Sentences with phrase «year sentence because»
As Berman notes, from Madoff's perspective, there's little practical difference between a 150 - year sentence or a 25 - year sentence because under either scenario, the 71 - year - old Madoff will die in prison.
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Part of the reason is that it can take years to access prison rehabilitation programs if you have a longer sentence because people with shorter sentences get priority; despite recent national efforts to make opioid antidotes and addiction treatments more widely accessible, many prisons still don't have these programs in place, leaving addicts who make it out of prison far more susceptible to relapse.
Barrett Brown, the former Anonymous activist, was sentenced this year partly because he posted hacked authentication data on the Internet.
«There are Baha'is rotting in jail on a 20 - year sentence on trumped up charges simply because they have a certain set of faith beliefs that run against the theocracy in Iran.»
(CNN)-- Last month, a Sudanese court imposed a death sentence on Meriam Yehya Ibrahim, a 27 - year - old pregnant mother, because she refused to renounce her Christian faith.
IF the torture law was seen to work, and there was a dramatic decrease in violent crimes because bad people realized that they were okay with a death sentence, but 25 years of electric niple clamps was more than they were willing to take on, then the government could make the case that they enacted the will of the people by reducing crime.
The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.
The wound was not grave, but, probably in part because a medical examination showed evidence of recent sodomy by Verlaine, the court gave him the maximum sentence of two years of hard labor.
The Orange County Weekly reports that Daniel, a physician and Pentecostal minister who sold her C - Extract product on Trinity Broadcast Network, received a sentence of «14 years in federal prison because her «brown sludge» was actually made of suntan lotion and beef flavoring.»
Williams asked that the tickets be mailed to his wife in West Philadelphia, because he has served only 15 months of a 3 - to 10 - year sentence for aggravated robbery and is unable to conveniently arrange a day off from Graterford Prison.
Soak in that sentence, because it hasn't been uttered in that or any form for 71 years.
Because, yeah, it is helpful to know what's supposed to be happening when in a general sense so you can have realistic expectations (I remember thinking that a one - year - old could probably speak in complete sentences back before I had one of my own), but at the same time kids are so varied and variable that you can really make yourself worry over things that don't mean anything.
Zhao Meifu, meanwhile, received a one - year re-education through labour sentence because she visited Beijing to petition for grievances related to the seizure of her land and the demolition of her home (an extremely common complaint in contemporary China).
He was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2009, but released in 2014 because of good conduct and cooperation in federal probes.
The criminal prosecutions spawned by the CityTime case reached a quiet denouement when a federal judge in Manhattan sentenced Carl Bell, a computer specialist at the center of the scheme, to three years» probation, showing leniency because he had given crucial help to investigators.
It weakens the bill in at least two areas, because it does not apply to people sentenced to less than a year in jail, and because the child exemption clause could apply to children who are not family members.
A federal judge is expected to decide Tuesday whether former New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver deserves a long prison sentence for years of corruption, or leniency because he is ill and says he is sorry.
Mr Justice Treacy said Gary Dobson and David Norris would have received a life sentence of 30 years at least if they had committed the crimes as adults now, because changes in the law in 2003 introduced racial aggravation to sentencing.
Silver, who faces 100 years behind bars during his May 3 sentencing, hoped to argue that he should get a lighter sentence because of his high moral character.
De Blasio has said he's marching because the parade represents 700,000 Puerto Ricans — not just Lopez Rivera, whose sentence for seditious conspiracy and other charges was commuted by President Obama earlier this year.
But that's far from a sure thing — because the crimes that earned Silver a 12 - year bribery sentence were markedly different from the McDonnell case.
A lawyer for former state Senate power broker Dean Skelos argued in a sentencing memorandum filed Wednesday that he should get no prison time because infertility contracted as a teen left scars that made him too devoted to his adopted son Adam to resist helping him years later.
Silver's conviction for doing legislative favors in return for legal referral fees and 12 - year prison sentence was reversed because of incorrect jury instructions, but prosecutors from the office of acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim told the judge it is in the «public interest» to retry him quickly.
NEW YORK — A former state senator was sentenced to seven years in prison Tuesday by a judge who called his rise from humble origins an «American tragedy» because he used the influence of his public office to steal from charities for his personal needs and pleasures.
I was a dancer for 14 years, so tights for me are like a death sentence (but partially because I just think of shiny shiny tights).
Known to his devotees as «El Indio» because of his mixed parentage, Emilio Fernandez was not yet out of his teens when his participation as an officer in Mexico's Huerta rebellion earned him a 20 - year prison sentence.
