Sentences with phrase «year sentence down»
As Barack Obama delivered the commutation to Chelsea Manning's 35 year sentence down to 7, would President - elect Donald Trump have the ability to reverse that when he becomes President?
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Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic in January received Momcilo Krajisnik, a wartime Bosnian Serb leader who was released after serving two thirds of a 20 - year jail sentence handed down by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague.
Samsung's billionaire heir Jay Lee has been sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty of bribery, hiding assets abroad, and embezzlement, in a wide - ranging corruption scandal that brought down South Korea's president.
Each of the offenders who walked free was serving a sentence handed down years ago that was longer than it would be if they were sentenced today.
Each of the offenders who walked free is serving a sentence handed down years ago that is longer than it would be if they were sentenced today.
I had just settled down in my room and was shaving when Richard knocked on the door and announced (in a sentence with which I teased him for years): «I have bad news for you.»
Most obvious is the discretion in sentencing where if a crime has a State penalty of 10 to 15 years and it's up to the judge or jury as to the actual sentence handed down then the intent of the crime is often debated and used in the decision.
You can keep that notebook (or baby album) handy now so that you are ready and waiting to write down your baby's first words, the date of his or her first steps, and even funny sentences and phrases that your little one may utter in years to come.
As beautiful as the previous sentence sounds, this journey also starts with a few years» worth of chasing down perhaps the most hyperactive being that is...
As he did in the wake of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's sentencing, Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued a brief statement in response to the five year sentence handed down by a federal judge in the corruption case of ex-Majority Leader Dean Skelos.
The judge who is scheduled to sentence Queens campaign aide John Haggerty (pictured) can decide at minimum to give him probation or can hand down a maximum senntence of 15 years in prison.
His sentence will be ten years in prison, which will be served consecutively to his sentence handed down in Wyoming County Court.
On Jan. 30, a slimmed - down Matthews, wearing prison greens, shackled hand and foot and escorted by a pair of state corrections officers, appeared briefly in the hallways of the Ulster County Courthouse en route to a holding pen where he was to await a hearing on his alleged failure to abide by restitution order imposed by the court last year as part of his sentence on two counts of grand larceny.
Only the other last week seven members of a street gang who hunted down and killed 16 - year - old Nicholas Pearton were sentenced.
The heir to the Samsung business empire, which includes the world's biggest smartphone maker, was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for bribery and other offences in connection with the scandal that brought down South Korean president Park Geun - Hye.
Walker received a suspended sentence and a driving ban two years ago after chasing down three boys aged between ten and twelve in his car, before slashing their bike tyres with a knife.
Moments after Wood handed down a more lenient sentence than the 12 years Silver received and less than half what prosecutors had sought, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara focused on the sentences in just one week's time for two politicians who had exclusive entry to Albany's three - men - in - a-room system of government.
New measures included in the Immigration Bill currently progressing through Parliament will make it easier to prosecute employers using illegal labour, increasing the maximum prison sentence to five years and with powers to close down businesses which continue to flout the rules.
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.
But in handing down the 12 - year sentence, she noted that the former Speaker's crimes had done an «incalculable harm to the people of New York.»
Walker received a suspended sentence and a driving ban last year after chasing down three boys aged between ten and twelve in his car, before slashing their bike tyres with a knife.
McLaughlin, who got his 10 - year sentence reduced to six years after cooperating with prosecutors to bring down other dirty pols, is now out of jail.
Varghese questioned Stern's background, highlighting a slew of crimes in his plea deal, from installing a bathtub in a public housing unit to defrauding Citibank and asked if he had agreed to cooperate with the government in a bid to bargain down the prospect of a 455 - year prison sentence.
A judge in the central Italian town of L'Aquila has handed down manslaughter sentences of 6 years to each of seven experts who gave advice ahead of the deadly earthquake that struck here in 2009.
This problem becomes apparent almost immediately, when, after overseeing an ostentatiously shot chain gang, the unwaveringly moralistic Inspector Javert (Russell Crowe) releases a down - and - out Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman) after serving his absurdly unjust 19 - year prison sentence for stealing a loaf of bread.
The Agony and Ecstasy of Phil Spector (Unrated) BBC - produced bio-pic chronicling the rise and fall of the legendary songwriter and music producer who worked with everyone from The Ronettes to The Righteous Brothers to The Beatles until he received a life sentence last year for the 2003 murder of Lana Clarkson, a down on her luck actress he picked up at a bar.
