Sentences with phrase «face mandatory sentencing»

When accused of a federal crime you face mandatory sentencing under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines and a different set of rules that could result in strict and severe penalties.

Not exact matches

He is already serving life without parole because of a Niagara County Court conviction for the murders, but he and Pirk face mandatory federal sentences of life without parole for the murders because the jury found they were part of a racketeering conspiracy.

Mr Raab, meanwhile, wants to make it mandatory to deport any foreigner convicted of a crime resulting in a prison sentence of a year or longer, unless they face the threat of torture or death.

The traditional bastion of sober second thought — our courts — are facing an all - out assault against judicial discretion with mandatory minimum sentences and the wholesale pillaging of the conditional sentence regime.

Depending on the amount defrauded, you may be facing a mandatory minimum jail sentence.

Faced with such seemingly immutable and damning evidence, Lee was convicted of arson and murder and given a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole.

The Model Penal Code: Sentencing project provides guidance on some of the most important issues that courts, corrections systems, and policymakers are facing today, including the general purposes of the sentencing system; rules governing sentence severity — including sentences of incarceration, community supervision, and economic penalties; the elimination of mandatory minimum penalties; mechanisms for combating racial and ethnic disparities in punishment; instruments of prison population control; victims» rights in the sentencing process; the sentencing of juvenile offenders in adult courts; the creation of judicial powers to review many collateral consequences of conviction; and many issues having to do with judicial sentencing discretion, sentencing commissions, sentencing guidelines, and appellate sentenSentencing project provides guidance on some of the most important issues that courts, corrections systems, and policymakers are facing today, including the general purposes of the sentencing system; rules governing sentence severity — including sentences of incarceration, community supervision, and economic penalties; the elimination of mandatory minimum penalties; mechanisms for combating racial and ethnic disparities in punishment; instruments of prison population control; victims» rights in the sentencing process; the sentencing of juvenile offenders in adult courts; the creation of judicial powers to review many collateral consequences of conviction; and many issues having to do with judicial sentencing discretion, sentencing commissions, sentencing guidelines, and appellate sentensentencing system; rules governing sentence severity — including sentences of incarceration, community supervision, and economic penalties; the elimination of mandatory minimum penalties; mechanisms for combating racial and ethnic disparities in punishment; instruments of prison population control; victims» rights in the sentencing process; the sentencing of juvenile offenders in adult courts; the creation of judicial powers to review many collateral consequences of conviction; and many issues having to do with judicial sentencing discretion, sentencing commissions, sentencing guidelines, and appellate sentensentencing process; the sentencing of juvenile offenders in adult courts; the creation of judicial powers to review many collateral consequences of conviction; and many issues having to do with judicial sentencing discretion, sentencing commissions, sentencing guidelines, and appellate sentensentencing of juvenile offenders in adult courts; the creation of judicial powers to review many collateral consequences of conviction; and many issues having to do with judicial sentencing discretion, sentencing commissions, sentencing guidelines, and appellate sentensentencing discretion, sentencing commissions, sentencing guidelines, and appellate sentensentencing commissions, sentencing guidelines, and appellate sentensentencing guidelines, and appellate sentence review.

Domestic violence: On March 30, 2012, a firm client facing a mandatory prison sentence for domestic violence - related charges was completely exonerated.

If you are arrested and have a prior drug conviction, you potentially face a mandatory prison sentence in both State and Federal Court.

If you have been charged with a drug crime in Illinois, you could be facing serious penalties, including a mandatory prison sentence and substantial fines.

Earlier this year I started to correspond with Caleb Mason concerning his effort to preserve a sentence imposed below a federal mandatory minimum in the face of a government appeal.

Focusing on the sentencing context, this Article demonstrates that judicial dilemmas can be systematically resolved, mitigated or avoided through a range of concrete strategies that on their own or in conjunction can constitute Satisficing Options: these strategies include seeking out legally permitted but morally preferable interpretations of the law, expressing condemnation of unjust laws in dicta, and seeking assistance or cooperation from other actors to help defendants facing substantively unjust mandatory sentences.

Client admitted to the Police that he knew he was prohibited and that he was facing a mandatory minimum sentence of jail of 14 days.

This means that no one with more than 500 pot plants who's charged in B.C. will face this mandatory minimum sentence of three years unless the ruling is overturned in the Supreme Court of Canada.