Sentences with phrase «few years in prison»

Due to his age, Gibson gets off with just a few years in prison, but older teen Warner is sentenced to 15 years to life.
If they are killed, and if the criminal is actually caught, they know that their life was «worth» a few years in prison, if even that, because that is all that the criminal will have to pay.

Not exact matches

He was sentenced to life in prison last month, though federal guidelines stated he could have served as few as twenty years.
This came just a few months after Cynthia Vanier, a mediator from Ontario who conducted a fact - finding mission to Libya last year funded by SNC - Lavalin, ended up in prison in Mexico.
Chaplains became free for ministry only when social workers, librarians, physicians, psychologists and other professional personnel became commonplace in our prisons just a few years ago.
A few years ago, Swedish pastor Ake Green was sentenced to one month in prison for preaching on the biblical teaching against sexual immorality from the pulpit of his small church in Borgholm.
A few months before he reached his 21st birthday, Malcolm was convicted and sentenced to eight to ten years in a Massachusetts prison for burglary.
And I have a few who have spent time in prison, and one of my deceased Elders spent 17 years in prison before he was converted.
Those who were lucky enough to be pulled or pushed, a year or so ago, to the Beatles» first movie, A Hard Day's Night, will recall the enchanting scene in which the four of them escape from the prison - like television studio, where worldly men are trying to get them to perform properly, and flee to an open field for a few surrealistic moments of jumping, dancing, abandon.
Paterno et al perpetrated a cover up over the span of many years in order to protect their football program.The scale of atrocities involved is such that I don't believe enough justice was meted out (only a few months in prison for some of the admins; no death penalty for the football program).
People make mistakes and nearly 90 % of the league smokes weed according to some players... but very few are facing 11 years in prison.
From Mike Tyson starring in The Hangover after having served a prison sentence for rape, to Chris Brown playing at the Grammies when a few years earlier he beat his girlfriend en route to the awards, to Mel Gibson taking on starring roles after severely beating his partner.
Gathered outside Harlem's Schomburg Plaza, Mr. Santana — who spent five years in prison in connection with the assault and rape of Trisha Meili — hailed Mr. Perkins as one of the few public officials who came out on the side of him and his four friends.
Ibori who returned to the country a few months ago having completed his four - year jail term in a British prison has not been seen in public glare neither has he participated in any political meeting at the national headquarters.
It's also worth noting that legendary levels of dubious activity cross partisan lines there: After the Republican Party lost the majority in the state Senate in 2008, Democrats spent the first few months of their abbreviated stint in power basking in new information about how Republicans spent the legislature's money on items like a special van for the man who was then their majority leader, Joe Bruno, who went on to be sentenced to two years in prison on federal corruption charges.
BRIDGEPORT — After 12 years in the wilderness — seven of them in prison — ever - popular former Mayor Joseph P. Ganim still can rattle the political world with a few, well placed words.
Commenting on the significance of these latest findings, Humanists UK Chief Executive Andrew Copson said: «Ground - breaking initial research we conducted a few years ago with non-religious people in hospitals and prisons established a clear demand for humanist pastoral support.
Georgiev, who had been working for a company on the other side of the country, had been released a few months earlier after having spent four years in prison, but the other medical workers, later dubbed the Tripoli Six, were waiting for death by firing squad.
32 year old male 5; 7 Mexican bald light skin few tattoo s recently released from prison looking for older beautiful friend for fun and give new input in life
It's to Experimenter's misfortune that although it premiered at the same Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, The Stanford Prison Experiment came out a few months earlier, and while done in a far less showy approach, it's more engrossing and disturbing than Experimenter.
Freed from prison after serving a few years for manslaughter, Mitchell (Colin Farrell) is determined to go straight, the kind of doomed aspiration that indicates he'll be back in the game by the 45 - minute mark.
American Violet Rated PG - 13 for thematic material, violence, drug references and language Available on DVD and Blu - ray Set a few years ago in Melody, TX, American Violet follows the true - life events of a town shaken up by a District Attorney that attempted to keep the black citizens down by raiding their projects and making them plead guilty to felony charges to get out of prison.
One of the few awards outfits that awards the year's best in both film and TV, GALECA picked Netflix's freshman women - in - prison dramedy Orange is the New Black in a tie along with HBO's Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra as TV Drama of the Yyear's best in both film and TV, GALECA picked Netflix's freshman women - in - prison dramedy Orange is the New Black in a tie along with HBO's Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra as TV Drama of the YearYear.
An interesting double - bill partner to Steve James» terrific «The Interrupters» from a few years back, it focuses on Brenda Myers - Powell, who survived an unbelievably tough life and twenty - five years as a sex worker in Chicago and now runs the Dreamcatcher Foundation, offering counselling to women on the streets, in prison or in otherwise desperate straits.
The progress we've made dismantling the school - to - prison pipeline over the last few years could be stopped dead in its tracks if U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos rescinds guidance that helps teachers address student discipline without discriminating.
The progress we've made dismantling the school - to - prison pipeline over the last few years could be stopped dead in its tracks if U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos rescinds guidance provided by the Obama administration that helps public schools address student discipline without discriminating.
After leaving school, these dropouts generally seem to encounter only more failure: Among 16 - to 24 - year - old black men not enrolled in school, fewer than half have jobs; about a third are in prison or jail, or on probation or parole.
Taking place a few years after the events of Yakuza 5, Yakuza 6 opens with Kiryu once again fresh out of prison and ready to settle down in Okinawa before the intrigue of Kamurocho pulls him back into the areas seedy underbelly of crime families and political corruption.
A few weeks in Nairobi Industrial Prison is a good start, sharing a 50 year old toilet that can not flush with 120 other men will cure you of a need to go — I'm proud of my two week record!
Having read the latest on the Greenpeace - 30 activists detained by Russian authorities last month, I sense that they probably will be spending a few more years in prison than what some us thought just a couple of days earlier, just after it was announced that piracy charges would be dropped and that the activists would -LSB-...]
When you're facing decades in federal prison on various and sundry fraud offenses, I imagine the temptation to use any means necessary to try to shave a few years off your sentence is rather strong.
1) Question: I am getting my affairs in order before I go off to prison for a few years for insider trading.
Simon Creighton spoke candidly on the impact the cuts have had on the quality and quantity of prison advice services over the last few years following the decision of former Lord Chancellor Chris Grayling to remove legal aid assistance in nearly all Prison Law prison advice services over the last few years following the decision of former Lord Chancellor Chris Grayling to remove legal aid assistance in nearly all Prison Law Prison Law cases.
After two trials and having served 10 years in prison, he was pardoned and released from jail a few weeks before the start of the Sochi Olympics, for public relations and propaganda purposes.
US experience suggests that such accuracy in forecasting is only attainable for a few years ahead and that to achieve this, the sentencing commission needs reliable data on an ongoing annual basis about whether an offender will go to prison and for how long.
If it was just a few days in prison it might seem worth it for saving this guy a broken nose, but if it's a couple years, maybe not..
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