Sentences with phrase «doing jail time for»

People do not feel threatened by exceptional acts of ethical behavior because they feel exempt from such impossibly high standards, i.e. Mother Teresa helping the poorest of the poor in India and Nelson Mandela doing jail time for leading South Africa out of apartheid.

Russell ends up doing jail time for a fatal car accident, and Rodney is stop - lossed for another tour of duty.

This member of the American elite is ultimately charged with leaving the scene of an accident and given a suspended sentence instead of doing jail time for criminal negligence.

Of course, he also has admitted to driving his truck through several churches and doing jail time for drunk driving, but that just the kind of guy Jesus chooses as his prophet.

The contest pits Moya against Hiram Monserrate, who is trying to make a comeback after he was expelled from the state Senate for slashing his girlfriend's face with glass, and did jail time for stealing city money in a separate fraud case.

The leaders of these systems often do jail time for fraud and then reinvent themselves with other systems.

Not exact matches

I did not know it at the time but Lead Belly had spent time in jail for attempted homicide.

Speaking generally, without naming names, about those responsible for the toxic investment vehicles of the time, Cramer said: «They didn't rob a 7 - Eleven, where they would go to jail.

So while Libby did not end up serving time in jail, he was still on probation for 2 years and paid a fine of $ 250,000.

I don't care if he goes to jail or a psychiatric hospital, regardless, he needs to be put a away for a long, long time.

Or, you could take all that and trade it for the story of someone who slept around, did drugs, got divorced four times, murdered somebody, landed in jail, found Jesus, got paroled, and then became an internally known Christian author and conference speaker even though they lived most of their life with no thought for Jesus.

This is something that has been going on for a very long time... my cousin who is a baha'i, was executed in iran last month after being in jail for 3 month... who knows what they did to her in there....

Such way she should be compensated for her time and the women told lies either jailed, fined, whipped for their wrong doing if proven so.

Tony has admitted to problems with alcohol over the years, and even spent two months in jail for driving whilst four times over the limit, but does his playing career mean he is spared those criticisms?

Not that Mayhem hasn't done some bad things, but there's no reason to think jail time would be good for anyone at this point.

his UFC career is over, he will and should do jail time, he will be sued for multi millions, he will be deported when found guilty..

for one thing Connor's career is finished and I will be surprised if he does not do jail time.

I don't think it's a good idea to penalize grieving parents, but these midwife hacks should go to jail for a loooooong time.

The prime minister said he had decided to give the former News of the World editor, who had edited the tabloid at the time when royal editor Clive Goodman was jailed for phone - hacking, a «second chance» because he had «done the honourable thing» by resigning.

May 2014 Suffolk County Sheriff Vincent DeMarco turns over records to the FBI that indicate then Lt. Edward Walsh — the Suffolk Conservative Party Leader — may have been collecting salary for time he did not work at the county jail.

«What it is doing is allowing us, when someone is sent to the jail for a crime, is to vet them in real time to see if Immigration wants them,» said Sheriff Patrick Russo.

Jailing the 13 - strong gang of baggage handlers, mules and dealers today for a total of 139 years Judge Michael Hopmeier said: «Millions of people use Heathrow each year and depend on the honesty and integrity of baggage handlers to do their job properly, but it is not simply a question of confidence in flight so far as a passenger getting his bag on arrival, but there is a security concern also, particularly in the times we live in.

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.

While the report does not specifically say where the jails would be placed, saying only that there should be one in each of the five boroughs, for a total capacity of 5,500 beds, «located in city centers near or adjacent to courthouses and in close proximity to public transportation,» DNAinfo reported previously that the commission had identified four sites by the time that a presentation on the plan was made to Deputy Mayor Anthony Shorris in March.

But, he struggled for concrete answers at other times, such as when debate panelists asked how he would reform the city's child welfare services to reduce racial disparities or what he would do about the city's jails.

The first was awarded in April, when he still faced the criminal charges and possible jail time; the second was awarded in July, after he had accepted responsibility for the conditions leading to the fatal fire in his lab (but did not plead guilty to criminal charges).

Mr. Dong Pyou Han, an Iowa State University researcher on HIV was found committing fraud and has been convicted by court and jailed to serve time for over 5 years, Mr. Anil Potti seems to have done even greater fraud and have affected the lives of cancer patients serves no time and yet practice the same field.

In the feature, Donaldson effectively compares and contrasts the career trajectories for Mimi Leder, who made her name through her Emmy - winning work on «ER,» directed the one of the top - grossing films of 1998 with «Deep Impact» and then went to «movie jail» and didn't direct another film for nine years after the middling performance of her 2000 family drama «Pay It Forward,» to those of Trevorrow, who made his feature debut with the Sundance hit «Safety Not Guaranteed,» won the choice gig helming «Jurassic World» on director Brad Bird's recommendation and managed steer to the reboot of one of the most popular film franchises of all time to giant box - office success.

