Sentences with phrase «previous convictions for»

The tragedy of this whole story resulted from a background screening report that was not done, which would have revealed Robertson's previous convictions for serious crimes, and potentially prevented alleged rape.

Criminal Law: Impaired; Higher Sentences Should there be a greater punishment by reason of previous convictions for alcohol related driving offences.

It may also remain true that a defendant who claims he did not commit an offence (for instance of violence) but who admits his propensity to violence, may not succeed thereby in keeping out his previous convictions for violence, which may remain relevant to the question of his guilt, possibly because of the degree or nature of his propensity.

Alan Wurtzel had a string of previous convictions for sexual battery.

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.

The report reveals 90,029 community sentences have been given to people who have multiple previous convictions for more serious crimes.

Her neighbor had two previous convictions for sexually assaulting young girls.

Leeds Crown Court heard that Madine, who also has a previous conviction for assault, attacked Wednesday fan, Beresford, knocking him unconscious and breaking his nose.

Rove put down $ 772,902 in 2014 to bury perennial 21st District GOP candidate Matt Doheny under a negative ad that pointed out his previous conviction for piloting a boat while intoxicated.

In addition he had a previous conviction for assaulting a police officer.

Penalty for second offense: (this includes previous conviction for any other charge of drug possession): you may be subject to a fine of no more than $ 50,000 (plus court costs and assessments) and / or imprisonment of up 5 to 30 years.

Your drivers licence will be immediately suspended for 90 days; If found guilty you will lose your driving privileges for at least one year and fined a minimum of $ 1000; If you have a previous conviction for a related offence you will be subject to a mandatory prison sentence, and your period of licence revocation will be greatly increased; You will only be permitted to drive with an interlock device installed, and you will be subject to the requirements of the Back on Track Program administered by the MTO; Your insurance premiums are likely to skyrocket - by as much as six-fold for the next 5 - 7 years The Impaired Driving provisions of the the Criminal Code are unique.

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In fact, Garcia Zarate had never been convicted of a violent crime before Steinle's shooting — his previous convictions were for nonviolent drug crimes and illegal entry.

End Illegal Immigration Act Fully - funds the construction of a wall on our southern border with the full understanding that the country Mexico will be reimbursing the United States for the full cost of such wall; establishes a 2 - year mandatory minimum federal prison sentence for illegally re-entering the U.S. after a previous deportation, and a 5 - year mandatory minimum for illegally re-entering for those with felony convictions, multiple misdemeanor convictions or two or more prior deportations; also reforms visa rules to enhance penalties for overstaying and to ensure open jobs are offered to American workers first.

The Committee is also calling for previous sex work convictions and cautions to be struck off people's records, so it's easier for them to move into other lines of work.

Whether for the first time he was then convinced that he was the Messiah, whether he had already come to this conviction or had been coming to it and now felt that he had received the seal of God's approval, or whether he did not believe that he was the Messiah at all but considered himself only a prophet and forerunner of the coming one, his baptism was the turning point between his previous life of preparation and waiting and the active ministry in which he would henceforth be engaged.

In the 10 years leading up to the end of 2015, 13,835 offences were committed by those with a previous conviction, or caution for animal cruelty, including murder and rape.

For people in the earlier stages it looks like you have gone all wishywashy and generally hippy - like, but maybe it is just that some previous ideas and convictions have been jettisoned.

It was a welcome boost for Rooney, for whom the previous week had not been the best, starting with his drink - driving conviction and the former England captain then being left with a cut above his left eye and a bloodied face on Saturday after being caught by the arm of Bournemouth's Simon Francis.

Jena 6 teen jailed again A judge in Jena, La., ordered a black teenager back to jail, deciding the fight that put him in the national spotlight violated terms of his probation for a previous conviction, his attorney said.

• A 26 - year - old Bedford Park woman with a previous retail - theft conviction was charged with felony retail theft for taking $ 152 in cosmetics from Sephora at Orland Square Mall on March 20.

The amount of people that have got previous convictions does pose questions for us.

Previous Conservative and Labour governments have created serious problems, particularly for the millions in the private sector workforce, and it takes real political courage and conviction to take them on and bring about positive change.

Jay - J's Law, named for a North Tonawanda boy who suffered severe abuse from his father, extends the so - called «look - back» time frame for previous convictions to be considered in cases of repeat abuse.

The London riots shocked the world, not so much because they happened, but because many of those that were involved were on bail or had convictions for previous offences.

Silver was convicted of using his political influence for political favors; the conviction was tossed last summer, when appellate judges in the 2nd Circuit ruled that the definition of «official acts» had been changed by a previous Supreme Court decision in the public corruption case of former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell.

But previous scandals and convictions have failed to dramatically change the state's political culture, and most of the state's most powerful officials — including Silver's successor as Assembly speaker, Carl Heastie, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who said earlier changes had prompted the case against Silver — aren't yet pressing for more reforms.

