Sentences with phrase «on a criminal conviction»

While federal law does not specifically prohibit discrimination based on criminal convictions or arrests, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has issued a policy statement indicating that an employer's use of criminal history information in making employment decisions may violate the federal prohibition against discrimination based on race or national origin.

His negligence action against the solicitor was instead a collateral attack on his criminal conviction.

A similar decision, based on a criminal conviction for littering on campus, was upheld in Saskatchewan.

In most cases, this means we won't need to prove the assault occurred for a second time, and can rely on the criminal conviction.

Proposing a complete overhaul of the existing system, the Commissioner has recommended that MAG, through its Provincial Jury Centre (PJC), be the only central body to screen jurors who are ineligible for jury duty, based on criminal conviction.

2007), which held for the first time that a conviction for sex with minor is not necessarily a crime involving moral turpitude; Camins v. Gonzales, 500 F. 3d 872 (9th Cir 2007) which applied retroactivity principles to find that the grounds of inadmissibility do not apply to returning lawful permanent residents based on criminal conviction sustained before April 1, 1997; and Li v. Ashcroft, 389 F. 3d 892 (9th Cir.

Again, and you did touch on it, for those individuals who find themselves convicted of a crime in this country, there is the fine option program available in seven of the provinces, which allows people to find other ways of contributing and dealing with their inability to pay the fine or the surcharge of the fine or the surcharge on their criminal conviction for a summary or indictable offence.

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Dutch prosecutors have revealed that Slobodan Praljak died of a heart attack after drinking cyanide as his conviction and sentence for war crimes was affirmed by the the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands, on Wednesday.

When prying into an interviewee's possible criminal past, take note: While a criminal conviction can be reported indefinitely, arrest records, paid tax liens, accounts placed for collection, civil suits and judgments can't be included on an employment background check after seven years.

New York's highest court on Thursday refused to overturn former Goldman Sachs Group Inc programmer Sergey Aleynikov's criminal conviction of stealing computer code from the investment bank when he left for another job.

That check is then run every time someone buys a gun to ensure he or she is eligible to buy a gun and doesn't have a serious criminal conviction on their record.

In addition to asking a court to mandate that Uber implement fingerprint background checks — a measure the company has vehemently opposed — the plaintiffs are asking a judge to order Uber to perform national criminal background checks on its drivers every six months, and to bar registered sex offenders or people with rape or assault convictions from driving for Uber no matter how long ago it was, along with other measures.

This pastor had already been convicted in a Texas criminal trial and sentenced to three hundred and ninety - some years in prison on top of a federal conviction.

There have been allegations based on repressedd memories that have resulted in lawsuits and even criminal convictions that have later been found to not be true.

Such a view of law would permit for - profit corporations to have the moral culpability of criminal convictions, take moral views on a slew of ethical concerns, and let corporations exercise other constitutional guarantees as persons while inexplicably siphoning off only for - profit corporations from religious protection.

Furthermore, the UK foreign office is pretty restrictive on allowing people with criminal convictions and other public controversies from entering.

Although Johnson himself was cleared of criminal wrongdoing, he was fired in the wake of an academic credit - laundering scandal that led to the conviction of three of his assistants on federal fraud and conspiracy charges.

Well Kondogbia is an Inter player now so that wont happen anytime soon, Public prosecutors are on Vidals Arse in Chilean courts following his fender bender, which means it may prove harder for him to obtain a Visa for the UK if he has any criminal convictions.

Wyeth already has a criminal conviction for breaking the Infant Formula and Follow - on Formula Regulations and complaints against its formula advertising have been upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority.

Neither the National Offender Management Service nor the Youth Justice Board were able to supply information on the number of official complaints of sexual abuse in custody or the number of investigations, criminal charges or convictions following a complaint.

Navalny has been barred from standing in the election due to a conviction on corruption charges, and because of his outstanding criminal record by Russian law this means he can not run for president.

Instead, he faces up to one year behind bars following his conviction on two counts of criminal mischief in the 4th degree, Class A misdemeanors.

A criminal conviction, particularly a felony conviction, can have devastating implications on employment, housing and other things.»

Since 2008, Talk of the Sound has published many, many reports on arrests and criminal convictions of school district employees, documentation (paper records, audio recordings and video tapes) demonstrating false statements by district administrators and school board members and accounts of all manner of unethical and illegal behavior of persons associated with the City School District of New Rochelle.

Freddie Dean Smith, a convicted felon with a lengthy criminal record and former Assistant Superintendent in New Rochelle, was granted an administrative license by NYSED while he was then on probation after a felony conviction for endangering a police officer in Virginia and while awaiting sentencing on two separate sex crimes in South Carolina (he followed women around in stores with his penis hanging out of his pants while he masturbated).

How do they compare to costs to society of prohibition of a particular substance, in terms of law enforcement, and opportunity costs from loss of otherwise productive members of society to our criminal justice system, either through incarceration or effects of having a conviction on their record?

He cut a $ 402,236.92 check to white - collar criminal - defense firm Shapiro Arato LLP — which got his conviction overturned — on Nov. 17.

Court officials said the display focused on a mix of civil and criminal cases in which the appeals court made new law, and was tilted toward convictions because appeals generally occur in a criminal case after a conviction.

Nassau County's former deputy commissioner of emergency management won't serve any jail time after admitting to lying about a criminal conviction on a job application and cooperating with the district attorney's public corruption unit.

The Syracuse Common Council is considering legislation that would prohibit businesses from screening prospective job applicants about their history of criminal convictions, early on in the hiring process.

Making reference to the Courts Act of 1993 (Act 459), Mr Justice Ofoe said Section 31 (2) holds that «an appellate court, on hearing an appeal in a criminal case, shall allow the appeal if the appellate court considers (a) that the verdict or conviction or acquittal ought to be set aside on the ground that it is unreasonable or can not be supported having regard to the evidence, or (b) that the judgement in question ought to be set aside as a wrong decision on a question of law or fact, or (c) that there was a miscarriage of justice, and in any other case shall dismiss the appeal.»

Former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos spent another $ 427,000 from his election war chest on criminal - defense lawyers who helped get his corruption conviction overturned, according to campaign - finance filings.

There was some controversy over the plans to delete previous convictions for consensual gay sex, with activists pointing out that convictions will actually remain on criminal records.

Fourteen of the inmates are still on the run and the government confirmed all the missing inmates have criminal convictions, although stressed none are for serious crimes.

Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe today announced that Paul Giddens, age 33, of 12 Aeslin Drive, Spring Valley, NY, was sentenced to 14 years in state prison for his conviction on one count of robbery in the first degree, a class «B» felony, 10 years in state prison for his conviction on two counts of robbery in the second degree, class «C» felonies and a year in state prison on one count of criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, a class «A» misdemeanor.

Courts could also lose access to the European criminal records information system, which allows courts to request information on previous convictions of EU nationals.

In recent years, his investigation of Buffalo Common Council Member Brian Davis triggered a criminal investigation that resulted in his conviction on both state and federal charges.

Sheriff Vincent DeMarco in a Newsday opinion piece Monday called on Spota to step down following criminal convictions of officials including Burke and investigations into county law enforcement.

«We err on the side of caution in these rare cases precisely because it is vital to ensure that the disclosure individuals do not fraudulently try to claim they have no criminal convictions when in fact they have.»

To me, the cluster of issues that we have focused on are just basic — whether it be bail reform, raise the age of criminal responsibility, reform the institution of the grand jury, which goes back to the time of Magna Carta, wrongful convictions, ensure that not one single person is convicted of a crime that they're innocent of.

A proposed bill by Common Council Majority Leader Demone Smith would prohibit employers from requiring job seekers to disclose any criminal convictions on their application.

Following the uproar, Schneiderman replaced Thomas Schelhammer, who wrote the letter to the Parole Board on behalf of convict Ronald Bower, as head of the criminal conviction unit.

She said it would be premature to comment on the just - introduced bill but did defend Governor Cuomo's SAFE Act, saying it has worked to keep guns out of the hands of people with prior violent criminal convictions and others who may not be fit to handle firearms responsibly, such as some living with mental illness.

In District 21, where Council Member Julissa Ferreras - Copeland is stepping down at the end of her current term, two Democrats are facing off in the primary: Assemblymember Francisco Moya and Hiram Monserrate, a disgraced former state Senator and Council member who is attempting a comeback after a checkered recent past that includes separate criminal convictions on fraud and assault charges.

Gov. David Paterson of New York made a brave — and startling — move on Monday to create a board to consider pardons for immigrant New Yorkers who are on a fast - track to deportation because of old or minor criminal convictions.

«They focused mainly on events that occurred in 2006 which, in co-operation with the News of the World, resulted in two criminal convictions.

In a 54 - page opinion released Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit wrote that while prosecutors had presented enough evidence to justify Silver's convictions, jurors had been wrongly instructed on the action Silver would have to take to make his conduct count as criminal public corruption.

Kelly Kramer, a white - collar criminal defense attorney at the Mayer Brown law firm, said that Silver's conviction had long been considered «one of the most vulnerable» after the Supreme Court's decision on McDonnell.

«If anyone who's married or has a criminal conviction thinks they can get on our site, go ahead and try me,» Vest said.

Bringing this proposed legislation is True.com, who say it is purely about safe dating and who already offer backround checks for criminal convictions as well as to check on the single / married status of their members.