Sentences with phrase «earlier convictions for»

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.

His earlier conviction for plotting the demise of Planet Earth (see Act I) was overturned by the Supreme Court, and a retrial ordered.

Not exact matches

-- Michael Scherer spent hours in early February interviewing Joe Arpaio, the former Maricopa County sheriff who had his conviction pardoned by Trump and is now running for Arizona's Senate seat: «Each of the Republicans running for Senate in Arizona this year claims a special bond with President Trump, but only one describes it as a supernatural connection beyond rational explanation.

Early - stage tech companies raise money through a stubbornly analog process — an irony for an industry based on the conviction that computers will upend every aspect of human existence.

Peacock, for example, shrewdly suggests that its shallowness is partly the direct result of early musicians» conviction that Christ's return was imminent.

For myself, certain early formative influences in the early «60s (biblical criticism, Bernard Lonergan's reflections on method and historical consciousness, and the splendid ambience of student days in Rome during the Second Vatican Council) solidified my own sharing in the common conviction that there can be no return to a pre-ecumenical, prepluralistic, ahistorical theology.

A Clackamas County judge turned down a petition Monday for early release while the conviction of Shannon Mae Hickman, a member of the Followers of Christ church, is reviewed by the Oregon Court of Appeals.

In these chapters Paul achieves a transformative rereading of scripture through the lens of the conviction he articulated earlier in Romans 5:8: «God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.»

After all, they had sufficient conviction in their myths to die for them, an act by some early christians that some use to argue for the validity of the jesus death cult.

The conviction of earlier theologians that relatively few are saved rests, I suspect, partly on the assumption that faith in Christ, baptism, and adherence to the Church are necessary conditions for salvation.

Yet one more conviction links the one thousand columns, and in fact dates back to the earlier series of Catholic press columns I wrote from 1979 until 1986: the conviction that the Catholic Church in the United States, for all its difficulties, is more likely to be the «Church in the modern world» envisioned by the Second Vatican Council than any other local Church.

Like the title of the earlier piece, «Faith and Truth,» it reflects my continuing conviction that there are and must be two poles to theological reflection insofar as the claims of Christian faith finally appeal for their credibility to our common experience as human beings.

For people in the earlier stages it looks like you have gone all wishywashy and generally hippy - like, but maybe it is just that some previous ideas and convictions have been jettisoned.

Here lies a reason to return to Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 19671), Freud's early follower and most famous apostate, especially for those of religious conviction.

Earlier this summer we were reminded that the author of the Letter to the Hebrews describes faith as «the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things unseen.»

New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez was ordered to face 18 counts of corruption — dashing his hopes for an early acquittal based on the same Supreme Court decision that overturned convictions for two ex-New York legislative leaders: Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos.

She received an early endorsement from Gov. Andrew Cuomo for the district held by Republican Tom Libous, who was ousted in July following a felony conviction.

«Even where New York Courts have suspended attorneys for substantial periods of time, those cases involve more egregious and ongoing acts of misconduct, as opposed to Mr. Grimm's isolated and singular conviction,» his attorney Annette Hasapidis said in the Manhattan federal court filing from earlier this month.

Monserrate, who represented the district in the early 2000s, was booted from the state Senate after a 2009 misdemeanor assault conviction for slashing his girlfriend.

In the «Affidavit of Sean Swain» he explains the circumstances of his arrest and the injustice of his convictions for murder and aggravated murder in the early 1990's, for acts which he claims were in self - defense.

The conviction is also another victory for Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Manhattan, who successfully convicted former state senator Malcolm Smith earlier this year.

But previous scandals and convictions have failed to dramatically change the state's political culture, and most of the state's most powerful officials — including Silver's successor as Assembly speaker, Carl Heastie, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who said earlier changes had prompted the case against Silver — aren't yet pressing for more reforms.

With former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver getting 12 years in prison on a corruption conviction earlier this month and former Senator John Sampson to be sentenced next week, good - government advocates say the time for reform is now.

