Sentences with phrase «requests by defense lawyers»

The 42 - page sentencing memorandum comes after requests by defense lawyers that the two be sentenced to community service, rather than face jail time.

He rejected a request by a defense lawyer for Gonzalez that his client receive two years in prison, like the sentence bestowed earlier this month on 81 - year - old Joseph Bruno, the Republican leader of the state Senate for 13 years who was convicted of two fraud charges.

An expungement could be accorded by the court as requested by the defense lawyer if: • The offender has completed the probation successfully without incident • A year has passed since the court conviction with the punishment enforced • All fines and restitutions, as well as reimbursements, have been settled • The offender is not convicted of another offense • The offender is not on probation for another offense

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David Doniger, senior climate lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Council, one of several environmental groups that sided with Vermont, said the waiver request was given a big boost by an April 2 U.S. Supreme Court decision saying carbon dioxide was a pollutant worthy of regulation.