Sentences with phrase «felons make»

The accidental felons make the kind of stand most gals can only dream out, shooting and fast - talking their way out of jams like a distaff version of Butch and Sundance.

Sometimes I wake up because I hear a noise and imagine a situation where a convicted felon made his way into my home.

Not exact matches

Convicted felon Martin Shkreli, not exactly known for his discretion or restraint, could find himself in jail (even sooner than currently scheduled) thanks to bizarre comments he made on social media offering $ 5,000 to anyone who brings him snippets of Hillary Clinton's hair during her upcoming book tour.

In a show of support for investor protection, the SEC unanimously adopted rules that block felons from pitching specific types of private investment deals and in a 3 - 2 vote adopted a rule that requires firms offering private placements to make additional disclosures to regulators prior to being able to advertise it.

This makes the Justice Department and the Treasury Department extremely fearful of indicting a major Primary Dealer because convicted felons can not engage in Treasury auction contracts.

I'm willing to give MB a chance to show who he is while he is on this team - granted that he is not confirmed a felon after this case and continued to make millions playing sports

Today the jury spoke loud and clear making Mr. Espada a convicted felon.

If we could just take out something like the pistol grip restrictions we could make fewer people felons.»

De Blasio told reporters on Sunday that he could not recall whether he had a conversation with real estate developer - turned - felon Jona Rechnitz about making such a donation, and on Monday repeated his claims that Rechnitz was a «felon» and a «liar.»

BY PAUL SCHINDLER Sweeping clemency action by Governor Andrew Cuomo on December 30 — in which he commuted the sentences of seven felons, pardoned five others, and conditionally pardoned 101 nonviolent youthful offenders — came as welcome news to a longtime gay leader who in recent years has made rehabilitated convicts a key mission -LSB-...]

DEMOCRAT Assemblymember Diane Gordon, convicted felon, who apparently thought the Assembly was «Let's Make a Deal».

«This law was so rushed and ill - conceived that it makes criminals out of our police and felons out of law abiding citizens,» Katz said.

«It makes no sense whatsoever to put felons - violent, repeat offenders - back into the very neighborhoods where they got in trouble in the first place, without any evidence that they will be properly supervised.

Now Brown is championing Prop 57, which would let judges, not prosecutors, decide whether to try juveniles as adults and make it easier for nonviolent felons to earn parole or early release through good behavior and taking part in rehabilitation programs.

Gillibrand's bill would make it illegal to knowingly sell more than two weapons to anyone who is prohibited by law from owning a gun, like a convicted felon or convicted domestic abuser.

In 1998, Silver made the news in Syracuse as the man who stalled action on «Jenna's Law,» a bill to curtail parole for violent felons.

The Florida Voting Rights Restoration for Felons Initiative was an initiated constitutional amendment that fell short of the required signatures needed to make it onto the Florida ballot this November.

But it also may have made him a felon.

And, he adds, nothing makes the Massachusetts law especially controversial; indeed, it applies almost exclusively to those convicted of violent crimes, unlike a state like Virginia which draws and banks blood from every felon passing through its prison system.

«By expanding background checks to include private - party transfers, there is a higher chance that these policies will make it harder for felons and other prohibited persons to acquire firearms and commit violent crimes.»

KUTV — Oct 18 — TRUE promises safer relationships through background checks but admits that sex offenders and convicted felons can still make their way into the site.

Good story line and interesting characters make this game well worth playing and the detective type role offers an unusual game playing experience on the downside the chase felon, drive to point A, chase felon, drive to point B sections get a little repetitive but still worth a play through.

In the county where Dee lives, the district attorney, a slimy pol named Calvin Beckett (Michael O'Keefe), has long made local African Americans the target of indiscriminate drug sweeps, assuming that poor black people in the projects will plead out even if they're innocent just to get out of jail, not realizing that the guilty plea brands them as felons and opens up a host of other troubles in getting housing, jobs, etc..

Director Ric Roman Waugh (Snitch, Felon) seems hellbent on making a career out of crime dramas that are every bit as generic as their titles would suggest.

The character's decency seems to have been self - constructed rather than inherited; that makes Marge's final condemnation of Peter Stormare's murderous felon less a moral - of - the - story monologue than a vindication of bourgeois values that modern Hollywood treats as slave chains.

«On tour» with Michael Vick, the NFL star convicted for fighting dogs, the HSUS CEO made several appearances with the felon after his time in jail.

That their failure to act had made the Pacific Institute a joke to many in the science community because its CEO was an unconvicted felon.

He doesn't allege that Johnston is a convicted felon, or eats babies, or once made some unflattering comments about Bear Bryant.

Convicted felons may prejudice a jury and make them skeptical of the validity of their claims.

These include possession of a firearm by a felon, possession of burglary tools or drug paraphernalia, driving with an open container of alcohol, violation of a restraining order, possession of explosives without a license, buying scrap metal or pawn items (or selling Sudafed) without recording the other party's identifying information, providing material assistance to terrorism, selling firearms to someone in violation of regulations, and making various kinds of credible threats (although these are usually pertaining to someone specified crimes).

Even if a prospective adoptive parent were a convicted violent felon, the felony likely would not automatically prevent an adoption from happening; the judge would need to entertain evidence and make a determination about whether, despite the felony, the adoption was in the best interests of the adoptee.