Mr. Abelove, who is also backed by the Independence and Conservative parties, points proudly to the conviction record of a previous district attorney for whom both he and Mr. Laquidara had worked in Rensselaer County, Patricia DeAngelis — a rate he says was more than 20 points higher than that of her successor, Richard McNally.

Previous examples were the conviction of Italian researchers for their failure to warn about the risk of a deadly earthquake in L'Aquila and the recent debate about the Stamina Foundation, which offers stem cell therapies that many scientists say aren't scientifically proven.

REDHERRING — Mar 27 — A federal law, the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act (IMBRA), makes it a felony for a man in the United States to communicate with a foreign woman via dating site, without the man first submitting unilaterally to criminal background and sex - offender checks and certifying all previous convictions or arrests, marriages, or divorces, children, and states of residence since the age of 18.

While the previous films in the series have been just that — parts of a sequence designed to get us here, each with their own beginning and end — the first and second parts of Deathly Hallows are two halves of the same film, and to approach them as separate entities means missing just what director David Yates, writer Steve Kloves, and a host of storytellers and performers have done: They've made a five - hour fantasy epic that balances effects - driven battles with some very real character moments, and one that isn't afraid to have its heroes pay a high price for their convictions.

Unison's survey found that 71 per cent of respondents are responsible for ensuring people visiting their school are safe to do so, with 41 per cent responsible for organising security checks to make certain new staff have no previous criminal convictions.

The previous starting threshold recommended for all corporate manslaughter convictions was # 500,000, but under the new guidelines, a category A (high culpability) offence committed by a large organisation would start at # 7.5 million with a category range of between # 4.8 — # 20 million.

Stillson had deferred to him, since he was the expert, if a previous conviction and prison stretch for bank robbery could be considered know - how.

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Curry spoke to the same journalist who had at least one previous «conviction» for mangling the words of a climate scientist.

These include previous orders under the deceptive marketing practices provisions as well as past convictions for misleading advertising.

The penalties you face upon conviction for a drug crime will depend on the type and amount of drug involved and any previous convictions you have.

That was despite his previous conviction and treatment for sexual offending as part of a 1993 probation order, a fact the Crown put forward among the arguments for a dangerous offender designation.

-- Courts often seal material, both temporarily and permanantly — Persons can apply for pardons, reversing previous convictions — the Supreme Court recently reversed a contempt conviction against the CBC, for not removing archival copies of information about a case for which a publication ban was ordered.

Under sentencing reforms introduced by the Conservatives in 2009, a person denied bail because of a previous conviction is not eligible for enhanced credit.

HELD The judge could remind the jury that the defendant had no previous convictions and say that, in the ordinary case, where there was no evidence of bad character, a defendant of no previous convictions would have been entitled to a direction that the jury should consider that that counted in his favour on the questions of both propensity and credibility; as it was, it was for the jury to consider which counted with them more — the absence of previous convictions or the evidence of bad character; and if the former, then they should take that into account in favour of the defendant, and if the latter, then they would be entitled to take that into account against him (Lord Justice Rix at para 43).

Do not hesitate to seek legal counsel if you have been arrested for a DUI, or if you would like to explore your options for removing a previous DUI conviction from your record.

According to previous case law of the Constitutional Court, the right to a fair trial in the Spanish Constitution requires that, if a person has been convicted in his absence, a surrender for the execution of that conviction must be made conditional on the right to challenge the conviction in order to safeguard that person's rights of defence, even if he had given power of attorney to a lawyer who effectively represented him at the trial (paras 20 and 22).

If you have a previous conviction, within the past ten years, your license will be suspended for a minimum of three years.

Mongielo was scheduled to report to jail Wednesday afternoon to begin serving a 10 - day sentence delivered Tuesday for allegedly breaking a term of the conditional discharge of a previous non-jury conviction for an alleged sign ordinance violation.

Circumstances of aggravation 610 (1)... Effect of previous charge of murder or manslaughter (2) A conviction or an acquittal on an indictment for murder bars a subsequent indictment for the same homicide charging it as manslaughter or infanticide, and a conviction or acquittal on an indictment for manslaughter or infanticide bars a subsequent indictment for the same homicide charging it as murder.

The previous record for the most time served in prison before being having a sentence vacated was Ricky Jackson, who was incarcerated 39 years, three months and nine days in Ohio for a murder conviction before being released in 2015.

Previous charges of first degree murder (3) A conviction or an acquittal on an indictment for first degree murder bars a subsequent indictment for the same homicide charging it as second degree murder, and a conviction or acquittal on an indictment for second degree murder bars a subsequent indictment for the same homicide charging it as first degree murder.

The court considered these prior convictions and the supervisor's non-payment of the previous fines imposed on her when imposing sentence for the health and safety offence.