Sentences with phrase «term prison sentences»

Crimes categorized as felonies attract serious penalties, including long - term prison sentences.

Justice spokesman David Howarth said: «For these offenders, effective drug treatment outside prison will have a far greater impact on reducing future crime than short - term prison sentences.

In addition, she has represented multiple criminal defendants in Maryland state courts, including an individual who successfully challenged his life - term prison sentence on constitutional grounds.

Not exact matches

Prosecutors said the sentence should fall within that span, and they noted that Probation Department authorities had recommended a 27 - month prison term.

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 group.

And African - American men are far more likely to be stopped and searched by police, charged with crimes and sentenced to longer prison terms than white men convicted of the same offenses.

Sentencing one to a prison term for a currency that's unrecognized will be a first and this case could (potentially) be appealed on such grounds.

Bacanovic and Waksal were also convicted of federal charges and sentenced to prison terms.

The bill originally proposed a 10 - year jail term and a fine of up to 500,000 ringgit (US$ 128,000) for offenders, but the approved legislation sets the maximum prison sentence at six years.

There is also the question of history and systems of legality — the church has no formal legal system that can invoke prison sentences (in my experience); the military system does have a legal system and the ability to invoke prison terms.

It turns out that Jeffs, 55 and serving a life - plus -20-year prison sentence, is likely to be replaced as head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) in the relative near term, even if he survives for decades to come.

In a separate trial, Mr Simanjuntak also sentenced Juhanda's four co-conspirators - Supriyadi, Ahmad Dani, Rahmad, and Joko Sugito - to prison terms ranging from six to seven years.

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.

But, non-believers like yourself, changed the laws and now we have multiple r - a-pists and mu - r - derers sitting in prisons around the globe sentenced for life terms, that we pay for.

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.

He was sentenced to 161 consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole, [3][7] and is incarcerated in ADX Florence, a super maximum security prison near Florence, Colorado.

From The Press of Atlantic City, March 31, 1984: «A Hammonton businessman, about to be sentenced to a seven - year prison term for embezzlement, pulled a gun from his hip pocket... and killed himself in criminal court here Friday, officials said.

In addition to the long prison sentence, prosecutors want Silver to pay a $ 5.1 million forfeiture penalty — termed «crime proceeds» — as well as a $ 1 million fine.

The main changes have been the drift towards giving custodial sentences to those who would previously have been dealt with in the community or through fines, and longer sentences for those given prison terms.

They were sentenced, respectively, to five and 6-1/2 year prison terms by Manhattan U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood, but have stayed out while their appeals were pending.

NEW YORK, NY — Harvey Newkirk, formerly counsel at law firm Bryan Cave in Manhattan, was sentenced today to a prison term of six months for wire fraud in connection with his participation in a scheme to fraudulently induce lenders to provide tens

«Grayling once said «it's not right that people should walk out of prison from a short - term sentence with # 46 in their pocket and nothing else».

His sentencing in December 2011 to an aggregate term of one and a third to four years in prison plus with $ 750,000 in restitution was also upheld by the appellate panel.

During a year where both former leaders of the legislature were sentenced to lengthy prison terms for corruption, after they abused their sources of outside income, Governor Cuomo said he'd seek to strictly limit lawmakers» ability to earn extra pay.

At his sentencing, Thomas was received 10 consecutive prison terms of 25 years for a total of 250 years.

He said jail is different than prison — people are there for shorter terms, either while awaiting trial or on year sentences.

Under the terms of the devolution settlement it was Edinburgh, not London, which held the power to release or keep in prison Megrahi, who was convicted in 2001 and was serving a 27 - year sentence.

Clinton said other necessary reforms include proper treatment for the mentally ill and drug addicted who make up an increasingly larger percentage of the prison population, sentencing reform so people with low level offenses do not face long prison terms, and tackling income inequality, which is often at the root of the problem for many people caught in the criminal justice system.

«There is something profoundly wrong when African - American men are still far more likely to be stopped and searched by police, charged with crimes and sentenced to longer prison terms than are meted out to their white counterparts.»

Dean and Adam Skelos were sentenced to prison terms, of five and six - and - a-half years, respectively.

Ernst faces a maximum prison term of 25 years when he is sentenced July 5, 2017 at 9:30 a.m. by Judge Pietruszka.

Skelos and his son, in their own court papers last month, asked that they be spared from prison terms and instead be sentenced to probation.

Mikim J. Phillips was sentenced to the lengthy prison term Friday, the day after a hearing was held in Ulster County Court to determine whether he was a gang member.

Abimbola in the statement said that 13 convicts had their life sentences reduced to a term of years, having spent considerable terms in prison, while one person had his death sentence commuted to a life sentence.

The judge presiding over the sentencing in an international criminal court near The Hague said Mr. Taylor had been found guilty of «aiding and abetting, as well as planning, some of the most heinous and brutal crimes recorded in human history» and that the lengthy prison term underscored his position at the top of government during that period.

Ibori was sentenced by a United Kingdom court to prison for 13 years and served out his term midnight yesterday.

Silver's prison term, along with the pending sentencing of former Majority Leader Dean Skelos later this month, sparked talk of ethics reform at the Capitol (though what actually gets done is anyone's guess).

Edward Ferguson, 28, also was sentenced in Rensselaer County Court to the maximum prison term of 8 1/3 to 25 years.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos are facing potentially lengthy prison terms when they are sentenced on the same day, April 13.

The defendant faces a determinate term of 10 to 25 years in state prison when sentenced on June 18, 2013.

Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe announced that Jashaad Gulifield, 30, of 11 Highview Court, Nyack, New York was sentenced to an indeterminate term in state prison of three to six years on his guilty plea to welfare fraud in the third degree, a class «D» felony, three years in state prison on his -LSB-...]

Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe announced that Jashaad Gulifield, 30, of 11 Highview Court, Nyack, New York was sentenced to an indeterminate term in state prison of three to six years on his guilty plea to welfare fraud in the third degree, a class «D» felony, three years in state prison on his guilty plea to criminal sexual assault in the third degree, a class «D» felony and three years in state prison on his guilty plea criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, a class «D» felony.

They were sentenced, respectively, to 5 - and 6 1/2 - year prison terms by Manhattan U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood, but have been free while their appeals were pending.

Raymond Kwame Amankwah, who is well known in the International Community as a hard core drug baron was arrested and sentenced to a 14 - year prison term at the Provisional Detention Centre at Caucaia in Brazil for drug trafficking.

A prominent New York City landlord, Steve Croman, was sentenced to a year in Rikers Island for tax and loan fraud, a rare prison term in such cases, according to the attorney general.

DA»S PRESS RELEASE Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe announced last week that 24 - year - old Matthew Sindone of Nanuet was sentenced to an indeterminate term of four to 12 years in state prison on his guilty plea to one count of aggravated vehicular homicide, a class «B» felony, relating to the deaths of Neil Block -LSB-...]

This in a state that has seen 30 lawmakers removed from office via criminal conviction or resignation under fire in the past several years — and that soon will see former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and one - time Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos sentenced to lengthy prison terms.

But prosecutors did recommend a prison term «greater than any sentence imposed on other New York state legislators convicted of public corruption offenses.»

Both former leaders of the legislature have been sentenced to prison terms.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — Westchester County District Attorney Janet DiFiore announced that Scott Yandrasevich, 51, of 11 Abbey Lane, Danbury, Connecticut, was sentenced today to an indeterminate term of 1 to 3 years in prison on his November 2014