Sentences with phrase «long after the sentence»

Such wrongful convictions are very rarely discovered, and when they are: (1) it is long after the sentence is served; and, (2) they are inadvertently discovered, as was that of Hanemaayer, who had pleaded guilty almost 20 years earlier.

Not exact matches

Amid a hail of gunfire the helicopter was able to take off from the prison after picking up three prisoners serving decades - long sentences for various violent crimes, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Then, you may be alarmed to discover that you are more likely to hand down longer sentences the week after that bummer of a game than if your team won.

The Mailer who can write a sentence like «his eyes were blue like the faded blue of the sky when the sky is white» is about as far as is humanly possible from the Mailer whose political reporting in the early 1960s remains irresistible long after its subjects have faded» and reestablished his literary reputation that had begun to fade with the critical and popular questioning of the novels that followed The Naked and the Dead.

You have it in one sentence (it seems to me)-- «Like every generation before ours and every generation after, deep down, we long for Jesus.»

I can honestly say I poured the best of myself into this project, crafting each chapter and every sentence as gifts for the reader to keep and enjoy, long after the book is closed.

When he reappears, after long neglect, in order to face final refutation in the concluding sentences of the last chapter, it is a distraction, not a culmination of Martin's overall argument.

And I freely admit I sometimes use too many extraneous, space - consuming, overly - descriptive, qualifying, words or sentences written quickly and in a stream - of - conscientiousness, run - on sort of fashion with occasional typos mostly due to fatigue of being up way too late (which also explains this post in general) after a long day of political discussion which refreshingly had little religious content though of course there is often much overlap between the two but posting is barely a hobby but more of an occasional passtime so now i wonder if what I write could be considered abuse as I've can't really recall seeing much if any sorrt of «text filibustering» not that this is exactly filibustering more a spontaneous text performance response joke and meant in jest to be absurdly long and useless so of course i hope you appreciate the spirit.

Many years later, I then got to know my Argentine housemate, Juan, on exchange in Mannheim, Germany, where we would chat in our shared kitchen — a sprinkling of sentences here and there as I finished dinner and as he started his — where we'd eventually fall in love and after two years of a long - distance relationship, I later moved to Buenos Aires to live in the same country and continent as him.

And after next Sunday, I hope no one ever speaks our names together in the same sentence again for as long as we have left on this earth.

The new directive includes New York in a list of 14 states and the District of Columbia that allow felons to vote in elections after serving their sentence, and bypasses the state Legislature on a measure long - sought by activists.

In addition, according to the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, after the environmental clean - up costs and the repayment of loans taken out by Minvest from Gabriel Resources, the project would generate nowhere near the $ 4 billion claimed by RMGC, but instead bring «nothing to the region but a long term sentence to poverty.»

Tthe special elections on Long Island and in Lower Manhattan offer voters a chance to do the unprecedented: to replace, in the space of one day, two former members of New York State's ruling triumvirate, both of whom are scheduled to be sentenced in the coming weeks after being convicted on corruption charges.

The room is nearly soundproof but her words are clearly well received - after what can only be one sentence there's a huge «wahey» and another long round of desk - thumping.

In a statement issued moments after the sentencing, Mr. Bharara said that the «stiff sentence is a just and fitting end to Sheldon Silver's long career of corruption.»

After the 12 - year sentence, Bharara issued a brief response: «Today's stiff sentence is a just and fitting end to Sheldon Silver's long career of corruption.»

After Silver was sentenced yesterday, Bharara took to Twitter to say, «Today's stiff sentence is a just and fitting end to Sheldon Silver's long career of corruption.»

Adam himself was sentenced to an even longer term of six - and - a-half years for his part in the plots, after Wood noted the younger Skelos» threats against victims of the schemes.

«I was a very sick man for a very long time,» Weiner said before sentencing, after which he broke down in tears.

Yet the special elections on Long Island and in Lower Manhattan offer voters a chance to do the unprecedented: to replace, in the space of one day, two former members of New York State's ruling triumvirate, both of whom are scheduled to be sentenced in the coming weeks after being convicted on corruption charges.

After pleading guilty and accepting a plea bargain that he was told would lead to 6 months in prison, Tamer listened incredulously in court a few weeks later as the judge handed down a sentence that was three times longer.

After filtering out review articles and legitimate quoting, about one in 16 arXiv authors were found to have copied long phrases and sentences from their own previously published work that add up to about the same amount of text as this entire article.

Aw, I was actually a bit disappointed at this post because after the first picture I expected more pictures or at least a longer story — one picture (even though it's beautiful) and 2 sentences really don't work for me, it's not the best way for followers to «live» into the post, let themselves be carried away.

We've probably never uttered «Shonen Jump» and «sexy» in the same sentence (the manga magazine is ostensibly for children, after all), but that didn't stop ranking site Goo from asking its readers: in the long history of Shonen Jump, who have been the sexiest villains?

The longer, the more complicated the sentence the greater the number of the same kinds of words I had following one after another, the more the very more I had of them the more I felt the passionate need of their taking care of themselves by themselves and not helping them, and thereby enfeebling them by putting in a comma.

