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It would be analogous to what the feds already do to members of the Mafia. If you are convicted of organized crime activities, you are prohibited from consorting with other members. – Steve Levy	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
In our criminal justice system, somebody is innocent until proven guilty, and the information-sharing that happens in this context is at the arrest stage, not at the conviction stage, there could be some overlap between someone who is convicted and who presents a public safety threat, but you don’t know that until the end of the process, and the information-sharing is at the beginning. – Royce Murray	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
The Constitutional right to keep and bear arms does not mean that convicted felons, that other very dangerous people, have the same rights to carry deadly weapons in public that law-abiding Americans do, and background checks are simply a very simple means of ensuring that guns and in California's case, ammunition, don't fall into dangerous hands. – Adam Skaggs	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Now I know what the face of evil looks like and he's finally convicted. – Stan Patz	Found on CNN 7 years ago
[Employees] are often ridiculed and insulted by public officials and frequently convicted in the court of public opinion on unfounded allegations testified to by street lawyers and street spokespersons, if lawmakers do not like the laws that we enforce, that we are charged to enforce, that we are sworn to enforce, then they should have the courage and the skill to change those laws. Otherwise, they should shut up and support the men and women on the front lines. – Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
These are crimes. It's not something that you do in the line of duty. They are above and beyond the scope of what a police officer should be doing, if these officers saw Demetrius do what they did to him to someone else, they would immediately put him in jail and he'd be tried and convicted -- so, we want the same thing to happen to them. – Justin Miller	Found on CNN 7 years ago
We owe it to the American people to ensure that illegal aliens who have been convicted of crimes and are serving time in our federal prisons are expeditiously removed from our country as the law requires, this expansion and modernization of the Institutional Hearing Program gives us the tools to continue making Americans safe again in their communities. – Jeff Sessions	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
If convicted, he faces a minimum of 21 years in prison. Meanwhile, Cattaneo and his supporters are arguing that the chef acted in self-defense. A friend of Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s former prime minister, is even arranging to pay for Cattaneo’s legal bills. Another group, led by Italian politician Matteo Salvini, is calling for lawmakers to amend self-defense laws in response to the incident. FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK FOR MORE FOX LIFESTYLE NEWS A dead man is never good news, but the Italian citizens stand by Mario Cattaneo, Salvini wrote in a tweet on Sunday. No judge can convict him. Cattaneo was reportedly re-opened on Sunday, but his son says the family is still reeling from the incident. We've re-opened, because one needs to start over, go forward, but our morale is very low. – Gianluca Cattaneo	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The vast majority of individuals convicted of terrorism and terrorism-related offenses since 9/11 came here from outside of our country, it is not compassionate, but reckless to allow uncontrolled entry from places where proper vetting cannot occur. – President Trump on Monday	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Obama catches mad cow disease after being caught having relations with a Hereford. He dies before his trial and is buried in a cow pasture next to Valerie Jarrett, who died weeks prior, after being convicted of sedition and treason, when a jihadi cellmate mistook her for being a nice person and decapitated her. – Carl Paladino	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
#1. The man in front of you today is a mortician, The patient died on the operating table. If you think the patient should have lived, ask the surgeons. #2. I am here to jumpstart your mind from lethargy. #3. I believe you are familiar with carnal knowledge? The concept that is, not the practical part. Someone with experience? Legal experience you dirty minded fools! #4. The only difference between you and a cow is what I teach you. #5. Most women would prefer the sperm of a law professor to that of a law student. #6. We are not authorities in law. By ‘we’ I mean ‘you’. Some of you might be tempted to think that we are in the same category! #7. You call me Sir and I call you Sir. The only difference is that YOU will mean it while I don't! #8. Not even the devil knows what a man is thinking, leave alone a woman. #9. I agree with the Honourable Justice Kwach, that the legal profession is in danger of being infiltrated by peasants. #10. For the purposes of my lectures, all time will be in GMT and only my Swiss watch will apply. #11. If your female client is going to be convicted of murder, make sure she’s pregnant. Why are you laughing? Of course, I don’t mean that you should be the one making sure! #12. I radiate knowledge because I am in intellectual puberty and not intellectual menopause. – Githu Muigai	added by anonymous 7 years ago
