Sentences with phrase «receiving prison sentences»

Those who are found guilty are receiving prison sentences — or being passed onto higher courts for sentencing.

Both Golding and Fransen recently received prison sentences for religiously - aggravated harassment.

The world's most famous bitcoin criminal received his prison sentence.

More than 300 shops were stopped from selling psychoactive substances, 31 were forced to close, and four people received prison sentences.

The most recent past Senate Republican leader, Dean Skelos, also has received a prison sentence.

Both Silver and Skelos were convicted and received prison sentences in 2016, though they have appealed the convictions.

The Conservatives point out one in four offenders is currently released with only a warning or caution, while fewer than one in seven receives a prison sentence.

9 September 2002: The Lords reform committee is understood to favour legislation that would deprive any peer who received a prison sentence longer than 12 months of the right to sit, speak or vote in the Lords.

Both received prison sentences for political corruption.

In October of that year all four men received prison sentences ranging from 30 months to 78 months.

In fact, the study found that 15 percent of convicted offenders received a prison sentence in 1981, which increased to 20 percent in 1995, and reached nearly 30 percent in 2013.

The lads received prison sentences — Harding was banned from skating for life.

A breeder, who lost his arm after his bulldogs attacked him, received a prison sentence because his remaining animals attacked others.

In this case, a lorry driver has received a prison sentence for killing a woman and three children when he crashed into their car because he was looking at his mobile phone.

You can not apply if you have been convicted of a sexual offence involving children or have been convicted of more four or more offences in which you received a prison sentence of two (2) years or more.

Not exact matches

The details are disturbing, as Harkov wrote: «Terrorists who have been sentenced to three to five years in Israeli prisons receive the average income of a Palestinian, about $ 580 per month.

Some expect Sun to receive life in prison or an even heavier sentence.

He faces up to 20 years in prison on one of the counts but is likely to receive less severe punishment at sentencing.

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.

Iranian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, the Christian whose conversion from Islam caused him to receive a death sentence for apostasy, was released from prison this weekend.

Pastor Bao Guohua of Holy Love Christian Church in Jinhua received a sentence of 14 years in prison, and his wife Xing Wenxiang 12 years, after they were convicted of «corruption, financial crimes and gathering people to disturb social order,» according to The New York Times, citing the February 26 Zhejiang Daily, the province's official newspaper.

According to the organisation Article 18, Judge Ahmadzadeh has previously sentenced at least 15 Christians to between five and 10 years in prison, with another receiving a 15 year sentence.

The Orange County Weekly reports that Daniel, a physician and Pentecostal minister who sold her C - Extract product on Trinity Broadcast Network, received a sentence of «14 years in federal prison because her «brown sludge» was actually made of suntan lotion and beef flavoring.»

There are some issues which made need to be sorted before any transfer becomes a reality which is the conviction in France for assault on a Police Officer last year, of which the player received a two - month suspended prison sentence.

In lieu of prison or the death sentence, these women receive psychiatric treatment and rehabilitation.

The perpetrators were brought to justice and received lengthy prison sentences.

Ippolito, 78, of Syosset, died last year while serving a 27 - month prison sentence after pleading guilty in January 2016 to evading taxes in connection with $ 2 million in outside consulting fees he received while working as the town's planning and development commissioner.

Prosecutors pushed for a prison sentence of at least 15 years, which would have been longer than the 14 years that former Brooklyn State Assembly Member William Boyland received Sept. 2015.

The former energy and climate change secretary was photographed emerging from Gloucestershire's Leyhill prison, having served a quarter of the eight - month sentence he received for perverting the course of justice.

At his sentencing, Thomas was received 10 consecutive prison terms of 25 years for a total of 250 years.

[85] On the basis of evidence obtained during Operation Nigeria, Rees was found guilty in December 2000 of attempting to pervert the course of justice and received a seven - year prison sentence.

Every prisoner under sentence of imprisonment shall be entitled, once in every two weeks to receive a visit from friends or relatives in the presence of a prison officer

A prisoner under sentence of imprisonment may, in exceptional circumstances, be granted permission by the officer in charge of the prison to receive a visit from friends or relatives in addition to the visit to which he is entitled under subsection (1)

Silver, once one of New York's most powerful politicians, was sentenced in May to 12 years in prison, along with a fine and forfeiture of more than $ 6 million, after a federal jury found him guilty of a host of corruption charges related to two bribery schemes in which he received millions in kickbacks by trading political favors for money.

The United States attorney's office failed until the trial was well underway to turn over to defense lawyers recordings of 9,000 conversations, almost 300 in Yiddish, in phone calls made or received by Moses Stern, a Rockland County developer who became a government informer to try to avoid a lengthy prison sentence.

U.S. prosecutors are recommending that former New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver receive a sentence «substantially in excess» of 10 years in prison for his conviction on federal corruption charges late last year.

Disgraced former Comptroller Alan Hevesi was sentenced this morning received the maximum penalty — one to four years in prison — for his role in a massive pay - to - play pension scandal.

Sir Ian revealed he discussed lowering the minimum age at which a person possessing a gun receives a mandatory five - year prison sentence with the home secretary.

A federal prison inmate in Florida who previously received five years for threatening to kill then - President Barack Obama and others has been sentenced to another four years and three months for threatening to kill Trump.

But when Cuomo, in late 2016, commuted sentences for seven felons, pardoned five others, and conditionally pardoned 101 nonviolent youth offenders, Roskoff offered fulsome praise: «We are excited to see that these elderly individuals receiving clemency will not have to die in prison.

«We can help disrupt the supply of this poison that is killing people at an alarming rate,» Flynn said, adding that those suffering from opiate addiction who commit non-violent crimes such as petty larceny will receive treatment rather than a prison sentence.

Karas also sentenced Tabone, a former Queens Republican Party vice chair who was convicted of receiving bribes on Smith's behalf, to 3 ¹ / ₂ years in prison.

Mitchell received a sentence of 28 months to 7 years in prison, serving her sentence at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women in Westchester County.

The resolution — approved by 41 of the 51 council members, with eight voting «no» and two abstaining — bizarrely paints the 72 - year - old imprisoned and unrepentant leader of the terrorist FALN (Fuerza Armadas de Liberacion Nacional, Spanish for Armed Forces of National Liberation) as a «decorated Vietnam War veteran and community activist» who received a «disproportionate» 55 - year prison sentence for his crimes.

Skelos received a five year prison sentence, while his son Adam received a six and a half year sentence.

Hank Morris has received a sentence of one and one - third to four years in prison for his role in the pay - to - play pension fund scandal, NY1's Grace Rauh reports from the downstate courtroom where the once - powerful political consultant appeared to learn his fate.

In May he received a sentence of two years in federal prison, which was then promptly suspended pending the Supreme Court's ruling.

Gallivan is slightly off on the numbers, but his claim that few of these cases result in a conviction - and even fewer receive a state prison sentence - is correct.

Vargas made the comment following Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson's March 23 public announcement that he was recommending Liang — who faces up to 15 years prison — receive a no - jail sentence.

The report shows about 33,000 cases resolved in 2013, with almost 2.7 percent receiving a sentence to state prison.