Sentences with phrase «year sentence imposed»

The accused challenged the constitutionality of the mandatory minimum three year sentence imposed by...

Skilling's 24.3 - year sentence reflects a profound and unwarranted disparity compared to the (1) uniformly below - Guidelines sentences imposed on eight even more culpable high - ranking executives from major corporations; and (2) the 5.5 year sentence imposed on co-defendant Richard Causey.

Not exact matches

Justice Barrett imposed 4-1/2 - year sentences on officers Alfred Rivera, 47; Tobias Parker, 46; Jose Parra, 47; and David Rodriguez, 41.

(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.

Mr Justice Dingemans imposed a mandatory life sentence and told the defendant he would serve a minimum of 20 years imprisonment.

But I am also aware that every year, hundreds of thousands of women and babies experience no such reprieve from the preventable death sentence imposed when labour goes wrong and there is not even the most basic health care available to ease their suffering and save their lives.

National courts sentenced fraudsters to a cumulative 125 years» imprisonment during 2010 and imposed financial penalties amounting to nearly $ 1.47 billion as a result of OLAF's cases.

Nelson Mandela the first Black to be elected South African President, was once in jail with a life sentence for the charge of «treason», imposed by a Nazi - like White minority ruling - National party Regime that ruled South Africa for more than 70 years, and he went on to become the President of a fully integrated South Africa.

Judge says federal sentencing guideline for Sheldon Silver is 21 to 27 years; not going to impose that.

On 25 April 2012, the Court of Appeal (Lord Judge CJ, Openshaw & Irwin JJ) increased the sentence imposed by the Crown Court at Inner London on Adam Ahmadzai from four years detention to seven years detention for offences of violent disorder, robbery, burglary and criminal damage committed during the riots on 8 August 2011, after a reference from Attorney General, Dominic Grieve QC.

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.

The number of people executed in the United States this year dropped to the lowest level since 1991, as states impose fewer death sentences and defendants in capital cases get access to better legal help.

«I hope the sentence I impose upon you will make other politicians think twice until their better angels take over — or, if there are no better angels, perhaps the fear of living out his golden years in an orange jumpsuit,» said Caproni, who also ordered Silver to forfeit $ 5.3 million and pay a $ 1.75 million fine.

The seven - year prison sentence imposed on crooked ex-state Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith was a shot across the bow of his former Albany associates, Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos — ...

Judge Kimba Wood also sentenced Adam Skelos to six and a half years in jail, and imposed a $ 334,120 forfeiture to be paid jointly by Dean and Adam.

In the court documents, prosecutors said that a range of 22 to 27 years in prison would not be «unreasonable» and asked the federal judge to impose prison time «greater than any sentence imposed on other New York state legislators convicted of public corruption offenses.»

The judge also imposed a $ 500,000 fine on Mr. Skelos, and imposed a $ 334,120 forfeiture to be paid jointly by him and his son, Adam, who was sentenced to six and a half years in prison.

A South African court has sentenced a rhino poacher to 77 years in jail, the heaviest penalty imposed by authorities desperate to halt a wave of poaching that is threatening the population of the endangered animals.

Impose a sentence of up to 10 years in federal prison for anyone even attempting to a clone a human being, and establish a minimum civil penalty of $ 1 million or three times the gross profits resulting from the violation, whichever is greater;

Iceland's parliament is due to discuss a bill that could impose a six - year prison sentence for anyone guilty of removing part or all of the child's sexual THE WESTERN ORTHODOX HERITAGE For a thousand years, from AD37 to AD1054 - 66, the people living in the British Isles and western Europe believed and

It reasoned that requiring appellee's ECMC loan repayment would essentially impose a «sentence of [twenty - five] years in payments on an obligation that she could never realistically expect to retire or reduce.»

Other aspects of the sentencing: Columbia County Circuit Court Judge Ted Grove imposed a three - year prohibition on Setere owning animals of any kind, including livestock, and he set a restitution hearing for January 16.

A spate of new aggravating factors to be considered on sentencing relate directly to fraud cases and a two - year mandatory minimum jail sentence will be imposed on anyone convicted of a fraud involving $ 1,000,000 or more.

The trial judge imposed a sentence of life imprisonment without eligibility for parole for 14 years.

The sentencing judge rejected the joint submission and imposed a sentence of 24 months with three years probation.