The most extreme criminals are deported while criminal arrestees not yet convicted are turned loose, [Under the new proposal,] criminal arrestees will be deported, there will be immediate improvement in safety for all Americans. – Kris Kobach	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
When they do, they typically are ordered to be deported, but under current policies, they are not a high priority to be tracked down for enforcement, unless they are convicted of a serious crime, the Obama administration’s approach to dealing with the surge in illegal alien minors from Central America has been nothing short of a disaster for many communities. – Jessica Vaughan	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The President and I want to better focus our immigration enforcement resources on convicted criminals over undocumented immigrants who have been here for years, have committed no serious crimes, and, have, in effect, become peaceful and integrated members of the community. – Jeh Johnson	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The local detectives asked ICE five times for a detainer on Eswin Mejia, but ICE said that he was not a priority for enforcement because he had not been convicted of a serious crime, he was released on bail and disappeared, and is now on ICE’s most wanted list. It was a major scandal for ICE. – Jessica Vaughan	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I have never been charged with any crime. I’ve never been convicted of any crime. – Anthony Ray Silva	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Given the weaknesses of the Iraqi justice system, and the current environment in Iraq, I am gravely concerned that innocent people have been and may continue to be convicted and executed, resulting in gross, irreversible miscarriages of justice. – Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussien	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We will do all we can to get the French state convicted for failing to prevent terrorists, some of whom were under judicial surveillance, from carrying out their act. – Samia Maktouf	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
He was notified of the referring of his case regarding Jaw prison and the Yemen war to the High Criminal Court for trial, the first hearing will be on 12 July 2016. Nabeel may face up to 13 years of imprisonment if convicted in that case. – Jalila Sayed	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion Monday vacating former Gov. Bob McDonnell’s corruption convictionsand sent it back to the lower appeals court. ‘In addition to being inconsistent with both text and precedent, the Government’s expansive interpretation of ‘official act’ would raise significant constitutional concerns,’according to the unanimous opinion.‘Because the jury was not correctly instructed on the meaning of ‘official act,’ it may have convicted Governor McDonnell for conduct that is not unlawful.’ SCOTUSblog’s Amy Howe posted in a live chat on the opinion: ‘Very favorable to the governor but not over.’. – Donald Trump	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It's very possible for someone to take a trip to a country like Saudi Arabia and declare it as their destination when it is in actuality just a pit stop to a different country like Yemen, based on his blatant extremism and ties to a convicted Orlando imam known for facilitating international jihadists traveling, the strong likelihood is that these trips were not benign. – Ryan Mauro	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
What is most disturbing is Twitter's failure to act when Miss Banks actively supported and encouraged her fans to seek out the Palin's personal home address, break in and inflict harm on the Palin family. Especially when it’s now been proven that Twitter was alerted to these threats on their platform and the lengthy history of deranged stalkers with violent intentions who have broken into the Palin family's properties and been arrested, charged and convicted by local and federal authorities. This is not a laughing matter and far crosses the line of freedom of speech. – Sarah Palin	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Peter Liang was indicted, prosecuted and subsequently convicted by a jury because his reckless actions caused an innocent man to lose his life, there is no evidence, however, that he intended to kill or injure Akai Gurley. When Mr. Liang went into that building that night, he did so as part of his job and to keep the people of Brooklyn and our city safe. – Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
What Mr. Dennis may have thought was a nickel and dime theft was, in the end, the equivalent of a major bank heist, now, he will be a convicted felon who must repay all the stolen money. – Roger Stanton	Found on CNN 8 years ago

