Sentence examples for minor convictions from inspiring English sources

A filtering mechanism was introduced that screened out single minor convictions or cautions.

She adds: "Lots of vulnerable victims have minor convictions from before or after they were attacked.

"We should not be letting minor convictions in childhood blight the rest of [people's] lives".

People with minor convictions can be denied public housing and federal student aid and written off by prospective employers.

For years after the laws' passage, immigration authorities had neither the resources nor the political will to track down or detain legal permanent residents with relatively minor convictions.

The Obama administration is deporting 400,000 people a year, tens of thousands of whom have no criminal records or only minor convictions.

But he has no convictions for serious offences and just one minor conviction to his name.

Someone with a minor conviction presenting no risk seems subject to deportation — sometimes even a person against whom charges were dropped.

The awards can be reduced or denied on the basis of having a minor conviction for smoking cannabis, a driving offence or shoplifting.

Though one community member fled Cambodia as an infant and barely speaks the language, he was deported, because of a minor conviction from his youth, back to a country he didn't even remember.

Even a minor conviction, like a misdemeanor for indecent exposure, received as a juvenile or as an adult, can result in being placed on a sex-offender registry for decades — or for life.