Sentences with phrase «jail sentences handed»

Some of the jail sentences handed out to these teachers were greater than people convicted of second - degree murder.

Delegates will debate a motion criticising the large number of lengthy jail sentences handed down by the courts and urging ministers to drop plans to make it easier for rioters and their families to be evicted from social housing.

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic in January received Momcilo Krajisnik, a wartime Bosnian Serb leader who was released after serving two thirds of a 20 - year jail sentence handed down by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague.

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This might provide some insight as to why news editors are killing stories about curing cancer with cannabis, and why the government is still handing out lifetime jail sentences to dispensary owners for selling the possible cure to cancer to sick and dying patients.

Despite the restriction, the inquiry heard Cotton took five public services between 2001 and 2003, four of which were in one week for Pritchard - who was handed his second jail sentence last month.

The Birmingham Mail: Solihull man who ripped off Muslim woman's veil spared jail A MAN who ripped off the veil of a Muslim woman in a Solihull shopping centre has been handed a suspended prison sentence.

Once that was dealt with and the player suspended, he was then involved in an altercation with Parisian police, for which he was handed a deferred jail sentence.

Just a couple months ago a youth hockey coach in British Columbia was handed a 15 - day jail sentence for purposely sticking out his foot in the post-game handshake line, which sent two kids tumbling to the ice from the opposing team.

Handed an indeterminate jail sentence, Mr Walker could not be released from prison without undergoing a parole course which was unavailable in his jail.

A Turkish court Tuesday found a former Miss Turkey beauty queen guilty of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on social media, handing her a suspended sentence of over one year in jail.

Now that word has leaked that convicted former lobbyist Richard Lipsky is cooperating with federal authorities in hopes of reducing his jail sentence, «no - good» elected officials wringing their hands, looking over their shoulders, and treating their cellphones like «live» grenades.

The right - hand man of the jailed terrorist known as «Hook» was given the maximum sentence of 20 years in prison Friday for planning to set up an al Qaeda training...

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.

Exactly a year ago, former President John Mahama remitted the four - month prison sentence handed to the Montie FM host, Salifu Maase, alias Mugabe and two of his panelists who were convicted of contempt by the Supreme Court and jailed.

The Liberal Democrat MP and former party leader, who sits on the Global Commission on Drugs Policy, called for sweeping changes that would take the control of cannabis out of the hands of criminals, and also ensure that the users of harder drugs receive health treatment rather than jail sentences.

Mugabe and his two panelists were sentenced to serve four months in jail but former President John Mahama on August 22, 2016, remitted the four - month prison sentence handed to the three.

Ever since the death sentence was handed down in 2004, the absurd case had been bouncing between Libya's courts as the medics languished in jail; there had been at least one suicide attempt among them.

A British man found guilty of murdering a young school teacher he met on dating site Plenty of Fish, has been handed a lifetime jail sentence.

Online dating couple jailed in UK for IS - inspired bomb plot — LONDON (AP)-- A man and woman who met on a Muslim dating website were handed prison sentences Thursday for plotting an Islamic State - inspired bomb...

A woman has been handed a four - month suspended jail sentence after admitting stalking the Oscar - winning actor Eddie Redmayne over a five year period.

YouTube pranksters jailed for National Portrait Gallery stunt Four men have been handed a combined prison sentence of 72 weeks for a series of stunts in art galleries that they filmed for «Trollstation», their YouTube channel.

The scientists were convicted in October 2012, and handed 6 - year jail sentences, for their role in a meeting of an official government advisory panel.

In the latest case, the court has handed out $ 160,000 in fines and jail sentences up to 30 months.

Eluding expulsion from her school, Oxford university medical student Lavinia Wooward stabbed her tinder date with a breadknife, and despite being handed a 10 - month jail sentence suspended for 18 months, will be allowed to return to her studies.

The first Canadian charged and convicted under Canada's Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act was handed a three - year jail sentence Friday.

Recently, Brampton - based employer Peter David Sinisa Sesek was handed a jail sentence that is rarely seen, The Star reports.

The Crown was disappointed with the result and decided to take Mr. Duncan's case, along with one other, to the province's highest Court — the British Columbia Court of Appeal — as a «test case», inviting the Court to direct the Provincial Court judges that the sentences they had been handing down were too lenient, and that unless the offender was a youth or had a mental disability, every single rioter must go to jail.

In a 2010 trial on the matter, the prosecution sought a three - year jail term but the trial judge found Ellis» diagnosed psychiatric and medical condition to be a mitigating factor and handed him an 18 - month sentence.

In January 2009, he pleaded guilty to impaired driving causing bodily harm and was handed a 12 - month conditional jail sentence and a 12 - month license suspension.

«I think it could likely create a chilling effect because the reality is even though we've had the possibility of serious jail terms in our law for some time, all the criminal sanctions in terms of imprisonment that have been handed out have been through plea agreements and conditional sentences,» says Gascon.

First - time offenders, on the other hand, generally incur a fine of up to $ 1,000 and a one - year jail sentence.