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The courts are divided on whether, when imposing a new sentence after revocation, the court can consider the seriousness of the offense, since this is a factor that Congress deliberately omitted from the list applicable to revocation sentencing. [72] More than one revocation of supervised release is permitted. [73]
In the law of contracts, revocation is a type of remedy for buyers when the buyer accepts a nonconforming good from the seller. [1] Upon receiving the nonconforming good, the buyer may choose to accept it despite the nonconformity, reject it (although this may not be allowed under the perfect tender rule and whether the Seller still has time to cure), or revoke their acceptance.
Based on the holding of Morrissey v.Brewer a year earlier, [2] which extended Fourteenth Amendment due process protection to the parole revocation process, the Supreme Court held, in an 8–1 decision, that a probationer's sentence can only be revoked after a preliminary revocation hearing and a final revocation hearing.
A revocation hearing is still pending, officials said. Trump's golf-resort liquor licenses may be one reason he's fighting to block a no-jail hush-money sentence Skip to main content
The harsh sentence was necessary despite Johnson having paid back the $3.5 million in fraudulent loans, Reidinger said. ... But Assistant U.S. Attorney Don Gast repeated the bond revocation ...
However, the term of incarceration might be reduced from the original potential sentence for the alleged crime(s). It is possible that an innocent defendant would choose to accept a deferred sentence rather than incur the risk of going to trial. In such a case, a probation revocation can result in conviction of the original criminal charges and ...
The sentence was longer than what prosecutors recommended, and Kaplan is now considering whether to revoke Salame's guilty plea, accusing him of lying under oath in an earlier court proceeding.
Shock probation is the US legal policy by which a judge orders a convicted offender to prison for a short time, and then suspends the remainder of the sentence in favor of probation. It is hoped that the initial experience of prison will provide an effective deterrent to recidivism .