Sentences with phrase «years imprisonment as»

Not exact matches

Lukashenko's re-election five years ago led to mass protests and the imprisonment of leading opposition figures, but support for his 20 - year - old regime has risen after he cast himself as the guarantor of stability in the face of economic crisis and a pro-Russian separatist conflict in neighboring Ukraine.

They were able to have three children together during his imprisonment, and he wanted desperately to parent them even as he served a sentence of 20 years to life.

But the views of Copernicus were regarded as heretical by the church authorities, and an eminent philosopher, Giordano Bruno (1548 - 1600), was convicted of heresy in 1594 for professing them and after six years of imprisonment in which he refused to recant, he died at the stake.

Believe me when I say that he exuded the spirit of Jesus as he sat up on stage in our Pastor's easy chair brought from his office because Richard couldn't stand for very long due to the effects of the torture he had been subject to during his fourteen year imprisonment in Rumania.

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.

Elsewhere, illegal activities are tantamount to years of imprisonment but here in Ghana, it is as easy as the word to engage in illegal activities.

[Anyone] who, in public and against the facts, ascribes to the Polish Nation or to the Polish State, responsibility or co-responsibility for Nazi crimes committed by the Third Reich, [as] defined in Article 6 of the Charter of the International Military Tribunal, Annex to the Agreement for the prosecution and punishment of the major war criminals of the European Axis, signed in London on August 8, 1945 -LSB-...], or for other offences which are crimes against peace [or] humanity or [that are] war crimes, or who otherwise grossly reduces the responsibility of the actual perpetrators of said crimes, is subject to a fine or [to] imprisonment for up to 3 years.

In Nigeria, such a gay marriage would have met with a clampdown from authorities as a result of the country's Same - Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Law, which prescribes up to 14 years imprisonment upon conviction.

a) is of good character as attested to by two Ghanaians who are notaries public, lawyers, senior public officers or other class of persons approved of by the Minister; b) has not been convicted of any criminal offence and been sentenced to imprisonment for a term of twelve months or more; c) is of independent means; d) is in the opinion of the Minister capable of making a substantial contribution to the development of Ghana; and e) has attained the age of eighteen years.

The Federal High Court in Calabar, Cross River State, on Tuesday sentenced two petroleum dealers to 20 years» imprisonment without an option of fine for stealing Automotive Gas Oil, otherwise known as diesel, using forged documents.

Attacks are treated as an aggravated offence with sentences of up to three years imprisonment for the attacking dog's owner, under the 2014 Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act.

The legislation, signed into law on 24 February by Uganda President Yoweri Museveni, mandates prison terms of up to 14 years for homosexual acts and life imprisonment for «aggravated homosexuality,» such as sexual acts with a minor.

As you very well may know, Les Mis is set in the decades following the French Revolution and tells the story of Jean Valjean (Liam Neeson), a convict who has just served nineteen hard years of imprisonment in the galleys.

When the horrendous crimes of Josef Fritzl were discovered in 2008 - he had imprisoned and sexually abused his daughter in a secret cellar in the Austrian family home for 24 years - many looked to Austria's artists for ways of understanding the horror as a possible symptom of national malaise, especially as another Austrian kidnap / imprisonment victim, Natascha Kampusch, had been in the news two years before.

, charging him as an adult with a felony that carries penalties of up to a $ 10,000 fine and five years» imprisonment.

By means of interviews, diaries and letters from the arsonist during his years of imprisonment, Heivoll gradually constructs a model of what might have happened during those tense weeks, when residents sat silently on their doorsteps all night hoping to catch the arsonist — described only as tall, thin and probably young by one victim, who glimpsed him through the smoke engulfing her kitchen.

Some of her neighbors, however, view her cats as a nuisance and have waged a 17 - year battle with Key that has brought her to the Orange County courthouse for fines and threats of imprisonment.

The state statute is very similarly worded, but allows such acts to be treated as a felony calling for imprisonment of up to one year in a county jail or up to five years in a state penitentiary and / or a fine of up to $ 500.00.

Whoever overdrives, overloads, drives when overloaded, overworks, tortures, torments, deprives of necessary sustenance, cruelly beats, mutilates or kills an animal, or causes or procures an animal to be overdriven, overloaded, driven when overloaded, overworked, tortured, tormented, deprived of necessary sustenance, cruelly beaten, mutilated or killed; and whoever uses in a cruel or inhuman manner in a race, game, or contest, or in training therefor, as lure or bait a live animal, except an animal if used as lure or bait in fishing; and whoever, having the charge or custody of an animal, either as owner or otherwise, inflicts unnecessary cruelty upon it, or unnecessarily fails to provide it with proper food, drink, shelter, sanitary environment, or protection from the weather, and whoever, as owner, possessor, or person having the charge or custody of an animal, cruelly drives or works it when unfit for labor, or willfully abandons it, or carries it or causes it to be carried in or upon a vehicle, or otherwise, in an unnecessarily cruel or inhuman manner or in a way and manner which might endanger the animal carried thereon, or knowingly and willfully authorizes or permits it to be subjected to unnecessary torture, suffering or cruelty of any kind shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 7 years in state prison or imprisonment in the house of correction for not more than 21/2 years or by a fine of not more than $ 5,000 or by both fine and imprisonment; provided, however, that a second or subsequent offense shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 10 years or by a fine of not more than $ 10,000 or by both such fine and imprisonment.

The world knows it as the place of imprisonment of Mandela, who spent 18 of his 27 year sentence there.

