Sentences with phrase «majority of the bail»

This idea is contrary to the majority of bail hearings where the onus is on the Crown to show cause for detention.

Not exact matches

Labour doesn't even need to establish a constituency of support to do these things - Labour has institutional links with the union and cooperative movements, a majority in the Commons, and has just bailed out British capitalism.

Cuomo's office says it may be closing the gap on bail reform and other policy issues it has been pushing, including several women's rights issues, because he and other Democrats have moved closer to owning a majority of the state Senate.

Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to revoke the bail of former Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., who was convicted in May after a prolonged and colorful trial of stealing close to half a million dollars from Soundview, the federally funded Bronx health clinic he founded and ran for years with the assistance of allies and members of his family.

One of the Majority Party Leaders of the legislature, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who was instrumental in helping DiNapoli become Comptroller, has already said that the Assembly won't approve the governor's pension bail out plan unless the Comptroller says it's okay.

I assume the vast majority of those were primarily arrested to face the charges they were originally on bail for.

BUFFALO, NY — Erie County Majority Leader April N. M. Baskin launched her ongoing Public Safety campaign today, beginning with a focus on the issue of bail reform for nonviolent misdemeanor offenses.

Majorities of voters support all eight of Cuomo's agenda items that Siena polled on, ranging from passing the Child Victims Act to eliminating cash bail for misdemeanors and non-violent felonies.

A New York federal judge ruled Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son can stay free on bail while appealing their convictions on corruption charges, saying jury instructions in their trial could be flawed in light of a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

The vast majority of entrepreneurs in this business lose their shirts and bail.

The vast majority of defendants in Orleans Parish who are released from jail under financial conditions purchase bail bonds.

As most of Connecticut's local property taxpayers are being asked to pay more to preserve their local schools, and Connecticut's taxpayers are being asked to pay more to invest in Connecticut's most troubled schools, leave it to Mayor Finch and the majority Democrats in Bridgeport to sneak in an end of the year cut to their own schools... even after the state and its taxpayer's bailed them out of their school budget deficit last year.

It also aligns with the assessment of clean energy and environmental groups, natural gas trade groups and utilities that have invested in more natural gas generation, and the majority of energy regulators and economists, who have fought FirstEnergy's and the Trump administration's attempts to bail out coal and nuclear interests, largely in the PJM region.

The emails were obtained by the Energy and Policy Institute via a series of public records requests to Ohio House Majority Floor Leader Bill Seitz and other state legislators involved in campaigns to roll back Ohio's renewable energy and energy efficiency standards, as well as bail out failing coal and nuclear power plants.

The initial chaos in bail court caused by these projects pays dividends down the line as the vast majority of cases have resulted in most minor players being cut out entirely with mid and high - level suspects entering guilty pleas.

Promise to Appear is less common in domestic assault cases, where a bail hearing will be requiring the majority of the time.

While there may be the occasional headline - grabbing incidents of «bail gone bad», for the vast majority of people on bail, pre-trial release simple recognizes the fact that our criminal justice system presumes all accused persons to be innocent until proven guilty.

Once the charge is laid and the arrest is made, in the vast majority of domestic assault cases, the police will not exercise their discretion to release the person without a bail hearing.

Concerns about systemic discrimination are relevant at the bail stage in post-9 / 11 terrorism cases as the overwhelming majority of the accused have been Muslim men, and by definition, all those accused of terrorism will have controversial political or religious motives.

Given the sensitivity of these bail scenarios, authorities and the majority of the public back the change, and are leaning on the effective adaptation of police forces, but some are also not as keen, claiming the new rule could put victims at risk because suspects may be released without conditions.