He's given me a life sentence; Victim slams jail term cut for would-be...

Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  February 14, 2005 ;     374 words ......sex beast yesterday hit out at appeal court judges who cut his jail sentence...into his car, had handed her a life sentence. ``I think about it every day, '' said the woman. ``If there were an appeal court where I could go to have my sentence...the first place. I wish I could ...

Plea to cut life sentence is rejected.(News)

Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  January 25, 2003 ;     222 words ......bottle over his head - yesterday failed to get his life sentence overturned. Paul Thomas Minchion, 2 7, of Vulcan Close...and eight months before being considered for parole. Appeal Court judges yesterday cut that minimum period by a year...time if he offends again. Refusing to overturn the ...

Pub attacker loses plea on life sentence.(News)

Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  February 13, 2002 ;     254 words ......HAYLEY CUTHBERTSON THE Appeal Court yesterday upheld a mandatory life sentence handed down to a Coventry...1998. He was jailed for life under the two strikes and...Coates jailed Noorkoiv for life after hearing of previous...line. Three judges at the Appeal Court in ...

Baffled by judges' decision on robber ; I REALLY do not understand the...

Express & Echo (Exeter UK);  August 7, 2008 ;     246 words ......of our judges. The story Top judges overturn man's life sentence for mum's carjacking, Echo, August 5, is one of many...disqualified. But after a hearing at London's Criminal Appeal Court, three bewigged arbiters of justice - Lord Justice...Mr Justice King - saw fit to overturn the original ...

Life term cut for man who shot police officer; Appeal court bid...

Birmingham Evening Mail (England);  January 12, 2002 ;     232 words ......chest with an air rifle has had his life sentence reduced to four years. Colin Wright...had his sentence cut by London's Appeal Court yesterday after judges said he was...Wolverhampton Crown Court in August 1999, a life sentence was imposed for the firearms offence...Justice ...

Court upholds life sentence for former DK leader

Xinhua News Agency;  December 5, 2006 ;     163 words ...Court upholds life sentence for former DK leader PHNOM PENH, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's appeal court here on Tuesday upheld the life sentence for a former Democratic Kampuchea (DK) commander for murdering three Western backpackers in 1994. Appeal court judge Um Sarith ...

Qld: Drunk driver should have faced life sentence

AAP General News (Australia);  August 16, 2004 ;     190 words ......driver should have faced life sentence An appeal court's been told a man who killed...term. Two of the state's appeal court judges have asked the Crown...increase the jail term. The appeal court has reserved its decision...

Greek guerrillas back to court for appeal against life sentence

Xinhua News Agency;  December 2, 2005 ;     174 words ......guerrillas back to court for appeal against life sentence ATHENS, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) -- Jailed members...guerrilla group appeared in front of an appeal court amid heavy security on Friday in a bid...thousands of years. But few expect the appeal court to lower their sentences. The ...

Child rapist launches life sentence appeal

Evening News - Scotland;  April 15, 2008 ;     165 words ......ever paedophile ring has launched an appeal against his life sentence for raping two young girls. One-legged Morris Petch was...mother. Lawyers for Petch are due to appear at the Criminal Appeal Court in Edinburgh tomorrow to argue that the length of his...August. She said: "This was a just ...

Paedophile launches appeal against life sentence for rape

Evening News - Scotland;  April 15, 2008 ;     167 words ......ever paedophile ring has launched an appeal against his life sentence for raping two young girls. One-legged Morris Petch was...mother. Lawyers for Petch are due to appear at the Criminal Appeal Court in Edinburgh tomorrow to argue that the length of his...August. She said: "This was a just ...

NSW: Appeal court confirms rejection of Bruce Burrell's appeal

AAP General News (Australia);  March 23, 2007 ;     156 words ......General News (Australia) 03-23-2007 NSW: Appeal court confirms rejection of Bruce Burrell...expressed his relief that the killer's life sentence will stand. The New South Wales Court...BURRELL'S appeal against his conviction and life sentence for the 1997 kidnapping and murder...

Kuwait's highest court upholds life sentence for fundamentalist who killed...

AP Worldstream;  December 21, 2004 ;     385 words ......Worldstream 12-21-2004 Dateline: KUWAIT CITY Kuwait's highest appeal court has upheld the conviction and life sentence of a Muslim fundamentalist who shot dead an American civilian...but the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by an appeal court late last year. Defense lawyer ...

Girl, 14, freed from life sentence for murder

The Independent - London;  February 10, 1996 ;     452 words ......Correspondent The youngest girl serving a life sentence in Britain was released from custody yesterday after three Appeal Court judges quashed the 14-year- old...into tears as she was led from the Appeal Court in Edinburgh and driven home after...

Robber wins appeal against life sentence for carjacking ; A robber given a...

Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  August 5, 2008 ;     234 words ...A robber given a life sentence after a knifepoint carjacking in...Justice King at London's Criminal Appeal Court, overturned the life term after...In place of the life term, the Appeal Court imposed a sentence of imprisonment...

Gay attacker wins sentence appeal; Criminal Appeal Court overturns...

Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England);  December 5, 2007 ;     380 words ......sitting at London's Criminal Appeal Court overturned that life sentence after hearing arguments from...appeal and, after quashing his life sentence, instead imposed an indeterminate...offence was so serious that a life sentence was necessary.