Sentences with phrase «decision after sentencing»

The accused's lawyer has indicated that she will appeal Chief Justice Joyal's decision after sentencing.

Not exact matches

The Prime Minister warned any club thinking of allowing a man to return to work after serving his jail sentence to «weigh the decision very carefully due to the position of footballers as role models,» an opinion that was seemingly echoed around the country.

Nearly 10 years after Cuomo, a staunch opponent of the death penalty, had left office, Smith authored the 2004 decision that ended the practice in New York, taking issue with the state's sentencing guidelines.

Ex-state Sen. John Sampson will finally be sentenced Jan. 18 — after exhausting one last bid for a retrial under a recent Supreme Court decision.

Though previously sentenced to 12 years in prison, Silver appealed his 2015 conviction after a landmark Supreme Court decision changed the definition of what constitutes «official acts» by politicians in corruption cases.

Just nine days after hearing oral arguments, the Court produced a two - sentence per curiam decision based on a 4 — 4, but unidentified, split.

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The case is Dillon v. United States, and at issue is the question of whether the federal sentencing guidelines are binding or only advisory when defendants who were originally sentenced before the decision in United States v. Booker are resentenced pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 3582 (c)(2), after the guidelines applicable to the offense in question are changed.

I am home from the terrific Miami FSG conference (kudos to everyone involved), and on the way I was thinking about Judge Rakoff's decision this past week to give an enormous variance — the largest I have seen — to a corporate president who apparently faced a life sentence under the guidelines after a fraud conviction that resulted in $ 260 million in losses (basics here).

The sentencing hearing occurs after the trial and before the judge issues his or her sentencing decision.

Mrs. Anderson was charged after the death with vehicular manslaughter and on Monday, Judge Adele Grubbs sentenced her to 3 years in prison for her decisions.

In the Woodward case, the trial judge decided to override the decision after the State presented new evidence during the sentencing hearing.

I do not take lightly the decision to jail a first offender, but after reflection I have determined that the sentence will be 30 days in jail.

As discussed at Sentencing Law Blog, Stallings was sentenced to 188 months of imprisonment just prior to the Booker decision holding mandatory sentencing guidelines unconstitutional, and a few months after the 7th Circuit's ruling reaching the same cSentencing Law Blog, Stallings was sentenced to 188 months of imprisonment just prior to the Booker decision holding mandatory sentencing guidelines unconstitutional, and a few months after the 7th Circuit's ruling reaching the same csentencing guidelines unconstitutional, and a few months after the 7th Circuit's ruling reaching the same conclusion.

Some of the sentences used figures of speech or clichés, depending on one's opinion, such as the idea of «shock waves» [127] running through the community after the decision, and the rejection of a «one - size - fits - all» [128] approach for individual planning.

However, in 1997, after several appeals and a conviction for jury tampering, in a decision that surprised most legal commentators, the sentencing judge found that a 10 - year sentence was «grossly disproportionate» to the offence.

As Emma Schwartz describes in her BLT post, Judge Walton reached his decision only after a difficult deliberation, but ultimately, resorted to strict application of the federal sentencing guidelines:

After the Summers decision, courts in Alberta began granting 1.5 to 1 credit in most sentencing decisions.

Whether someone pleaded guilty or was found guilty after trial there is a route to appeal the sentencing decision usually in situations where they can be shown to be wrong in law or wrong in principle or where it was simply excessive.

In a key sentencing decision handed down this year, the United States Supreme Court held that the Ex Post Facto Clause is violated when a defendant is sentenced under provisions of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines promulgated after he committed the crime and those new provisions result in an increased risk of greater psentencing decision handed down this year, the United States Supreme Court held that the Ex Post Facto Clause is violated when a defendant is sentenced under provisions of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines promulgated after he committed the crime and those new provisions result in an increased risk of greater pSentencing Guidelines promulgated after he committed the crime and those new provisions result in an increased risk of greater punishment.

Whether the Supreme Court uses Gall to broaden or restrict the scope of post-Booker discretion, the decision in Gall is likely to impact greatly how all district courts sentence after Booker.

Not long after I saw the Fourth Circuit's Pauley decision upholding a below - guideline sentence as reasonable, I discovered a similar (though split) Eleventh Circuit ruling in US v. McBride, No. 06 - 16544 (11th Cir.

After the decision by the SCC on the subject, the redetermination by the Copyright Board was, in the words of Justice Rothstein, «terse» (as most 1 - sentence decisions tend to be).