Sentences with phrase «prior imprisonment»

Not exact matches

Just prior to his arrest and imprisonment, Bonhoeffer wrote a brief essay entitled «After Ten Years.»

Figueroa has a prior felony drug conviction, & could face up to 12 years imprisonment for each of these drug sales.

As discussed at Sentencing Law Blog, Stallings was sentenced to 188 months of imprisonment just prior to the Booker decision holding mandatory sentencing guidelines unconstitutional, and a few months after the 7th Circuit's ruling reaching the same conclusion.

Cases in the Sentencing Quantum Service are arranged by main offence, with details of count (s), prior record, aggravating circumstances, imprisonment / fine and order provided.

The Criminal Appellate Court system is designed up to allow the convicted the ability to request a review of another court's decision, change or withdraw a plea, and make motions for a variety of legal purposes including to challenge imprisonment, an unfair sentence, or, in some cases, have the court consider new evidence that could not have been known prior to a verdict (such as DNA evidence proving innocence.)

Generally speaking, except for serious crimes which the law punishes with capital punishment, life imprisonment, and imprisonment for more than three years, a defendant can request the prosecutor to initiate a plea bargaining procedure for negotiating the scope of the sentence with the prior consent of the court.

He had a recent prior conviction for a similar offence and was subject to a mandatory minimum sentence of imprisonment for one year pursuant to s. 5 (3)(a)(i)(D) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.

Prior to his imprisonment, he worked most recently helping out his former partner, who was a cleaner.

This subsection was designed to prevent the authorities from «wait [ing] until the defendant has served his prison sentence for the subsequent offense and then seek revocation of his prior sentence of probation or conditional discharge and reinstate his prior sentence of imprisonment.»

Accordingly, the inter-connections between the experiences of Indigenous women prior to and during imprisonment must be borne in mind when considering program support provided to them upon release from prison.

The issues affecting Indigenous women post-release are often the very same issues confronted prior to, and in some cases during, imprisonment.

Most women prisoners have also experienced some form of sexual assault or family violence prior to imprisonment.

You can file in the Georgia county where you lived prior to your imprisonment, as long as you resided there for a minimum of six months and still consider it you place of residence.

STTARS assists people from a refugee and migrant background who have experienced torture or been traumatised as a result of persecution, violence, war or unlawful imprisonment prior to arrival in Australia.

In 2008, 73 % of Indigenous prisoners, compared to 49 % of non-Indigenous prisoners, had a history of prior adult imprisonment.

In her research of mortality among Indigenous women prisoners after being released from jail in Victoria, Martyres identifies the importance of contextualising a women's life circumstances prior to, during and immediately following imprisonment: