Sentences with phrase «prison sentence came»

The two - year prison sentence came as somewhat of a surprise as prosecutors had recommended a two - year suspended sentence.

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It came crashing down hard on Friday as a federal judge in Manhattan sentenced Ulbricht to serve the rest of his life in prison, following his earlier conviction on seven charges related to conspiracy, narcotics and money - laundering.
It turns out that Jeffs, 55 and serving a life - plus -20-year prison sentence, is likely to be replaced as head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) in the relative near term, even if he survives for decades to come.
Dostoevsky came to understand freedom while serving a sentence in a Siberian prison: «Freedom is the mainspring of human action.
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.
His father was arrested, charged with first - degree assault and sentenced to life in prison, but Brryan would wake from night terrors scared that he would be freed and come back to «finish the job».
He stayed in the Premiership and continued his fine form with Birmingham City but was then sentenced to ninety days in prison for drink driving; it didn't affect his form and OPTA statistics showed he came back to finish the 05/06 season with the most amount of crosses in the league.
Tom DeLay was sentenced to three years in a Texas prison today, and I saw it coming almost 20 years ago.
In what will had more grist for the mill when it comes to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's call for ethics reform in the state Legislature, Leibell was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for his role in a bribery and kickback scheme.
Skelos's sentencing comes just over a week after his former counterpart, ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, was sentenced to 12 years in prison in a separate case involving the Manhattan Democrat masking bribes as legal referrals.
Also published on The Huffington Post Tom DeLay was sentenced to three years in a Texas prison today, and I saw it coming almost 20 years ago.
It comes as both former leaders of the legislature are being sentenced to prison for corruption.
The verdict Friday came more than two years after his first 2015 trial resulted in a 12 - year prison sentence.
The proposals come after a corruption wave at the Capitol that's led to prison sentences for both former legislative leaders, jail time for a former state comptroller and federal charges, including bribery and bid - rigging, against nine Cuomo associates.
The deliberations, which began Thursday and resumed Friday, come more than two years after Silver's first trial resulted in a 12 - year prison sentence.
For the past century the probation service has worked with people in court for sentencing, people who are convicted and given community sentences and people coming out of long prison sentences.
Former Deputy Executive Director of the Port Authority Bill Baroni was sentenced to 24 months in prison for his role in the September 2013 George Washington Bridge lane - closure scandal that came to be known as «Bridgegate»
It comes as the government looks at ways to reduce the prison population, and shadow home affairs minister Edward Garnier warned that this drive must not lead to more lenient sentences.
Sheldon Silver, who rose from the Lower East Side of Manhattan to become one of the state's most powerful and feared politicians as speaker of the New York Assembly, was sentenced on Tuesday to 12 years in prison in a case that came to symbolize Albany's culture of graft.
The proposals come after a corruption wave at the Capitol that's led to prison sentences for both former legislative leaders, jail time for a former state comptroller, and federal charges including bribery and bid rigging against nine Cuomo associates, including a former top aide, Joe
The sentencing came one week after Skelos» Democratic counterpart, former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, was sentenced to 12 years in prison on corruption charges.
Just a day after Emperors Club madam Cecil Suwal got sentenced to six months in prison for her role in the prostitution ring, word comes that the fortunes of Kristin Davis, another sex worker associated with disgraced former governor Eliot Spitzer, are on the rise.
Another successful prosecution came last year, when entrepreneur Walter Lian - Heen Liew was sentenced to 15 years in prison for conspiring to steal trade secrets related to titanium dioxide production from DuPont and sell them to state - owned companies in China.
His hope for redemption comes in selling guns to a busy group of bank robbers to keep the cash coming in, whilst shopping in his gun - runner contact Jackie Brown (Steven Keats) to convince the federal agent on his back, Dave Foley (Richard Jordan), to drop his prison sentence.
Sentenced to life imprisonment, he would languish in prison for ten years till his plight came to the attention of the Innocence Project.
Here he does have something new to propose: not anything that will reduce the incarceration rate, but some effort to reduce the extensive «collateral sanctions» that come with a prison sentence and make getting a job and rehabilitation so hard.
Are you able to point to any possible downside (other than the fact that you will be going to prison once millions of middle - class people learn about the role you have played in supporting the biggest act of financial fraud in U.S. history — that's not a good reason because the reality is that your prison sentence will be a lot shorter if you come clean today than it will be if you do not come clean until after the next price crash)?
Shame on Seneca County SPCA if they can't take this piece of scum back to Court and get him and his equally vile wife, the prison sentences they deserve, especially since new evidence has come to light.
Deukmejian came into the governorship with modest goals — fight crime with tougher sentencing laws and new prisons and erase the budget deficit he inherited from his Democratic predecessor, Jerry Brown.
Soejima is serving a three year prison sentence, and that is where he hears that Akiyama has come to Osaka on a business trip.
Celebrating the extraordinary but tragically short life of British playwright Joe Orton, this exhibition explores the points where his interests and career came into contact with issues of crime and justice — including the inventive collages and interventions he made in library books, but for which he was penalised with a six month prison sentence.
The cases came in the wake of retroactive amendments to the federal sentencing guidelines that reduced prison terms for crack cocaine offenses.
Robbery II is a Class B Felony, which comes with a minimum penalty of one year in prison, and a maximum sentence of 20 years (10 years in some jurisdictions).
Yesterday's decision by a panel of military officers at Guantanamo Bay to sentence Salim Ahmed Hamdan to five and a half years in prison came as a surprise to many.
A prison sentence may be lenient or severe, but reason for its imposition comes from the person issuing the judgment and commitment order.
With potential penalties that can include fines, court - ordered treatment and significant prison sentences, the counsel you work with can impact your life for years or decades to come.
After it came to light in 2006 that the Home Office had failed to consider or implement such recommendations in a number of cases, the rules were tightened and deportation became compulsory for non-British citizens over the age of 17 sentenced to more than 12 months in prison, except where it would be in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights and the Protection of Refugees.
Whether one uses the TRAC data or data from the Sentencing Commission, when it comes to sending people to prison it is important to concentrate on what is going on in each district and in each courthouse within each district.
In sentencing her to a prison term on June 3 2015, Justice Brown referred to Ms A's «strident opposition to this order ever coming to fruition» (para 111).
Over half the male Koori prisoners received under sentence in 2013 - 14 came into prison as a result of their parole being cancelled.
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