Sentences with phrase «defendants are in jail»

And (3) a lot of criminal defendants are in jail while their case is being negotiated and are desperate to get out.

Not exact matches

A Christian MP has said the there is «serious problem in the criminal justice system» after a report found ethnic minority defendants are more likely to be jailed for some crimes than white people.

The new rules will allow local defendants currently jailed for failure to appear in court for a traffic - related violation, to be released while new court dates are set.

There are thousands of defendants across the country in jail right now because they can't make even minimal bail amounts.

Question topics during a post-announcement Q&A included the surprise resignation of Joe Percoco, the extensive list released today of New York endorsers of Hillary Clinton and Mayor Bill de Blasio's absence from that list, whether he supports de Blasio's call for changes to bail in light of the killing of Police Officer Randolph Holder, «felony drug dealers» being offered treatment instead of jail time, dealing with homeless people in the subway and rail systems, details of his executive order extending anti-discrimination laws to transgender people, Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch's departure and rules and laws around criminal defendant drug diversion programs.

The proposals include the elimination of pretrial detention for low - level offenses; setting a speedy trial requirement to keep people from being held in jail for months awaiting trial; and changing discovery rules to allow defendants access to all evidence before making a plea.

Authorities say all six defendants were arraigned Sunday in Binghamton City Court and taken to the Broome County Jail without bail.

Judges» reliance on commercial bail bonds, a routine practice in the U.S. that is uncommon or illegal in most other countries, is a significant reason that NYC spends $ 10 million each year to jail thousands of defendants who post bail within a few days and are released, according to Comptroller Scott Stringer, who wants it ended.

If it wasn't for the media exposing them the defendants in those cases would be sitting in jail.

Gonzalez also touted a new initiative that allows eligible drug dependent defendants to be «diverted from jail and straight into treatment in lieu of prosecution.»

Months after the de Blasio administration promised it would be operational, New Yorkers still don't have a way to pay bail online, an oversight that advocates contend results in unnecessary jail time for defendants.

Lawyers for Tawana R. Wyatt, mother of the late India Cummings, name 11 defendants in alleging that jail officials and medical professionals failed to properly care for Cummings, who was 27 years old when rushed from her cell to Buffalo General Medical Center for an unspecified «medical event» on Feb. 17, 2016.

He has also hinted at jail sentences, which presumably would fall on the Speaker of the Arizona House and the president of the Senate, who are intervenors in the suit, and the superintendent, who is a named defendant.

Key questions for reform include whether the state holds too many defendants in jail pending trial and whether bail is an equitable form of pretrial release.

The vast majority of defendants in Orleans Parish who are released from jail under financial conditions purchase bail bonds.

Defendants convicted of dogfighting could be sentenced to up to two years in jail.

But experience in the US, where DPAs have a long history, may suggest otherwise: few individual defendants are ever prosecuted following a DPA, fewer still ever go to jail.

The district attorney had compiled the documents in connection with an inquiry into complaints that the judge was unfairly holding a drug - court defendant in jail.

Low - income families must fight these battles on their own because — despite the fact that civil cases can result in people going to jail, or losing their home, health care, custody of their children or sense of safety — there is no right to an attorney in civil legal proceedings as there is for criminal defendants.

Before the new law was in place, friends and family would post bail money and pick up their defendants from jail.

In a probation case, the defendant is found guilty (i.e. convicted) and sentenced to a period of time in jail or prison; however, the jail time or prison time is «probated» or suspended, meaning put on holIn a probation case, the defendant is found guilty (i.e. convicted) and sentenced to a period of time in jail or prison; however, the jail time or prison time is «probated» or suspended, meaning put on holin jail or prison; however, the jail time or prison time is «probated» or suspended, meaning put on hold.

However, they confirm that the courts will impose jail terms where lesser penalties have not deterred the defendant or where the court believes a monetary penalty is insufficient in the circumstances.

Earlier this week, Scott Greenfield at Simple Justice posted here about a criminal defendant who nearly spent 30 years in jail for conviction on a murder charge that had previously been dismissed.

Changes in the status of the defendant, if he / she is being held in a jail or a correctional facility

A defendant who, at the request of the Commonwealth, appeared for his trial in jail attire and shackles should have been permitted to ask the jury during voir dire if his attire biased them.

Over 20 percent of prison and jail inmates in the United States are currently awaiting trial, but little is known about the impact of pretrial detention on defendants.

The defendant was sentenced to eight to ten years in jail.

Indigent defendants are sitting in jail longer.

Very few tortious claims involve intentional assaults, as here, and even fewer arise out of offences that are so serious that the defendant is put in jail for life, thereby in essence creating the very circumstances causing the claimant not to pursue the claim originally for damages,» he says.