Sentences with phrase «of time in jail»

Accumulating a high number of driving license penalty points in Georgia may bring you not only a driver's license suspension but also additional penalties such as mandatory traffic fines and a certain amount of time in jail.
In most cases, an individual who is convicted with DUI offense will face longer periods of driver's license suspension, extended term in DUI School and longer period of time in jail.
For the most part, any individual that is arrested for a crime will spend some amount of time in jail either being detained or just simply going through the booking process.
In a probation case, the defendant is found guilty (i.e. convicted) and sentenced to a period of time in jail or prison; however, the jail time or prison time is «probated» or suspended, meaning put on hold.
If stopped by any law enforcement agent either because you get stopped in your vehicle or while coming into the U.S., you most likely will be stripped of your liberty and forced to spend a significant amount of time in jail before being released.
You could be arrested and spend a considerable period of time in jail.
Richard, all the points you have made are correct and you didn't even mention that Corbyn has already threatened to sling Labour's most successful leader of all time in jail!
Our goal is to spare our client of any time in jail.

Not exact matches

In an essay for Time earlier this year, Jay - Z announced that he would be donating to organizations like Color of Change and Southerners on the New Ground to advocate for the release of jailed fathers who have not been convicted of a crime but are unable to afford bail.
In some cases, they face jail time and massive fines for network intrusion and theft of trade secrets both classified as federal crimes.
The researchers calculated that each upset loss of the LSU football team generated excess punishments of juvenile defenders in Louisiana by a total of more than 1,332 days, including time in custody and probation, with 159 extra days of jail time for juveniles convicted of a felony.
To wit: in recent years, Japanese jails have added safety bars in cells and begun offering low - sodium meals to accommodate a surge of criminal senior citizens, shoplifting to cope with hard times.
«There's a bunch of people currently serving time of jail, politicians who engaged in bribery or kickbacks, and were prosecuted under honest services instead of the federal anti-bribery statute,» says Henderson.
So while Libby did not end up serving time in jail, he was still on probation for 2 years and paid a fine of $ 250,000.
The report estimates that out of the 630,000 people held in jail, only 187,000 have been convicted of a crime, which is most often a misdemeanor that does not warrant time in prison.
In an essay for Time earlier this month, Jay - Z announced that he would be donating to organizations like Color of Change and Southerners on the New Ground to advocate for the release of jailed fathers who have not been convicted of a crime but are unable to afford bail.
And earlier this week, in a self - penned essay for Time, he wrote, «On any given day over 400,000 people, convicted of no crime, are held in jail because they can not afford to buy their freedom.
The comedian could spend the rest of his life in jail for drugging and molesting Andrea Constand, a Canadian who, at the time, worked at Temple University.
Weldon J. Rougeau, a long - time civil rights activist, has considered the issue of diversity from many perspectives — as director of the office of federal contract compliance programs at the U.S. Department of Labor during the Carter administration, as president of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and even as a prisoner for 78 days (58 of them in solitary confinement) in a Baton Rouge, La., jail cell when he was a student activist.
The accused in a chocolate price - fixing case could face a bitter fate if convicted - millions of dollars in fines for the companies and potential jail time for the individuals.
Dawn Huckelbridge, director of American Bridge's Women's Rights Initiative, released the following statement in response to the US Senate's vote on a bill that would ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy and threaten doctors with jail time:
Remanding Price in custody, the judge warned him jail time was evitable and medical evidence would only affect the length of sentence, if at all.
is that worth throwing them in jail for a «long long time» or worth the shedding of more blood... as soon as the people give up their lives for the sake of others, then the masses will not only know what real love is, they too will experience something as great,!
mormons are living a lie based on the work of a scam artist that got shot multiple times in a jail.
A third of all black young men in the country will spend some time in jail.
We send criminals to jail instead to achieve social justice, and their sentences are deliberately measured in time behind bars: Offenders must be withdrawn from society for a period sufficient to allow them to realize the wrongness of their actions» and sufficient to protect society from them until they learn that lesson.
Many of these theologians have lost their jobs and spent time in jail because of their activities in behalf of the poor.
Or, you could take all that and trade it for the story of someone who slept around, did drugs, got divorced four times, murdered somebody, landed in jail, found Jesus, got paroled, and then became an internally known Christian author and conference speaker even though they lived most of their life with no thought for Jesus.
During his ten years as state senator and four as attorney general, Earley spent most of his time «working on how to put more people in jail and keeping them there longer,» he said in a speech at the Washington Convention Center.
Unfortunately, I have been «stripped, whipped, tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail» by my own family members for simply STATING that if I found out, or «heard a whisper of a finger being laid on my niece» who was going to stay with my abuser and his enabler, I «would go to the authorities and this time I would and legally could have him put in jail
