Sentences with phrase «earlier conviction»

The Armed Career Criminal Act provides that if a person is convicted of a crime involving the use of a firearm and the individual has three or more earlier convictions for a «serious drug offense» or a «violent felony,» the prison term is a minimum of 15 years and a maximum of life.
Two former powerful leaders in the state, ex — Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Democrat, and ex — Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, a Republican, are scheduled to be retried on corruption charges this year after early convictions were thrown out.
The key word in that paragraph is «likely,» and Cabranes and his colleagues said that they couldn't in their right mind conclude that Silver's earlier convictions for extortion, money laundering, and so - called «honest services» fraud were likely to stand.
Two former powerful leaders in the state, ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Democrat, and ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, a Republican, are scheduled to be retried on corruption charges this year after early convictions were thrown out.
It came crashing down hard on Friday as a federal judge in Manhattan sentenced Ulbricht to serve the rest of his life in prison, following his earlier conviction on seven charges related to conspiracy, narcotics and money - laundering.
It is also among the black Africans of ancient Egypt that one finds the earliest conviction that God can be manifest and revealed in human incarnations.
«4 However, these early convictions faded and Whitehead became doubtful and uncertain.
Two of three judges hearing an appeal of a London imam's terrorism conviction have criticized how an American jury was told about his earlier convictions in England.
Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver faces a new trial on public corruption charges, after his earlier conviction was overturned on appeal.
Bruno is facing a second trial for federal corruption charges, after an earlier conviction was vacated due to a Supreme Court decision.
Silver, who would become the longest - serving speaker in state history next year, has survived previous ethical scandals, including widespread complaints over his handling of sexual harassment charges against former Assemblyman Vito Lopez and the earlier conviction of his top aide, Michael Boxley, on a charge of sexual misconduct.
Mr. Silver, the once powerful Assembly speaker in New York, is being retried on public corruption charges, after an early conviction was overturned.
He suspects the minister was pushed by a higher authority to beat a retreat on his earlier conviction to grant access to Exton Cubic Limited into the forest of Nyinahin to mine.
Despite my early conviction that this job and parenting were incompatible, it has worked out okay... quite well, in fact.
The «B» story could have used some work (it's a Disney princess story, almost verbatim), and it ultimately lacks the courage of its early convictions, but it is still a wildly entertaining movie.
His earlier conviction for plotting the demise of Planet Earth (see Act I) was overturned by the Supreme Court, and a retrial ordered.
Livingston, the founder and CEO of Kik, a chat app used by 15 million people monthly, never shook his early conviction.
After being arrested and convicted, Hodgson was in the process of appealing to the Minnesota Supreme Court when Roe v. Wade was decided, overturning her earlier conviction.
Also, we found that aside from the more recent conviction that the guy had an earlier conviction in another state.
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