The Trials of Muhammad Ali (Unrated) Conscientious objector documentary revisiting disgraced Heavyweight Champ Muhammad Ali's legal battle to overturn his five - year sentence for refusing to serve in Vietnam because «Ain't no Viet Cong ever call me [N - word].»
Rudy Valdez's «The Sentence» is a heartbreaking film about a Latina mother who is sentenced to a mandatory 15 years in prison because she lived with a man who trafficked in drugs and guns.
His wife, in a telephone interview last week, said the sentence was handed down even after Mr. Miranda, who is 56 years old and has a history of heart ailments, had to be taken from the site of the hearings in Havana by ambulance to a hospital because of high blood pressure.
At the beginning of the year, Kirkpatrick gives her students a list of sentence starters and connectors such as «I agree / disagree because,» «I can connect to your statement because,» and «Can you clarify what you mean by.»
It can be the worst day in the world for the families who don't get in — because they know their child has been sentenced to another year in a failing school.
Could you elaborate more on this sentence «This is solid revenue because the company only initiated 31 different campaigns over the entire year»?
In this book, of course, I wanted Wavy to have bodily sovereignty because so many of the adults in her life are a total mess emotionally and psychologically.My views did not necessarily change because I have occasionally seen television reports of some 19 year old male being charged and sentenced to a life as a registered sex offender with a 15 year old girl that looked very «worldly wise» and «experienced.»
The piece discusses the concept of «money addiction» and starts with this sentence, «In my last year on Wall Street my bonus was $ 3.6 million and I was angry because it wasn't big enough.»
This heartwarming statistic is dangerous, however, because still over two million perfectly healthy and friendly dogs remain unadopted every year — whether sentenced to death or simply to life behind bars.
Because it didn't pass 1 year since they sentenced it to oblivion.
He was sentenced to five years in jail, but, because the trial happened in Macau and Lau hails from Hong Kong, he will remain free, unless he sets foot in Macau.
The court is essentially saying that a 10 year sentence for consensual oral sex between a 17 year old and a 15 year old is «cruel and unusual», but it is okay if the actors are 18 and 14, because the legislature didn't want to change that.
Their ruling has been little reported, perhaps because the appeal judges decided to uphold Clifford's eight - year sentence for eight charges of indecent assault on four victims.
Upon first read, the SCOTUS oral argument transcript in Kimbrough is a bit less frustrating because Kimbrough's lawyer did a nice job stressing that Derrick Kimbrough's 15 - year sentence seems in harmony with the sentencing purposes Congress set forth in 3553 (a)(2).
Sam Glover: There are so many people who... A good friend of mine is a doctor, and he works with HIV patients and — this is years ago now — but we were having a conversation about how one of his biggest challenges is not keeping people alive because HIV isn't a death sentence anymore, it's getting people to take their medicine.
New data in the report, A life sentence for young people, shows that hundreds of thousands of people are being affected every year, and often many decades later, because of mistakes they made when they were children or young adults.
The Manitoba Court of Appeal has reduced a convicted offender's sentence for manslaughter from six years to four because he suffers from Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
Nonetheless, the government advocated for the 150 - year term — the maximum permissible sentencing term — and Chin apparently agreed because of the nature of Madoff's crime.
He says the report likely recommended 50 years (a) to reflect Madoff's decision to plead guilty and avoid the cost of trial or (b) because it was double the 25 years given to Bernie Ebbers, who was involved in what was previously believed to be the biggest corporate fraud sentenced in New York.
This is obviously a power of tremendous consequence which should be exercised for the most stringent of reasons, which is just what Macon County Judge Dale Segrest did when he overruled a jury and sentenced 19 year old Bobby Waldrop, white, to death because, quote, «If I had not imposed the death sentence, I would have sentenced three black people to death and no white people.»
At the other end of the range stands the addict who is charged for sharing a small amount of a Schedule I drug with a friend or spouse, and finds herself sentenced to a year in prison because of a single conviction for sharing marihuana in a social occasion nine years before.
Because he was convicted as an adult in his prior crimes, his mandatory minimum sentence was 15 years.
A 61 - year - old man who has been in prison since 1976 was freed Thursday after a Wayne County Circuit judge agreed to vacate his sentence because his first - degree murder conviction was based on a discredited scientific method.
Assault charges can range from misdemeanor assaults including domestic violence and family violence cases to felony aggravated assault with deadly weapons charges that could carry sentences of up to twenty years in prison; because of this it's very important that you hire criminal defense attorneys that know how to correctly handle assault charges.