Sentence examples for felonies before from inspiring English sources

Last year, the House approved a bill allowing legal immigrants convicted of aggravated felonies before 1996 to avoid deportation.

The court said that he and other immigrants who were convicted of serious felonies before April 1 , 1997 when strict new immigration laws took effect, must be given a chance to appeal a deportation decision before an I.N.S. judge.

The bill would have allowed aliens convicted of "aggravated felonies" before the act passed to ask for a waiver of their deportation -- a formal step that would not have left them vulnerable, as prosecutorial discretion does.

All 2,542 of the prison's inmates are immigrants, from more than 70 countries, who are serving time for felonies before they are deported, said Steve Owen, a spokesman for the private company that operates the prison, the Corrections Corporation of America, of Nashville.

Mr. Kavanagh, who called the Governor's action "arrogant and irresponsible," said the inmate who received clemency this week, Gary McGivern, had been convicted of four separate felonies before being convicted in the murder of the deputy sheriff, who was shot during an inmate escape attempt.

We made sure schools weren't given sufficient funds to deal with disciplinary problems so that our thugs had to commit felonies before they were transferred or expelled.

Also, the now defunct independent counsel statute required "specific" and "credible" evidence that the vice president committed a felony before an independent counsel could be apppointed.

The bill just passed by the House provides that an alien who was convicted of an "aggravated felony" before passage of the 1996 act could avoid deportation.

The Connecticut Legislature seemed to make these issues superfluous when it repealed the state's death penalty, in 2012, but that law, identified as Public Act 12 5, contained a prominent exemption: it did not apply to the eleven men then on the state's death row, or to anyone who had committed a capital felony before the law was enacted.

A different set of requirements also applies to people convicted of a felony before July 1 , 2003

In California, voters reined in the state's infamous "Three Strikes and You're Out" law, passing a measure that now requires the third offense to be a serious or violent felony before the automatic life sentence kicks in.