A prison sentence he didn't deserve, the love of his life lost forever... Find out where it all began... In this gripping prequel to The Harrisons, Joe and Rose's story will have your fingers flipping the pages like lightning as their passionate story unfolds.BOOK DESCRIPTION: After 5 long years inside, Joe Harrison is finally about to taste the freedom he's been dreaming about for so long, except that the outside world doesn't exactly look kindly on ex-cons.

- I specifically state the book is addressed to a female within the first few pages: he thought it was addressed to a male - «shock» I suffered racism because I look more white - suggesting I only thought people had said racist things to me because I have a persecution complex - minutes after I gave him the manuscript he said some sentences were too long.

Their owners, Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noelle, received jail sentences for involuntary manslaughter after a long debate on whether the San Francisco courts should treat the attack as a murder.

F - bombs drop before and after every word in the sentence, no matter how long it is.

In the UK in the 80's and 90's the courts in the UK (and I guess the USA) started treating juveniles as adults and giving them longer sentences... After all house breaking and robbery are just as traumatic if it's done by a 15 year old as a 30 year old, very little thought was given to the mental maturity of the offender.

After reading 1,000 cases as a first year law student — most of which were written in the stuffiest, densest legalese imaginable — my writing started to morph into what I was seeing everyday: passive voice, unnecessary Latin phrases, way - too - long sentences, etc..

In the film Conviction, which opens today, Hilary Swank plays Betty Anne Waters, a wife and mother of two who put herself through high school, college and ultimately law school, in an 18 - year - long crusade to prove her brother Kenny's innocence after he is convicted of murder and sentenced to life without parole.

Why do we refuse year after year to take a portion of the money spent on new prisons, more correctional officers, and longer sentences, on substance abuse programs, aboriginal employment opportunities, and mental health resources?

When they are detected, it is almost always long after the wrongfully imposed conviction, and the resulting sentence has been served, and the consequences of the unjustly imposed criminal record and loss of employability etc., endured, and lives thereby severely damaged.

Under CJA 1991, long - term prisoners are eligible to apply for parole after half of the sentence has been served, and automatic release at the 2/3 point.

The applicable version of the guidelines: Rite does not address directly or even indirectly the Seventh Circuit's view (discussed here and here) that, after Booker, district courts should apply the most recent version of the now - advisory guidelines even when they recommend a longer sentence than the guidelines applicable at the time of the defendant's crime.

I have seen clients released from custody after much shorter sentences and being handed other relics from their property bags rendered obsolete by the passage of time during their sentences: subway tokens long since expired, keys to a home long since repossessed.

As long as he remains such, the United States may be unwilling to release him, even after his sentence runs out.

Before it was stamped out, the accelerated parole review provision made first - time, non-violent offenders eligible for parole review after they served one - sixth or six months of their sentence, whichever was longest.

In other words, even though judges are supposed to be impartial they all carry underlying biases, such as a tendency to give a lighter sentence after a long lunch break.

In an early study of the sentencing behavior of Pennsylvania judges, who run in retention elections after being elected to office, Huber and Gordon (2004) found that criminal sentences are significantly longer the closer the judge is to facing the voters.

However, thanks to this terrific University of Michigan Law Library site, which has all of Alito's academic writings here, we can unearth what might be hints as to how a Justice Alito might view key participants in the post-Booker world from two commentaries appearing in the Federal Sentencing Reporter not long after the guidelines were enacted.

For the respondents, Samantha Claire Lewis, Souphin Inlakhana, Juliet Ifeika, Rosa Mukandori, Nazma Murtaza, Debbie Craddock, Desiree Solleveld, Patricia Longley, Candace Branche and Carol Williams this meant they would no longer be entitled to day parole after serving the greater of either six months or one sixth of their sentences.

So, all we know from the Ramirez opinion is that a defendant with an long criminal history stole $ 1000 of personal property and received the statutory maximum sentence after accepting responsibility.

After Gall, «we no longer apply a form of proportionality review to outside - Guidelines sentences»... United States v. Bolds, No. 07 - 5602, 2007 WL 4440403, at * 10 (6th Cir.

After successful completion of the program, the sentencing judge will take into consideration the dramatic and meaningful step towards long term change made by the participant

Not long after I saw the Fourth Circuit's Pauley decision upholding a below - guideline sentence as reasonable, I discovered a similar (though split) Eleventh Circuit ruling in US v. McBride, No. 06 - 16544 (11th Cir.

These days, since there is now a right to appeal a criminal conviction under state law or federal statute (but not the U.S. Constitution), a writ of habeas corpus is only brought when direct appeals of a conviction have been exhausted, often several years after the original conviction (which makes a writ of habeas corpus only useful for convictions involving long sentences of incarceration).

In looking to real conduct, federal sentencing judges have long relied upon a probation officer's presentence report, which is often unavailable until after the trial.

But opinions still don't need to sound like a dirge, with one medium - long declarative sentence after another.