Sentences with phrase «years in jail in»

Section 296 of the Criminal Code makes «blasphemous libel» punishable by up to two years in jail in Canada.

In a case where the accused faces five or more years in jail in a charge other than first - degree murder and treason, Crown and defence are entitled to 12 peremptory challenges each.

Writing sometime in the last two weeks of 2014, Chartock inched out on a limb by predicting an unnamed state senator would be indicted, convicted and serve several years in jail in 2015.

In the State Senate, two members have been indicted and a former Senator was sentenced to a year in jail in recent weeks, while six other Senators are potentially under federal investigation.

The worst that could happen is losing your real estate license and spending one year in jail in many jurisdictions for criminal contempt charges.

Not exact matches

While prosecutions are rare, women who are hospitalized for abortion complications frequently face criminal and civil action, and even run the risk of spending up to three years in jail.

Initially arrested in 2015, Karpelès was held in jail for almost a year on those charges.

Simply possessing any amount of heroin is punishable by a minimum $ 1,000 fine and up to a year in prison for a first offense; by a third conviction, that rises to a minimum of three months in jail (and potentially up to three years) and a minimum $ 5,000 fine.

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.

He earlier spent more than six years in jail over the 1991 massacre of some 260 people in the Croatian town of Vukovar.

In an essay for Time earlier this year, Jay - Z announced that he would be donating to organizations like Color of Change and Southerners on the New Ground to advocate for the release of jailed fathers who have not been convicted of a crime but are unable to afford bail.

Back in 2012, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan stated that it costs about $ 40,000 a year to fund a homeless person, with the costs of shelters, emergency room visits, and jails being factored.

Example: A branch manager at a bank in UK was fired, then sentenced to 12 years jail for helping her boyfriend steal more than $ 582,000 from the bank.

LONDON — A British teenager has been jailed for two years for compromising the email and phone accounts of senior U.S. government officials in what a judge called acts of «cyber-terrorism.»

In Aventura, Fla., for example, drone operators could face a $ 500 fine and up to a year in jail if they fly a drone at a public gathering or take photos of a person's house without their consenIn Aventura, Fla., for example, drone operators could face a $ 500 fine and up to a year in jail if they fly a drone at a public gathering or take photos of a person's house without their consenin jail if they fly a drone at a public gathering or take photos of a person's house without their consent.

To wit: in recent years, Japanese jails have added safety bars in cells and begun offering low - sodium meals to accommodate a surge of criminal senior citizens, shoplifting to cope with hard times.

Along with a sky - high employment rate, Defy graduates have a recidivism rate of around 3.2 percent — a stark contrast to the staggering 76.6 percent of former prisoners who land back in jail within 5 years of their release.

After finally being acquitted of murder following four years in Italian jail in Italy, Knox flew back to Seattle, enrolled at the University of Washington student, and got a book deal.

When Alexandre Cazes hanged himself in a Thai jail cell in July, the 25 - year - old left behind the trappings of a big - league drug dealer: villas, Lamborghinis, a Porsche, bank accounts in Liechtenstein and Switzerland.

The black voters in Philly, and I say this based on 30 years of picking juries and talking to them, are more likely to have a family member who is a police officer, a family member who is in jail, and a family member who has been killed or severely victimized.

Shoplifting is a very big deal in China, as it should be (5 - 10 years in jail), but not to father LaVar.

So while Libby did not end up serving time in jail, he was still on probation for 2 years and paid a fine of $ 250,000.

Skripal had been jailed in Russia for spying on the Brits» behalf, but was released to the U.K. in a spy swap years ago.

The jury convicted Cosby on three counts — penetration with lack of consent, penetration while unconscious, and penetration after administering an intoxicant — all felonies and punishable by up to 10 years in jail, though the terms could be served concurrently.

The year before, he had spent 33 days in jail after assaulting a photographer.

According to one account, Edwards was arrested and detained four days, then brought before a judge who told him he would serve a six - year jail sentence if he ever set foot in Iraq again.

If the victim is a minor — which Chyna is not — or if the perpetrator has prior convictions for revenge porn, the punishment may be increased to a year in jail or a $ 2,000 fine.

