The Ninth Circuit went further and held that challenges also could not be brought after the sentence was final.
But after Foster death sentence was final, his legal team had uncovered "an arsenal of smoking guns" in his case -- namely, notes from the trial in which prosecutors weren't so subtle about their exclusion of potential jurors on the basis of race.
She stands to lose her benefits if and when Bales' life sentence is made final by the Army command in a review set for this summer, officials said.
Shahin's death sentence is not final until 2 June when the Grand Mufti, Egypt's highest religious authority, approves the court decision.
A prisoner who is subject to an appeal cannot apply for transfer because prisoner transfer agreements require a sentence to be final before transfer can take place.
This stylish sentence is the entire final section of the essay.
"This sentence isn't the final word," Mr. Biancolella said in a telephone interview, noting that other cases are still under way focuses on the banks that had sold Parmalat investors the bad bonds.
The sentence will not be final until higher courts have settled a dozen appeals lodged by the defence.
(This book's final sentence is "More to come").
That deadpan "in Italy," and the joke about Romeo and Juliet's tomb, really are Twain-worthy; the unexpectedness of the final sentence is flawless.
