Sentences with phrase «evidence at sentencing»

Not exact matches

«The US government acted as police force (identifying the foreign government's crime), prosecutor (making the legal arguments), jury (ruling on the evidence), and judge (sentencing the foreigner to US retaliatory punishment),» Chad Bown, a senior fellow at the pro-free trade Peterson Institute for International Economics, wrote in a memo about Section 301's history earlier in August.

Remanding Price in custody, the judge warned him jail time was evitable and medical evidence would only affect the length of sentence, if at all.

«We look at a whole range of evidence, both what happened in the original offences, the judge's sentencing remarks, the programmes or work a prisoner has done, reports from people who know the prisoner well.

Matt, in the article Dr. Amy says «THERE IS NO EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THOSE CLAIMS»: maybe I'm wrong, but to my non-native understanding, this sentence doesn't necessarily mean «there is no evidence at all», but rather: any evidence there might be, it is not enough to support claims such as «increased medicalization of childbirth may be having severe consequences on the life - long health of our children... What's more, it could be having a devastating effect on the future of our entire speciesEVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THOSE CLAIMS»: maybe I'm wrong, but to my non-native understanding, this sentence doesn't necessarily mean «there is no evidence at all», but rather: any evidence there might be, it is not enough to support claims such as «increased medicalization of childbirth may be having severe consequences on the life - long health of our children... What's more, it could be having a devastating effect on the future of our entire speciesevidence at all», but rather: any evidence there might be, it is not enough to support claims such as «increased medicalization of childbirth may be having severe consequences on the life - long health of our children... What's more, it could be having a devastating effect on the future of our entire speciesevidence there might be, it is not enough to support claims such as «increased medicalization of childbirth may be having severe consequences on the life - long health of our children... What's more, it could be having a devastating effect on the future of our entire species».

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver dodged a prison sentence in 2015 thanks to a U.S. Supreme Court decision redefining public corruption — but experts said he still faces a mountain of evidence at retrial that he used his powerful position for personal gain.

In a shocking verdict that stunned outside observers, she was found guilty despite insufficient evidence and Zweibel sentenced Cecily to 90 days in jail at Rikers Island, along with 5 years of probation.

All five of the men, juveniles at the time they were tried and sentenced, were exonerated when DNA evidence proved another man had committed the crime by himself.

MPs, like so many before them who looked at the evidence, called for an increased use of community sentences.

The government said it wanted to use evidence of the affairs at Mr. Silver's sentencing, most likely to counter testimonials from the defense that he was a man of good character, strong ethics and integrity.

«The number of cases in which people try to introduce neurotechnological evidence in the trial or sentencing phase has gone up by leaps and bounds,» says Joshua Sanes, director of the Center for Brain Science at Harvard University.

«The majority of cases in which we have been able to make these individual links have led to convictions and, in many cases, significant sentences,» says Cindy Harper, a veterinary geneticist at the University of Pretoria in South Africa who began developing the database in 2010 to provide evidence that could be used in legal proceedings.

Noted were pieces of evidence such as: «teacher asked a question and called on a student,» «student glanced down at the sentence stems that were taped to his desk before responding,» and «student said....»

20 November: Guardian: Climate sceptics claim leaked emails are evidence of collusion among scientists by Leo Hickman and James Randerson «It does look incriminating on the surface, but there are lots of single sentences that taken out of context can appear incriminating,» said Bob Ward, director of policy and communications at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics.

There is an implicit warrant, with every sentence you write in a textbook, that «all the evidence we have at this point leaves this in no doubt.»

Your final two sentences are both right and wrong: the vast majority of deniers will not be swayed by evidence of the abstract, scientifically sound type, but will be swayed as the various forms of devastating consequences of inaction arrive at their front doors.

To make matters worse, Berman notes, at Vitrano's sentencing, the government presented evidence that «he sent multiple functioning pipe bombs disguised as a birthday present to his former girlfriend's house.»

Peter Henning at White Collar Crime Prof agrees that district court judges have more power, and says that defendants need to present strong sentencing evidence before the district court.

In addition, the trial judge said that he would have arrived at the same conclusion on sentencing based on the ample evidence without the machine.

[e] ven when a capital defendant and his family members have suggested that no mitigating evidence is available, his lawyer is bound to make reasonable efforts to obtain and review material that counsel knows the prosecution will probably rely on as evidence of aggravation at the trial's sentencing phase.

«At the same time, there is a growing body of evidence that mandatory minimum sentences wreak terrible damage on individuals (particularly those who are dependent on drugs), families and communities, -LSB-...]

Why didn't the defense seek to follow Judge Posner's recent sentencing advice by providing «credible empirical evidence» for a probation sentence in order to avoid being at «the mercy of the instincts and intuitions of the sentencing judge»?

Certainly, evidence of a prior punishment for the same judge could be presented at a sentencing hearing following a conviction in mitigation of the punishment that should be imposed.

Furthermore, your second sentence says that school officials need reasonable grounds to believe there is evidence of a crime, but it's not at all clear to me that there is any crime the map could be said to be evidence of.

Reaction is overwhelmingly positive to news that the first case to be featured on the BBC's Crimewatch programme has been solved after a DNA profile produced from evidence at the scene was linked to a family member of the killer on the national database leading the police to the defendant.Paul Stewart Hutchinson pleaded guilty to the murder of 16 - year - old Colette Aram and was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 25 years

Rather, as Skelly Wright posts at Arbitrary and Capricious, lawyers for the prosecution are using photos and statements posted at defendants» personal Internet pages as evidence against them, while judges are taking such information into account at the sentencing stage.

Since this is a traffic violation and we do not sentence traffic violators to significant terms in jail, the prosecutor can not introduce any evidence about your criminal records at all, unless you open the door.

Since that time criminological research has underscored Congress's assumptions, and evidence suggests that a broader cohort of people than at present could be sentenced within the federal system more efficiently without incarceration.

at 20: «Where a matter is as conceptually simple as in the case at hand and the record makes clear that the sentencing judge considered the evidence and arguments, we do not believe the law requires the judge to write more extensively.»

OTTAWA — The «mountain» of graphic evidence tabled by Crown prosecutors at the Russell Williams sentencing hearing has led to a new and troubling frontier for Canada's justice system and news media, say Williams» lawyers.

At the regional level, with NJI support, the regional education chairs have developed innovative new modules on criminal law topics as varied as racial profiling, expert evidence, conditional sentences, human trafficking, and evidence in an electronic world.

«In an obvious effort to protect the Bay Street lawyers, Justice J. Bryan Shaughnessy refused to listen to Best's recordings, refused to consider the new evidence of his innocence and refused to allow him to cross-examine the very lawyers and witnesses that the judge relied upon to convict and sentence Best at the secret hearing.»

At sentencing, the Crown entered a series of Event Information Forms into evidence.

Evidence supporting Brady (a confession by Bobit that he and he alone killed the victim) was withheld from Brady's defense at the time of sentencing and the state held on appeal that this was not a violation of Mooney as Brady was still guilty of the accused crime.

If the court agrees to admit the prosecutors» evidence at trial, the lawyer will make all the arrangements to present a fair plea and sentencing agreements.

@Ronen Festinger: The sentences should be calculated at the time of the original conviction because that is when the best and freshest evidence is available.

At risk of sounding heretical, there is no conclusive evidence that most of them have any significant, positive effect on re-offending, be it on determinate or indeterminately sentenced prisoners.

Keith Findley presented his paper, «Forensic Science Evidence in the Age of the NAS,» at the 2011 Criminal Law & Sentencing Institute, Wisconsin Office of Judicial Education.