Sentencing News
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Decatur -
A teenager from central Illinois will spend five years in prison for ordering his pitbull terrier to attack a 75-year-old man. The sentence was handed down Tuesday in Decatur, just about an hour from Chicago.
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Chicago -
The second defendant in the murder of a local Chicago television talk show host’s parents was sentenced today to 120 years in prison. This is just days after his co-defendant, Gregory Brooks, was sentenced to the same amount of time.
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Chicago -
During the course of the sentencing hearing he was referred to by his parents as a “sweet kid”. But a 19-year-old man who pleaded guilty to abducting and killing the parents of a local cable talk show host was sentenced to 120 years in prison.
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Oakland -
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Perry today, 11.05.2010, sentenced Johannes Mesherle, the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) policeman who fatally shot Oscar Grant, a 21-year-old African American, to two years prison time for involuntary manslaughter.
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Blackpool -
Wendy Lewis, the woman who urinated on a war memorial and was jeered by veterans last week, has today avoided jail but was given a 15 week sentence suspended for one year.
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Canada's Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada,has introduced legislation to clearly limit the amount of credit that the courts may grant to convicted criminals for the time they served in custody prior to their sentencing.
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After posting the horrific beating of a young cheerleader on YouTube last spring, those charged in the case are finally getting their day in court. Two were sentenced this week, while the remaining three will be sentenced later this month.
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A Rye, NH man and former congressional candidate will serve 20 days in jail and a year on house confinement after allegedly faking a motor vehicle crash and subsequent disappearance two years ago. Prosecutors say it was an attempt to boost his campaign.
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Justice was handed out today in the Edmonton child abuse case. The case concerned a four year old girl who experienced abuse and sexual torture for most of her young life. Her mother and her mother's boyfriend were both found guilty of several charges.
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A 21 year old is awaiting sentencing for giving a 7 year old an a sexually-transmitted disease.
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over the last while i have been wondering why there is a deafening silence on the DJ when it comes to Canadian...
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Respected Mr. Mayor, I write to you here today about the now well-known and much resented death sentence of Prada –...
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We have been told repeatedly that the CATO Institute is a Conservative think tank and as such has little to offer. For...
May 12, 2011 by sumdume - 4 comments
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March 3, 2011 You cannot have a total devotion sometimes - "A Course in Miracles". As I observed in other comments...
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It is, as the regional French daily Le Maine Libre reported earlier this month, unbelievable the lengths to which some...
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