Sentences with phrase «prison sentence by»

Oscar - nominated actress Farmiga («Up in the Air») is attached to play Rowe's first wife Mary, whom he kills, while two - time Golden Globe nominee Wood («The Wrestler») will play his second wife, with whom he starts a new life after avoiding a prison sentence by pleading the insanity defense at trial.

Former Hanlong Mining boss Hui Xiao has been handed an eight - year prison sentence by a Sydney court for insider trading with regards to two Perth resources companies.

Grayling answered that he would have been, «uncomfortable to inherit a policy in which people could escape prison sentences by pleading early,» insisting that the government was not cutting corners to slash costs.

Not exact matches

But the punishment was within the range suggested by the Sentencing Council, which says a discharge is the minimum punishment, and the maximum is several years in prison.

While they opened the trial by admitting Tsarnaev's role, he has maintained his not - guilty plea, leaving prosecutors to first convince the jury of his guilt before moving on to the question of whether he should be sentenced to death or to life in prison without possibility of parole.

And African - American men are far more likely to be stopped and searched by police, charged with crimes and sentenced to longer prison terms than white men convicted of the same offenses.

Manning, who served seven years in prison for violating the Espionage Act before her sentence was commuted by President Obama in 2017, says she has a tendency to look forward instead of backward.

Anwar was convicted in a trial criticised by the U.S. and started a five - year prison sentence last year.

When Martha Stewart emerged from her short prison sentence in 2005, it was to find that her fortune had increased by $ 200 million.

Turkish cartoonist Musa Kart, who has been convicted of helping «terrorist» organisations and sentenced to nearly four years in prison, was awarded a top prize on Thursday by the organisation Cartooning for Peace.

A more economical course is to set up sentencing policies that keep dangerous offenders in prison for their full sentences — by moving non-dangerous offenders into alternative work programs on the outside.

Seven Baha'i leaders in Iran have each received 20 - year prison sentences, according to reports received by the Baha'i International Community, the group said Sunday.

Who would have imagined that today I would be writing freely, praying freely, breathing freely, standing on free soil, while Zhou, once nicknamed China's «security tsar,» would be sentenced to life in prison for corruption by his political enemies?

(CNN)- A Sudanese woman has been freed from prison a month after being sentenced to die by hanging for refusing to renounce her Christian faith.

The New York Times: Priest Asks to Be Spared Prison Lawyers for Msgr. William J. Lynn of Philadelphia, the first senior official in the Roman Catholic Church in the United States to be convicted of failing to prevent child sex abuse by priests under his supervision, asked on Thursday that he be spared prison, arguing that a lengthy sentence «would be merely cruel and unusual.&Prison Lawyers for Msgr. William J. Lynn of Philadelphia, the first senior official in the Roman Catholic Church in the United States to be convicted of failing to prevent child sex abuse by priests under his supervision, asked on Thursday that he be spared prison, arguing that a lengthy sentence «would be merely cruel and unusual.&prison, arguing that a lengthy sentence «would be merely cruel and unusual.»

(CNN)-- Australia appealed for leniency after its citizen was sentenced Wednesday to 500 lashes and a year in prison by a Saudi Arabian court.

The Sentence has to be carried out by the end of the day and no sentenced prisoners can stay in the prison for longer than two days.

If they turn this down, we just arrange for them to be tried by the prison inmates and led them decide what would be an appropriate sentence.

Bibi was beaten by a crowd and thrown into prison, accused of blasphemy and sentenced to death.

PFI was founded in 1979 by Charles Colson, one of President Richard Nixon's advisers who served a prison sentence for his part in the Watergate affair...

It is perhaps just as well he remains busy, given that the U.S. prison service does not much allow for leniency when it comes to early release, and Black is likely to serve at least 85 per cent of his sentence, making him past 70 by the time he regains his freedom.

By Richard Allen Greene, CNN (CNN)-- Israel's government approved an extraordinary deal Tuesday night - agreeing to release more than 1,000 Palestinians from prison, including hundreds serving life sentences for attacks on Israelis, in exchange for a single slender young Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit.

The only account of his death has been given by the prison doctor who wrote that after the sentence had been read out to Bonhoeffer and those to be hanged with him, he saw pastor Bonhoeffer before taking off his prison garb, kneeling on the floor, praying fervently to his God.

McCann, 36, was sentenced last year to life in prison for the 1992 murders, by arson, of his 36 - year - old wife, Esther, and their 18 - month - old niece.

