Sentences with phrase «period after conviction»

She also wants to increase the police powers to be able to take DNA samples for a longer period after conviction and all those convicted of crimes overseas who come into the UK.

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After persistently chipping away at Chile's amnesty law, human - rights lawyers secured over 250 convictions for human - rights violators of the Pinochet period.

After a period in California, where his convictions about the lack of genuine spirituality in the West were further confirmed, he returned to Egypt and immediately joined the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, in which he became a born - again Muslim.

The conventional death notices in newspapers expressed, in carefully coded ways, their conviction that something was not normal about the death: «Suddenly, after a period of excellent health, our beloved son...»

But then the slow and inexorable gravity pull of the secularism dominant in the force - field of the academy begins to retard and then counteract the inertial momentum that has hitherto set the course of the Catholic college or university, until, after a period when the forms and symbols of Christian identity are gradually evacuated of their conviction, the institution finally emerges as a wraith of the Christian community it once was.

But Patrick Halpin, former Democratic county executive and now a lobbyist, praised Sini for «turning the department in a remarkably short period of time after it was betrayed,» referring to the federal conviction of ex-chief of department James Burke for beating a suspect and then covering it up.

Keep in mind that in some states, such as California, you can't qualify for good - driver discounts for a set period after a DUI conviction.

In part, the judge based his decision on The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, an English law that allows criminal convictions to become «spent» after a prescribed period of time.

Expungement: As mentioned earlier, California has very liberal expunction laws, so after a waiting period, many people are able to remove criminal convictions from their records and keep them hidden, at least for most purposes.

Kentucky passed kind of sweeping expungement legislation in the last year and for the first time, basically ever, in Kentucky, people with old, low level felonies and almost any misdemeanor can apply after a certain period of time to have the conviction vacated and then expunged, meaning the conviction will be voided from their record as though it never happened and then it will be removed from the public databases and presumably it's not supposed to show up in private background checks as well for pre-employment screenings.

So, if I could have just a minute, Kentucky passed sweeping expungement legislation in the last year and for the first time basically ever in Kentucky, people with old low - level felonies and almost any misdemeanor can apply, after a certain period of time, to have the conviction vacated and then expunged.

The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) says after certain convictions you can be required to obtain a Financial Responsibility Certificate (FR - 44) issued through your car insurance company and maintain it for a period of three (3) years from the date your revocation time ended.

Criminal convictions become «spent» after a certain period of time, which varies depending on the sentence for the offence.