Sentences with phrase «getting convictions in the cases»

Federal prosecutors tend to have extensive legal experience and are extremely skilled in getting convictions in the cases they handle.

Not exact matches

She's more emblematic of the 1990s than of the 2000s, but remember this: Martha Stewart bet that by not appealing her conviction (for lying to prosecutors, in case you forgot) and by simply getting her five - month prison stretch done with in March 2005, she would minimize the damage to her reputation and quickly get her company back on track.

«We can not dismiss or under - estimate the threat from the far - right and we've seen recently a number of cases where there have been convictions and custodial sentences for far - right wing extremists that would have caused havoc in our communities and what you've got to remember is it's not that the Muslim community condones terrorism.

But using the standard that Bharara used in the Silver case (and, arguably, his case against former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who was busted on similar charges and is also appealing his conviction), the prisons would be filled with people who made a campaign contribution so they can get a meeting with a politician.

Same with the law enforcement agencies and the judiciary; why are we not getting the convictions in the corruption cases?

Friday's developments in the Buffalo Billion case follow the March conviction of Joseph Percoco, Cuomo's longtime friend and confidant who was found guilty of three felony counts for his role in a bribery scheme in which corporate interests got special attention in return for a steady flow of bribe money paid into Percoco's personal bank account.

Dee has enough problems just getting on with life - trying to raise her children, with her children's deadbeat dad and his abusive girlfriend in the same building, and yet even after her conviction is overturned, her subsequent case (spearheaded by the A.C.L.U.) puts her in the D.A.'s crosshairs - who uses his substantial infuence to not only prevent her from returning to her job of 7 years, but even makes sure that she is terminated from the minimum wage job she finally manages to procure.

Time passes and he realizes that the mistake will not be corrected: the authorities believe in their case and are determined to get a conviction.

Mark Twain again provides insight to why bad science so easily goes viral having written, «In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second - hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second - hand from others.&raquIn religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second - hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second - hand from others.&raquin almost every case gotten at second - hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second - hand from others.»

In any case, it's too little late for Obama's injustice department to get any such convictions, but perhaps President Trump or Cruz should use RICO to go after radical Warmists all over the world.

Mark Twain astutely recognized, «In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second - hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second - hand from other.&raquIn religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second - hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second - hand from other.&raquin almost every case gotten at second - hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second - hand from other.»

``... people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second - hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second - hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.»

If, however, you were convicted, and the Court found that you knew that the victim hadn't died at the time of trial, but you did not raise the fact that the victim wasn't dead, it isn't clear if you could have the original conviction vacated because it was a fair trial and you knew evidence sufficient to get yourself acquitted (which you may have refrained from presenting to avoid conviction on a lesser charge like kidnapping or aggravated assault), and the status of an «actual innocence» grounds for vacating a conviction after trial is hotly disputed, conservatives like the late Justice Scalia generally say «no», liberals generally say «yes», moderates like to say «yes» but make it almost impossible to establish except in rare cases like one where a live person walks in when there was a murder conviction for killing that actually living person.

Interesting that the US Supreme Court is now considering the limits of malicious prosecution too, in a quite frightful case where the prosecutors knew the accused was innocent but got a conviction anyway.

The Pattis & Smith Law Firm New Haven based criminal lawyers will immediately demand all evidence against you, quickly identify any weaknesses in the state's case, and will identify all personal circumstances that can assist us to get the charge reduced if not dismissed altogether to avoid a criminal conviction.

Even after a conviction is overturned, exonerees still have to readjust to life outside of prison — to find employment and housing, deal with a criminal record that often doesn't go away even after being declared innocent, and try to get their lives back on track after so many years — not an easy task for those who in many cases have spent decades locked up.

As I indicated to you, in the majority of cases of indictable and summary conviction offences, it was waived, and again, very seldom do we ever get any reasons why this is the case.

What I mean by that is that in a criminal case that ends in a conviction, or even in a plea agreement, the prosecutor and a whole host of others get to say what a terrible person or what terrible things the defendant did; and people do line up from far and wide to do that.

Root causes go to misaligned incentives for police and prosecutors; they want to close cases and get convictions; In the words of Terry Pratchett, «If there was a crime, there should be punishment.