Sentence examples for criminal spends from inspiring English sources

Emboldened, he then wrote an original play for television, but it was rejected because of its subject matter — the main character, a criminal, spends most of his time onstage in transvestite disguise.

On 25 November 2002 the Law Lords agreed that judges, not politicians, should decide how long a criminal spends behind bars, and thus stripped the Home Secretary of the power to set minimum sentences.

Mohamed Merah, a 23-year-old petty criminal, spent much of the last 36 hours of his life crouched over a laptop in his small apartment in the south‑western French city of Toulouse.

Crime, and the fear of crime, divert resources away from productive uses: criminals spend their time stealing rather than producing, and potential victims spend time and money trying to protect their property.

Mr Brown, who will be sentenced soon, faces up to 65 years in prison.In the popular imagination, white-collar criminals spend a couple of years in a country-club jail and emerge, reborn, as earnest philanthropists like, say, Michael Milken, who was convicted during America's last big corporate crime wave, in the 1980s, and spent just two years in jail.

Sparks ponders on why criminals spend the money they steal so swiftly: "It probably sounds a bit milky if I was to say now the reason which makes thieves and villains get through their ill-gotten wages so sharpish is they must inside themselves feel somehow guilty about it, but there's got to be some explanation why we all raced the gelt like we did".

Criminals spend most of their time on normal social activities rather than on committing crimes.

The secret is that the Mitchell case is no anomaly, and hate-crime laws are going to result in more black criminals spending more time in prison.

His death was ordered by a notorious south Dublin criminal who spends a lot of time in his homes in southern Spain.

Sarah Kunstler, who also practices criminal law, spent five years making advocacy films with her sister, largely about the criminal justice system.

Ms. Sumasar, who had no prior criminal record, spent seven months in prison.