Sentences with phrase «of years in jail»

Finally, the laws for deciding how harshly marijuana should be punished that are in effect today were developed by asking an «expert» how dangerous marijuana was compared to crack and setting a ratio of years in jail relative to that danger level he stated.

Not exact matches

While prosecutions are rare, women who are hospitalized for abortion complications frequently face criminal and civil action, and even run the risk of spending up to three years in jail.

Simply possessing any amount of heroin is punishable by a minimum $ 1,000 fine and up to a year in prison for a first offense; by a third conviction, that rises to a minimum of three months in jail (and potentially up to three years) and a minimum $ 5,000 fine.

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic in January received Momcilo Krajisnik, a wartime Bosnian Serb leader who was released after serving two thirds of a 20 - year jail sentence handed down by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague.

He earlier spent more than six years in jail over the 1991 massacre of some 260 people in the Croatian town of Vukovar.

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.

Back in 2012, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan stated that it costs about $ 40,000 a year to fund a homeless person, with the costs of shelters, emergency room visits, and jails being factored.

LONDON — A British teenager has been jailed for two years for compromising the email and phone accounts of senior U.S. government officials in what a judge called acts of «cyber-terrorism.»

In Aventura, Fla., for example, drone operators could face a $ 500 fine and up to a year in jail if they fly a drone at a public gathering or take photos of a person's house without their consenIn Aventura, Fla., for example, drone operators could face a $ 500 fine and up to a year in jail if they fly a drone at a public gathering or take photos of a person's house without their consenin jail if they fly a drone at a public gathering or take photos of a person's house without their consent.

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.

Along with a sky - high employment rate, Defy graduates have a recidivism rate of around 3.2 percent — a stark contrast to the staggering 76.6 percent of former prisoners who land back in jail within 5 years of their release.

After finally being acquitted of murder following four years in Italian jail in Italy, Knox flew back to Seattle, enrolled at the University of Washington student, and got a book deal.

When Alexandre Cazes hanged himself in a Thai jail cell in July, the 25 - year - old left behind the trappings of a big - league drug dealer: villas, Lamborghinis, a Porsche, bank accounts in Liechtenstein and Switzerland.

The black voters in Philly, and I say this based on 30 years of picking juries and talking to them, are more likely to have a family member who is a police officer, a family member who is in jail, and a family member who has been killed or severely victimized.

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 jury convicted Cosby on three counts — penetration with lack of consent, penetration while unconscious, and penetration after administering an intoxicant — all felonies and punishable by up to 10 years in jail, though the terms could be served concurrently.

Garcia Zarate, a 45 - year - old Mexican citizen who was released from County Jail before the killing despite a federal request that he be held for his sixth deportation, was convicted of a single lesser charge of being a felon in possession of a gun.

In September, Shrem agreed to a forefeiture of $ 950,000 as part of a plea bargain that would provide a jail term of up to 60 months, three years longer than the sentence he received today.

The Amazon CEO, and owner of the Washington Post, personally escorted Post journalist Jason Rezaian back home to the U.S. after he was imprisoned in a Iranian jail for nearly two years.

Nikolas Cruz, a 19 - year - old who had been expelled from the school, is being held without bail in the Broward County Jail, accused of 17 counts of first - degree murder.

Today, two 12 year old kids with that rifle would have it confiscated and their Dads would be in jail for «reckless endangerment» of their boys and the whole parish.

Ultimately, the ledger detailed all of the illicit transactions, allowing prosecutors to put the 30 - year - old mastermind of the Silk Road empire, Ross Ulbricht, in jail for life.

Indeed, the impetus for our book, «JP Madoff: The Unholy Alliance Between America's Biggest Bank and America's Biggest Crook» was Holder's refusal as Attorney General to prosecute a single criminal banker for the litany of indisputable crimes committed in the last eight years and his sale of get - out - of - jail - free cards to senior officers of JPMorgan Chase so that they were not prosecuted for their complicity in Madoff's crimes and for their dishonesty with respect to the «London Whale» scandal.

In January, Danish police made their second bitcoin conviction when a 20 - year - old was jailed by a court in Herning, Jutland, for making large - scale purchases of amphetamines, cocaine and ketamine on an online «dark web» marketplacIn January, Danish police made their second bitcoin conviction when a 20 - year - old was jailed by a court in Herning, Jutland, for making large - scale purchases of amphetamines, cocaine and ketamine on an online «dark web» marketplacin Herning, Jutland, for making large - scale purchases of amphetamines, cocaine and ketamine on an online «dark web» marketplace.

«There are Baha'is rotting in jail on a 20 - year sentence on trumped up charges simply because they have a certain set of faith beliefs that run against the theocracy in Iran.»

A businessman who systematically abused children in the Boys» Brigade and other groups over a period of six decades will spend at least seven years in jail.

Philip Longbottom, 67, from Shipley, West Yorkshire, will serve a minimum of seven years in jail after pleading guilty to more than 40 serious sexual offences at Bradford Crown Court.

This comes after a Russian vlogger, 22 - year - old Russian Sokolovsky, was jailed for playing Pokémon Go in Church of All Saints in Yekaterinburg last August.

God started with a small party in a garden, moved on toward some pow - wows at alters in the desert, then moved into a moveable tabernacle (kind of like an Old Testament RV), then reigned in a temple (especially the God - cave of the Holy of Holies, then disappeared while giving the Jews the silent treatment for some 400 years, then came back to the temple, then traveled the highways and byways with anyone who wanted to join the fun and whooped it up with society's outcasts and wedding attenders, then moved on to some public forums, then into some clandestine home groups and a few jail cells, and eventually made his way into traditional church as we now know it.

Avoiding jail, the married father of one was sentenced to two years in prison, suspended for two years.

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.

@Chad «in the past 22 years, North Korea and China continue their persecution of religious groups, including jail and execution.

A former school governor of a Christian school in Peterborough has been jailed for two years after being... More

According to The Daily Beast, anyone guilty of an in fraction as small as wearing a Santa hat in public could go to jail for five years.

@sean — you are right, having the only choices of carry to keep, carry to give away, or abort are very real consequences of having the naughty... but being giving the option of abortion is to many a «get - outta - jail - free» card and so in my mind falls into the catagory of lack of consequences — sure you pay to have it done, but compare that to the bill of 18 years of food, housing, clothing, and many many other unforseen things....

The Christian governor of Indonesian capital Jakarta has been sentenced to two years in jail for blasphemy... More

In an interview with The Telegraph, the American author referred to a friend of his who had «drunkenly» looked for images of 16 - year - old girls and was later jailed.

How far removed is this from the town in Alabama that will let you out of jail if you go to church every Sunday for a year.

And six months after the Democratic Party took control of both houses of Congress, the prison at Guantánamo Bay was still open and conducting drumhead courts martial of the prisoners held there; the CIA was still using «enhanced interrogation techniques» on prisoners in foreign jails; illegal intrusions into the privacy of American citizens continued unabated; and, more than fifty years after the CIA was founded, it continues to operate under, at best, the most perfunctory congressional oversight.

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.

The leader of the official China Christian Council was also charged for «gathering a crowd to disturb public order» but was sentenced in 2013 to 12 years in jail.

BJP cabinet coordination secretary, Surendra Singh Meena, told reporters that in this case, a «perpetrator would face jail term of up to four years and penalty of Rs 1 lakh (roughly # 1184) or both».

It could be punishable by a fine of $ 1.000 and up to a year in jail.

Recently, two members were tried and sentenced 6 years each in jail for the death of their premature son.

A former school governor of a Christian school in Peterborough has been jailed for two years after being caught with indecent images on his computer.

Jail will not shut in your young years as it does mine; and you will not die in exile with your eyes trembling, longing for the landscape of your homeland, like my father died.

During the hearings, the committee found them in contempt of Congress and the 10 were sent to jail for one year.

Yesterday one of the big kahoonas receieved a sentence of 24 years in jail.

A clergyman of the American Lutheran Church has been ordered confined in jail for contempt of court because he refused to answer questions before a grand jury investigating the «occupation» of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, for two months last year by militant Indians.

This law forbids and punishes any commercialization of assistance in suicide (up to three years in jail).