Sentences with phrase «felons did»

But prior to the order, convicted felons did not have their voting rights restored until completing their parole.

Simply put, most felons do a lousy job of bookkeeping.

Not exact matches

At one point during the documentary, Couric asks representatives of the Virginia Citizens Defense League a question: «If there are no background checks for gun purchasers, how do you prevent felons or terrorists from purchasing a gun?»

... Do I see a Protestant, there, stealing a look at his Bible, and being taken in the fact, punished like a felon!

For a peasant woman's child in occupied territory in an out - of - the - way corner of the Roman Empire to have become the man he did, attracting what looked like flash - in - the - pan attention during his brief years of ministry, unknown to most of his contemporaries and viewed as an upstart, a wonder - worker, or a fanatic by most of those who knew about him, dying a felon's death deserted by most of his close and trusted friends with the incredible rumor then circulated that he had risen again — what chance had he of any lasting fame?

Do we torture convicted felons?

Also, if you want to talk regulation, you do realize that any felon can go to a gun show and get a gun, even though they can not legally have one?

I never felt quite so foolish as I did telling those stony - faced felons and murderers and rapists why I wanted to be a preacher.

Presently, he's an accused felon, so he shouldn't be granted entry to film videos, do interviews, watch fights or do anything else for that matter.

Although we do not undertake an exhaustive historical analysis today of the full scope of the Second Amendment, nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.

And did they ever, releasing a statement slamming Donovan's hit as «the empty rhetoric of a Republican political machine hack who cavorted with convicted felon Bernie Kerik and took money from groups tied up in the mob.»

He then explains that then Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was trying to prevent Jenna's Law, which eliminated parole for first time violent felons, from passing but Faso, who was Assembly Minority Leader at the time, didn't allow that to happen.

But pray: how do you secure convictions when putative felons subvert the judicial process; or rev up the economy when rogues had cleaned out the public till, of otherwise investible funds?

«Recycling Ed Cox and Rob Astorino's pathetic lies that hinge on the hearsay testimony of a convicted felon is a feeble attempt by Dean Skelos» heir apparent to distract from the fact that he, unlike Senator Kaminsky, doesn't support comprehensive ethics reform,» Azzopardi said.

Tedisco said the Majority's plan does not contain provisions for pension forfeiture for convicted felon elected officials who betray their oath of office, term limits for leaders, truth in spending to bring sunlight to state spending in the shadows to end quid pro-quos, or giving rank and file members the ability to bring legislation to the Floor for a vote and diminish the unbridled power that's been given to legislative leaders.

I don't how many times I've seen a felon run to their embassy in movies or television series: more recently in the quacky and skittish British tele - drama By Any Means.

«It had to do with the legality as it related to how you would treat convicted felons and others who had already done their time, and whether or not what we we're trying to do was discriminatory against those individuals,» Oswego Common Council President Ron Kaplewicz said.

Days after Mayor Bill de Blasio said he has «full faith» in a City Hall staffer who is dating a convicted felon, the mayor claimed today that his decision to retain Rachel Noerdlinger did not contradict his past move to reportedly stop a press secretary from joining his administration after newspapers reported she was dating former Gov. Eliot Spitzer.

As for what he will do to repair the damage to the voters» trust, to counter the cynicism and ridicule that pervade Albany, thanks to him and felons like Dean Skelos, the former Senate majority leader, he has no answer.

De Blasio didn't deny personally seeking a $ 102,000 donation from businessman - felon Jona Rechnitz for a political project, as the disgraced mayoral donor testified in court Friday.

«But if police do arrest somebody — especially for felons — and, during their investigation of who that person is and whatever, find that they're here illegally, the federal law says the federal government, ICE, should be contacted to see if they want to pursue deportation.»

«You don't have to worry about her staff being indicted felons, which I think is a really good thing in government.»

«How did a felon from Long Island get on stage among a group of former police officers endorsing Donald Trump before the New York primary?»

