(A judicial panel later ruled that five of the convictions were invalid, but the sentence stood). He left Chicago for a prison in Colorado in 2012 and even down to the last day he kept talking.
In the case before the court today, seven members of a large-scale cocaine distribution ring in Baltimore persuaded the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, Va., that their sentences were invalid.
The court's split decision to rewind the trial to April 19 means that everything that came after that point — including closing statements, the genocide conviction and the general's 80-year prison sentence — is invalid.
The sentence is invalid and illegitimate.
The circuit court states in its opinion that 'it is contended in behalf of Carter that his imprisonment is in violation of the Constitution of the United States, and is otherwise illegal and without warrant of law.' And, indeed, the application of the Constitution would seem to be necessarily involved if the sentence were held invalid on other grounds.
His successful appeal means not only that he will be allowed to use the Internet after his release from prison, but that sentences prohibiting Internet use were invalid for other offenders, too.
She contends that her confinement is invalid because the court which convicted and sentenced her had no jurisdiction to do so.
Her marriage to Wani was declared invalid and she was convicted of adultery and sentenced to 100 lashes.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania sought to reinstate the sentence of death, on the basis that Yohn's ruling was flawed, as he should have deferred to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court which had already ruled on the issue of sentencing, and the Batson claim was invalid because Abu-Jamal made no complaints during the original jury selection.
The petitioner argued that the arrangement violated separation of powers, and that the United States Sentencing Guidelines promulgated by the Commission were invalid.
But if it is invalid, it is necessarily so, since the premise is a necessary sentence; therefore, we have a consequence with a necessary consequent, thus satisfying the necessary truth-preservation criterion, but which is plainly invalid.
