#criminal-convictions

#criminal-convictions

Tina Peters, one of the few election deniers to actually face consequences for criminal conduct related to the 2020 election, will be a free woman in less than two weeks' time. Rather than receiving leniency from a fellow election-denying MAGA leader, Peters' freedom will be thanks to a Democratic politician who should know better, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis. Last week, Polis tried to quietly announce that he had commuted her nine-year prison sentence, but the news immediately caught fire.

Two funeral directors have been jailed for four years over storing bodies in unrefrigerated conditions, while one body was found decomposed in their mortuary room, having been left there for 36 days. Richard Elkin, 49, and Hayley Bell, 42, who ran Elkin and Bell Funerals in Gosport, Hampshire, were convicted of public nuisance, preventing the decent burial of a body and fraud offences following a trial at Portsmouth Crown Court last year. The case has prompted renewed calls for urgent regulation of the funeral sector.

"As football reminds us, excellence is built on grit, grace, and the courage to rise again. So is our nation," Johnson wrote on social media as she thanked Trump for his "continued commitment to second chances."

Uber outright rejects applicants convicted of murder, sexual assault, kidnapping and terrorism. However, in 22 states, the Times found Uber can approve applicants convicted of many other offenses including child abuse, assault and stalking, if the convictions are at least seven years old. The extensive investigation also found that in 35 states, these checks are based largely on where someone has lived in those seven years, meaning convictions from other locations could be missed.

"Sean Combs: The Reckoning" shows a side of Diddy we've never seen before. Netflix's four-part docuseries chronicles the rise and fall of Combs, also known as Diddy, as he goes from hip-hop mogul and billionaire business owner to the subject of a federal prosecution and over 60 civil lawsuits accusing him of sexual abuse. Combs, who pleaded not guilty, was ultimately convicted on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution and is serving a 50-month prison sentence.

On Nov. 5, 1872, suffragist Susan B. Anthony defied the law by casting a vote in the presidential election; she was later arrested and charged with knowingly voting without having a lawful right to vote. Found guilty at trial, she was fined $100, which she refused to pay. Also on this date: In 1605, the Gunpowder Plot failed as Guy Fawkes was seized before he could blow up the English Parliament; Fawkes and his co-conspirators were later convicted of treason and hanged.

The 'treasured' Sligo man died 20 months after he was set upon by a gang in January, 2022 One cousin said she remembers Mr Niland in hospital 'struggling to breathe in pain with tears rolling down his face' The family said they 'can only hope that some justice will be served for Tom' The family of a retired farmer who died 20 months after being violently attacked by a gang in his Sligo home didn't recognise him in hospital due to the severity of his injuries.

He said that the defendant is "doing well in prison" and that the man feels it is a safer place for him. Mr McGarry said that his client seems "completely institutionalised". He said that his client wants to extend his prison sentence in order to spend more time rehabilitating himself and completing courses within the prison system. He said that prison courses take time for people to get enrolled in and complete, and a release would disrupt this process.

Graham Whelan is a man of many contradictions. He's a self-professed family man whose children's home was recently raided by gardaí. He's a career criminal with over 30 convictions who is just as likely to grace the front pages because of his personal ties to the McGregor clan. And while Whelan has been a constant in Ireland's gangland for more than two decades, he managed to avoid the public notoriety gained by many of his peers.

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, 42, most commonly known as Tommy Robinson, is a British far-right activist who organised the Unite the Kingdom march in London on 13 September. After losing his job as an engineering apprentice for assaulting a police officer, Robinson moved into activism in 2009 by founding the English Defence League (EDL), an Islamophobic organisation forged in the football terraces in Luton before spreading nationally.

She was initially charged in March 2021 and was convicted in 2022 for conspiracy to do an act to facilitate to commission of breach of UK immigration law by a non-UK national, and of conspiracy to possess identity documents with intent. During her sentencing, the judge concluded that the charity had been used as a front, and that the evidence showed she was using OBAC as a way of disguising her dishonest activities and potentially finding people with whom she could take money.