Sentences with phrase «stop convicting people»

we have to stop convicting people in the press.

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I think the results of it can be seen even if we don't know what it is: The Holy Spirit stops working in a person's life to convict them of sin, righteousness, and judgment.

Of the 40,000 people who were stopped last year at UK airports under Schedule 7 anti-terror laws, just two were convicted of terror offences.

A program offering free lawyers to immigrants facing deportation has stopped taking clients due to a clash between de Blasio and the NYC Council over whether city cash can aid people convicted of serious crimes.

No, it may not stop someone from murdering their child, just like being arrested and jail time doesn't stop people from commiting crimes, but maybe, just maybe in this case, the jury would have had a light bulb moment and said, «Hey, there is something that we can convict her on.

Thompson was an advocate of gun control, exonerated over a dozen people who were wrongfully convicted and stopped prosecuting most low - level marijuana offenses.

The «about to commit a crime» justification for a Terry stop makes it, in practice, much broader than probable cause for an arrest, which requires that the police believe that a crime has actually already been committed or is in progress, not just that someone is about to commit a crime (a person may be subjected to a Terry stop even if his actions which tend to show he is about to commit a crime have not yet progressed to the level of an attempted offense for which someone may be convicted and are not truly imminent).

If the person is convicted of committing a second violation within a 20 - year period of driving under the influence of alcohol or other drug, failure to stop and render aid in a motor vehicle accident involving death or personal injury, or reckless homicide, or any combination of these offenses, then a person may not apply for reinstatement until after the expiration of 5 years from the effective date of the most recent revocation.

Earlier this month, the president told Fox News he was «seriously considering» a pardon for Arpaio, who was convicted last month of criminal contempt for ignoring a federal judge's order to stop detaining people because he merely suspected them of being undocumented immigrants.

Assessments conducted at earlier phases are specified in previous articles.7, 8 At the 15 - year follow - up assessment, adolescents completed interviews that measured whether they had been adjudicated a person in need of supervision (PINS) resulting from incorrigible behavior such as recurrent truancy or destroying parents» property; their frequency of running away from home; and the number of times they had been stopped by the police, arrested, convicted of a crime or of probation violations, and sent to youth correctional facilities.14 They also reported on their disruptive behavior in school; number of school suspensions; delinquent and aggressive behavior outside school; experience of sexual intercourse; rates of pregnancy; lifetime number of sexual partners; and frequency of using cigarettes, alcohol, and illegal drugs during the 6 - month period prior to the 15 - year interview.15