A new study shows that the racial gap in jails has narrowed considerably in recent years — but not in the way we expect or hope.

Garcia Zarate, a 45 - year - old Mexican citizen who was released from County Jail before the killing despite a federal request that he be held for his sixth deportation, was convicted of a single lesser charge of being a felon in possession of a gun.

In September, Shrem agreed to a forefeiture of $ 950,000 as part of a plea bargain that would provide a jail term of up to 60 months, three years longer than the sentence he received today.

The Amazon CEO, and owner of the Washington Post, personally escorted Post journalist Jason Rezaian back home to the U.S. after he was imprisoned in a Iranian jail for nearly two years.

Nikolas Cruz, a 19 - year - old who had been expelled from the school, is being held without bail in the Broward County Jail, accused of 17 counts of first - degree murder.

A Turkish caricaturist facing more than three years in jail won the International Press Drawing Prize on Thursday, an award given every two years to l...

JANUARY 30, 2004: Tyee's McLintock uncovers preliminary plans by province to soften B.C.'s drunk driving law — barely a year past the date when Gordon Campbell was busted and jailed for drunk driving in Hawaii.

That is a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail.

Today, two 12 year old kids with that rifle would have it confiscated and their Dads would be in jail for «reckless endangerment» of their boys and the whole parish.

Ultimately, the ledger detailed all of the illicit transactions, allowing prosecutors to put the 30 - year - old mastermind of the Silk Road empire, Ross Ulbricht, in jail for life.

Or the Debra Harrell case in South Carolina, where a mom was thrown in jail for allowing her 9 - year - old to play at the sprinkler playground while she worked at McDonald's.

Karpeles protested his innocence and he was to withstand 5 years in jail if discovered responsible.

Indeed, the impetus for our book, «JP Madoff: The Unholy Alliance Between America's Biggest Bank and America's Biggest Crook» was Holder's refusal as Attorney General to prosecute a single criminal banker for the litany of indisputable crimes committed in the last eight years and his sale of get - out - of - jail - free cards to senior officers of JPMorgan Chase so that they were not prosecuted for their complicity in Madoff's crimes and for their dishonesty with respect to the «London Whale» scandal.

In January, Danish police made their second bitcoin conviction when a 20 - year - old was jailed by a court in Herning, Jutland, for making large - scale purchases of amphetamines, cocaine and ketamine on an online «dark web» marketplacIn January, Danish police made their second bitcoin conviction when a 20 - year - old was jailed by a court in Herning, Jutland, for making large - scale purchases of amphetamines, cocaine and ketamine on an online «dark web» marketplacin Herning, Jutland, for making large - scale purchases of amphetamines, cocaine and ketamine on an online «dark web» marketplace.

A woman faces up to a year in jail and $ 10,000 in fines if convicted on price - gouging charges after allegedly raising the monthly rent by $ 4,000 on her Marin County home in the days following the October wildfires.

Three senior Irish bankers were jailed on Friday for up to three - and - a-half years for conspiring to defraud investors in the most prominent prosecution arising from the 2008 banking crisis that crippled the country's economy.

In Texas, such an act is considered a misdemeanor and could earn you a year's jail time.

In September 2016, three men in the UK were sent to jail for up to eleven years for stealing # 113m from more than 750 victims between January 2013 and October 201In September 2016, three men in the UK were sent to jail for up to eleven years for stealing # 113m from more than 750 victims between January 2013 and October 201in the UK were sent to jail for up to eleven years for stealing # 113m from more than 750 victims between January 2013 and October 2015.

, and gloating over the years that the West Memphis Three spent in jail.

«There are Baha'is rotting in jail on a 20 - year sentence on trumped up charges simply because they have a certain set of faith beliefs that run against the theocracy in Iran.»

A businessman who systematically abused children in the Boys» Brigade and other groups over a period of six decades will spend at least seven years in jail.

A deputy headteacher at a Catholic school in London has been jailed for more than two years after pleading... More

Deric Lostutter, the Anonymous - affiliated hacker who exposed the coverup, is facing ten years in jail for his actions.