Sentences with phrase «rules on their convictions»

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Brazilian stocks jumped on Thursday after a court ruled that former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva can be sent to prison while he appeals a corruption conviction.

End Illegal Immigration Act Fully - funds the construction of a wall on our southern border with the full understanding that the country Mexico will be reimbursing the United States for the full cost of such wall; establishes a 2 - year mandatory minimum federal prison sentence for illegally re-entering the U.S. after a previous deportation, and a 5 - year mandatory minimum for illegally re-entering for those with felony convictions, multiple misdemeanor convictions or two or more prior deportations; also reforms visa rules to enhance penalties for overstaying and to ensure open jobs are offered to American workers first.

But according to Garlow, the senior pastor at Skyline Wesleyan Church in La Mesa, California, the conviction that «our nation, economically and morally, is in such a condition that America as we have known it for its 200 - plus years is on the verge of disappearing» was enough of an impetus to break the rules.

And I wanted to introduce the topic through a series of questions, precisely because questions are about as far as I can go with this topic without tripping up on my own failed attempts to establish guiding principles or rules about how to engage other people with wisdom, conviction, and grace online.

The Lahore judges who rejected her appeal conceded that they had based their ruling on a technicality, which they recommended be eliminated in the future to make it much more difficult to achieve blasphemy convictions.

HBO's Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight, which debuts on Oct. 5 and is directed by Stephen Frears (The Queen), is a glossy and engaging docudrama that focuses on the Supreme Court's inner - chamber battles in 1971, when the justices ruled on Ali's appeal of the conviction that had cost him 3 1/2 years of his career and threatened to send him to jail for five more.

Last month, the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Silver's conviction for doing favors on behalf of a cancer researcher and developer who funneled $ 4 million legal referral fees to the former speaker, ruling the jury instructions were wrong and Silver was entitled to a new trial.

The Supreme Court, in a case last year involving former Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell, ruled that corruption convictions could only be based on performance of an «official act» that represented a formal exercise of government power — not just a phone call or a meeting with a lobbyist.

And the case left in its wake a new legal definition of what constitutes public corruption, based on the Supreme Court's ruling tossing the former governor's convictions.

The conviction was vacated on appeal, however, in part due to instructions given to the jury that were found to be incompatible with a Supreme Court ruling on the theft of honest services charges.

Reactions are rolling in to the surprise news this morning that a federal appeals court has overturned the 2015 corruption conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, based on a subsequent U.S. Supreme Court ruling, involving a former Republican governor of Virginia, that narrowed the definition of what kind of official conduct is prosecutable.

A federal appeals court on Monday upheld the bribery conviction of former Brooklyn Assemblyman William Boyland Jr. — despite acknowledging that some of the jury instructions at his trial were technically wrong under the new rules.

Earlier this month, Silver's lawyers argued that thanks to a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling, which overturned the corruption conviction of former Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell, Silver's case, too, would likely be thrown out — and he should be allowed to stay out of prison on bail while he made his appeals case.

Silver's successful appeal was based on a 2016 US Supreme Court ruling that reversed the conviction of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and limited the definition of «official act» in a corruption case.

Disgraced former state Sen. Dean Skelos will be able to stay out of prison pending an appeal of his corruption convictions, a Manhattan judge ruled on Thursday.

Overturning Mr. Silver's conviction based on the Judge's instructions to the jury, which occurred before the McDonnell ruling, does not redefine the facts in evidence.

In its decision regarding Silver's case, the appeals court ruled in 2017 that the definition of official corruption provided to the jurors differed from the one used by the U.S. Supreme Court when it overturned the corruption conviction of former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, and so it was possible the jury could have ruled differently had it been instructed on the updated definition of the law.

The US Supreme Court unanimously overturned the corruption conviction of ex-Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell on Monday in a ruling that raised the hopes of crooked New York politicians Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos.

Silver, whose conviction was overturned on appeal based on that Supreme Court ruling, stands accused — for a second time — of selling his office in exchange for $ 4 million in kickbacks that he received through two law firms with which he was affiliated.

The ruling comes less than three months after the conviction of former longtime Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was also tossed on the same grounds.

The appellate ruling is part of a multipronged court battle between Tinari forces and dissidents who say the party is still under the control of ex-Conservative chairman Edward Walsh, who is in federal prison after his conviction on corruption charges.

A 2009 conviction was vacated following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the theft of honest services charges Bruno was found guilty under.