Last year, shortly before imposing a criminal contempt sentence on a mother who had repeatedly and blithely interfered with my client's visitation, the judge asked her: «Do you love your child more than you hate the other parent?»

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.»

Khawaja, an Ottawa software developer, was appealing his conviction while the Crown cross-appealead, asking the court to impose a life sentence rather than the 10-1/2 years imposed by trial judge Justice Douglas J. A. Rutherford of the Superior Court of Justice on Oct. 24, 2006.

[2] For this purpose, the courts have developed tools over the years to ensure that similar sentences are imposed on similar offenders for similar offences committed in similar circumstances — the principle of parity of sentences — and that sentences are proportionate by guiding the exercise of that discretion, and to prevent any substantial and marked disparities in the sentences imposed on offenders for similar crimes committed in similar circumstances.

The power to impose community penalties will be restricted to imprisonable offences, or offenders aged over 16 years who have on three or more occasions been sentenced to only a fine.

Rather than a fixed period of time — for example, six months imprisonment on conviction for theft — an indeterminate sentence allowed a magistrate to impose a sentence of up to two years less a day, with the length of that sentence to be determined by the offender's conduct in jail.

The relevant provision defines serious criminality as, among other things, being convicted for an offence for which the maximum sentence of imprisonment is 10 years or more, and / or for which the actual sentence imposed is more than six months» imprisonment.

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.

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.»

Then imposed a sentence of six years in prison, slightly longer than the five - year mandatory minimum for a conviction for attempted murder with a firearm.

Being caught in a large - scale commercial grow may result in the imposition of as much as a3 year mandatory minimum sentence being imposed.

If an accused is charged under section 272 of the Criminal Code with Sexual Assault with a Weapon, Threats to a Third Party or Causing Bodily Harm the maximum sentence that can be imposed by the courts is fourteen years imprisonment.

More recently, the trial of the allegations of contempt against Sergei Pugachev in the Mezhprom litigation resulted in sentences totalling 8 years and 11 months being imposed for 11 different contempts.

According to a study released by the Brennan Center for Justice, trial judges in Alabama override jury verdicts sentencing criminal defendants to life and instead impose death sentences more often in election years.

This is my decision on the defence application to have me find unconstitutional the minimum three year period of imprisonment imposed upon conviction for firearms trafficking required by Section 99 (2) of the Criminal Code of Canada and my reasons for sentence for that offence and three counts of trafficking in cocaine.

«Ironically, despite rejecting the constitutional challenge to the five - year minimum sentence, the court's decision also proves that we do not require mandatory minimum sentencing laws to ensure that our courts impose appropriate and meaningful sentences.

A minimum sentence of 2 years imprisonment is imposed if the total amount of fraud exceeds 1 million dollars.

On appeal Lynch argued the sentencing judge erred in emphasizing interactions he had with police in the year following the riot, imposing unduly disparate sentences as between himself and two other accused, and by imposing a sentence not in parity with other accused in similar circumstances.

Following a day - long hearing, the federal judge departed from guidelines providing for a sentence in excess of 20 years to impose a 14 - month sentence.

Green J. reviewed the caselaw on the issue, and concluded that in that case, where the intention of the judge was to impose two years (24 months) and not twenty - five months incarceration, and where the error, although not clerical or administrative in nature was «an error, a slip of the tongue or clerical change rather than a substantive change,» he concluded he still had jurisdiction to make the necessary amendment to the sentence.

In that case the trial judge had intended to impose a sentence of two years incarceration, but when imposing sentencing on each individual count inadvertently imposed a total of twenty - five month incarceration.

UPDATE: A helpful commentor noted below that the 40 - year minimum sentence imposed here was the maximum bottom - range term provided for in Nassar's state plea agreement.

In this case, the Court of Appeal upheld the decision of a sentencing judge to reject a joint submission for a two year sentence for an accused convicted of impaired driving causing death and upheld the sentence imposed of two years and eight months; noting, however, that a sentence of no less than four years ought to have been imposed: R v Gibson, 2015 ABCA 41 (CanLII).

Earlier this year I started to correspond with Caleb Mason concerning his effort to preserve a sentence imposed below a federal mandatory minimum in the face of a government appeal.

The Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) is the federal government agency responsible for administering sentences of a term of two years or more, as imposed by the courts.