Mandela's life imprisonment sentence was handed down a year into her studies.
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.
But beneath this, the Mogadishu courts rarely hands down rape prosecutions, but in July 2013, a court «convicted a neighbour for raping a 15 - year - old girl with disabilities in a camp in Hodan and sentenced him to 10 years» imprisonment15.»
If you've not yet read our review of the new BMW M2, stop reading this sentence and scroll down the page — it's one of this year's big - hitters, and on first impressions it appears there's much to like.
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.
A lot of us worry about quality of books in the self - publishing arena; could you break down what you foresee the editor's role will look like in a few years, if you think they will freelance, and whether the world will come back around to trying to guarantee that e-books available for sale will, if nothing else, have proper grammar and sentence structure and punctuation?
Sentences ranged from six months to eight years — which is the longest prison term ever handed down in a federal dog fighting case.
Years can be added to your sentence for minor infractions like running, sleeping lying down and daring to keep high level loot for yourself.
Two accomplices — antiques dealer Jean - Michel Corvez, who orchestrated the theft, and Yonathan Birn, a watchmaker accused of storing the paintings, were handed down seven - and six - year sentences respectively.
Neither the Court of Appeal nor the Supreme Court had made such a finding since 1987 when the mandatory minimum sentence of seven years for importing narcotics was struck down.
Judge Baugh handed down a sentence of 15 years — but it was suspended except for 31 days of it (and a credit was even given for one day of time served).
As someone who attempted to teach students to generally avoid the passive voice for five years, I think it is not always easy to tell an active sentence from a passive one, but it's true that the authors of a book titled The Elements of Style ought to have it down pat.
The sentences handed down by the regulator, of 4.5 and 3.5 years imprisonment respectively, are the longest in its history for insider trading...
A decade ago, Justice France Charbonneau, then a Crown prosecutor with 23 years of trials under her belt, successfully took down the once elusive Hell's Angels boss Maurice «Mom» Boucher, who is now serving a life sentence for the murder of two prison guards.
The number of death sentences imposed during 2009 was 106, down from 111 the year before, 284 a decade ago, and a high of 328 in 1994, according to a year - end report published today by the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit organization that opposes the death penalty.
He cautioned against handing down six year sentences in every impaired driving case where death results and the offender has prior convictions.
«Bill seeks at least 35 years for young killers»: Today's edition of The Boston Globe contains an article that begins, «A group of state lawmakers is proposing legislation that would require juvenile murderers to serve at least 35 years in prison before being eligible for parole, in direct response to a Supreme Judicial Court ruling that struck down life sentences without the possibility of parole for young killers.»
When on 1 December 2014 the Appeals Chamber upheld the decision of Trial Chamber I to condemn Thomas Lubanga Dyilo to 14 years of imprisonment for the enlistment and conscription of children under the age of 15, the Congolese warlord, who had already gone down in history as the first person transferred to the International Criminal Court, became also the first war criminal to serve a final sentence given by the international tribunal.
This approach flows from the Supreme Court of Canada decision in R. v. Smith, which struck down the minimum seven year sentence for importing a narcotic into Canada.
In R. v. Lewis, Justice Bellefontaine of the Ontario Court of Justice applied the precedent - setting decision in R. v. Smickle, to strike down a three - year mandatory minimum sentence for «trafficking» in firearms.
In a key sentencing decision handed down this year, the United States Supreme Court held that the Ex Post Facto Clause is violated when a defendant is sentenced under provisions of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines promulgated after he committed the crime and those new provisions result in an increased risk of greater psentencing decision handed down this year, the United States Supreme Court held that the Ex Post Facto Clause is violated when a defendant is sentenced under provisions of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines promulgated after he committed the crime and those new provisions result in an increased risk of greater pSentencing Guidelines promulgated after he committed the crime and those new provisions result in an increased risk of greater punishment.
While the number of youth arrested and sentenced overall, as reported by 12 provinces and territories, has declined over the years — with remand count in 2014/2015 down 33 per cent from 10 years ago and the number of youth in sentenced custody made an even larger drop of 60 per cent — this is chalked up to a drop in young people entering the system at all.
Provincial Court Justice David Cole handed down the equivalent of a 22 - month sentence in R v. Ishmael, along with 475 hours of community service and two - years probation.
Earlier this year, the B.C. Court of Appeal struck down the mandatory minimum sentence of six months in jail for those who grow between six and 200 plants for the purpose of trafficking.