It would be analogous to what the feds already do to members of the Mafia. If you are convicted of organized crime activities, you are prohibited from consorting with other members.

– Steve Levy

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

In our criminal justice system, somebody is innocent until proven guilty, and the information-sharing that happens in this context is at the arrest stage, not at the conviction stage, there could be some overlap between someone who is convicted and who presents a public safety threat, but you don’t know that until the end of the process, and the information-sharing is at the beginning.

– Royce Murray

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The Constitutional right to keep and bear arms does not mean that convicted felons, that other very dangerous people, have the same rights to carry deadly weapons in public that law-abiding Americans do, and background checks are simply a very simple means of ensuring that guns and in California's case, ammunition, don't fall into dangerous hands.

– Adam Skaggs

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Now I know what the face of evil looks like and he's finally convicted.

– Stan Patz

Found on CNN
7 years ago

[Employees] are often ridiculed and insulted by public officials and frequently convicted in the court of public opinion on unfounded allegations testified to by street lawyers and street spokespersons, if lawmakers do not like the laws that we enforce, that we are charged to enforce, that we are sworn to enforce, then they should have the courage and the skill to change those laws. Otherwise, they should shut up and support the men and women on the front lines.

– Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

These are crimes. It's not something that you do in the line of duty. They are above and beyond the scope of what a police officer should be doing, if these officers saw Demetrius do what they did to him to someone else, they would immediately put him in jail and he'd be tried and convicted -- so, we want the same thing to happen to them.

– Justin Miller

Found on CNN
7 years ago

We owe it to the American people to ensure that illegal aliens who have been convicted of crimes and are serving time in our federal prisons are expeditiously removed from our country as the law requires, this expansion and modernization of the Institutional Hearing Program gives us the tools to continue making Americans safe again in their communities.

– Jeff Sessions

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

If convicted, he faces a minimum of 21 years in prison. Meanwhile, Cattaneo and his supporters are arguing that the chef acted in self-defense. A friend of Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s former prime minister, is even arranging to pay for Cattaneo’s legal bills. Another group, led by Italian politician Matteo Salvini, is calling for lawmakers to amend self-defense laws in response to the incident. FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK FOR MORE FOX LIFESTYLE NEWS A dead man is never good news, but the Italian citizens stand by Mario Cattaneo, Salvini wrote in a tweet on Sunday. No judge can convict him. Cattaneo was reportedly re-opened on Sunday, but his son says the family is still reeling from the incident. We've re-opened, because one needs to start over, go forward, but our morale is very low.

– Gianluca Cattaneo

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The vast majority of individuals convicted of terrorism and terrorism-related offenses since 9/11 came here from outside of our country, it is not compassionate, but reckless to allow uncontrolled entry from places where proper vetting cannot occur.

– President Trump on Monday

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Obama catches mad cow disease after being caught having relations with a Hereford. He dies before his trial and is buried in a cow pasture next to Valerie Jarrett, who died weeks prior, after being convicted of sedition and treason, when a jihadi cellmate mistook her for being a nice person and decapitated her.

– Carl Paladino

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

#1. The man in front of you today is a mortician, The patient died on the operating table. If you think the patient should have lived, ask the surgeons. #2. I am here to jumpstart your mind from lethargy. #3. I believe you are familiar with carnal knowledge? The concept that is, not the practical part. Someone with experience? Legal experience you dirty minded fools! #4. The only difference between you and a cow is what I teach you. #5. Most women would prefer the sperm of a law professor to that of a law student. #6. We are not authorities in law. By ‘we’ I mean ‘you’. Some of you might be tempted to think that we are in the same category! #7. You call me Sir and I call you Sir. The only difference is that YOU will mean it while I don't! #8. Not even the devil knows what a man is thinking, leave alone a woman. #9. I agree with the Honourable Justice Kwach, that the legal profession is in danger of being infiltrated by peasants. #10. For the purposes of my lectures, all time will be in GMT and only my Swiss watch will apply. #11. If your female client is going to be convicted of murder, make sure she’s pregnant. Why are you laughing? Of course, I don’t mean that you should be the one making sure! #12. I radiate knowledge because I am in intellectual puberty and not intellectual menopause.

