Sentences with phrase «in sentencing decisions»

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).

While there are many competing considerations in every sentencing decision, a sentencing judge must have some understanding of ʺthe diverse frailties of humankind.ʺ See Woodson v. North Carolina, 428 U.S. 280, 304 (1976)(plurality opinion).

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It's a good sentence I keep in my head because it forces me to make a decision and take an action in that moment.»

Mill was imprisoned last week following a sentencing from a Philadelphia judge, who Mill's attorney said showed an inappropriate «personal bias» in a «ridiculous» decision that the rapper's legal team is currently appealing.

When rapper Meek Mill was sentenced to 2 - 4 years in prison last week for violating his probation, an outpouring of protest followed the controversial decision, with Jay - Z being one of Mill's most fervent supporters.

«Mr. Black has never sought a sentence reduction for acceptance of responsibility — a decision that, under the government's own calculations of the Guidelines, cost him fully 21 months in extra prison time.»

In 2015, he also wrote the dissenting judgment in R. v. Nur, a 6 - 3 decision in which he argued the court should have shown judicial restraint and upheld the three - year mandatory minimum sentence for illegal possession of a loaded firearIn 2015, he also wrote the dissenting judgment in R. v. Nur, a 6 - 3 decision in which he argued the court should have shown judicial restraint and upheld the three - year mandatory minimum sentence for illegal possession of a loaded firearin R. v. Nur, a 6 - 3 decision in which he argued the court should have shown judicial restraint and upheld the three - year mandatory minimum sentence for illegal possession of a loaded firearin which he argued the court should have shown judicial restraint and upheld the three - year mandatory minimum sentence for illegal possession of a loaded firearm.

The first sentence in Zillow's S - 1 was its mission statement: «Our mission is to build the most trusted and vibrant home - related marketplace to empower consumers with information and tools to make intelligent decisions about homes.»

Denhollander's decision to invoke her faith at Nassar's sentencing drew widespread attention in national and Christian media.

We can, however, describe the forms of the sentences we use in expressing these judgments, decisions, suppositions, and emotions, and attempt to describe how these sentences are used in communication situations and how their constituent subjects and predicates function.

It might come as some surprise to readers of this reply to learn that Thomas» argument in the Fifth Way amounts to no more than five or six sentences in Latin (depending on the punctuation decisions of various editors).

The pope visited Gabriele in prison «in order to confirm his forgiveness and communicate in person his decision to grant Mr. Gabriele's request for pardon, thereby remitting the sentence passed against the latter,» said a Vatican statement.

Most obvious is the discretion in sentencing where if a crime has a State penalty of 10 to 15 years and it's up to the judge or jury as to the actual sentence handed down then the intent of the crime is often debated and used in the decision.

breaking news: serge aurier won, t travel with psg for their game against arsenal, the british home office turned down his application for a visa, few months ago he was sentenced to 2 months in jail for fighting outside a nightclub in paris!do you think it, s a fair decision??

Expect some twists and turns in the upcoming games as any small piece of luck or dodgy decision could see a side on the flight to France, or sentence them to sitting out next summer.

Nearly 10 years after Cuomo, a staunch opponent of the death penalty, had left office, Smith authored the 2004 decision that ended the practice in New York, taking issue with the state's sentencing guidelines.

«Ex post facto» is a phrase that seems like there might be some relationship, but I'm not too brushed up on my political Latin, or sentencing decisions to know if there is a precedence in place for something like this.

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Today's sentencing decision will help achieve my office's principal objective of restoring New Yorkers» faith in their state government.

It is difficult for me to parse the sentence in Geneva -4-A3, but SCOTUS in the Hamdan decision seems to believe that the phrase «those placed in hors de combat by -LSB-...] detention» is a modifier of «persons taking no active part» and not a modifier of «members of armed forces», because SCOTUS held that this Article applies to Osama bin Laden's driver, who was detained in Camp X-ray.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver dodged a prison sentence in 2015 thanks to a U.S. Supreme Court decision redefining public corruption — but experts said he still faces a mountain of evidence at retrial that he used his powerful position for personal gain.

The decision means Huhne himself will soon join his ex-wife in court for sentencing, where they can expect a short custodial sentence.

Lawyers for former Assembly Speaker Silver — who» s set to begin serving a 12 - year corruption sentence in August — said «the McDonnell decision will be central to Mr. Silver's appeal.»

By the time the court makes a decision in his case, Haggerty will have served the bulk of his sentence, so it's likely his legal team will make a motion for his release pending that ruling — if they haven't already done so.