The act defines a violent felony as: «any crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year... that — «(i) has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person of another; or (ii) is burglary, arson, or extortion, involves use of explosives, or otherwise involves conduct that presents a serious potential risk of physical injury to another.»

If prosecuted as an indictable offence, the maximum penalty for Making Sexually Explicit Material Available to a Child is 2 years» imprisonment.

A maximum sentence of 5 years» imprisonment and a minimum of 6 months» imprisonment if prosecuted as an indictable offence.

A maximum sentence of 10 years» imprisonment and a minimum of 1 year imprisonment if prosecuted as an indictable offence.

A serious offence is defined as an indictable offence under an Act of Parliament for which the maximum punishment is imprisonment for five years or more.

The same penalties apply to Domestic Assault as to Assault; up to five years» imprisonment if the Crown proceeds by indictment, although they tend to fall further towards the strict end of the spectrum.

Not content to set out a maximum sentence as exists for most offences, the Bill follows the now standard approach of tacking on mandatory minimum sentences for repeat high - volume offenders ranging from 90 days to two - years - less - a-day imprisonment.

S.C. Code § 63-3-620 enumerates these sanctions as, «a fine, a public work sentence, or by imprisonment in a local correctional facility, or any combination of them, in the discretion of the court, but not to exceed imprisonment in a local correctional facility for one year, a fine of fifteen hundred dollars, or public work sentence of more than three hundred hours, or any combination of them.»

For example, it is understood that the recent amendment to Article 257 of the UAE Penal Code (which had the effect of extending the law such that arbitrators that fail to maintain the requirements of integrity and impartiality may be found guilty of a criminal offence and sentenced to imprisonment) will be amended or repealed this year, although the scope or nature of the any forthcoming amendment is as yet unknown.

As outlined in section 145 (3) the maximum penalty for an accused convicted of an indictable section 145 violation is a maximum of two years» imprisonment.

In Otterson, the defendant was sentenced to just under 20 years» imprisonment after pleading guilty to sending child porn to an undercover officer posing as a thirteen - year - old girl.

If the Crown prosecutes the Sexual Assault as an indictable offence, the maximum penalty is imprisonment for 10 years.

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 businessmen, arrested in the US but allowed to return to the UK as part of a plea agreement, were convicted of dishonestly participating in a cartel for the supply of marine hose and ancillary equipment in the UK and sentenced to between twoand - a-half to three years» imprisonment following an investigation by the Office of Fair Trading.

If death or permanent injury occurs as a result of the accident, the hit - and - run offender is subject to imprisonment for a period between 90 days and five years, and / or a fine between $ 1,000 and $ 10,000.

The offence is governed by s. 162.1 of the Criminal Code which provides (1) Everyone who knowingly publishes, distributes, transmits, sells, makes available or advertises an intimate image of a person knowing that the person depicted in the image did not give their consent to that conduct, or being reckless as to whether or not that person gave their consent to that conduct is guilty of (a) of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not more than five years; or (2) of an offence punishable on summary conviction.

Criminal offences under Canada's criminal code are divided into three kinds: indictable offences which are the more serious offences and which carry longer terms of imprisonment, summary convictions which are the less serious offences usually punishable by less than 2 years imprisonment and hybrid offences which can be prosecuted as either indictable or summary.

For example, assault with a weapon is a hybrid offence and if prosecuted as an indictable offence, is punishable by a maximum term of 10 years imprisonment.

On April 12, 2016, the Alberta Court of Appeal released its split 2 - 1 ruling reported as R v Sargent, 2016 ABCA 104 where the majority, Justice J.D. Bruce McDonald and Justice Thomas W. Wakeling, increased the sentence to one year imprisonment.

Similarly, in Faulks, the federal district court does all the investigation and adjudication (again of a state crime) as the basis for an addition 3 years of federal imprisonment.

Lengthy sentences for assault - based offences tend to be grounded in more serious charges, such as assault with a weapon or causing bodily harm (both carrying a maximum sentence of ten years) or aggravated assault (with penalties ranging up to fourteen years» imprisonment).

If it is prosecuted as an indictable offence, the maximum punishment is 10 years» imprisonment and the minimum is 1 year's imprisonment.

If the person is convicted of reckless homicide, then a person may not apply for reinstatement until after 2 years from the effective date of revocation, or after the expiration of 24 months from the date of release from a period of imprisonment as provided in Section 6 - 103 of this Code, whichever is later.

A breach is punishable as an indictable offence with a maximum penalty of up to 2 years» imprisonment, or on summary conviction.

It enacts as follows: 430 (4) Every one who commits mischief in relation to property, other than property described in subsection (3), (a) is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years; (b) is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.

If prosecuted as an indictable offence, an Indecent Act has a maximum sentence of 2 years» imprisonment.

More serious crimes, such as possession of a prohibited or restricted firearm with ammunition, weapons trafficking and importing a prohibited weapon, used to carry a statutory minimum penalty of three years imprisonment, though this was struck down in the cases of R v. Smickle and R v. Nur that were released in 2013 by the Ontario Court of Appeal.

If the accused is convicted of sexual exploitation as an indictable offence the maximum penalty that can imposed is 14 years» imprisonment and the minimum penalty that can be imposed is 1 years» imprisonment.

The maximum penalty is 5 years» imprisonment if the case is prosecuted as an indictable offense.

If an accused is convicted of sexual exploitation as a summary conviction offence the maximum penalty that can be imposed is 2 years» less a days» imprisonment and the minimum that can be imposed is 90 days» imprisonment.