Sentences with phrase «state prison sentences»
As stated earlier, the penalties if convicted of certain weapons offenses can have severe consequences on your life, which include lengthy state prison sentences.
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Baxter faces a determinate state prison sentence between 10 years and 25 years when he is sentenced on July 22, 2013.
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.
In all, 838 cases resulted in a state prison sentence, 2.4 percent of the cases resolved that year.
Any point total over 44 points means that a state prison sentence must be imposed unless the prosecutors agree or the judge chooses to depart below the mandatory prison term as called for by legal guidelines.
In fact, a conviction under the New York Enterprise Corruption Law — the state's version of the federal RICO statute, can result in a state prison sentence of up to 25 years, significant fines, asset forfeiture, restitution and more.
She faced a state prison sentence of one to four years from County Judge Kenneth Resnik.
Not exact matches
Eastern State Penitentiary has a 16 - foot - high bar graph, showing the dramatic jump in the prison population, due to expanded definitions of crimes and longer, mandatory sentencing for nonviolent offenses, notes Sean Kelley, Eastern State senior vice president.
US officials also believe that Chapo Isidro was previously a high - ranking leader of the Beltrán Leyva Organization (BLO) and was considered the «right hand man» of Alfredo Beltrán Leyva, who was arrested in 2008 and sentenced to life in prison in the United States earlier this year.
Princeton doctoral student Xiyue Wang, who went to Iran to study ancient manuscripts, was arrested in August 2016, accused of spying for the United States, and sentenced to 10 years in prison in July 2017.
A New York state resident was sentenced on Thursday to over 20 years in prison for trying to recruit fighters to join Islamic State in Syria.It is the longest prison term handed out yet to an American convicted of supporting the militant gstate resident was sentenced on Thursday to over 20 years in prison for trying to recruit fighters to join Islamic State in Syria.It is the longest prison term handed out yet to an American convicted of supporting the militant gState in Syria.It is the longest prison term handed out yet to an American convicted of supporting the militant group.
The jury convicted him of the lesser charge of being a felon in possession of a gun, which carries a maximum sentence of three years in state prison.
He was sentenced to life in prison last month, though federal guidelines stated he could have served as few as twenty years.
A Belgian judge today sentenced Salah Abdeslam, the prime surviving suspect in the 2015 Islamic State attacks on Paris, to 20 years in prison over a shootout with police in Brussels in 2016.
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.
In 2011, he was sentenced to 2 - 5 years state prison due to a fight he was in in 2006.
Nassar, a former faculty member and physician at an on - campus clinic at Michigan State University was sentenced in February to up to 125 years in prison after some 200 young women testified about decades of abuse at his hands.
It was a prison sentence for some, such as in the state of Virginia, before this.
(CNN)- As he begins serving a life sentence in the Texas State Prison system, Warren Jeffs still maintains titular control over his estimated 10,000 fundamentalist followers in Arizona, Utah and Texas.
The New York Times: Priest Asks to Be Spared Prison Lawyers for Msgr. William J. Lynn of Philadelphia, the first senior official in the Roman Catholic Church in the United States to be convicted of failing to prevent child sex abuse by priests under his supervision, asked on Thursday that he be spared prison, arguing that a lengthy sentence «would be merely cruel and unusual.&Prison Lawyers for Msgr. William J. Lynn of Philadelphia, the first senior official in the Roman Catholic Church in the United States to be convicted of failing to prevent child sex abuse by priests under his supervision, asked on Thursday that he be spared prison, arguing that a lengthy sentence «would be merely cruel and unusual.&prison, arguing that a lengthy sentence «would be merely cruel and unusual.»
Forty states enacted truth - in - sentencing statutes, which require felons to serve as much as a full 85 percent of their prison terms without any chance of parole; life sentences now truly mean life.
Pastor Haghnejad and Deacon Rabbani were subsequently released; however, Pastor Irani remains in Ghezal Hesar Prison in Karaj, where he is serving a one year sentence for action against the state and a five - year sentence for «action against national security».
ICC stated: «In cases where a minor, a woman, or a person from the Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe communities were involved, the prison sentence would increase to four years and the fine to 100,000 Rupees.»
A new court ruling out of White County has approved a state - run program that offers a 30 - day reduced sentence to prison inmates if they agree to undergo a long - term (in some cases, permanent) form of contraception.
Zhisheng is a prominent Christian human rights lawyer best known for his work defending persecuted social groups but was sentenced to three years in prison charged with «inciting to subvert the state power» in December 2006.
