Sentences with phrase «requested by prosecutors»

Boyland Jr., who represented a district comprising of Bushwick, Crown Heights, Bedford - Stuyvesant and Brownsville, was sentenced this past September to 14 years in federal prison — less than the 20 - year term requested by prosecutors and recommended by federal sentencing guidelines, according to the Times.

Not exact matches

Both sides requested a May 25 court date for a status conference that may determine whether a special master or a separate «filter team» or «privilege team» of prosecutors will review the seized materials to decide what is responsive to the search warrant and what is protected by attorney - client privilege.

The request indicates that prosecutors may be examining money that Cohen obtained by using his taxi companies as collateral.

The school's lawsuit stemmed from a request by the Ingham County Prosecutor's Office, which asked the school not to turn over certain reports, because the prosecutors have yet to determine whether they will press charges against those named in the reports.

Though the WFP is out of the woods with the feds, it remains in the crosshairs of a special prosecutor requested by Staten Island DA Dan Donovan in 2011.

«The criminal assault trial of Kevin S. Parker, a state senator from central Brooklyn, was thrown into turmoil on Thursday, as a judge granted the Brooklyn district attorney's office's request to have two special prosecutors appointed — one who would take over the case, and another who would investigate possible improprieties by an assistant district attorney.

Her position was secured by Howe after requests from Percoco, according to email records obtained by prosecutors.

I fully concur with Senator Ball on this one.Leibell and company dishonestly framed this all as reasonable requests for leniency, as if what he had done was not so bad (and as if he had contritely cooperated with authorities), when in fact the former State Senator has been defiant in NOT helping Federal prosecutors — AND some of the letters in Leibell's behalf came from people who are still being actively investigated by Federal prosecutors.

Updated 3:26 p.m. The criminal assault trial of Kevin S. Parker, a state senator from central Brooklyn, was thrown into turmoil on Thursday, as a judge granted the Brooklyn district attorney's office's request to have two special prosecutors appointed — one who would take over the case, and another who would investigate possible improprieties by an assistant district attorney not directly involved in the proceeding.

Prosecutors back up their request by stating, «Weiner, a grown man, a father, and a former lawmaker, willfully and knowingly asked a 15 - year old girl to display her body and engage in sexually explicit conduct for him online.»

«I have lost confidence in his objectivity and judgment, and feel obligated to request a special prosecutor for criminal cases that would typically be sent by my office to Spota's for prosecution,» DeMarco, a Conservative Party member, wrote.

Lipsky would then request Kruger take an official action in return for placing part of his fees into an account with what prosecutors described as a «shell company» nominally run by Turano.

In testimony during Silver's corruption trial in lower Manhattan, prosecutors produced a document from January 2004, requesting a $ 250,000 grant for a mesothelioma research center out of Columbia University run by Dr. Robert Taub.

A prosecutor, Carrie H. Cohen, asked by the judge for her opinion, requested that the juror be excused and replaced with an alternate.

The proposal falls short of a request by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman that he be appointed as a special prosecutor to review police killings of unarmed civilians.

Roughly four months after U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara told reporters that President Donald Trump had asked him to stay on as the top prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, the Trump administration requested the resignation 46 U.S. Attorneys appointed by former President Barack Obama — including the Manhattan - based corruption - buster.

Smith said that most Island special prosecutor requests are handled by Brooklyn, and vice versa.

Then in August 2010, Wills requested a full advance of the $ 33,000 that had been earmarked for his New York 4 Life Charity by then - state Sen. Shirley Huntley, prosecutors said.

The prosecutor then requested for exhibit P4 and P5 (cash receipts) from the court and gave same to the witness, and requested to know how much was paid to him by the office of the Director, PDP Campaign Organisation.

A jury deadlocked on several other charges, which were later dismissed by the court at the request of prosecutors.

A person with knowledge of Bharara's actions said earlier Saturday he would not comply with Attorney General Jeff Sessions» request to resign along with other prosecutors appointed by former President Barack Obama.

The plan to call Pickhardt — to make the case that Venditto acted under his lawyer's advice — led prosecutors to request correspondence from Oyster Bay that the town previously claimed was protected by attorney - client privilege.

U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni approved Howe's clothing at the request of prosecutors, who had Howe arrested on a bail violation after he admitted during cross examination he violated his cooperation agreement with the government by trying to defraud his credit card company.

Flanked by his top aides, Mr. de Blasio refused to detail cases where, in the characterization of prosecutors, he had acted on behalf of donors seeking favors, and said he would not change how his administration dealt with such requests in the future.