Attorney Steven Molo notified the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan on Thursday that he'd like to ask the high court to review last week's ruling, which wiped out the conviction but also provided the government with assurance that there was sufficient evidence to convict Silver if a jury is properly instructed on the law and decides to do so.

A Brooklyn judge ruled on Thursday that the manslaughter conviction of Peter Liang — the former NYPD officer who accidentally shot un unarmed Akai Gurley in a public housing project...

He dropped appeals of a judge's ruling on stop - and - frisk and he settled the long - running wrongful conviction case for the «Central Park Five.»

Because of a July Supreme Court ruling on the «honest services» statute (often used to prosecute allegedly corrupt politicians), former State Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno's two felony convictions will likely be overturned, federal officials conceded yesterday.

His conviction was overturned on the basis of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that ruled that those favors have to be in the form of concrete actions, such as filing a lawsuit or holding a hearing.

The ruling comes after the conviction of Assembly Member William Boyland Jr. and Assembly Member Eric Stevenson this year on bribery charges.

No matter how awful these facts may have appeared on paper, the Second Circuit ruled as «erroneous» the convictions that resulted from them.

A month after former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's conviction on corruption charges, Assembly Republicans on Tuesday tried a parliamentary maneuver to weaken Albany's rules that assure absolute control by the Democratic majority party over legislation.

The judge in his ruling based his conviction of the former Governor on section 58 (5) of the Public Procurement Acts, saying «the law hands of the laws are tied to convict any person found guilty of breach of procurement acts to be sentenced to less than five years imprisonment.

In the ruling, the court determined there was no legal basis for the $ 50,000 fine placed on Libous at the time of his conviction given the ruling, in effect, is the same as if Libous had not been found guilty.

«We all recognise that the UK's membership of the EU is an issue on which some colleagues have long - standing, deeply - held positions of conviction - hence my decision to set aside, on a highly exceptional basis, the normal rules of collective responsibility.

The Board based its August ruling on an investigation that found «pervasive» violations of campaign law throughout Liu's campaign operation, citing the May convictions of Liu's campaign treasurer and a campaign donor in connection with a straw - donor scheme.

Citing the Supreme Court's ruling in McDonnell's case, Boyland argued that his conviction on 19 bribery - related charges should be tossed because the court improperly instructed the jury on what is an «official act.»

In the Commons today, with his signature assertive lean on the dispatch box, he gave his utmost conviction that an in - out referendum is «not the answer,» but also that «ruling out a referendum is not the answer either.»

The gov was commenting on the federal ruling Tuesday that tossed the corruption convictions of ex-state Sen. Dean Skelos and his son Adam.

Seminerio, who pleaded guilty to pocketing bribes through a sham consulting firm, plans to base his appeal on a recent Supreme Court ruling that overturned former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling's conviction for «honest services» fraud.

Skelos and son his son, Adam, are seeking a new trial thanks to a US Supreme Court ruling in June that overturned Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell's conviction, also on corruption charges.

And based on a court ruling yesterday, neither is now required to report to the authorities anytime soon as their convictions are appealed — a process that could take more than a year.

A New York federal judge ruled Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son can stay free on bail while appealing their convictions on corruption charges, saying jury instructions in their trial could be flawed in light of a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

But he appealed, and ast year, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, citing a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the theft of honest services statute, vacated his conviction.

The federal appeals court has not yet ruled on the corruption convictions and prison sentences of former State Senate Leader Dean Skelos and his son Adam.

Shelly Silver will stay out of jail for what looks to be another year, thanks to US District Court Judge Valerie Caproni's ruling Thursday that the disgraced former Assembly speaker can remain free on bail pending his appeal of his landmark corruption conviction.

In a unanimous ruling centered on the conviction of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, the justices said that informal actions, like setting up a meeting or talking to someone influential, are not the «official acts» required to prove a bribery conspiracy.

An attorney for Sheldon Silver argued Thursday that the former New York state Assembly speaker's conviction on public - corruption charges should be reversed in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year that narrowed the circumstances under which certain government acts could be considered evidence of a kickback scheme.

An appeals court vacated his 2015 conviction on corruption charges after the high court ruling.

Jurors found Silver guilty on all counts, but his conviction was overturned based on a US Supreme Court ruling last year that narrowed the definition of an «official act» in government bribery cases.

Caproni is also giving defense and prosecution five weeks after the Supreme Court rules on McDonnell's corruption conviction to file revised arguments on Silver's request to stay out on bail while he appeals.

The stunning ruling comes just days after the same court upheld the bribery conviction of former Brooklyn Assemblyman William Boyland Jr. on similar grounds questioning the jury instructions.