Sentences with phrase «imprisoned for»

The sixth amendment guarantees that you will not be forced to stay imprisoned for an unreasonable length of time.

The case, Konaté v. Burkina Faso, involved Lohé Issa Konaté, a journalist from Burkina Faso, who was imprisoned for a year, and whose newspaper was closed, for allegedly insulting and defaming a local prosecutor in Burkina Faso.

People are imprisoned for crimes that they did not commit sometimes.

(4) If a contempt hearing under subsection (1) is heard and determined by a person referred to in clause 24 (2)(a) or (b), the court may make such orders respecting the person in contempt as are specified by the rules of court, but the court shall not make an order that the person be imprisoned for a period of more than five days.

Punishment varies from a fine or imprisonment of up to ten years, or both; and if death results, or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years, or for life, or may be sentenced to death.

Mr. Hamilton spent 21 years wrongfully imprisoned for murder.

«Man wrongly imprisoned for 20 years can sue San Francisco police over false evidence claims»: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued last Friday.

In August 2013, US Attorney General Eric Holder admitted that mandatory minimum sentences for drug offences were «draconian» and that too many Americans had been imprisoned for too long for no good law enforcement justification.

«Mr. Patterson could not have committed this murder; the evidence that it was not him was there all along, yet he remained imprisoned for over 11 years for a crime he did not commit.

However, if you were imprisoned for two years or more for your offence, you lose your right to appeal to the Immigration Appeal Division.

This global event pays tribute to the tale of two Portuguese students imprisoned for raising their glasses to liberty — an injustice that so outraged British lawyer Peter Benenson that he launched Amnesty International on 28 May 1961 -LRB-...)

Romeo Phillion, who was wrongfully imprisoned for 31 years, has been allowed to pursue a civil action against police and the Crown.

You can not be arrested and imprisoned for allowing your gaze to pass over your neighbours lawn.

This question was prompted by the many cases where individuals (often African - American) have been imprisoned for decades and later found innocent.

So far, she has represented another participant imprisoned for indecent exposure at a virtual location modeled after the Old West.

He remained imprisoned for almost 27 years.

«Whoever, using a facility or means of interstate or foreign commerce or in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, owns, manages, or operates an interactive computer service (as such term is defined in defined in section 230 (f) the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 230 (f)-RRB--RRB-, or conspires or attempts to do so, with the intent to promote or facilitate the prostitution of another person shall be fined under this title, imprisoned for not more than 10 years, or both.»

§ 2421A (a) Whoever, using a facility or means of interstate or foreign commerce or in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, owns, manages, or operates an interactive computer service (as such term is defined in defined in section 230 (f) the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 230 (f)-RRB--RRB-, or conspires or attempts to do so, with the intent to promote or facilitate the prostitution of another person shall be fined under this title, imprisoned for not more than 10 years, or both

Nine weeks later, after Bushell and three others had been imprisoned for this audacity in a brutal facility, the English Court of Common Pleas voted to release them, and without forcing them to change their verdict.

``... are you serious that citizens should be imprisoned for incompetence... and / or obscure writing... and / or mistaken conclusions?

Peter Lang, are you serious that citizens should be imprisoned for incompetence... and / or obscure writing... and / or mistaken conclusions?

Dai Qing was banned from publishing in China and was imprisoned for 10 months.

The plan by climate alarmists to have other scientists imprisoned for their «global warming» skepticism is backfiring horribly, and the chief alarmist is now facing a House investigation into what has been called «the largest science scandal in US history.»

Vladimir Bukovsky defined it as follows: «I myself create it, edit it, censor it, publish it, distribute it, and [may] get imprisoned for it.»

The subject of this painting, Eldridge Cleaver, was a cultural critic and early leader of the Black Panthers, and was imprisoned for many years.

He was imprisoned for six months for possessing heroin and his gallery closed in 1969.

A banal, if obsessive, collection at a glance — «Scarface» movie posters, «Scarface» action figures, «Scarface» key chains, «Scarface» tennis shoes — the array takes on a different meaning when you learn, as is noted in the press release, that it belongs to a childhood friend of Ybarra's who was himself imprisoned for dealing drugs and who looked to the Al Pacino's character as a hero.

He was imprisoned for a year in 1942 for his antifascist views as a member of Giustizia e Libertà (Justice and Liberty) group.

It is Winnie's cry, her lamentation and her anguish, for Nelson Mandela when imprisoned for treason that allowed me to develop a parallel narrative to Schoenberg's Die Frau.

But his art practice was stalled, in 1975, when he was imprisoned for six months, wrongfully accused of participating in a failed anti-government coup.

HERSHMAN LEESON: She was imprisoned for eight months, and she thought she had PTSD.

The split painting depicts a rendering of the now - famous photo of the transgendered U.S. Army soldier who was imprisoned for espionage after disclosing classified information on Wikileaks.

The artist Sable Elyse Smith, whose father has been imprisoned for almost two decades, has been thinking about erasures longer than most.

He was imprisoned for trying to steal a treasure known as the magic pendulum, which makes the toys of this world's setting come to life.

Injustice 2 follows on from the previous game, with Superman from the alternate universe imprisoned for his crimes against humanity and Batman looking to rebuild society in a more justice - driven way.

So instead of banging your head against The Imprisoned for ten minutes straight, you might be able to team up with your companions to make short work of him, making it easier to keep up momentum as you progress.

A goat, imprisoned for witchcraft, must escape the treacherous Prison of Agnus.

Swing, jump, run and liberate a world corrupted by the evil of Ahriman, a dangerous ancient God about to escape after being imprisoned for a lifetime.

It all starts in the 15th century, when the young John Yesterday is imprisoned for sorcery by the Spanish Inquisition.

In escape goat you star as an inexplicably purple colored goat who has been imprisoned for witchcraft.

Robben Island is where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 18 years.

The puppy factory where she had been imprisoned for so long was raided, and along with 11 other dogs, Nellie was seized and taken to a shelter.

Mr. Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years, while in dog years I was in the puppy mills for 42.

Under the Animals and Birds Act, anyone who is found guilty of pet abandonment can be imprisoned for up to 12 months, fined up to $ 10,000, or both.

There are words from rescuers and campaigners, which I hope inspire readers to take up the campaign banners and do whatever is required to end the trade in puppies that keeps dogs like Susie - Belle and Twinkle imprisoned for profit.

A person who obtains a credit report without proper authorization, or an employee of a credit reporting agency who gives a credit report to unauthorized persons, may be fined up to $ 5,000 or imprisoned for one year, or both.

Most of these offers are scams that can not only take what money you do have, but can even get you arrested and imprisoned for fraud.

Any person who creates or originates United States money by lending against deposits, through so - called fractional reserve banking, or by any other means, after the effective date shall be fined under title 18, United States Code, imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both.

A person who obtains a credit report without proper authorization — or an employee of a credit reporting agency who gives a credit report to unauthorized persons — may be fined up to $ 5,000 or imprisoned for one year, or both.

However, if your creditor applies for an order requiring you to attend court to give information about your circumstances or applies for an order to make regular deductions from your wages at source and you do not respond to the court paperwork properly, you could be at risk of being imprisoned for contempt of court.