Sentences with phrase «presented at a sentencing»

Certainly, evidence of a prior punishment for the same judge could be presented at a sentencing hearing following a conviction in mitigation of the punishment that should be imposed.

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At the present and with this hot media publicity exposure only The King of KSA has the Holy Power if to do any thing about for her getting a lower sentence or be released for deportation any where on Earth!!
The sentence of Hell will take place only after the final judgement at which everyone will be present.
But at some future date, the actual trial takes place during which time, the different sides present their case, the books are opened, testimony is given, and finally, after all is heard, the sentence is pronounced.
Well, it teaches us to put a comma instead of a period at the end of the sentence: «Do not put your hope in this present world.»
That such a tradition as Käsemann describes existed in the early Church is clear enough, and that these sayings are at home in it is shown both by their form, the two - part sentence with the same verb in each referring to present action and eschatological judgement respectively, and by the fact that a Christian prophet makes use of one of them in Rev. 3.5 b («I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels»).
Prisoners who committed serious sexual or violent crimes will have to serve at least two - thirds of their sentences before being eligible for parole, rather than half their sentences as is the case at present.
Also present at the party was Tessa Jowell who arrived with her alegedly estranged husband, David Mills, who was an adviser to that other media tycoon, Silvio Berlusconi, and only escaped a 4 1/2 year jail sentence for corruption on a technicality.
At present deportation is considered in cases which involve offences that carry a 12 - month sentence in the case of sex or violent crimes or 24 months for other types of crime.
The sentence at hand presents her with only one real challenge: a decision on how to render «vibron» in Japanese.
The team embarked on a massive brain imaging study: Across 9 UK laboratories (University of Birmingham, University of Bristol, University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow, University of Kent, University College London, University of Oxford, University of Stirling, and University of York), 334 participants — 10 times the original amount — read sentences that were presented one word at a time, while electrical brain activity was recorded at the scalp.
Present Simple negative sentences are then looked at in detail to address all grammar and punctuation aspects.
It contains - a self - target setting slide - a detailed objective slide - a reading activity as a starter - a matching up, - a presentation to the vocabulary - drilling games (hidden pictures, noughts and crosses, miming activities)- a grammar point about reflexive verbs, ER verbs, IR verbs and FAIRE at the present tense - more vocabulary about frequency - a practice - another reading with more details - a writing - a unjumble the sentences as plenary
It is targeted at higher ability students so includes sentences using past, present and future tenses.
Placing the topic sentence at the beginning of a paragraph ensures that the reader knows exactly what information is going to be presented.
I kept wanting to read it and figure out how this family would survive but I found myself irked at the Tagalog and Philippine words and sentences used heavily throughout the novel that were presented without explanation.
It is usually a single sentence at the end of the first paragraph that presents your point of view to the reader.
To avoid introducing all quotations in the essay that are presented as separate sentences with «Mr. X says,» the introductory phrase may be placed within or at the end of the quotation.
Glenn Miller presents Your One - Sentence Book Marketing Plan posted at Career Authors, saying, «Most writers don't an extensive backlist or an established author platform.
Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is pleased to present Another Liquid Sentence, Daniel Brice's second solo show at the gallery.
John Carter August 8, 2014 at 12:58 am chooses to state his position on the greenhouse effect in the following 134 word sentence: «But given the [1] basics of the greenhouse effect, the fact that with just a very small percentage of greenhouse gas molecules in the air this effect keeps the earth about 55 - 60 degrees warmer than it would otherwise be, and the fact that through easily recognizable if [2] inadvertent growing patterns we have at this point probably at least [3] doubled the total collective amount in heat absorption and re-radiation capacity of long lived atmospheric greenhouse gases (nearly doubling total that of the [4] leading one, carbon dioxide, in the modern era), to [5] levels not collectively seen on earth in several million years — levels that well predated the present ice age and extensive earth surface ice conditions — it goes [6] against basic physics and basic geologic science to not be «predisposed» to the idea that this would ultimately impact climate.»
If one cites Popper (para 1 sentence 1)(«As falsifiability is an essential element of science (Karl Popper), many have disputed the scientific basis of climatic predictions on the grounds that they are not falsifiable or verifiable at present.»)
Or if you're really attached to the present wording then maybe add some punctuation (semi colons for the list and then a full stop) because at present it sort of looks as tough you lost part of the sentence.
To make matters worse, Berman notes, at Vitrano's sentencing, the government presented evidence that «he sent multiple functioning pipe bombs disguised as a birthday present to his former girlfriend's house.»