Carl Van Vechten & the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black & White By Emily Bernard Yale University Press Hardcover, $ 30.00 372 pages, Illustrated ISBN: 978 -0-300-12199-5 Book Review by Kam Williams «This book is a portrait of a once - controversial figure... a white man with a passion for blackness... [who] played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance... come to understand itself... Carl Van Vechten has been viewed with suspicion... [as] a racial voyeur and sexual predator, an acolyte of primitivism who misused his black artist friends and pushed them to make art that fulfilled his belief in racial stereotypes... While his early interest in blackness was certainly inspired by sexual desire and his fascination with what he perceived as black primitivism, these features were not what sustained his interest... More important [was] his conviction that blackness was a central feature of Americanness... Van Vechten's enthusiasm for blacks may have catapulted many careers, but at what cost to the racial integrity of those artists, and to the Harlem Renaissance as a whole?

The dialogue, at times somewhat contrived, is delivered with conviction by all, save for Farrow, whose early recitation feels rather strained.

One of the year's obviously baity titles (which screened as early as the first quarter of the year for some) is Tony Goldwyn's «Conviction» (formerly «Betty Anne Waters»).

In the upcoming ABC drama Conviction, which is airing early next week, Atwell plays a former (and fictional) First Daughter named Hayes Morrison who rather reluctantly teams up with the Conviction Integrity Unit, a group that examines cases for potential wrongful convictions.

His courage of conviction in the early 2000s as he and fellow board members pursued unitary status for Aldine ISD following a 40 - year court - mandated desegregation order framed the next 10 years of his journey as a reform leader.

A $ 9,500 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who dragged, beat and shot an Australian shepherd earlier this month in North Carolina.

The event was announced early last week — when Microsoft noted that Project Natal as well as Alan Wake, Crackdown 2, Fable III, Halo: Reach, Splinter Cell: Conviction, Final Fantasy XIII, Xbox Live's Game Room and new content for Left 4 Dead 2 will making appearances — and will take place next Thursday, on February 11.

Fans of Splinter Cell will be happy to hear that Ubisoft have just announced a Limited Collectors Edition for Conviction, set to contain: A Sam Fisher statue Steel book case Infiltration Mode: eliminate all enemies without being detected Shadow Armour Early access to 3 weapons: the sc300, SR2 and MP5 -LSB-...]

The reason for the game going silent after its original announcement back in the summer of ’08 was given by CEO Yves Guillemot early last year; the company has been «totally re-engineering the product» on the Splinter Cell: Conviction game engine.

A demo for Splinter Cell: Conviction hit Xbox Live Marketplace today and I decide to take an early lunch to check it out.

Those responsible for its conviction (including Al Gore, in an early manifestion of his messiah complex) escaped censure, so firmly had the post-enlightenment narrative taken hold.

A recent post discusses the conviction of Heartland Institute science director Jay Lehr for defrauding the EPA in the early 1980s.

Richard P. Adelson, 40, faced as much as life in prison for his conviction earlier this year on conspiracy and securities fraud charges for joining a plot to hide financial problems at Impath Inc., a provider of cancer information services...

Expungement: As mentioned earlier, California has very liberal expunction laws, so after a waiting period, many people are able to remove criminal convictions from their records and keep them hidden, at least for most purposes.

Federal prosecutors previously asked St. Eve, who presided over Black's four - month trial earlier this year, to sentence the silver - haired press lord to federal prison for as long as 24 years for his July 13 convictions on three counts of mail fraud and one count of obstruction of justice.

Unlock, the UK's leading charity for people with convictions, has today published research on the impact of criminal records acquired in childhood and early adulthood.

Between the early 1960s and late 1980s, the conviction rates for judge and jury was roughly the same; the 20 years before that, judges actually convicted much more often than juries.

This distinction between both provisions is important because the possibilities for a conditional surrender regarding convictions in absentia were broader under the old provision, leaving the Spanish Constitutional Court just enough leeway to continue the line of reasoning of its earlier case law.

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.

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