– Githu Muigai

added by anonymous
7 years ago

The most extreme criminals are deported while criminal arrestees not yet convicted are turned loose, [Under the new proposal,] criminal arrestees will be deported, there will be immediate improvement in safety for all Americans.

– Kris Kobach

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

When they do, they typically are ordered to be deported, but under current policies, they are not a high priority to be tracked down for enforcement, unless they are convicted of a serious crime, the Obama administration’s approach to dealing with the surge in illegal alien minors from Central America has been nothing short of a disaster for many communities.

– Jessica Vaughan

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The President and I want to better focus our immigration enforcement resources on convicted criminals over undocumented immigrants who have been here for years, have committed no serious crimes, and, have, in effect, become peaceful and integrated members of the community.

– Jeh Johnson

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The local detectives asked ICE five times for a detainer on Eswin Mejia, but ICE said that he was not a priority for enforcement because he had not been convicted of a serious crime, he was released on bail and disappeared, and is now on ICE’s most wanted list. It was a major scandal for ICE.

– Jessica Vaughan

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I have never been charged with any crime. I’ve never been convicted of any crime.

– Anthony Ray Silva

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Given the weaknesses of the Iraqi justice system, and the current environment in Iraq, I am gravely concerned that innocent people have been and may continue to be convicted and executed, resulting in gross, irreversible miscarriages of justice.

– Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussien

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We will do all we can to get the French state convicted for failing to prevent terrorists, some of whom were under judicial surveillance, from carrying out their act.

– Samia Maktouf

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

He was notified of the referring of his case regarding Jaw prison and the Yemen war to the High Criminal Court for trial, the first hearing will be on 12 July 2016. Nabeel may face up to 13 years of imprisonment if convicted in that case.

– Jalila Sayed

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion Monday vacating former Gov. Bob McDonnell’s corruption convictionsand sent it back to the lower appeals court. ‘In addition to being inconsistent with both text and precedent, the Government’s expansive interpretation of ‘official act’ would raise significant constitutional concerns,’according to the unanimous opinion.‘Because the jury was not correctly instructed on the meaning of ‘official act,’ it may have convicted Governor McDonnell for conduct that is not unlawful.’ SCOTUSblog’s Amy Howe posted in a live chat on the opinion: ‘Very favorable to the governor but not over.’.

– Donald Trump

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It's very possible for someone to take a trip to a country like Saudi Arabia and declare it as their destination when it is in actuality just a pit stop to a different country like Yemen, based on his blatant extremism and ties to a convicted Orlando imam known for facilitating international jihadists traveling, the strong likelihood is that these trips were not benign.

– Ryan Mauro

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

What is most disturbing is Twitter's failure to act when Miss Banks actively supported and encouraged her fans to seek out the Palin's personal home address, break in and inflict harm on the Palin family. Especially when it’s now been proven that Twitter was alerted to these threats on their platform and the lengthy history of deranged stalkers with violent intentions who have broken into the Palin family's properties and been arrested, charged and convicted by local and federal authorities. This is not a laughing matter and far crosses the line of freedom of speech.

– Sarah Palin

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Peter Liang was indicted, prosecuted and subsequently convicted by a jury because his reckless actions caused an innocent man to lose his life, there is no evidence, however, that he intended to kill or injure Akai Gurley. When Mr. Liang went into that building that night, he did so as part of his job and to keep the people of Brooklyn and our city safe.

– Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What Mr. Dennis may have thought was a nickel and dime theft was, in the end, the equivalent of a major bank heist, now, he will be a convicted felon who must repay all the stolen money.

– Roger Stanton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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