Despite a lengthy criminal record that included long
periods of jail time and offences committed while on probation, Court accepts defence submission that a fine is the appropriate sentence — NO JAIL TIME
Not exact matches
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time behind bars: Offenders must be withdrawn from society for a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.
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.
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 punishment.
Sena, the FBI agent who analyzed phone call records, also spoke Monday about the
period of time surrounding Nassau County's awarding
of the bread - and - rolls contract for the
jail.
You could be arrested and spend a considerable
period of time in
jail.
I enjoyed researching this
period of about 1919, when women had the vote in New York but not yet throughout the U.S.; when cars and telephones were changing even rural towns; when publishing birth control education materials could lead to
jail time.
During the
period of political instability in Ghana following a long series
of bloody coups, Amenga - Etego was seized and
jailed without trial many
times for heading student protests.
After investing waiting
time during negotiations, I finally worked out a deal to plead guilty to reckless driving, amended from DWI, dismiss the refusal charge, pay a fine, get a short suspended
jail sentence, get one year
of unsupervised probation, complete alcohol education, have suspended driving privileges for six months, with restricted driving privileges and drive with the ignition interlock during the suspension
period.
Last May, Tom Raymond Martin, now 46, was sentenced to six years and four months in
jail after pleading guilty to sexual exploitation
of a 14 - year - old client and the repeated sexual assault
of another boy over a lengthy
period of time.
The headline points are: ● prolonged, persistent and deliberate bad driving and consumption
of drink and drugs puts offenders in the most serious category with
jail sentences
of at least seven years; ● a combination
of these features
of dangerous driving accompanied by aggregating factors, such as a bad driving record, attracts sentences towards 14 years; ● careless driving under the influence
of drink or drugs provides for a longer sentence, as the degree
of intoxication increases; ● regarding mobile phones — an offender distracted by a handheld mobile phone when the offence was committed will be treated as particularly serious; ● reading or composing texts over a
period of time at the wheel is also likely to result in a higher level
of seriousness and offenders should serve up to seven years in prison.
Rather than a fixed
period of time — for example, six months imprisonment on conviction for theft — an indeterminate sentence allowed a magistrate to impose a sentence
of up to two years less a day, with the length
of that sentence to be determined by the offender's conduct in
jail.
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.
Canada's courts have generally been reluctant to send individuals to
jail for lengthy
periods of time for this type
of white - collar crime.
But, it can also be brought, for example, in cases when someone is incarcerated in a
jail or prison despite (1) not having been charged with a crime, (2) not having their detention authorized by a court within the legally permitted
time period prior to a conviction, (3) not having been convicted
of a crime following a criminal trial, or (4) not being released upon the expiration
of a criminal sentence imposed pursuant to a conviction.
Someone who is deportable can be detained in an immigration
jail pending deportation for a limited
period of time.
Individuals found guilty
of DUI face serious consequences that typically include fines / costs, potential
jail time, license suspension
periods, probation, as well as a criminal record and a potential -LSB-...]
Penalties include a $ 5,000 fine,
jail time for 30 days, and license suspension for an indefinite
period of time.
And
of course, further Maine DUI convictions will result in increased
jail time, community service, fines, and Maine license suspension or even Maine license revocation.The bottom line: don't get behind the wheel drunk,
period.
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.
The sentence was suspended for one year which means that should she continue to be «unwilling» in that
time period to abide by the terms
of the child arrangement order she will go to
jail.