However, The Sun articles claim - entirely falsely - that this was a decision of the parole board (which has no involvement in HDC and deals only with prisoner serving life, indeterminate sentences and recalls) and has been «a victory» for the tabloid and its loyal readers.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday defended his decision last week to commute the sentence of 67 - year - old Judith Clark, who drove a getaway car in an October 1981 robbery in Rockland County that killed two Nyack police officers and a Brink's armored car guard.

Barcelona football star Lionel Messi and his father will appeal against a Spanish court decision to sentence them each to 21 months in jail for tax fraud, the player's lawyers say.

And de Blasio tweeted to laud President Barack Obama's decision to commute the sentence of Oscar Lopez Rivera, a member of a Puerto Rican terrorist group responsible for 100 bombings in the 1970s and 1980s, including a bombing at Fraunces Tavern that killed four and another at Police Plaza that permanently injured three NYPD officers.

Barely a month in jail, the president, on the advice of the Council of State announced the decision to remit the sentence handed to the convicts.

Cuomo made a merciful decision by commuting the 75 - year - to - life sentence of convicted terrorist Judith Clark for her role in the deadly 1981 Brinks heist, supporters said, as critics continued to blast the decision as a mockery of justice.

The governor defended his decision last week to commute the sentence of 67 - year - old Judith Clark, who drove a getaway car in an October 1981 robbery in Rockland County that killed two Nyack police officers and a Brink's armored car guard.

He was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay $ 280,000 in restitution, but the penalty was stayed pending a much - anticipated US Supreme Court decision involving the «honest services» section of the federal mail - fraud law under which he was tried.

The two were sentenced, respectively, to 5 and 6 1⁄2 years in prison, but the convictions were reversed following a U.S. Supreme Court decision that narrowed public corruption laws.

He was allowed to remain free following his sentencing pending that ruling, and is now awaiting word from the presiding US District Court judge on whether he will have to serve any time in light of the decision.

Michael Paige, whose father, Peter Paige, was killed in the robbery along with two Nyack cops, said Cuomo hadn't properly considered the impact of his decision to reduce the sentence of Judith Clark.

Both de Blasio and Bratton criticized Nunez's decision to enroll Howard in a drug program instead of sentencing him to prison.

Article 72 of the country's constitution gives the President, in consultation of the Council of State, the power to exercise a prerogative of mercy to convicts, but the Policy Advisor for the PPP, Kofi Asamoah Siaw, told Citi News any decision by the President to revoke the sentencing will «be a slap in the face of the judiciary».

Though previously sentenced to 12 years in prison, Silver appealed his 2015 conviction after a landmark Supreme Court decision changed the definition of what constitutes «official acts» by politicians in corruption cases.

Research led by Sophieke Russell at the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK, holds important lessons about how juries arrive at decisions of guilt and sentencing — and possible pointers for achieving genuine justice in courts.

In some US states, judges make sentencing decisions and set bail conditions using algorithms that calculate the likelihood that someone will reoffend.

Thus, participants acted like criminal judges; the fact that their punishment decisions correlated strongly with the prison sentences they deemed appropriate for the crimes in question attests to the fact that they saw themselves in this role.

The article in question concerns the Hare Psychopathy Checklist — Revised (PCL - R), which is commonly administered in serious criminal cases to help make sentencing decisions as well as in prisons and psychiatric hospitals to determine suitability for release.

The sentence at hand presents her with only one real challenge: a decision on how to render «vibron» in Japanese.

However, people on both sides of the political aisle could agree that racial disparities in charging decisions, jury verdicts, and sentencing violate core American principles related to justice,» wrote the researchers Samuel R. Sommers and Satia A. Marotta of Tufts University.

New research from the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research examines prosecutions following tougher sentencing for straw purchases in PA and a MD court decision that redefined private firearm transfers.

«Kids for Cash» (2013): Prepare to be even more disgusted with the criminal justice system, as this film details the disturbing decision of a once - celebrated judge to sentence kids to outrageously long juvenile detention sentences in exchange for money from the private company building the detention center.

Locked in a rectangular room barely larger than the table around which they sit, it appears that a quick verdict will be met — until one man stands up for justice and the belief that sentencing someone to die should never be a quick decision.

The Justices announced their 4 - 4 split on the constitutionality of the statute in a one - sentence decision handed down on March 26.

In one move, the bill's eight sentences of text would give the state government the ability to second guess every decision that a charter school operator may make about apportioning its resources to provide a quality education.

Primary testing has proved highly controversial during the past year including the government's decision to ditch this year's spelling, punctuation and grammar tests for all year 2 pupils, the abandoning of the new reception baseline tests, and controversy over the use of an «exclamation sentence» in literacy and how to use a comma in key stage 2 maths.