From July 2013, a defendant's car can be seized and sold if convicted to help recoup their legal costs.
He resigned to allow another person to head the Church, since those convicted to the mines tended never to return.
Inspired people are driven, focused and convicted to travel a distinct path.
In the federal system, severe restrictions have been imposed on the ancient writ of habeas corpus, a common law doctrine predating the U.S. Constitution by several centuries, which allows the wrongly convicted to attack their trials and verdicts.
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To the extent that judges sentence convicted executives to community service in place of prison, the work should not be an opportunity for those felons, whatever their social standing, to pad their resumes with marquee humanitarian work.
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Obviously a rule refusing honest employment to convicted applicants is going to have a disparate impact upon thieves.
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The Saudis are vigorous in defending their right to punish convicted criminals according to their laws, based on Islamic sharia.
"In less than 25 years CODIS has expanded from including samples only from persons convicted of serious felonies, to the now-routine collection of DNA from persons convicted of any felony, to samples from persons who have not been convicted of anything but have merely been arrested for minor offenses, " said Michael T.
They ought to be just convicted like the inside players in the derivatives debacle that caused the 2008 financial meltdown ought to be convicted.
Only in the United States would a judge order convicted felons to lecture on ethics.
After all the government has used information from convicted felons to convict others.
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Marion Jones went to jail after being convicted of lying to a grand jury about her use of performance-enhancing drugs.
All 50 states and the federal government take cheek swabs from convicted criminals to check against federal and state databanks, with the court's blessing.
Under New York's so-called "Son of Sam" law, which limits the ability of convicted criminals to profit from accounts of their crimes, Gravano could not keep any money he was paid.
Facing public pressure, India's government in February proposed legislative changes that would increase the maximum punishment for convicted rapists to the death penalty from life imprisonment and widen the definition of sexual assault.
Indeed, of the 779 prisoners who have been held at Guantanamo, only six have been convicted according to a recently released study by the Congressional Research Service, which performs research on behalf of members of Congress.
Federal law prohibits the sale of firearms to convicted felons, recently convicted drug users, people adjudicated to be mentally unfit and others, and state and federal agencies are supposed to report the names of these people to national databases.
But the prosecutors in the case against the former New York State legislator who offered to serve as a diplomat in the Middle East in lieu of incarceration had an even better idea: Send convicted executives to prison, then they are free to perform the community service of their choosing after they have served their sentence.
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New York (CNN) -- A housekeeper at the U.S. Military Academy could face up to two years in jail if convicted of trying to steal a bag of frozen meatballs.
Plans to make public the names of convicted youths and to extend electronic monitoring of curfew orders to those aged between ten and 15 have become mired in the controversy surrounding other ele ments of the Crime (Sentences) Bill.
There was never any physical evidence tying Davis to the murder for which he was convicted and sentenced to death.
The most recent example of a terrorist plot hatched in Cambodia was as long ago as 2004, when three people connected to a madrassa in Phnom Penh were convicted of planning to bomb embassies there.
One can imagine MLAs bobbing up and down eager to have their say on the controversial appointment of a convicted IRA murderer to an advisor's position in the culture department.
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He's expected -- we expect him to bring up this request on this Jonathan Pollard matter, the convicted spy, to ask for clemency.
This time the alibi witnesses, facing up to 40 years in prison if they were convicted of perjury, failed to show up, and Mr Hankton was convicted of second-degree murder.
Anyone charged with violent disorder and other serious offences should expect to be remanded in custody not let back on the streets and anyone convicted should expect to go to jail.
To be included, an individual had to be convicted of tax evasion, or had to accept responsibility for the charges levied against him (as former Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-Hee did in April when he was indicted on charges of tax evasion and breach of trust).
Antonucci eventually pleaded guilty to many of those charges and sealed his fate in history as the first person convicted of attempting to steal from the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP.
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Steinberg was charged with conspiracy to commit securities fraud and four counts of securities fraud, and faces a lengthy prison sentence if convicted: up to five years for the conspiracy charges, and twenty years for each of the securities fraud charges.
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