Bravo for Mr Thaksin, who was prime minister from 2001 to 2006 but fled Thailand in 2008 in advance of a court ruling sentencing him in absentia to two years' imprisonment for corruption while in office.
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has overturned a court ruling sentencing a woman to 10 lashes for breaking a ban on female drivers, reports say.
"fatwa - 1625, from Arabic fetwa - 'a decision given by a mufti;' related to fata - 'to instruct by a legal decision.' Popularized 1989 when Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran issued a ruling sentencing author Salman Rushdie to death for publishing 'The Satanic Verses' (1988).
The full appeals court then voted, 7 to 3, to reinstate the conviction and death sentence, ruling that the situation did not warrant an automatic reversal and that Mr. Mickens had failed to demonstrate an "adverse effect" on his representation.
He was given a 60-year sentence for burglary with intent to murder, but mandatory release laws and an appeals court ruling reduced his sentence by more than 35 years.
Thus, you could assign probability 1 to this sentence ruling the universe, while upholding such extreme subjectivism — provided, of course, that you assign probability 0 to this sentence not ruling the universe, and that your other probability assignments all conform to the probability calculus.
Late Monday the high court denied her request in a one-sentence ruling.
Pistorius's sister last week expressed her gratitude to Masipa for her sentencing ruling.
On the same day, the Moscow city court threw out an appeal against Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova's original sentencing, ruling that the pair had violated public order laws.
The United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit upheld the sentence, ruling that the jury had found all the necessary elements of the offense, and that the judge could make the findings necessary to determine the sentence.
