Sentences with phrase «years of a life sentence»

He must serve at least 35 years of the life sentence and half of the other sentence, Strickland said.

Served 18 years of a life sentence for Murder and Robbery, 2002, Chromogenic print, framed, 78.7 x 101.6 cm

Or James Hugney, set free earlier this year after serving nearly 36 years of a life sentence for a 1978 house fire that killed his 16 - year - old son.

It doesn't list the names of people like Louis Taylor, freed in 2013 after serving 42 years of a life sentence for a 1970 fire at a Tucson, Arizona, hotel that killed 29 people.

On May 23, 2017, a jubilant Shaurn Thomas walked out of SCI - Frackville, having served 24 years of a life sentence for a murder he did not commit.

The two men served more than 20 years of a life sentence for the crimes before their convictions were vacated and they were released in 2016.

He served 22 years of a life sentence for the murder and armed robbery that occurred nearly a quarter - century ago at the fast - food - chain restaurant's downtown location.

Not exact matches

They have been discussing the case of 62 - year - old Alice Marie Johnson, who has been serving a life sentence without parole for her role facilitating communications for a cocaine ring in the early 1990s.

US officials also believe that Chapo Isidro was previously a high - ranking leader of the Beltrán Leyva Organization (BLO) and was considered the «right hand man» of Alfredo Beltrán Leyva, who was arrested in 2008 and sentenced to life in prison in the United States earlier this year.

Chapman received a sentence of 20 years to life after pleading guilty to a second - degree murder charge.

Late last year a driver in Delhi had been sentenced to life in prison after he had been found guilty of raping a female passenger.

Ross Ulbricht, the 31 - year - old sentenced to life after being convicted of running the deep web market Silk Road, is appealing his sentence.

Dassey was convicted of first - degree homicide, second - degree sexual assault and mutilation of a corpse following the death of Teresa Halbach in 2005 and sentenced to life with no parole for 41 years — he was just 17 at the time.

One of them is Toronto megachurch pastor Hyeon - Soo Lim, who was sentenced to life in prison this year after making hundreds of humanitarian trips to the poverty - stricken country.

A young writer in Australia recently sent me an essay that ended with an arresting sentence: «I am twenty - seven years old and hope to live to see the end of the twentieth century.»

Then, some years into his sentence, Liam ran across The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin — and his life changed.

Two years ago, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals said the life sentence wasn't valid, but prosecutors still intended to retry him and he stayed in prison.

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.

Jeffs, the so - called «prophet» of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints, or FLDS, was sentenced to two consecutive terms of five years to life after he was convicted in September 2007.

Rev Dapo has many testimonies to share of lives changed: 18 - year - old Sam was convicted of burglary and sentenced to four years in prison.

The jury heard how Cornick pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum tariff of 20 years.

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.

Many years later, I then got to know my Argentine housemate, Juan, on exchange in Mannheim, Germany, where we would chat in our shared kitchen — a sprinkling of sentences here and there as I finished dinner and as he started his — where we'd eventually fall in love and after two years of a long - distance relationship, I later moved to Buenos Aires to live in the same country and continent as him.

McCann, 36, was sentenced last year to life in prison for the 1992 murders, by arson, of his 36 - year - old wife, Esther, and their 18 - month - old niece.

Phil Spector was sentenced to 19 years to life in prison for the murder of Lana Clarkson... With Susan Boyle feeling the pressure, sportsbooks no longer have her as the runaway favorite in Britain «s Got Talent... The NCAA baseball regionals are going on.

As your child enters his third year of life, he will start to create his own sentences and style of speech.

Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard was released on parole from a US prison on Friday after having served 30 years in jail of a life sentence.

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.

It however, said that one of them convicted for manslaughter and whose sentence is for life, has now been commuted to 21 - year term.

Two decades after he was sodomized by an NYPD officer, touching off one of the biggest police misconduct investigations in city history, Abner Louima is living a quiet but productive life in Miami, while the officer who attacked him, Justin Volpe, has eight years left on his federal prison sentence.

«When did living here become like a prison sentence: «I'm retired in three years then I'm out of here»... «Once the kids finish school we're headed South.»

Many years after Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones were assassinated, New York State law was finally changed to permit the sentence of life without parole for people convicted of cop killings.

Dr. Robert Neulander was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison on Thursday for the murder of his wife Leslie Neulander in 2012.

Clark, a former Weather Underground radical, was convicted of second - degree murder and robbery and initially sentenced to 75 years to life in prison.

Matt is serving a sentence of 25 years to life following his conviction in Niagara County for three counts of murder, three counts of kidnapping, and two counts of robbery after he kidnapped a male victim and caused his death by beating him on December 3, 1997.

Disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced to 12 years in prison for corruption Tuesday by a judge who said she hoped the idea of «living out his golden years in an orange jumpsuit» would keep other politicians on the «straight and narrow.»

In December 2017, Suarez, who was convicted of Murder in the Second Degree and Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree, was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison by former Erie County Court Judge Thomas P. Francyzk.

Sentenced to 25 years to life for assassinating a pair of patrolmen in a 1971 ambush shooting in Harlem, Bell had been granted parole in March.

This would be a 25 - year sentence on top of that, so clearly the judge meant that this individual was to stay behind bars for the rest of his life.»

A Bronx woman was sentenced to 25 years to life yesterday in the Bronx Supreme Court for the 2003 murder of a 91 - year - old woman.

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.

Mr Justice Treacy said Gary Dobson and David Norris would have received a life sentence of 30 years at least if they had committed the crimes as adults now, because changes in the law in 2003 introduced racial aggravation to sentencing.

But in the court of appeal the panel of five judges backed whole - life terms, increasing murderer Ian McLoughlin's 40 - year jail sentence to a whole - life term and dismissing an appeal by murder Ian Newell.

Cuomo made a merciful decision by commuting the 75 - year - to - life sentence of convicted terrorist Judith Clark for her role in the deadly 1981 Brinks heist, supporters said, as critics continued to blast the decision as a mockery of justice.

After ten years inside, as part of his life sentence, it was the first time he'd thought of the damage he'd done to her and the family of the victim.

It's surely too much to hope that, as Judge Valerie Caprioni said in sentencing Silver, «perhaps the fear of living out one's golden years in an orange jumpsuit will keep them on the straight and narrow.»

«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.

At the time Ellner was living in Levy's house, he had already been convicted in 1997 on charges of federal tax evasion for which he was sentenced to one month in jail, three months of home confinement and three years of probation, records show.

Casey Callahan was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison In Otsego County Court today, for the murder of his wife Elizabeth in 2000.