Sentences with phrase «life sentence cases»

He is equipped to handle serious and violent felony crimes including life sentence cases.

Not exact matches

His case was brought to the clinic's attention by a group called Families against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM), which works to reform the kind of extreme sentencing laws that landed Tyler behind bars for life.

They have been discussing the case of 62 - year - old Alice Marie Johnson, who has been serving a life sentence without parole for her role facilitating communications for a cocaine ring in the early 1990s.

«Keeping in view the facts and evidences in the case, I sentence Shiv Kumar Yadav, to rigorous life imprisonment,» Additional Sessions Judge Kaveri Baweja told the court.

This case concluded that sentencing a juvenile to life in prison was a violation of the Eighth Amendment's ban of cruel and unusual punishment, saying children had «diminished culpability and heightened capacity for change.»

Through recorded phone conversations with Syed (who is currently serving a life sentence), former classmates and records from the original police investigation and trial, Koening unveils more about the case against Syed each week.

«I don't think there's any doubt that the crime merited a life sentence, given the amount of damage that Mr. Pollard did to the United States government,» AP quoted Joseph diGenova, who prosecuted the case as a US government lawyer in Washington, DC, as saying.

Fotso, already sentenced to 25 years behind bars in a separate graft case, «took the rap for life,» said a source close to the Special Criminal Tribunal, set up in the central African country to try major corruption cases.

A federal judge in Brooklyn, in an extraordinary opinion that calls for courts to pay closer attention to how felony convictions affect people's lives, sentenced a woman in a drug case to probation rather than prison, saying the collateral consequences she would face as a felon were punishment enough.

Death penalty cases largely mirror life sentences...

This was used and cited the most often in cases of inmates who had been given the death penalty: from 1965 to 1993 (when the death penalty was formally abolished) death sentences were automatically commuted to life imprisonment under the Royal Prerogative.

The BHA has made its comments in light of a new legal case launched by Tony Nicklinson which seeks clarity in the law on murder and assisted dying, and ahead of an appeal later today in the case of Frances Inglis, who was given a life sentence earlier this year after being found guilty of murder after giving her permanently brain - damaged son a lethal heroin overdose.

Although Jenkins already was convicted and sentenced to life without parole in Niagara County, Kennedy and Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph M. Tripi said it was crucial to their case to try Jenkins on federal charges.

Taking the extreme case as an example, it's absurd that someone serving a LIFE sentence is counted as a resident of NYC — which is EXACTLY what Schneiderman's bill (that was passed recently) does.

His worst - case scenario was that the death sentences would be commuted in exchange for blood money and the medics would spend the rest of their lives in a Libyan jail.

In the trial in Dallas County, Texas, jurors considered the case of William Freeman, who is serving a life sentence for killing a friend in 1987.

In a letter to Obama dated 18 February — but which has just become public — Museveni, Uganda's president, defends the bill, which would introduce life sentences for so - called «aggravated homosexuality» with minors or in cases of rape, and terms of 7 to 14 years for attempted or actual homosexual activity.

«For decades the system has failed tens of thousands of children who in many cases have been doomed to life sentences of disadvantage and despair,» Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D - Brooklyn) told the energetic crowd.

Appointed by the U.S. District Court to represent the first person tried in a federal death penalty case in the Southern Division of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, resulting in a life sentence rather than a death sentence;

Mandatory minimum sentencing reduces judges» discretion to consider all of the specifics of a case and the potential impacts of a sentence on a human life.

This legislation seems like it could be somewhat protective of a single juror's ability to utilize jury nullification in the sentencing phase of a capital case to recommend life without parole instead of death.

In the first case, which was handled by a public defender, he was sentenced to death and in the two which I tried, he received life sentences without the jury knowing about the first case.

And some of the evidence that has come in shows that the victim's family was greatly impacted and terribly grieved and greatly harmed by the facts ․ Can you assure us that the knowledge of those facts would not prevent you or substantially impair you in considering a life sentence in such a case

Now, «when the court finds that the defendant satisfies the criteria for dangerousness, a life sentence [under s 225 of the 2003 Act] should be reserved for those cases where the culpability of the offender is particularly high or the offence itself particularly grave» (per Mr Justice Openshaw at 17).

Reaction is overwhelmingly positive to news that the first case to be featured on the BBC's Crimewatch programme has been solved after a DNA profile produced from evidence at the scene was linked to a family member of the killer on the national database leading the police to the defendant.Paul Stewart Hutchinson pleaded guilty to the murder of 16 - year - old Colette Aram and was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 25 years

What is nice about these cases is that now, federal judges can truly take into consideration someone's whole life when deciding an appropriate sentence.

And in his Ring concurrence, Justice Scalia chides Justice Breyer by saying that «unfortunately this case has nothing to do with sentencing» Plus, Scalia makes it crystal clear in Ring that he believes that Apprendi gave no role to juries in sentencing, as opposed to a role in convicting or acquitting of crimes, when he went out of his way to say that states who leave the ultimate life and death decision to judges may continue to do so.

Exceptions would be made in certain cases, such as when the couple has been living apart for five years or more, or when one partner is serving a prison sentence.

In addressing the issue of sentence in this case at bar, the Intervenor submits that the lives of the victims Erin McGinn and Mark Jewitt should be assessed just like the lives of any other persons in society.

In real life, people represent usually themselves, either because they are denied access to counsel (which can be done in a criminal cases where the prosecutor waives the right to seek incarceration as a sentence), or because they are «crazy».

It did so notwithstanding that the inadmissibility ruling in this case — which concerned a complaint that a sentence of life imprisonment was irreducible and thus in violation of Article 3 — had been based on the approach to this issue in a judgment of the Grand Chamber, which the latter had subsequently reversed in a manner that would probably have resulted in Mr Simeonov's complaint being found admissible if it had been determined later.

Represented the first person tried in a federal death penalty case in the Southern Division of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, resulting in a life sentence rather than a death sentence.

A mother and child who testified in a murder trial more than 20 years ago that led to a man's life sentence may have received $ 1,000 in reward money, some trips to a theme park and basketball games for the son, according to court filings in the case.

Assault charges can range from misdemeanor assaults including domestic violence and family violence cases to felony aggravated assault with deadly weapons charges that could carry sentences of up to life in prison.

A recent appeal court ruling has stated that whole life sentences can still be imposed by judges in England and Wales for the most serious cases of murder.

«The case was put under seal to protect Judge Price's identity and where he lives, being that he's involved in felony sentencings,» Dunn said.

However, in the unique facts of Capt. Semrau's case, the greatest challenge faced by the prosecution may not be in proving its case beyond a reasonable doubt, but in maintaining moral legitimacy when imposing the obligatory life sentence for murder upon a decorated soldier who, if found guilty, would be responsible for an apparent mercy killing of an enemy combatant.

The validity of conspiracy charges in military commissions has been litigated extensively in the case against Ali al Bahlul, a Guantanamo detainee who is serving a life sentence.

SERIAL is a 12 - episode non-fiction investigative reporting series that explores a 15 - year old teenage murder case in Baltimore, and questions whether or not the jilted boyfriend convicted in the case and now serving a life sentence was in fact wrongfully convicted.

Wyant originally wanted to start allowing live coverage next week of his sentencing verdict in a deadly driving case against a former police officer.

Ross Ulbricht's defense team has uncovered more proof of evidence tampering in the Silk Road case undermining his life sentence for being convicted as the operator of the Silk Road marketplace.

more prone to lead law abiding lives upon completing their residency requirements at the Lodge than was the case years earlier, when the federally sentenced women were far removed from their home territories and their communities were not part of their post-custodial release plans.

Some parents had other children of which current children were not aware; in some cases children were unaware of previous husbands of their mothers; incarcerations were kept secret, although the person had been living in the house at the time they were sentenced to jail.