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  2. Safety valve (law) - Wikipedia

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    The safety valve is a provision in the Sentencing Reform Act and the United States Federal Sentencing Guidelines that authorizes a sentence below the statutory minimum for certain nonviolent, non-managerial drug offenders with little or no criminal history.

  3. Pulsifer v. United States - Wikipedia

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    The federal sentencing statute, 18 U.S.C. 3553, contains a provision known as a "safety valve". The safety valve, located at § 3553(f), requires the trial courts to sentence qualifying defendants according to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, regardless of any statutory minimum sentences. Criteria for qualification are listed in § 3553(f)(1 ...

  4. List of professional sportspeople convicted of crimes - Wikipedia

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    November 18, 1983 (sentencing) Attempted possession of cocaine 3 months imprisonment, $5,000 fine Aikens was arrested, charged and sentenced with teammates Willie Wilson and Jerry Martin. They were the first active MLB players ever to be sentenced for drug violations. [170] Retired United States December 13, 1994 (sentencing)

  5. List of homicides in California - Wikipedia

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    Journalist shot by member of a crime syndicate he was investigating for a story [209] 55: Murder of Jamiel Shaw II: Los Angeles: 2008-03-02: 17-year-old high school player shot by two Hispanic men while returning home from Beverly Center [210] 56: Murder of Sandra Cantu: Tracy: 2009-03-27: Former Sunday school teacher kidnapped, raped, and ...

  6. More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.

  7. Justice Safety Valve Act of 2013 - Wikipedia

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    The bills were worked on to merge the language of the Smarter Sentencing Act (H.R. 3382/S. 1410) and the Justice Safety Valve Act (H.R. 1695/S. 619) along with a new bill, S. 1783 the Federal Prison Reform Act of 2013, introduced by John Cornyn (R-TX). In October, 2013, both bills were still in committee. [2]

  8. Ewing v. California - Wikipedia

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    At sentencing on the golf club theft, the judge classified the 1993 burglaries and robbery as "two strikes" and imposed the 25-to-life sentence under California's three strikes law. [ 9 ] Ewing appealed his conviction to the California Court of Appeal, which rejected his challenge that the 25-year sentence was grossly disproportional to the ...

  9. List of law enforcement officers convicted for an on-duty ...

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    This is a list of law enforcement officers convicted for an on-duty killing in the United States.The listing documents the date the incident resulting in conviction occurred, the date the officer(s) was convicted, the name of the officer(s), and a brief description of the original occurrence making no implications regarding wrongdoing or justification on the part of the person killed or ...