But by the time my semester came to an end, I learned some wholly unexpected lessons about the transformative power of prayer in a jail setting; about the effects on the body of such personal transformation; and about this country's systemic racism and how it is in some ways coterminous with the attempt to prevent or repress such transformation.
The Office of Congressional Ethics was formed in 2008 as a bipartisan measure after three members of Congress where convicted and served jail time for issues of corruption.
Born in Russia and steeped in Russian Orthodoxy, Sorokin spent time in jail because of his resistance to the Czar.
There is one time where he drove merchants out of the temple but he did not hurt them or put them in jail or cut their heads off or beat them or stone them.
Meaning, for the majority of our marriage time, he was a non-functioning alcoholic; binge drinking, can not keep a job, in / out of jail, suicide attempts — really horrible stuff.
A Church of England vicar on the run after being sentenced to three - years jail time for sexually assaulting a 15 - year - old boy in India, is believed to be somewhere in the UK.
«It was something I felt personally, dealing with it in my family and with other friends I grew up with who were in prison for quite a long time or in and out of jail for one reason or another,» he explains.
She should be made to pay the artist the purchase price of the piece at the very least and spend a brief time in jail because she could have hurt someone by swinging a crowbar around in a musuem.
«What DiSalvo missed, however, is that people like Randy Terry, Joan Andrews, and Christy Anne Collins have called the many pro-life sit - in groups around the country to a uniform code of «peaceful, prayerful» behavior and repentant acceptance of jail time (rather than paying bail or fines) which has become common — almost standard — throughout the movement.
I would write only when I was at a position of leisure, whether that be in jail or in slack time — or when I was forced to write because I was hitting the road to give a talk somewhere, at some campus.
Last Easter, I showed the Mel Gibson DVD «The Passion of the Christ» (the first time I myself had seen it) to some prisoners in the jail I work in.
The Secular City was written during a hectic period of a few months in 1964 while I teaching at Andover Newton, working in a lively new black parish in Roxbury and serving a few days» time in a southern jail.
I'm not absolved of my crimes because someone chooses to do my time in jail or take my place on the chopping block.
In fact, «almost half of parents who kill a disabled child serve no jail time at all.»
I have to admit that I have been in jail three or four times, but not because of any real wrongdoing.
In 1541, the Hessian Superintendents sent the following petition to the Landgrave Philip: «In view of the fact that there are current many complaints about parsons who scandalize people by their excessive drinking and other disgraceful vices and yet remain unpunished as well as unreformed, we suggest that the jail at the cloister of Spisskoppel be restored and that the parsons who persist in their vices be given the choice either to leave their parishes or to be confined in this jail for a period of time the length of which shall depend on the nature of their offense, in order that on water and bread they may undergo corrective punishmenIn 1541, the Hessian Superintendents sent the following petition to the Landgrave Philip: «In view of the fact that there are current many complaints about parsons who scandalize people by their excessive drinking and other disgraceful vices and yet remain unpunished as well as unreformed, we suggest that the jail at the cloister of Spisskoppel be restored and that the parsons who persist in their vices be given the choice either to leave their parishes or to be confined in this jail for a period of time the length of which shall depend on the nature of their offense, in order that on water and bread they may undergo corrective punishmenIn view of the fact that there are current many complaints about parsons who scandalize people by their excessive drinking and other disgraceful vices and yet remain unpunished as well as unreformed, we suggest that the jail at the cloister of Spisskoppel be restored and that the parsons who persist in their vices be given the choice either to leave their parishes or to be confined in this jail for a period of time the length of which shall depend on the nature of their offense, in order that on water and bread they may undergo corrective punishmenin their vices be given the choice either to leave their parishes or to be confined in this jail for a period of time the length of which shall depend on the nature of their offense, in order that on water and bread they may undergo corrective punishmenin this jail for a period of time the length of which shall depend on the nature of their offense, in order that on water and bread they may undergo corrective punishmenin order that on water and bread they may undergo corrective punishment.
A lot of it was friskiness, just plain I'm - rich - and - happy exuberance: the stories about acting («No, I don't think I want to act,» he says now), the time he and a date were taken to jail in handcuffs (because Dorsett didn't think the cops were acting civilly toward them), the vanity license plates that read TD 33 («I got rid of those fast,» he says).
The 37 - year - old Henderson, who entered spring training with the specter of an IRS investigation looming (though the Padres were dismissing the chance of jail time), is well past his prime, but playing in a new league could pump him up.
He could receive a maximum of five years (no sentencing date has been set), but it's more likely that if Judge Edward Coleman sentences him to any jail time at all, it will be less than a year, which would be served in county jail instead of in a state penitentiary.
«At the end of the day, I have stepped out of line a few times now, but nothing before has ever been as serious as it was in the summer when I had to go to jail, in front of courts and really know what life is all about.
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