He was sentenced to up to 175 years in prison for abusing gymnasts and other athletes at Michigan State under the guise of medical treatment for two decades.
Criminal Attorney, Phiip Kent Cohen, Esq. explains whether or not a child or teen can be sentenced to life in prison in the United States today
Wright will be sentenced May 9, but Judge John Moran already has indicated he will sentence her to four years in prison, said Assistant State's Atty. Patrick Brady.
The crucial point is that any act, which reduced the sentencing for, say, possession of marijuana would have to explicitly state that it is being applied retroactively in order to automatically release people from prison (a physical and administrative act that, itself, may take a while).
(Queens Sen. Shirley Huntley was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for siphoning state money she steered to a non-profit she controlled.
In what will had more grist for the mill when it comes to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's call for ethics reform in the state Legislature, Leibell was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for his role in a bribery and kickback scheme.
Some of the officials of the Rawlings regime suffered prison sentencing for causing financial loss to the state.
John Sampson, the 51 - year - old former leader of the Democratic conference in the state Senate, was sentenced on Wednesday afternoon to five years in prison for his corruption conviction in 2015.
The act stated that if any person or persons «shall wantonly and cruelly beat, abuse, or ill - treat any horse, mare, gelding, mule, ass, ox, cow, heifer, steer, sheep, or other cattle» they would be fined a sum «not exceeding five pounds, not less than ten shillings»; failure to pay the fine would result in a prison sentence of up to three months.
Michael J. Paonessa III, accused of vomiting several bags of alleged heroin in an Erie County Sheriff's Office patrol car April 8, was sentenced this week to five to six years in state prison for two other crimes in Niagara Falls.
Shortening sentences for prisoners convicted of violent offenses may prove controversial, but meaningful reductions in the state's prison population depends on the release of some inmates who fall into this category.
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.
A former state prison sergeant was sentenced for stealing $ 56,400 in worker's compensation benefits by running a Cayuga County used car businesses while claiming he was unable to work, state officials said Thursday.
NEW YORK, NY — Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that former New York State Senate Majority Leader DEAN SKELOS was sentenced today to five years in prison after having been found guil
Dean Skelos and Adam SkeFormer New York State Senate Leader Dean Skelos Sentenced to 5 years in Prison and his son, Adam Skelos, Sentenced to 6 1/2 years in Prison, in Manhattan Federal Courtlos
Assemblyman William Scarborough will face a prison sentence under two plea agreements he has reached with state and federal prosecutors.
NEW YORK, NY — Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that former New York State Senate Majority Leader DEAN SKELOS was sentenced today to five years in prison after having been found guilty by a federal jury of using his official position to obtain more than $ 300,000 in bribes and extortion payments that were paid to his son, ADAM SKELOS, in exchange for DEAN SKELOS's official acts.
NEW YORK, NY — Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that former New York State Assembly Speaker SHELDON SILVER was sentenced this afternoon to 12 years in prison after having been found
«I'm announcing my candidacy today for governor of New York State because I'm tired of listening to the fairy tale that everything is just great when it's just the opposite; I'm tired of watching New York's decline; living in New York shouldn't sound like a prison sentence, but that's too often what you hear today,» Astorino said in the video.
The proposals come after a corruption wave at the Capitol that's led to prison sentences for both former legislative leaders, jail time for a former state comptroller and federal charges, including bribery and bid - rigging, against nine Cuomo associates.
A Brooklyn federal judge last week sentenced former state Sen. Shirley Huntley to a year and one day in prison for stealing taxpayer dollars,?
A statement signed and released on Monday, 22 August by Communications Minister Dr. Edward Omane Boamah said: «The President of the Republic of Ghana, His Excellency John Dramani Mahama, has, in consultation with the Council of State and in exercise of his constitutional powers under Article 72 of the Constitution, remitted the remainder of the prison sentence imposed on three persons: Salifu Maase (alias Mugabe), Alistair Nelson, and Ako Gunn, who were sentenced to four months» imprisonment and a fine of GHS10, 000.00 each for contempt of court.
Meantime, in a bid to reduce prison congestion in the state, 789 offenders were sentenced to different hours of community services across the magistrate districts in the state.
Former state Sen. Serphin Maltese, who was a close friend of Seminerio's, said the late lawmaker was ill when he was sentenced and knew he would die in prison.
A Manhattan federal judge sentenced Seminerio to six years in prison Feb. 4 for abusing his power as a lawmaker and extorting money out of hospitals, nonprofits and other groups in exchange for lobbying state officials on their behalf.