Sentences with phrase «year sentence called»

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The Dec. 20 sentencing of Charlie Shrem, one of the digital currency's most vocal cheerleaders as vice-chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation and chief executive of an exchange called BitInstant, to two years in prison for illegal money transfers doesn't help.

David Hogg called out big asset managers on Twitter, Daniel Glick was sentenced to 12 years in prison and Dennis Zank is going from Raymond James COO to an advisor.

A call for prayer has been requested by four Iranian Christian converts facing a potential 10 - year sentence in an appeal hearing on Wednesday.

The prosecution called for him to be sent to a penal colony for 32 months, but instead he was given a three and a half year suspended sentence.

Jeffs, the so - called «prophet» of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints, or FLDS, was sentenced to two consecutive terms of five years to life after he was convicted in September 2007.

(To put this in perspective, imagine a court system that sentenced you to 90 years imprisonment for jay walking — would you call that court merciful?)

He called you by your last name (a practice I use to this day), he had a way of instilling fear into kids who would goof - off and cause distractions in other classes (a practice I was very much unable to duplicate during my one - year stint as an 8th - grade English teacher), and you had to run the gauntlet of sentence - diagramming grammar, which advanced to a pretty complex level, before the more «cool - teacher» aspects of Mr. Pacilio were unveiled — and even then, the tests on those rock songs were no joke!

In one sentence he clarified what I sensed was my calling that I had wrestled with for so many long years.

While most 17 - year - olds who are put in front of the media spend the time staring at the floor and muttering barely audible sentences, McDavid is calling for a scrum.

Fir them to be mentioned in the same sentence is an insult, Wow one goal scored n all the last 30 + games including last year which were of the worst standard seen every from a «so called top player» have been completely forgotten again by some fickle fans.

By the pre-teen years, kids begin to use what are called although - type sentences.

Mr Hogan - Howe, whose force is investigating the fatal shooting of 11 - year - old Rhys Jones, called on the judiciary to issue «very heavy sentences» to convicted gun criminals.

Even without investigations dominating the headlines, lawmakers were likely to contend with growing calls for ethics and campaign finance reform measures following the sentencing of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to 12 years in prison.

Sen. John Bonacic, the lone member of the Republican conference to call for then - Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno to give up his leadership post after learning of the FBI's probe into his outside business interests, released a statement this evening calling Bruno's two - year sentence «appropriate.»

Mugabe, who was sentenced to a four - month jail term along with two other sympathisers of President John Mahama and the NDC, also took on journalists at TV3, describing them as «useless» and «irresponsible» for reporting that he had called for change in this year's elections.

It also calls for replacing short jail sentences — those of under a year can be served at Rikers rather than upstate — with programs to reduce recidivism for $ 5 million a year, but offers no details on what the programs would entail.

A prison support group has started an online petition calling on Cuomo to grant clemency to Barbara Sheehan, the Queens woman serving a five - year sentence for gun possession in the fatal shooting of her ex-cop husband.

Bruno was sentenced to two years in prison, but the ruling was called into question after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the statute under which the Rensselaer County Republican was convicted, theft of honest services.

The 146 - page report, issued Friday by an independent commission convened by City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and tasked with studying the issue, calls for the closure of the Rikers over the next 10 years through a mixture of alternative sentencing, bail reform, and the building of five smaller jails, one in each of the five boroughs.

They wrote that they had no quarrel with the probation office's calculation of federal sentencing guidelines — which called for 21 years and 10 months on the low end and 27 years and three months on the high — and they felt he deserved much more than the 10 years the office recommended.

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.

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, whose office is engaged in a broad crackdown on insider trading, called the nine - year sentence «well - suited to the audacity of the illegal trading in this case.»

In a letter to Obama dated 18 February — but which has just become public — Museveni, Uganda's president, defends the bill, which would introduce life sentences for so - called «aggravated homosexuality» with minors or in cases of rape, and terms of 7 to 14 years for attempted or actual homosexual activity.

Michael Stuhlbarg, «Call Me By Your Name:» In a father - son scene for the ages, Stuhlbarg has the year's single best monologue, offering a lifetime of compassion and empathy to his heartbroken child in the course of a few sentences.

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].»

I actually used to have a page in my notebook for writing them down, but I quit making it when it started to get too weird to read: when besides the normal things like the toilet backed up again, or they called to say they were turning off the electricity, there were things like she lost the ticket stub from some hippie concert twenty years ago where she met the guy she should have married but never saw again, or the color of the dryer lint made her remember a sweater she once had when she was an exchange student in Belgium, back when she thought she would become an archaeologist when she grew up, but now she was only someone who worked in a deli and sometimes did catering and couldn't even say one sentence in Flemish anymore.

In December, Chilinski received a sentence of five years on 91 counts of animal cruelty and neglect for running what law enforcement called a puppy mill.

Finland charged Kivimaki, who has connections to a group of internet troublemakers called Lizard Squad, with a two - year suspended sentence that involves no jail time.

[49][50][51] Although it claims that it has not lobbied for bills that extend or increase sentences for prisoners, for many years GEO Group participated in the task force of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) that pushed bills that lengthened time in prison, such as so - called «truth - in - sentencing» and «three strikes» legislation, as models for states to adopt across the nation.

Common Dreams By Jessica Corbett 6 Feb 2018 Michael Foster, the valve turner who temporarily halted the flow of tar sands oil in TransCanada's Keystone pipeline in October 2016, called for future actions to address the global climate crisis before he headed to prison, where he is expected to serve at least a year of his three - year sentence.

When they refused, citing a plea agreement they had signed, Rose called a police officer to the stand, questioned the officer herself and imposed a sentence that was two to three years longer than what prosecutors had contemplated.»

Sentencing scholars have criticized the federal guidelines» (over) reliance on so - called relevant conduct for years.

In Texas, certain offenses such as murder, rape, human trafficking and other so - called «3 (g)» offenses require a certain percentage of the sentence to have been served: currently, that amount is 50 %, but for other offenses it is 25 % (or 2 years for a sentence under 4 years).

At a newly launched blog called Unsilent Partners, two well - known figures in the blogosphere, Colin Samuels of Infamy and Praise and Mike Semple Pigott of Charon QC, discuss recent white - collar criminal sentencing, the point of departure being federal judge Denny Chin's sentencing of Bernard Madoff to a 150 - year term.

was published at the end of the same year calling for custodial sentences for the worst privacy breaches.

In my opinion, the circumstances of this case called for a head sentence of approximately 5 years imprisonment, of which a considerable proportion should have been served before the respondent became eligible for release.

In a peculiar twist, the couple insists that instead of referring to the buyer's agent by her real name, Kelly Williams, Ms. Lindsay called her Kelly Ellard — a B.C. woman convicted seven years ago of killing another teenager, sparking calls for tougher youth sentences.