Adam Johnson has been sentenced to six years in prison for engaging in sexual activity with an underage girl, but it has now been revealed that he was also arrested last year on suspicion of possessing animal pornography, as reported by the Mirror.

After the low of a short prison sentence in 2012, Watford stuck by him and he has repaid that faith through his performances on the pitch.

This paper contributes to the developing research evidence about the meanings and experiences of fathering whilst in prison, by presenting new data from a pilot study of 43 men serving sentences in English prisons.

Although incarcerated dads committed a crime and were sentenced by our legal system, Austin and I feel it is not our place to judge these dads while they serve their time in prison.

A statement issued by Nana Ato Dadzie and George Loh, lawyers for the three, said the sentence was «harsh and excessive», adding: «We also do not believe that citizens of Ghana ought to be committed to prison for infractions on free expression especially in light of the repeal of the criminal libel law.

Gillian Gibbons had been sentenced to 15 days in prison by a court in the country over the naming of a teddy bear used in class.

Mugabe and two others panelists on his show, Alistair Nelson, Godwin Ako Gunn, were released from prison on Friday following the remission of their sentences after they were convicted of contempt and jailed by the Supreme Court.

A federal judge delayed sentencing of Edward Walsh, and set a date for a pre-sentencing hearing on whether new assertions by federal prosecutors are accurate and should potentially increase the prison time faced by the former Suffolk Conservative Party leader.

This sanction is imposed by the court on dangerous and sane offenders, when an ordinary time - limited prison sentence in itself is considered insufficient for protecting the community.

They were sentenced, respectively, to five and 6-1/2 year prison terms by Manhattan U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood, but have stayed out while their appeals were pending.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced to 12 years in prison by a federal judge Tuesday.

BY NATHAN RILEY In a departure from his previous policy, Governor Andrew Cuomo is establishing a system to review requests to shorten prison sentences of rehabilitated prisoners.

A former state prison sergeant was sentenced for stealing $ 56,400 in worker's compensation benefits by running a Cayuga County used car businesses while claiming he was unable to work, state officials said Thursday.

The postponement, opposed by prosecutors as a delay tactic with little chance of success before the Supreme Court, likely will put off any retrial until next year, buying time for the 73 - year - old former Albany power broker, who had faced a 12 - year prison sentence.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced to 12 years in prison and told by a federal judge that he must give back $ 5 million that he gained from illegal kickback schemes, as well a pay another $ 1.75 million in fines.

Andy Coulson and his fellow defendants are fiercely criticised by a judge, as the phone - hacking trial ends with prison sentences

His sentencing in December 2011 to an aggregate term of one and a third to four years in prison plus with $ 750,000 in restitution was also upheld by the appellate panel.

Two decades after he was sodomized by an NYPD officer, touching off one of the biggest police misconduct investigations in city history, Abner Louima is living a quiet but productive life in Miami, while the officer who attacked him, Justin Volpe, has eight years left on his federal prison sentence.

NEW YORK, NY — Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that former New York State Senate Majority Leader DEAN SKELOS was sentenced today to five years in prison after having been found guilty by a federal jury of using his official position to obtain more than $ 300,000 in bribes and extortion payments that were paid to his son, ADAM SKELOS, in exchange for DEAN SKELOS's official acts.

The voting wrapped up a session clouded by federal investigations into corruption and the sentencing of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan) and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Nassau County) to federal prison on bribery and extortion charges.

Green said that in 2010, the Government had «removed more than 5,000 foreign criminals, 43 % by the end of their prison sentence», adding that «where there are barriers to early removal, the agency seeks to detain them to protect the public».

ADAM SKELOS, who was convicted by the same jury, was also sentenced to six - and - a-half years in prison.

A statement signed and released on Monday, 22 August by Communications Minister Dr. Edward Omane Boamah said: «The President of the Republic of Ghana, His Excellency John Dramani Mahama, has, in consultation with the Council of State and in exercise of his constitutional powers under Article 72 of the Constitution, remitted the remainder of the prison sentence imposed on three persons: Salifu Maase (alias Mugabe), Alistair Nelson, and Ako Gunn, who were sentenced to four months» imprisonment and a fine of GHS10, 000.00 each for contempt of court.

The Tartan Con is a pseudonym used by an ex prisoner who was sentenced to seven years in prison.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced to 12 years in prison and told by a federal judge that he must give back $ 5 million that he stole from the public, as well as pay another $ 1.75 million in fines.

«I hereby sentence the defendant to three years in prison on the one - count charge of obtaining money by false pretences.