Sentences with phrase «life sentence under»

It is also true that this Court has not heretofore invalidated a mandatory life sentence under the Eighth Amendment.

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.

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).

... Some 3,700 people who committed neither violent nor serious crimes are serving life sentences under California's «three strikes and you're out» law...

Not exact matches

They are individuals who received unduly harsh sentences under outdated laws for committing largely nonviolent drug crimes, for example, the 35 individuals whose life sentences were commuted today.

However, if it was other family, their justice must have been to put that criminal in the jail under a life sentence.

To be a colored body was to be under sentence of death, and Morrison does not flinch from trying to communicate what it means to be living color in a racist world.

A court in Pakistan has sentenced a Christian man to life imprisonment under the country's blasphemy law for allegedly sending «blasphemous» text messages about Prophet Muhammad from his mobile phone.

---------------------- So, if you claim in one sentence that you don't know when life or sentience begins, then how can you make a claim that «the having of a personality» is the only condition under which one can be granted personhood, when you just said that you don't know?

Chad Achurch, 27, was sentenced in Liverpool Local Court on Monday 10 April 2017 for offences under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1979 relating to live baiting.

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Mr Blair's speech will attempt to draw a line under this week's row over sentencing, which began after a convicted paedophile was told he could be out in five years despite being given a life sentence for sexually assaulting a three - year - old girl.

Under the current laws, level two and level three sex offenders are registered for life, with level two offenders able to petition the sentencing court for removal after 30 years.

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.

Backing his claim with Article 13 of the Constitution which says «no person shall be deprived of his life intentionally except in the exercise of the execution of a sentence of a court in respect of a criminal offence under the laws of Ghana of which he has been convicted,» the caucus leader and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs said, «I do not think that the constitution, in so far as a matter is criminal, frowns upon the use of force to the extent that it may even deprive some other people of their lives.

It says that if all death - sentenced defendants remained under this sentence indefinitely, as opposed to being taken off death row due to being resentenced to life in prison or their fate being artificially cut off by the study ending, then 4.1 percent of those prisoners would have otherwise been exonerated.

Munir Mohammed was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 14 years, while accomplice Rowaida El - Hassan was jailed for 12 years and five more under licence conditions.

If she is under 13 he could be sentenced to life imprisonment.

Whether Under the Gun will have an effect on the debate or if it will just be seen as one side's biased account is yet to be seen, but the impact of it and the other gun - related films could do for gun control what The House I Live In did for America's awareness of drug sentencing.

Judah takes the blame, and under threat of punishment himself, Messala condemns his adoptive mother (Ayelet Zurer) and sister (Sofia Black - D'Elia) to death, while sentencing Judah to a life of slavery within the Roman navy.

Dead Star is set at the farthest known recesses of space, in ancient battlefield ruins where convicts are banished to live out their sentence under the watchful eye of the Guardian AI.

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Thus in Secretary of State for the Home Department, e x parte Doody [1994] 1 AC 531, [1993] 3 All ER 92, where the issue was whether the home secretary was under a duty to give reasons for a decision relating to the prescribed period which a mandatory life sentence prisoner must serve before being eligible for parole, the House of Lords held that the decision in question was sufficiently important for it to be accompanied by reasons.

While Article 2 allows for deprivation of life in the «execution of a sentence of a court following his conviction of a crime for which this penalty is provided by law», Protocol No. 6 to the European Convention on Human Rights does not allow any derogation to it under Article 15 ECHR.

A decade ago, Justice France Charbonneau, then a Crown prosecutor with 23 years of trials under her belt, successfully took down the once elusive Hell's Angels boss Maurice «Mom» Boucher, who is now serving a life sentence for the murder of two prison guards.

If the prosecution can prove that your witness intimidation was linked to gang activity you could be sentenced to 7 years to life in prison under the California criminal street gang enhancement.

Under the original second - degree murder convictions, Jordan and Magoon had been sentenced to life in prison without parole for a minimum of 17 years.

The Lithuanian Anthony Sawoniuk was sentenced in 1999 under the War Crimes Act 1991 to life imprisonment for two murders in Eastern Europe.

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).

If an accused is charged under section 273 of the Criminal Code with Aggravated Sexual Assault, the maximum sentence that the court can impose is a term of life imprisonment.

In addressing the issue of sentencing under the assisted suicide provisions of the Code, the Intervenor submits that it would be inappropriate for this Court to accept that it is possible for one person, including a physician, to assess another person's life and to determine whether that other person's life is of sufficient quality to warrant his and her continued existence.

Punishment varies from a fine or imprisonment of up to ten years, or both; and if death results, or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years, or for life, or may be sentenced to death.

As for the significance of choking as an aggravating factor, Justice Graesser noted that as a separate offence, it is subject to a maximum sentence of life imprisonment under section 246 (a) of the Criminal Code.

Offences under s. 236 are ineligible for a conditional sentence order under s. 742.1 (b) and (c), as there are mandatory minimum periods of incarceration and, when prosecuted by indictment, the maximum penalty is 14 years or life.

Offences under s. 220 (b), 249.2 and 249.3 are ineligible for a conditional sentence order under s. 742.1 (c), when prosecuted by indictment, as the maximum period of incarceration is 14 years or life.

«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.

The conviction under examination at present belongs to Joey Watkins, a Georgia man sentenced to life in prison in July 2001 for aggravated assault, a weapons violation, misdemeanor stalking, and the felony murder of Isaac Dawkins in January 2000.

In addition to Adult Basic Education (ABE), Adult Secondary Education (ASE), and vocational training, the NDCS offers relationship, life skills, and parenting programs for inmates.62 Facilities in Kansas choose to offer either the InsideOut or Active Parenting Now programs, and can combine them with Play and Learn classes, in which inmates can apply the skills from the curricula with their children in a supervised setting.63 Washington has implemented two Parenting Sentencing Alternatives to keep nonviolent offenders with minor children out of prison: the Family and Offender Sentencing Alternative (FOSA), in which offenders» sentences are waived and they are placed under community supervision, and the Community Parenting Alternative (CPA), a partial confinement program in which offenders remain under electronic monitoring surveillance.64 These two programs are in addition to Washington's Strength in Families program, which is a parenting, relationship, and employment readiness program for soon - to - be-released prisoners.

380 DOS 03 Donati v. DOS — prior misconduct; reconsideration; res judicata; applicant's prior license as a real estate broker was suspended by administrative decision (50 DOS 94) requiring respondent to pay restitution as a condition of consideration of any application by the applicant for a license under Article 12 - A; prior administrative decision is binding both upon the applicant and the tribunal; tribunal must consider, however, whether under current circumstances, the continued imposition of the condition is unreasonable; applicant is 62 years of age, has been divested of all property, faces destitution and seeks to work as a salesperson under the direction and supervision of a broker; applicant admits the unlawful acts, expresses remorse and states that under the current circumstances, the prior decision is a «life sentence;» under the current circumstances, the continued imposition of the prior decision is unreasonable; application for real estate salesperson license granted