federal prison for using his position to enrich himself.

Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced to 12 years in prison Tuesday, capping a steep fall from grace for a consummate backroom dealer who wielded power for over two decades.

NEW YORK — Sheldon Silver, one of the most powerful New York politicians for two decades, will stand powerless Tuesday afternoon in a Manhattan courtroom before a judge who could effectively send him to prison for the rest of his life.

Mr. Coleman, 65, an attorney and a prominent legislator for decades — currently the chairman of the Judiciary Committee and vice chairman of the Public Safety and Security Committee — has been a strong supporter of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's Second Chance Society reforms that aim to reduce the number of people going to prison and give people in prison second chances at being productive citizens.

We want photos of you sweeping the glitter off the village hall floor; heading out to teach 5 people on a dark evening half an hour's drive away after a long day at work; your piles of philosophy books stacked next to your mat; your tabs of marking for trainees; the scrubby you use on the handstand footprints on the wall; the loose change rattling in the donation box after the PWYC; your studio rent bill; the baby sick on your yoga top after mums and baby yoga; the holes in your favourite decade - old yoga leggings; the charity shop where you buy more; coffee stains on cork blocks and the hospital room where you teach cancer patients; the costume box for your yoga and theatre kids class; your ID badge for prison work; the hug from the student who finally learned to stand on one leg...

So says Hans Feurer, the septuagenarian Swiss lensman, who has turned his admiration for beautiful women into a genre - defining career, all while embracing his irrepressible wanderlust and hunter's sense of adventure, living a life that is the stuff of literature: over the course of five decades, Feurer was almost crushed by a hippopotamus, spent time in a Malawi prison and lived a high - rolling life while working in advertising at the height of one of London's most fabled decades.

How, for instance, does Jean Valjean progress in less than a decade from being a ragged prison escapee to not only a leading industrialist, but also mayor of a good - sized city?

Step inside a «Supermax» in this unflinching exploration of life inside one of America's most notorious prisons where inmates live in 8 X 10 cells, 23 hours a day for months, years and sometimes decades.

They were then forced to leave Virginia (or stay and go to prison), and for the next decade, fought for their right to be able to live together, as husband and wife, anywhere in the country.

Showing once and for all that Burt Reynolds (Smokey and the Bandit, Hooper) can act if he shaves off his moustache, The Longest Yard is a mixture of two genres, the sophomoric sports film and the sadistic prison flick, both of which were enjoying a heyday in the exploitative decade of the 1970s.

The titular crime boss (Shahrukh Khan) has by now conquered the Asian drug trade, which makes him prime target for the kingpins in Europe, who suspect him to have their territory next in his sights — which, of course, he does, and figuring in his plan is an unlikely ally: archenemy Vardhaan (Boman Irani), who had been left to rot in prison in the last half - decade.

Lenny Abrahamson) Escaping from the captivity in which they have been held for half a decade, a young woman and her five - year - old son struggle to adjust to the strange, terrfiying and wondrous world outside their one - room prison.

: For all of the body parts that Stephen King has torn asunder in his numerous books and film adaptations, it's ironic that two of the most beloved movies ever about male bonding come from his book «Different Seasons» — a «Body» that spawned the CSI Our Gang of «Stand By Me,» and the prison breakout that lay behind «Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption,» Wisely shortened to the last three titles by writer - filmmaker Frank Darabont, this 1994 classic of an unbreakable man slowly chiseling his way out of a Maine hellhole over the course of decades stands as not only the most soulful film in an understandably macho prison break genre, but also as a film that many rightfully consider to be one of the best movies ever made.

Escaping from the captivity in which they have been held for half a decade, the mother and child struggle to adjust to the strange, terrifying and wondrous world outside their one - room prison.

Glenny gained rare access to Nem in prison, and through his story, he recounts the battles between police and drug traffickers that have terrorized Brazil's biggest cities for decades.

The series follows WASPy 30 - something Piper Chapman (played by Taylor Schilling) during her 15 month sentence in a minimum - security women's prison for a crime she committed for her ex-girlfriend a decade ago.

Furthermore, prison management companies are awarded long - term contracts spanning years and even decades, making them very similar to utility stocks in that the service is sold on subscription for years and years of guaranteed revenues.

The balcony is one of the biggest attractions for tourists, since it was from here that the late Nelson Mandela spoke to thousands following his nearly three decades in prison.