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9 1/4 to 15 years in prison (if downward departure is not granted) Maximum of 30 years in prison if: -the offender used a deadly weapon or firearm -the victim was a vulnerable person under the care of the offender (a child under 18, elderly person, or disabled adult) -the victim was an on duty police officer or a first responder
Post-sentencing rehabilitative efforts (§5K2.19) Prior to October 2010: [p]ost-sentencing rehabilitative efforts, even if exceptional, undertaken by a defendant after imposition of a term of imprisonment for the instant offense [were] not an appropriate basis for a downward departure when resentencing the defendant for that offense. After ...
A fault divorce is a divorce which is granted after the party asking for the divorce sufficiently proves that the other party did something wrong that justifies ending the marriage. [8] For example, in Texas, grounds for an "at-fault" divorce include cruelty, adultery, a felony conviction, abandonment, living apart, and commitment in a mental ...
It's one of the largest divorce settlements in history. A judge has ordered Oklahoma oil tycoon Harold Hamm to pay his ex-wife Sue Ann Hamm $995.5 million. NBC explained how the massive settlement ...
A bill filed by Sen. Dusty Deevers, R-Elgin, would modify grounds of divorce, making it more difficult to end a marriage in Oklahoma. Grounds for divorce could change in Oklahoma under proposed ...
Irizarry v. United States, 553 U.S. 708 (2008), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32(h) does not apply to a variance from a recommended Federal Sentencing Guidelines range; that rule applies only to "departures." [1] [2]
The Sentencing Act of 1987 (Pub.L. 100-182) enacted some changes to the federal sentencing regime in the United States. The legislation amended 18 U.S.C. § 3553(b) to permit expressly departures based on circumstances of an exceptional "kind" or "degree".
Generally speaking, each victim of a murder will merit a separate charge of murder against the offender, and as such, the killer could get a life sentence, a death sentence, or some other determinate or indeterminate sentence based upon the number of murders, the evidence presented, and any aggravating or mitigating circumstances present.