Sentences with phrase «judge after a conviction»

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Then, Shkreli went to court, where to his apparent surprise, a judge revoked his $ 5 million bail after a stock fraud conviction last month, and sent him to prison — where he'll wait until at least next January.

Last May, he walked out of the Stormville, New York, facility a free man, after a judge vacated his conviction.

Boynton Beach Police Officer Michael Brown is facing a lot less time in federal prison after a judge threw out one of his two criminal convictions.

The overturning of Skelos's 2015 conviction comes 10 weeks after former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's conviction was similarly tossed by a federal judge.

He was convicted of manslaughter last year after shooting girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, but the conviction was changed to murder by an appeal judge this week.

Liang's lawyers have already begun their appeals process, and plan to ask Judge Chun on Wednesday to toss the conviction after they say juror Michael Vargas lied about his family's history during jury selection.

A man who served 16 years behind bars for murder before his conviction was overturned cried and held the hands with a Brooklyn judge Tuesday after learning he won't be...

Now, after a mistrial, a conviction and an exoneration, lawyer John O'Hara is running for Brooklyn civil court judge.

A federal judge revoked Martin Shkreli's bail on his fraud conviction, sending the former pharmaceutical executive to jail after he offered $ 5,000 for a strand of Clinton's hair.

It was a bad week for Anthony Mangone, a former attorney whose cooperation aided in the conviction of three New York state senators, who was sentenced to 18 months behind bars this week after a judge said the «dirty lawyer» had committed crimes too serious to escape incarceration.

The denim connection to sexual assault awareness originated from a 1998 Supreme Court Case in Italy in which a rape conviction was overturned after the judge reasoned the victim's tight denim jeans meant that she had to have helped her attacker remove them, implying consent.

Hours after a judge downgraded the conviction of Officer Peter Liang — convicted in February of killing the unarmed Akai Gurley in 2014 — to criminally negligent homicide, Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson pledged to appeal the decision.

In part, the judge based his decision on The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, an English law that allows criminal convictions to become «spent» after a prescribed period of time.

After federal prosecutors repeatedly made comments on a major news website encouraging the conviction of the defendants, a federal judge threw out convictions for five police officers found to have shot unarmed citizens during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

The majority of the Court of Appeal allowed the appeal and set aside the conviction, finding that the trial judge failed to properly instruct the jury on the limitations of the use of after - the - fact evidence.

On Oct. 31, a federal judge at long last vacated the convictions of Danial Williams (top left) and Joseph Dick (top right)-- two of the «Norfolk Four «-- after finding them innocent of a 1997 rape and murder.

The opinion prompted the Commonwealth of Virginia to stop defending the conviction after more than a decade, and just last month, Judge Gibney vacated their convictions, giving the Commonwealth of Virginia 60 days to decide whether to retry them.

I am home from the terrific Miami FSG conference (kudos to everyone involved), and on the way I was thinking about Judge Rakoff's decision this past week to give an enormous variance — the largest I have seen — to a corporate president who apparently faced a life sentence under the guidelines after a fraud conviction that resulted in $ 260 million in losses (basics here).

In Adelson, SDNY District Judge Jed Rakoff's granted an huge variance to a corporate president who faced a life sentence under the federal sentencing guidelines after a fraud conviction that resulted in $ 260 million in losses.

In a lesson about using «flimsy grounds» for stopping people on suspicion of texting while driving, an Ontario Superior Court judge has thrown out an alcohol - related conviction after a cop stopped a driver he thought had a cellphone in his hand while at a red light.

A judge has thrown out a claim against the Law Society of New Brunswick that a lawyer brought after the regulator suspended him before an appeal of his criminal conviction was heard.

Foley Hoag LLP, working pro bono alongside the Committee for Public Counsel Services Innocence Program, has helped overturn a murder conviction for Darrell Jones after Superior Court Judge Thomas F. McGuire, Jr., ruled that Jones did not receive a trial before an impartial jury for the death of Guillermo Rodrigues in November 1985.

Legal Feeds Appeal court orders new trial due to counsel's ineffective representation An appeal court judge ordered a new trial in a road rage conviction Thursday after finding the accused was served ineffectively by his legal counsel, who did not allow him to testify in his own defence.

The trial judge dismissed an application after the conviction, seeking to strike down the five - year minimum for attempted murder with a weapon.

However, in 1997, after several appeals and a conviction for jury tampering, in a decision that surprised most legal commentators, the sentencing judge found that a 10 - year sentence was «grossly disproportionate» to the offence.

And after 1826, no Pennsylvania judge was impeached until 1994, when Rolf Larson was removed from office following a felony conviction.

This article details a federal sentencing from Hawai'i in which Chief US District Judge David Ezra focused on punishment purposes to justify a shorter prison term for a first offender who has undergone extensive sex - offender treatment after a conviction for downloading child pornography.

Criminal conviction by a judge after acquittal by a jury would violate the Double Jeopardy Clause of the 5th Amendment.

I wish judges were required to impose the last best plea offer as a sentence after a conviction.

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After a judge gives a jail sentence, the offender is taken to jail and a conviction is registered against them.

The Court of Appeal set aside the conviction and acquitted Villaroman after finding the trial judge had misstated the law of circumstantial evidence and that the verdict of guilt based on that evidence was unreasonable.

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A 61 - year - old man who has been in prison since 1976 was freed Thursday after a Wayne County Circuit judge agreed to vacate his sentence because his first - degree murder conviction was based on a discredited scientific method.

However, the ratio between jury convictions and overall acquittals is more or less the same for offences of serious violence as for rape, from which it is almost certainly safe to infer that the ratio between jury convictions and acquittals returned after due deliberation (not judge - directed) will be broadly the same for serious violence generally and for rape.

Do the available official statistics allow us to compare the conviction / acquittal rate between rape trials and trials for the generality of offences where juries have actually deliberated and given verdicts of their own, that is excluding directed acquittals after the judge has made a decision to stop the case?

In this case, the sentencing judge, after presumably satisfying herself that the accused had the ability to pay the charitable donations, ordered a conditional discharge and charitable donations rather than a conviction and payment of a fine.

In the event you're found guilty and would like to appeal the conviction, you'll need to write a notice of appeal to the judge AND the WI state prosecution no more than 20 days after receiving your verdict.