Sentences with phrase «spend years in prison»

While presumed to be innocent, they may spend years in prison awaiting trial.

Most exonerees spend years in prison only to return to society without any resources.

You might spend years in prison and have to pay a substantial fine.

It's almost the same thing as expecting black women to marry down or stick by their men while they spend years in prison.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Nassau County's appeal of a federal court ruling upholding a $ 43 million judgment won by two men who — after spending years in prison — were exonerated in the 1984 rape and murder of a Lynbrook teenager.

«Despite spending years in prison and being constantly harassed after his release, he didn't falter in his determination to change his country's government, and to uphold his commitment to non-violent resistance,» Mr Clegg wrote.

Despite spending years in prison and being constantly harassed after his release, he didn't falter in his determination to change his country's government, and to uphold his commitment to non-violent resistance.

He violated his parole in 2007 and spent another year in prison, records show.

According to the Innocence Project, eyewitness testimony played a role in 75 percent of guilty verdicts eventually overturned by DNA testing after people spent years in prison.

Rudd, despite a co-screenwriting credit, subdues his smart - ass rascal persona a bit here to be a more approachable and likeable hero, if a tad vanilla, who is more motivated by affairs of the heart (the potential to restore his relationship with the daughter he couldn't see while spending years in prison) than in living a life of crime just for the sake of it.

A Russian man might be spending years in prison after his trial wrapped up last week, after being arrested in 2016 for making a video about Pokémon Go while inside a church, a violation of the country's laws against «inciting religious hatred».

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On September 10th of this year I spent an entire day in California State Prison at the California City Correctional Facility with people who had committed felonies and worked with them on business plans to help them create legal enterprise upon their release as part of Defy Ventures 6 - month training program.

Dotcom spent most of the year battling extradition efforts to the United States, where he could serve 20 years in prison for running his Megaupload service, but so far, he's managed to beat — or least stave off — the rap.

The 73 - year - old Boone was convicted in the 1980s in what prosecutors called the «largest domestic marijuana syndicate in American history,» spending more than a decade in prison.

«They are coming as refugees and there will be a place for them in Uruguay if they want to bring their families,» said Mujica, who spent 14 years in prison before and during his country's 1973 - 1985 dictatorship.

The nearly 30 years he has spent in prison have weighed on him.

«I spent over a decade of my life working at the issue [of prison reform], including half a decade at the NAACP, and yet here you have a former inmate turned entrepreneur who's been able to bring relief to almost a quarter of federal inmates in just a couple of years,» Jealous says.

In the weeks since the series debuted, there has been an Internet firestorm that has included countless opinions on whether or not justice was truly served and whether Avery may have suffered the second wrongful conviction of his life (he previously spent 18 years in prison for a sexual assault conviction that was later overturned due to new DNA evidenceIn the weeks since the series debuted, there has been an Internet firestorm that has included countless opinions on whether or not justice was truly served and whether Avery may have suffered the second wrongful conviction of his life (he previously spent 18 years in prison for a sexual assault conviction that was later overturned due to new DNA evidencein prison for a sexual assault conviction that was later overturned due to new DNA evidence).

He'll spend 65 years in prison for felony murder, armed burglary, second - degree theft, and third - degree theft.

The Board of Estimates approved the settlement to be paid to a man who was wrongfully convicted of murder and spent 20 years in prison.

Wan has reportedly spent more than ten years in prison for various crimes, including leading the «14K» triad group in Macau.

It's okay GodsPeople, you will learn soon enough about equality when you spend your first 20 years in prison for a hate crime.

Are you willing to spend the money to put him in a secure prison for many years while the government figures out how and where to try him, while his followers protest and gather strength all around the world?

An American pastor will spend the next seven years in a Chinese prison after he was found guilty of organising... More

Just a note; I spent ten years in a prison ministry in a federal pin and won two gay men to the Lord.

«Many of them spent many years in Communist prisons, and they had little opportunity to write and publish.