Could you imagine, dear reader our Governor, the former State Attorney General, the one who is supposed to be above everybody else, better than Caesar's wife, being associated, according to the New York Times, in a situation that, if it were anybody else, this same Governor would be the first one to request an investigation by the Joint Commission on Public Integrity or appoint a special prosecutor?

But that sentiment wasn't shared by six members of Congress, who wrote a letter last week to Attorney General Eric Holder requesting a federal prosecutor take over the case.

The motion was filed under seal Friday by Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm along with two other prosecutors involved in the secret John Doe probe.None of them responded to requests for comment.

Sanders requested further discovery on Perez as an informant, but the lead prosecutor fought the request by conceding that Perez was acting as a government agent, and thus there was no need for discovery on the issue.

Holmes was one of four candidates recommended for the special prosecutor position after a request by community groups and a member of McDonald's family.

We may, therefore, be seeing a change in the approach to sentencing in OH&S cases where jail sentences will be requested by Crown prosecutors and imposed more frequently by courts on individuals convicted of offences involving the breach of OH&S standards, serious injuries or significant incidents.

Some parties (most likely Melloni, but also the Spanish public prosecutor) argued that the request was inadmissible because the questions of the referring court were based on the assumption that Article 4a (1) FD EAW, as inserted by FD EAW 2009, was applicable to Melloni's case.

The panel also urges provincial governments to create policies to make clear the circumstances under which Crown prosecutors will not proceed with charges (that is, where there has been a free and informed decision to request assistance to die made by a competent individual).

(correct test for Barrister appeals; whether outside the ex improviso rule, prosecutor may call evidence after prosecution and defence case closed; use of debarring orders against prosecutor; whether tribunal may «enter the arena» and strongly request the attendance of a prosecution witness; whether BSB has power to summons witnesses; whether prosecutor may communicate with disciplinary judge behind the back of the defence; whether such communication redolent of actual bias of judge where judge wishes prosecutor good luck on appeal; whether apparent bias doctrine can be engaged by post-trial conduct of judge; legal effect of serving BSB prosecutions department officer being 1 of 4 appointing members of the COIC «Tribunals Appointments Body» (TAB); whether TAB ultra vires the Bar's Constitutions; whether open - ended power of removal of member of COIC pool without cause, unlawful given position of BSB Chair and senior staff on COIC; whether ECHR Article 6 guarantees against pressure on disciplinary judges to conform with a prosecutorial mentality; whether disciplinary judges Art. 6 «independent» within Findlay v United Kingdom given key role of BSB prosecutions department in appointing disciplinary judges; serious non-disclosure by BSB of notes of secret meeting between BSB and disciplinary judge until day before appeal and despite requests and application for disclosure by defence)

A preliminary inquiry is an optional hearing requested by either the accused or the Crown prosecutor.

It is ordered by a prosecutor, unless an agency or enforcement authority may by law gather evidence and information through a preliminary inquiry and submit a request to the Prosecutor for further investigation.

A decision by the prosecutor to discontinue or withdraw proceedings with regard to all charges in the prosecution on which the request was based;

Witnesses are entitled to abstain from testifying (before both Consob and the public prosecutor) only in the limited cases in which such an abstention is allowed under the Italian Code of Criminal Procedure, including if the witnesses are close family members of the person under investigation, are requested to testify on matters covered by professional, confessional or office privilege (including privilege granted to lawyers, journalists, doctors and ministers), or are requested to testify on matters covered by public office privilege or state secrecy privilege.

However, a formal order with a warrant of the court or a formal request made by a financial regulator or the prosecutors may constitute justification recognised by the data privacy laws.

There is much in this story and in this high - profile sentencing that merits commentary, but I am especially struck by the decision by federal prosecutors to request a sentence here that is more than a decade below the advisory guideline range.

At this point, you may be requested to appear at a pretrial conference, where you will be granted the opportunity to settle the issue by negotiating a settlement with the prosecutor.

A private investigator accused of trying to steal President Donald Trump's tax returns by hacking a Department of Education website was placed on house arrest Wednesday rather than having his bond revoked as prosecutors requested.

The website said it had obtained a copy of a notice sent by prosecutor Alessandro Gobbis to the people under investigation, saying that he had requested the judge to shut down the probe.

In 2014, U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest granted summary judgment to prosecutors» forfeiture request, agreeing that the government had established that the building's primary owners — the Alavi Foundation and a shell company controlled by the government of Iran — had been violating Iran sanctions laws since 1995.