Sentences with phrase «in a sentence acts»

The use of your baby's name in a sentence acts as a kind of anchor.

(1) the misguided attempt to justify the Truth in Sentencing Act (operative from Feb. 22, 2010) re.

For the second time this year, courts have found fatal flaws in sections of the federal Truth in Sentencing Act.

The Court wasn't finished with Truth in Sentencing Act with just Lloyd.

Criminal Law: Pre-Sentence Credit R. v. Summers (O.N.C.A., Mar. 12, 2013)(35339) No particular «circumstance» is excluded from consideration for pre-sentence credit under the Truth in Sentencing Act.

Criminal Law: Pre-Sentence Credit R. v. Carvery (N.S.C.A., Oct. 3, 2012)(35115) Ineligibility for early release / parole may justify pre-sentence credit under the Truth in Sentencing Act.

The Truth in Sentencing Act severely constrained this practice under s. 719 of the Criminal Code by limiting it to a maximum of 1.5 only «if the circumstances justify it.»

As a result of the former Conservative government «s tough - on - crime agenda, numerous changes were made to the criminal law including the passing of the Truth in Sentencing Act.

The Truth in Sentencing Act eliminated the two - for - one credit, replacing it with one - for - one credit.

The decision follows similar rulings in other provinces dealing with the Truth in Sentencing Act, including Ontario, Nova Scotia, Manitoba, and Quebec.

The March 13 decision by Justice Garth Malakoe of the Territorial Court of the Northwest Territories challenges 2010 rules brought in under the Truth in Sentencing Act.

The Truth in Sentencing Act, S.C. 2009, c. 29 (operative from Feb. 22, 2010), purported to correct the «untruthful» sentencing practice of awarding 2 days reduction in the sentence imposed for each day spent in pre-sentencing custody (PSC), which was awarded in compensation for terrible jail conditions suffered during PSC, and lost eligibility for release on parole.

A judge at the superior court level has for the first time directly responded to a Charter challenge of the Truth in Sentencing Act — Ottawa's attempt to limit credit for time served — deeming provisions within the act to be unconstitutional and of no force or effect.

R. v. Kovich, [2013] MJ No. 417, dealt with the provisions of the Criminal Code and the Truth in Sentencing Act dealing with bail and credit for pre-sentence custody.

[11] This appeal is not about the wisdom of the Truth in Sentencing Act.

The Criminal Code provisions stem from the Truth in Sentencing Act which was designed -LSB-...]

As with the opposition to the 2009 Truth in Sentencing Act, which reduced the credit given for time served before sentencing, the undermining of the Increasing Offenders» Accountability for Victims Act exacerbated the tension between the government and the judiciary.

R. v. Carvery, 2012 NSCA 107 (35115) Ineligibility for early release / parole may justify pre-sentence credit under the Truth in Sentencing Act.

R. v. Clarke, 2014 SCC 28 (35487) Being charged after the Truth in Sentencing Act came into effect means the Act applies.

One could (and perhaps should) look at legislation like the Truth in Sentencing Act as a vote of non-confidence in the judiciary and its values, or at the very least as a product of the different lenses through which the government and the courts view the justice system.

The federal government's answer to jail over-crowding was, the Truth in Sentencing Act because it didn't cost any money.

What governments do, do for the justice system doesn't cost money, such as, the Truth in Sentencing Act of 2010 (see, Criminal Code s. 719 (3)-RRB-; and, talk of abolishing the preliminary inquiry, which would be a very big mistake because: (1) what other opportunity is there for defence counsel to challenge the reliability of evidence that comes from complex electronic systems and devices, so as to better prepare for trial and plea bargaining?

The Bill, also known as the «Truth in Sentencing Act,» forces judges to impose 1 - for - 1 time for credit in pre-trial custody, unless written explanation is provided otherwise.

The Truth in Sentencing Act (Bill C - 25) enacted by the Conservative government in October 2009 did away with the notion that an accused person would typically receive two days» credit for each day spent in jail from the presiding judge.

Without the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, there is no way to correct such occurrences as the conditions that led to the «Truth in Sentencing Act,» and the circumstances making a case as recent as, R. v. Jordan, 2016 SCC 27, necessary, and to control the application of Cr.

The «Truth in Sentencing Act» is legislation that was intended to provide an excuse for provincial and federal governments» not making any increased expenditure of money to increase the number of provincial and federal prosecutors, or to improve jail conditions, and an excuse for governments not to have to appoint and pay for more judges to make more courts available.

The Truth in Sentencing Act explicitly caps the credit at 1.5 days for one.

In a pair of decisions delivered this morning, R. v. Summers, 2014 SCC 26, and a companion case, R. v. Carvery, 2014 SCC 27, the Supreme Court has endorsed the trial courts» practice of routinely crediting time spent by accused persons before their sentencing on a more than one - to - one basis against the total duration of their sentence, the Truth in Sentencing Act, enacted by Parliament in 2009, notwithstanding.