Pastor Saeed, the Iranian - American Christian pastor who spent more than three years in Iranian prison for holding underground religious meetings in the country, took to Facebook to show a letter he recently received from President Obama.

If this were anyone else they.would have spent their remaining years in prison where they belonged not in some pampered palace.

A former pastor of one of Canada's largest churches has been released after spending two years in forced labour camps and prisons in North Korea.

But what if, after the crook spends 20 years in prison, the judge meets him at the prison gates and says, «Aren't I merciful to let you out of prison today?»

I could tell you that spending 20 years in a maximum security prison will fill your days with joy and wonder, they will serve ice cream every day and you get massages every lunch hour and the guards rub your feet every night as they read to you from an adventure book while you drift off to sleep.

In California, home of the get - tough three - strikes - and - you're - out law, it's estimated that by 2020, $ 5 billion a year will be spent on health care for aging inmates — the amount of the state's entire prison budget for 2002.

Christen News Agency: Iranian pastor's Christmas arrest worries religious liberty advocates A Christian pastor who spent nearly three years in an Iranian prison for his religious conversion was reportedly arrested again on Christmas Day, contrary to a previous agreement.

Update (July 1): World Watch Monitor (WWM) reports that Pakistan has acquitted yet another Christian pastor accused of blasphemy, even as Asia Bibi spends her fourth year in prison while waiting for her appeal to be heard.

Refusing to turn from Christ, the women spent almost a year in the women's ward of Evin Prison, where they saw the harsh effects of Islamic law on women and, consequently, found hearts that were open to the hope of Jesus.

And I have a few who have spent time in prison, and one of my deceased Elders spent 17 years in prison before he was converted.

I turned intentionally to a life of crime at age twelve and found myself facing the death penalty at age twenty for offenses including conspiracies to commit bank robberies, hijackings, and homicide, and then, after a merciful and undeserved reprieve from God, spent ten years in America's worst prison trying to figure out, among other things, the nature of punishment — and «Saving Punishment» by Stephen Webb is certainly the best meditation I've come across on the subject.

If you KNOW such way and was hiding it for all these years it's YOUR fault that this poor guy spent five years in Hamas prison.

But whereas the More of the first novel had begun to recover his mental and moral health after conquering suicidal tendencies, the More we encounter in the new novel has spent two years in prison for selling amphetamines to truck drivers.

It is sixty years since I became a Catholic; five of those years were spent in schools staffed by secular priests and religious, another four in approved schools staffed by laity and with Catholic chaplains; two years were spent in a local authority approved school and thirty years in prisons and the courts as a senior probation officer.

Jehoiachin gives himself up and the city is spared destruction for another decade; but the young king spends the next thirty - seven years in Babylonian prison until he is finally released in 561 (see Jer.

, the Olympics bomber who spent five years on the lam, before he was sentenced to life in prison without parole for bombing a women's clinic here in 1998?

«We were never so happy,» said Father Alexandru Ratiu, who spent sixteen years in Romanian prisons.

He was just out of prison after serving 14 years, a boy of the streets who never knew any other life and went away at 18 for armed robbery, assault, kidnapping, spending half that time in and out of solitary.

Art Schlichter, NFL quarterback Has spent four of the past six years in prison on various charges; currently in Marion County Jail, Indianapolis, awaiting trial on federal charges of money laundering.

Evans — who spent two and a half years in prison for the crime he would later be cleared of committing — being found not guilty does not mean the alleged victim lied.

Two years ago a fan somehow managed to wander onto the track during the race and spent six weeks in prison for the pleasure.

A veteran of more than 50 years in government — 22 years as alderman — Roti was convicted of racketeering and extortion, for which he spent four years at a federal prison in Oxford, Wis..

The accusation led to his arrest in 2000, and he spent the next six years in prison.

Although he spent much of the next and last eight years of his life in and out of prison, often on order of the House of Commons, sometimes the Lords, and finally Cromwell's Council of State, he nevertheless started a political movement which became a major source of constitutional ideas and a popular reforming movement.