Peter Henning at White Collar Crime Prof agrees that district court judges have more power, and says that defendants need to present strong sentencing evidence before the district court.
It asserts simply that all the mitigating issues raised by Otterson «were clearly presented to the court in the PSR and at the sentencing hearing and are accounted for in the undisputed Guidelines range.»
At a time when we communicate in sound bites and blog - blurbs and lack the attention span to focus on sentences of more than 140 characters, can legal writing in its present form survive?
These include: United States v. Resendiz - Ponce, which presents the question whether the omission of an element from a federal indictment can constitute harmless error (9th Circuit says no); Global Crossing Telecommunications, Inc. v. Metrophones Telecommunications, Inc., on whether a provider of pay phone services can sue a long distance carrier for alleged violations of the Federal Communications Commission's regulations concerning compensation for coinless pay phone calls (9th Circuit says yes); Cunningham v. California, a sentencing case involving whether whether California's Determinate Sentencing Law violates the 6th and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution by permitting California state court judges at sentencing to impose enhanced sentenced based on their determination of facts neither found by the jury nor admitted by the defendant; and Carey v. Musladin, reviewing the 9th Circuit's decision to overturn a murder conviction of a defendant who claimed he was denied a fair trial because the victim's relatives appeared in court wearing buttons with the deceased's pictursentencing case involving whether whether California's Determinate Sentencing Law violates the 6th and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution by permitting California state court judges at sentencing to impose enhanced sentenced based on their determination of facts neither found by the jury nor admitted by the defendant; and Carey v. Musladin, reviewing the 9th Circuit's decision to overturn a murder conviction of a defendant who claimed he was denied a fair trial because the victim's relatives appeared in court wearing buttons with the deceased's picturSentencing Law violates the 6th and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution by permitting California state court judges at sentencing to impose enhanced sentenced based on their determination of facts neither found by the jury nor admitted by the defendant; and Carey v. Musladin, reviewing the 9th Circuit's decision to overturn a murder conviction of a defendant who claimed he was denied a fair trial because the victim's relatives appeared in court wearing buttons with the deceased's pictursentencing to impose enhanced sentenced based on their determination of facts neither found by the jury nor admitted by the defendant; and Carey v. Musladin, reviewing the 9th Circuit's decision to overturn a murder conviction of a defendant who claimed he was denied a fair trial because the victim's relatives appeared in court wearing buttons with the deceased's picture on them.
While the Crown presented several questions in its appeal, the dispositive one was whether Judge Paul erred in concluding that Ms. Giroux's actions did not attract the guideline sentence because they were not commercial in nature owing to her lack of anticipated financial gain and / or her lack of knowledge of the exact nature or amount of the drugs in her purse (at para 7).
Further, we identify and present mitigating factors to the court which will be considered at the sentencing stage.
Since that time criminological research has underscored Congress's assumptions, and evidence suggests that a broader cohort of people than at present could be sentenced within the federal system more efficiently without incarceration.
Brian E. Maas presents at the 25th Annual National Seminar on Federal Sentencing in Orlando, Florida.
To give those present a sense of the dysfunction of mainstream contract prose, I opened the proceedings by critiquing a sentence from a contract drafted by lawyers at the London office of one of the UK «Magic Circle» law firms.
The conviction under examination at present belongs to Joey Watkins, a Georgia man sentenced to life in prison in July 2001 for aggravated assault, a weapons violation, misdemeanor stalking, and the felony murder of Isaac Dawkins in January 2000.
At a sentencing, your lawyer has a fundamentally important job of presenting you in the light of all of your history so that the Court has the complete picture.
If the court agrees to admit the prosecutors» evidence at trial, the lawyer will make all the arrangements to present a fair plea and sentencing agreements.
Keith Findley presented his paper, «Forensic Science Evidence in the Age of the NAS,» at the 2011 Criminal Law & Sentencing Institute, Wisconsin Office of Judicial Education.
Cecelia Klingele presented «The Silent Sentence: Collateral Consequences of Criminal Conviction» at the Federal Judicial Conference for the Northern District of California in April.
Also, make sure you create this section in short sentences presented in bullet points to enable the hirer take in all the listed skills at a glance.
An effective way to present your qualifications is to use action verbs at the beginning of sentences.
It is always recommended that instead of writing complete sentences in a paragraph form describing at length each and every point, it is better to present them under bullet points making them appear both neat and precise.
First, the verbs at the start of the sentence are past tense, while «function» is present tense.
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