Sentence examples for imprisonment cases from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court ruled that it would not allow suspects to be extradited to the United States in death penalty or life imprisonment cases.

The cases outlined on the new National Registry of Exonerations are likely just a fraction of the wrongful imprisonment cases in the United States, researchers told The Huffington Post.

That the Philippine legal system (or system failure, depending on one's vantage point) trumps the right to bail even in life imprisonment cases (capital punishment is banned in Philippine statute books) may be attributed in large part to the fact that the right to bail is constitutionally entrenched in the bill of rights.

"We're talking about a life imprisonment case here, and he should be tried fairly," Judge Martini said in the murder case, implying that prosecutors did not agree with that fundamental principle of fairness.

He later retained Mr. Scheck, a prominent lawyer in wrongful-imprisonment cases and a leading advocate of DNA testing in criminal trials, to pursue damages against the state for wrongful imprisonment.

(Jelinek posted her own response to the incest-imprisonment case on her Web site, with a sentence that began, "Austria is a small world in which the great one holds its rehearsals").

The government today unveiled legislation that would punish negligent employers with heavy fines or imprisonment in cases of deaths or injury at work.

Section 35P of the Asio Act imposes a maximum penalty of five years' imprisonment in cases where a person discloses information relating to a special intelligence operation.

But, because of ingrained assumptions about guilt, personal and political ties between the courts and even concern about the lower court's possible financial liability for wrongful imprisonment, flawed cases are often sent back in this manner to the original venue, said Mr. Hu, the legal authority.

A new law was passed providing for vastly increased penalties for convicted wildlife criminals, up to life imprisonment in some cases.

They feature filmed and audio-recorded testimony of people trying to address both how important and how extremely difficult it is to find words to describe the experience of having lived through mass killings or, in other cases, imprisonment or torture.