The obvious one is whether Parliament could re-write the law, perhaps enacting a «Truth in Truth in Sentencing Act» that would specifically prevent courts from considering the «quantitative rationale» for enhanced credit.

«Truth in Sentencing Act» sounds Orwellian (remember the Ministry of Truth?)

Recommendation 3: That the Government provide formal legislative recognition of Aboriginal Customary Law in the Sentencing Act by inserting a new section into the Act which requires magistrates and judges to determine in all matters whether Aboriginal Customary Law is a relevant consideration and if so, to provide appropriate weight to customary law in sentencing decisions and to apply it consistently with human rights standards (as defined in the six human rights treaties to which Australia is a party and through the instruments of the United Nations and under international law).

Not exact matches

The former general manager of the company's engineering and environmental office in Auburn Hills, Michigan was sentenced to seven years after pleading guilty to charges of conspiracy and violating the Clean Air Act.

In defending his record, Sessions is likely to point to his vote to confirm Eric Holder as the country's first black attorney general and to his co-sponsorship of the Fair Sentencing Act, which sought to reduce racial disparities in how black and white drug offenders are treateIn defending his record, Sessions is likely to point to his vote to confirm Eric Holder as the country's first black attorney general and to his co-sponsorship of the Fair Sentencing Act, which sought to reduce racial disparities in how black and white drug offenders are treatein how black and white drug offenders are treated.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- In his last major act as president, Barack Obama is cutting short the sentences of 330 federal inmates convicted of drug crimes.

Croatian police said that a 19 - year - old Croat, whom they described as the owner of webstresser.org, was detained on charges of «serious criminal acts against computer systems, programs and data» that carry a possible sentence of one to eight years in prison.

Manning, who served seven years in prison for violating the Espionage Act before her sentence was commuted by President Obama in 2017, says she has a tendency to look forward instead of backward.

Rather, she said, harsh sentences can act as a deterrent in unusual, high - publicized cases like Silk Road.

«The US government acted as police force (identifying the foreign government's crime), prosecutor (making the legal arguments), jury (ruling on the evidence), and judge (sentencing the foreigner to US retaliatory punishment),» Chad Bown, a senior fellow at the pro-free trade Peterson Institute for International Economics, wrote in a memo about Section 301's history earlier in August.

The Bitcoin Deutschland AG is acting as tied agent of the FIDOR Bank AG within the meaning of § 2 Section 10 of the Banking Act and provides the system or the completion of financial instruments in accordance with § 1 Section 1a Sentence 2 No. 1 of the Banking Act exclusively in the name and for the account of the FIDOR Bank AG.

Inaccurate, the commas act as parentheses in the sentence.

After March 4, 2013, an International Arrest Warrant will be issued against these Defendants.The guilty verdict followed nearly a month of deliberations by more than thirty sworn Citizen Jurors of the 150 case exhibits produced by Court Prosecutors, The Court's judgement declares the wealth and property of the churches responsible for the Canadian genocide to be forfeited and placed under public ownership, as reparations for the families of the more than 50,000 children who died in the residential schools.To enforce its sentence, the Court has empowered citizens in Canada, the United States, England, Italy and a dozen other nations to act as its legal agents armed with warrants, and peacefully occupy and seize properties of the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada, which are the main agents in the deaths of these children

The only thing he can do is to admit that he is acting so out of his own fears and emotions (not to defend oneself in battle is difficult, more difficult than to accept a death sentence calmly); or else he can say that he is fighting for others, not to save his own life.

The next sentence contains only one clearly identifiable metaphor: «a life by the fruits of God's acts in Jesus Christ.»

Both have been arrested and served six - month jail sentences for acts of civil disobedience in protesting the School of the Americas (now known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation)-- a military school in Fort Benning, Georgia, that has trained Latin Americans in tactics of war, terrorism and torture.

When Paul passed sentence on the incestuous Corinthian, «You are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of his flesh» (I Cor 5:5) he was acting in accordance with the Mosaic code of herem or expulsion from the community.

The American missionary who can barely utter one sentence in Russian, and who acts as if the Russians had never heard of the gospel before his own arrival, has been all too common.

In light of the passages where the concept of a non-temporal God has been found, it would have been appropriate for Whitehead to declare that the non-temporal act of all - inclusive unfettered valuation is God, and to characterize it as the timeless source of all order, as he does in the text in sentences 1, 2 and In light of the passages where the concept of a non-temporal God has been found, it would have been appropriate for Whitehead to declare that the non-temporal act of all - inclusive unfettered valuation is God, and to characterize it as the timeless source of all order, as he does in the text in sentences 1, 2 and in the text in sentences 1, 2 and in sentences 1, 2 and 4.

This subject remains the non-temporal act of all - inclusive unfettered valuation, that is, God considered as such in light of the identification made at the outset of sentence 4 with «It is here termed God.»

In sentences 1 and 2, the grammatical subject, and, as it should, the topic under discussion is the non-temporal act of all inclusive unfettered valuation.

In fact, there was no prison sentence connected to violation of the Butler Act.