Not only do we have these convicted felons living unguarded in our residential neighborhoods, but they were placed there without proper warning or notification.

There are news reports every week about how Uber doesn't carry enough insurance, about how Uber hires dangerous felons as drivers, about how Uber encourages its drivers to operate illegally at airports all over the country.

Several Suffolk legislators will file a proposal Wednesday to ban felons from doing county title work after it was disclosed County Executive Steve Levy recommended a longtime friend be hired despite legal woes.

Then he brought up the Legislature, and the persistent problem (which lawmakers did nothing to solve in the months after Silver and Skelos became felons) of side jobs that conflict with official duties.

Iceland now does not withdraw the right to vote from felons, but an untarnished reputation is required to hold certain public offices, or a law licence.

ALBANY — One of the state Legislature's proposed responses this year to the cloud of corruption caused by the convictions of its former leaders is actually something lawmakers gleefully agreed to do last year, but then didn't: strip state pensions from convicted felons.

WHEREAS, the Cortland County Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs, Inc. acknowledges that in 2008, the Supreme Court established, via District of Columbia vs Heller, that the Second Amendment does not limit laws regulating the sales of guns, or prohibit possession of guns by the mentally ill or by felons, nor does it prohibit penalties against the carrying of guns in schools and government buildings; and

According to Singas, her office's review has already found an unspecified contractor with ties to organized crime, a contractor barred from doing government business in another jurisdiction and a convicted felon with a bankruptcy.

Spokesman for the Saratoga County GOP Nick Wilock said that Committee Chair Steve Bulger did not know that Disonell was a felon.

I guess CM Wills didn't notice how well that strategy worked for his former boss and now convicted felon, ex-state senator Shirley Huntley.

It doesn't appear that state law would have stopped him, as New York has no direct prohibition on convicted felons lobbying.

Following testimony from a felon that he bought Mayor Bill de Blasio with donations, I asked New Yorkers a simple question: Do they care?

The mechanism through which Mr. Cuomo plans to do so is unusual: He would consider pardons for all 35,000 people currently on parole in New York, as well as any new convicted felons who enter the parole system each month.

Yet, Chairwoman Stavisky didn't speak up to object to the presence of a convicted felon and admitted interloper on her Party's line.

Designed to prevent certain people, such as convicted felons or those subject to a restraining order, from buying guns, background checks do reduce some gun violence.

In the fugitive - criminal analogy, the error is represented by the width of a house: the felon is in there somewhere, but we don't know in exactly which spot.

If you are still using that papery stuff (you know, that name that rhymes with felon), do yourself a favor.

They are getting sick of going on dates with people who don't look like their pictures, are perhaps just a little bit married or in really, really, really unusual cases, are a felon.

Once you have a full name and a birth date, you can do a full background to check to see if you're involved with a convicted felon or somebody who is a bad egg.

In college (biochemistry major) and working, I'll be 20 in September, love sports mostly football and mma, been practiceing martial arts since I was 12, convicted felon (please do nt let that scare you)

In terms of them being convicted felons, there are sites and services that would allow dating services to do a background check.

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«There's no database, there's nothing I could do to possibly get all of the convicted felons,» said Vest.

Whatever he's doing time for at MCI — Norfolk, a medium - security «warehouse» for nearly 1,500 convicted felons in Massachusetts, what...

Whatever he's doing time for at MCI — Norfolk, a medium - security «warehouse» for nearly 1,500 convicted felons in Massachusetts, what matters now is that he is standing in front of my English class on a Wednesday evening in his t - shirt, sweats, and sneakers.

Having testified for Steve Perry's charter school and spoken at rally's in support of Perry's plan, Carl McCluster and Steve Perry certainly don't want to face what would be an awkward situation if Perry was required to reveal whether any of his governing board members are convicted felons.

All they got to do is check their computers for convicted felons with one ear and they got you.