Sentences with phrase «year sentence reduced»

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.

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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 London - born toddler's mother, 26 - year - old Sindyann Regis, was jailed for 40 months for allowing the death of a child but had her sentence reduced to 28 months on appeal.

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A military court sentenced him to death on a charge of sedition which was later reduced to 20 years in jail.

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.

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.

He faces up to 30 years in prison and nine years of supervised release when he's sentenced on Feb 25 — although he's likely to get a significantly reduced sentence.

A second bill sponsored by Crespo reduces the maximum sentence for misdemeanor offenses by one day from one year to 364 days, an apparent technicality that could potentially spare thousands of immigrants from deportation under federal law over certain lesser offenses.

On Oct. 27 of last year, appeals court judge Karen Peters reduced Dixon's sentence and did away with his criminal record.

The prosecution appealed the sentence, Hyman said, and the appeals court — rather than rejecting the sentence — agreed with the trial court and reduced the sentence by an additional year.

Another research study analyzing a nearly 40 - year time interval shows that harsher sentencing for crimes that involved firearms had the greatest effect on reducing aggravated robberies, decreasing them by 5 percent.

«If we reviewed prison sentences with the same level of care that we devote to death sentences,» says University of Michigan law professor Samuel R. Gross, «there would have been over 28,500 non-death-row exonerations in the past 15 years...» What is the self - justification for reducing this form of dissonance?

The man in question — who both is an informant for the FBI and wants to advertise that fact — is Saeed, a former member of the Black Panthers and struggling Muslim who took the gig in order to get a reduced sentence on a 20 - year stint in prison.

The allotment to any State (other than Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands) under the first sentence of this subsection for any fiscal year which is less than one - quarter of 1 per centum of the amount appropriated under subsection (b)(1) of section 100, or $ 2,000,000, whichever is greater, shall be increased to that amount, the total of the increases thereby required being derived by proportionately reducing the allotments to each of the remaining such States under the first sentence of this subsection, but with such adjustments as may be necessary to prevent the allotment of any such remaining States from being thereby reduced to less than that amount.

In Italy, which has the second highest rate of prison overcrowding in the EU, a new bill approved in Calabria and headed to Parliament would allow inmates to reduce their sentences by three days for every book they read, with a limitation placed on how many days they can earn each year.

The best hope of getting your prison sentences reduced a bit is by opening the internet to honest posting on what the peer - reviewed academic research of the past 32 years tells us about how stock investing works.

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.»

i did keep them from having to serve lengthy jail sentences of almost a year and reduced the thousands of dollars of fines and costs to minimal levels.

Rather, as the very opening sentence of the summary explains, they posited a «a reduced warming trend during the next 10 years».

R. v. G.P. (2015)-- Successfully argued at the Court of Appeal for Ontario that a client's sentence for robbery should be reduced from 1 year to 6 months less a day, so that she could appeal her deportation order.

It was held that a three - year sentence for breach of notification requirements (in operation due to offence of rape) reduced on appeal to 18 months.

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.

Now, the 33 - year - old Flynn, who will be eligible for parole in 2018, is asking a New Hampshire judge to reduce his sentence and open the door to his earlier release.

The Ontario Court of Appeal affirmed the convictions of Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb but reduced their sentences by a total of two one years, each.

The bestiality conviction would have added two years to his sentence, but these two years (and more) could have easily been added to his other twelve convictions (indeed, the trial judge reduced his sentence from 18 years to 16 years based on the principle of totality).

Although none of that sentencing range is a mandatory minimum range, any jury that convicts for such a crime will then recommend a sentence, after being told the five to forty year sentencing range, without ever being told that any of the five years can be reduced by the sentencing judge.

In return for their co-operation, the tariff of their life sentences was reduced by 75 %, which meant they each served three years in prison.

The dispute involves hundreds of prisoners whose sentences were reduced by an appeals court in 2005 and reinstated last year by the Ohio Supreme Court.

But if such mitigation (or lack of aggravation) is found by the court, the judge could reduce the sentence to 12 or 6 years.

What if the sentence was drastically reduced (cut in half - 10 years lower) at the federal level for the same crime at the state level?

Originally sentenced to three years for killing her spouse, Gladue appealed to the SCC to reduce her sentence.

The outcome of this new law is that the majority of drivers who lose their driving privilege three or more times for this reason will be charged with a first - degree misdemeanor instead of a felony, reducing the maximum jail sentence from five years to one.

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