Sentences with phrase «person convicted»

If used in court, these tools could vastly reduce the number of people convicted of crimes they didn't commit.

Among the findings was that lifting restrictions on concealed carry guns increases violent crime and that laws restricting gun ownership for people convicted of domestic violence reduced killings of female domestic partners.

The final budget is expected to require that people convicted in domestic violence cases surrender any guns they own.

Other proposals include one that would require people convicted of a domestic violence crime to surrender any firearms.

With regards to surrounding himself with persons convicted for drugs - related offences, space constraints would limit us to naming only three.

Yes, we kill people convicted of actual crimes.

The death penalty involves executing people convicted of certain crimes (most often murder).

The program is also aimed at sending people convicted of certain gun crimes to federal court, where they face longer sentences in distant prisons.

Natural persons convicted of this offense shall also incur the penalties of prohibition of management and partial deprivation of civil rights provided for in the French criminal code.

The doctrine remains what it has been: that the State, in principle, has the right to impose the death penalty on persons convicted of very serious crimes.

The Intervenor submits that, in sentencing persons convicted for aiding suicide under Section 241 (b) of the Criminal Code, the principle of general deterrence must be the overriding factor.

There are tough, mandatory jail terms even for persons convicted on a Second DWI.

The Supreme Court considered the case of Al - Khawaja and Tahery v UK (2009) 49 EHRR, where the ECtHR sitting as Chamber had upheld challenges made by persons convicted in similar circumstances to those in Horncastle.

If McInerney accepts the prosecutor's offer he would be the first person convicted in an absentee ballot - fraud investigation that has implicated numerous public officials after widespread forgeries were discovered during the September 2009 Working Families Party primary in Troy.

New York state also prohibits people convicted of several violent misdemeanors from buying or owning a gun.

A program offering free lawyers to immigrants facing deportation has stopped taking clients due to a clash between de Blasio and the NYC Council over whether city cash can aid people convicted of serious crimes.

A databank of DNA taken from people convicted of serious crimes should be set up, says the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice in its report published this week.

Even innocent people convicted.

Penalties against people convicted of animal cruelty will face fines of up to $ 30,000 and / or a three - year jail term in Singapore.

The new law allows people convicted of a crime in New York more than 10 years ago to apply to get their criminal records sealed by the sentencing judge.

(Lead image: Gov. Andrew Cuomo signs a law barring people convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence from owning guns in New York.

Under the Act, a young person convicted of first - degree murder can not serve more than six years in prison.

It is already difficult for people convicted as a result of prosecutorial error to hold someone accountable for the legal transgressions that sent them to prison.

Good Conduct Time Sentencing (HB 3475 / PA 99 - 0381): Amends the Unified Code of Corrections by expanding who may be eligible for certificates of good conduct to include persons convicted of committing or attempting to commit a Class X felony or a forcible felony (other than certain offenses currently specifically excluded in statute).

The only person convicted was Abdelbaset al Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer, who was later released from a Scottish prison on compassionate grounds in August 2009.

Also, Section 469.007 of the Texas Health & Safety Code reads in part, «In addition to using a drug court program established under Section 469.002, the commissioners court of a county or a court may use other drug awareness or drug and alcohol driving awareness programs to treat persons convicted of drug or alcohol related offenses.»

Fueled by anguished voices in the aftermath of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Oregon's Legislature on Thursday banned people convicted of stalking and domestic violence or under restraining orders from buying or owning firearms and ammunition.

Saint Joseph's has said that the Port Richmond Avenue facility would not house people convicted of violent or sexual crimes, but Rose and Savino said the state could still force them to under the existing RFP.

The committee did amend the bill to limit the time people convicted of certain crimes are prohibited from living with or keeping dogs declared «dangerous», dogs over 12 weeks of age that are not spayed / neutered, or dogs that are not micro-chipped.

Thanks to a program run by Defy Ventures, Winner's experience is just one example of how people convicted of crimes are fighting to earn a new label: Entrepreneur.

In the estimation of the watching world, Nigeria can not claim to be fighting when people convicted of defrauding their people are celebrated by the same people.

To paraphrase R.A. Heinlein, every society in history limited the franchise to some effect - for example, most modern democratic societies restrict franchise from persons underage, or frequently persons convicted of crimes.

The Nation called Cuomo's office to ask whether his administration plans only to consider people convicted of nonviolent crimes — or whether it will also extend compassion to people who, after years of violence and trauma, defended their lives.

Justin was also instrumental in the creation and passage of the Animal Abuse Registration Act which established an animal abuse registry to track people convicted of animal cruelty.

Lawmakers said talks were still ongoing over several issues, including plans to force people convicted of domestic violence crimes to surrender any weapons they possess, expanded school safety provisions in the wake of the Parkland and other school shootings, and a push by Cuomo to require public disclosure of funding details about each school within a school district.

The Assembly measures would keep firearms out of the hands of people deemed by courts to be a danger to themselves or others, set a 10 - day waiting period for delivery of a gun to a person who hasn't cleared a background check instead of the current three - day period, and prevent people convicted of domestic violence from buying a firearm.

The Democrat and Chronicle says Cuomo's plan to pardon people convicted of nonviolent crimes while they were 16 or 17 years old and have stayed out of legal trouble for a decade «is a good step for New York and a potential new start for former juvenile offenders.»

The agency denied the WIC request because the nonprofit employed people convicted of felonies in high - ranking positions.

But now Politicker reports that Segal is back at work because letting him go might have violated hiring laws meant to protect people convicted of crimes.

Mr. Schneiderman said he would almost certainly make an endorsement in the race for county executive, and that two issues would inform that decision: revenue sharing (or preventing county sales tax revenue from going exclusively to western Suffolk Police Departments and not those on the East End) and the presence in his district of so - called «sex offender trailers» (which house homeless people convicted of sex crimes).

The state should also offer people convicted of marijuana offenses a chance to seal or expunge those convictions because they can have lifelong consequences, James said.

«But as I've come to learn, like many people convicted of domestic violence he could be very charming and he lured me back.»

And her complaints that her sentence is harsh need to be seen in the context, not of sentences passed on other «activists», or «terrorists», but to other people convicted of arson.

We want to make sure cases are secure and that we don't have the wrong person convicted.»

To be sure, there are those whose criminality dominates their character and no one is going to be urging banks to hire people convicted of fraud or schools to fill their classrooms with child pornographers.

Article 4a (1) FD EAW encompasses a well - confined ground of refusal regarding persons convicted in their absence, ruling out any margin of discretion for the Executing State.

Currently, queer people convicted of sexual assault are placed in prisons associated with their gender — so yes, it is acceptable for someone convicted of sexual assault to be imprisoned with people of their victim's gender.

The Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta has ruled that the provincial Jury Act may exclude people convicted or charged with criminal acts from serving on juries.