Sentences with phrase «just after the convictions»

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He has an interest in US prison reform because his father, Charles Kushner, served just over a year in federal prison after a conviction in 2005 for illegal campaign contributions and witness tampering.

Monsignor William Lynn was convicted of one count of child endangerment on Friday, and victims groups hope that conviction will pave the way for prosecutors across the country to go after church officials — and not just accused priests — in confronting sex abuse.

After HUNDREDS of court settlements equaling millions of dollars, convictions, accusations, etc etc, you would question the tragic disruption of ONE innocent's life and suggest that perhaps suicide was just the pathetic action of a drug addict.

Monsignor William Lynn was convicted of one count of child endangerment on Friday, and victims groups hope that conviction will pave the way for prosecutors across the country to go after church officials - and not just accused priests - in confronting sex abuse.

It's just like me if I hadn't progressed the club after the ’94 team or the ’99 team I would maybe having the same problems as Arsene, but he's stayed with his conviction, he's stayed with what he believes in.

[64] One commentator observed that «the Goodman - Mulcaire revelations and subsequent prosecution were supposed to have settled the hacking matter forever and might have done just that, except that successful law suits... kept popping up against News of the World after the convictions.»

«Sadly, this was just one of many pockets of corruption this office has uncovered in New York, which has become the «show me the money» state,» Bharara boasted after Smith's conviction.

Good government groups are needless to say, disappointed in the court ruling in the Dean Skelos case, just like they were after the Sheldon Silver conviction was vacated.

Capital NY noted this morning that the Republicans are on the offensive and dredging up old convictions not just in this race, but also in the 60th SD (Grisanti's seat), where they are reminding voters that the Democrat who emerged from Tuesday's primary, Marc Panepinto, had his law license suspended for 30 days in 2001 after pleading guilty to falsely saying he witnessed voters sign nominating petitions.

Today's conviction comes just weeks after Mr. Bharara scored another major political conviction when a jury found former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Democrat who had ruled that body for decades, guilty of corruption charges.

After the conviction of former Bronx assemblyman Eric Stevenson on bribery charges, Bharara emphasized that the case was just one step in a larger quest.

«It's just surreal,» said Jaron Benjamin a week after the conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and on the day of closing arguments in the federal corruption case against former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, knowing that those cases may have been bolstered by work he did years ago in the fight to strengthen the state's rent laws.

«In the span of just 16 months, we have seen the arrest, prosecution, conviction and sentencing of both leaders of the New York State Legislature,» Bharara said in a statement minutes after former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was given five years in prison.

Mr. Gentile showed the graphs to reporters after the event, which illustrated that Mr. Donovan's violent felony conviction rate is just one - tenth of a percent lower than that of the Brooklyn district attorney's office.

The stunning ruling comes just days after the same court upheld the bribery conviction of former Brooklyn Assemblyman William Boyland Jr. on similar grounds questioning the jury instructions.

He sat with bin Laden, his father - in - law, after the September 11 attacks, and was the most senior bin Laden adviser tried in civilian court in the U.S. «He was more than just Osama bin Laden's propaganda minister,» Bharara said after his conviction.

Dee has enough problems just getting on with life - trying to raise her children, with her children's deadbeat dad and his abusive girlfriend in the same building, and yet even after her conviction is overturned, her subsequent case (spearheaded by the A.C.L.U.) puts her in the D.A.'s crosshairs - who uses his substantial infuence to not only prevent her from returning to her job of 7 years, but even makes sure that she is terminated from the minimum wage job she finally manages to procure.

Yup, after missing its original release date of Nov. 2007 by just a teeny, tiny bit, Splinter Cell: Conviction is just a couple of weeks away.

Then I got to play Double Agent and Conviction, after which I gave in to the urge of buying Chaos Theory on PC just to see how it measures up against the Gamecube version.

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.

You have just been exonerated after DNA evidence has proven you innocent after a wrongful conviction.

So, if I could have just a minute, Kentucky passed sweeping expungement legislation in the last year and for the first time basically ever in Kentucky, people with old low - level felonies and almost any misdemeanor can apply, after a certain period of time, to have the conviction vacated and then expunged.

After a DUI conviction, they know that most of their customers are just happy to have insurance coverage and have no intentions of shopping around.

His conviction came just days after Samsung launched the Galaxy Note 8 at a glitzy event in New York.