After a ridiculous opening stunt involving a jail bus (After flipping multiple times, a news report assures us there were no fatalities, but that doesn't change the fact it's a foolish and insanely risky plan for rescuing someone) and an effective sequence involving a train (A bridge approaches far too slowly for there to be much tension, but it's still the only sequence that has some life in it), the momentum screeches to a halt.

Unfortunately, Polanski is going to have to keep paying for a crime he committed but did not do adequate jail time for — instead, he fled this country.

Michael B. Jordan, of Friday Night Lights, plays Oscar, a young man who's done jail time but who seems eager to get on the right track, not just for his own sake but for that of his girlfriend (Melonie Diaz) and young daughter (Ariana Neal).

He'd done similar, equally compelling work prior to his breakthrough (2009's About Elly stands as arguably his strongest film), but with an increased eye on Middle Eastern cinema in the wake of Kiarostami's Certified Copy and the jailing of the more radical, uncompromising Jafar Panahi, coupled with the film's heart - tugging narrative, A Separation arrived at an opportune time for his country's rise to international cinematic prominence.

Simpson is a former football star and accused murderer, now doing nine years of jail time for robbery and kidnapping; Rodman, another ex-athlete, is a notorious «bad boy» and reality - show eccentric; and RuPaul is a drag - queen performer.

: Debate Over Teacher Evaluation Spawns a New Bad Idea Teachers in Kansas May Soon Face Jail Time for Doing Their Job

«We Were Doing Kids a Disservice»: Former Charter School Teacher Recalls Lack of Oversight and Accountability Teachers in Kansas May Soon Face Jail Time for Doing Their Job Looking to Boycott Koch Brothers» Products?

The last thing you want to do is waste your precious time and money filing a bankruptcy case that will be denied — and you certainly don't want to go to jail for bankruptcy fraud.

All this crap talking about how bad the Pit Bull is, i don't hear anyone talking about putting the owner out of his misery and they don't do any heavy jail time, it's the breed that has to pay for a bad owner and putting the real good pit bulls down is not going to solve the problem, I think all these states are crazy, once you take out all pit bulls another breed will take it's place, what are these states going to do?

If Warren landed in jail, which she did multiple times, someone would watch out for the pet.

Our personal experiences are not so different, except that some places do some things differently, and people not only get fired for too many backups, they get walked out the door without severence, their homes get searched, they may be sued or serve jail time, and if they're in the military, they may serve it in solitary..

I don't imagine that Gleick is going to jail, but he is in for a bad time with the legal system.

Although both had been feminist writers and peace activists living in Brooklyn, NY for many years, playwright Karen Malpede and poet / novelist Jan Clausen didn't know each other very well until they spent a night in jail together following a civil disobedience arrest at the time of the Iraq invasion in 2003, after which they gradually became better acquainted with each other's work.

I mean really, if this was type of thing was done in any other facet of our lives, there would be jail time involved for the perpetrator.

done jail - time for tax issues, when they were harassed by powerful forces for various reasons.

(8) the points made in the conclusion are: (1) consistent with avoiding expenditures on the criminal justice system, the federal attorney general appeared to be neglecting the plight of pre-trial inmates in custody in extremely bad jail conditions, and the provincial attorney general appeared to ignore the needs of prosecutors for greater resources of staff and time in order to work adequately; (2) similarly, the other examples presented also support the proposition that the criminal justice system is inadequately resourced because there are «no votes in justice»; and, (3) the reduction in the safeguards against wrongful convictions caused by the radical changes in procedures made necessary because governments do not provide adequate resources for the criminal justice system;

Brad Clark: Well, a lot of our business is expungement, which are people that have been out of jail, have been out of trouble for five to 10 plus years and so that doesn't apply to that but then as far as like DUIs, there will be some people that do call lawyers that night, you are provided time to call a lawyer when you are arrested for DUI but then there are a lot of people that they bond out the next morning and they're depressed and they're sitting on their couch and they're trying to research things online and that's when the marketing happens, that's when the connection happens, and the client contacts you.

This might depend upon the nature of the evidence at trial - if A did not raise the failure of the prosecution to provide corpus delecti (i.e. a dead body) or the misidentification of an alleged victim's body as a defense and instead, for example, argued an alibi defense (e.g. he was in jail at the time of the alleged shooting).

While it is the role of criminal courts to punish the negligent driver responsible for the accident by revoking their license, issuing fines and even sentencing the drunk driver to jail or prison time, these rulings do nothing to compensate victims and their families for injuries and damages.

There are significant fines and even jail time for a parent who does not keep up with his or her court - ordered payment obligations.

If you want to consider why a federal shield law would be valuable to our society and why it's pretty outrageous that The New York Times» Judith Miller may go to jail for discussing a story with a source that she never wrote but Robert Novak did, I recommend these links from Bob Ambrogi's Media Law blog:

However, there are other ways to get out of jail (besides doing the time), namely having the conviction overturned, being paroled, and credit for good behavior.