Article: Video system lets judge sentence ill inmate from 70 miles away

Article: Circuit Court judge appointed Thompson chooses Sankovitz ...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  August 7, 1996 ;     428 words ...Richard J. Sankovitz was appointed Tuesday by Gov. Tommy ... has made recently to fill vacancies. Sankovitz, a lawyer with the firm Whyte Hirschboeck ... people of Milwaukee County well." Sankovitz, who practices mainly business law ...

Article: JUDGE SENTENCE ANGER.(News)
The Mirror (London, England);  April 29, 2008 ;     383 words ...A JUDGE yesterday took a swipe at community service orders saying a number of them just don't work . Peter Jacobs said he and his colleagues are increasingly forced to hand them out because of prison overcrowding. But he hit out: I just despair of the number of these orders that don't work. Nobody

Article: Judge: Sentence in rape, murder stands.(News)
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  September 10, 2009 ;     608 words ...Byline: Tony Gordon Legal Affairs Writer tgordon@dailyherald.com A Lake County judge on Wednesday denied a request to change the life prison sentence he imposed on Juan Rivera for the 1992 rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl. Rivera, 36, was convicted for the third time in May of the Aug. 17,

Article: Fugitive judge sentence to two years in jail in ...
AP Worldstream;  March 10, 2006 ;     383 words ...AP Worldstream 03-10-2006 Dateline: HARARE, Zimbabwe A Zimbabwe High Court judge, who skipped bail while awaiting sentencing for corruption, was sentenced in absentia to two years in jail, Zimbabwe court officials said Friday. Judge Benjamin Paradza, who had a reputation for ruling against the

Article: I LEARNED A LESSON - JUDGE; Sentence row means no ...
Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England);  January 21, 2008 ;     700 words ...Byline: By GARETH LIGHTFOOT A TEESSIDE judge said he was rightly criticised over a notoriously lenient past drugs sentence before he locked up three street dealers. Judge Guy Whitburn QC sparked controversy two years ago as he said prisons were full and spared jail for a teenage drug dealer. Appeal

Article: FORT EDWARD TAX PROTESTER GETS 6 MONTHS JAIL, 2 YEARS PROBATION ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  April 17, 1986 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Shirley ArmstrongStaff writer Staff writer A Washington County tax protester must spend six months in federal prison and the next two years on probation, a federal judge ruled Wednesday in Albany, saying the case "should be resolved with a sentence that will deter others from avoiding their

Article: COWARD TO THE END; HAMMER MONSTER Bellfield refuses to come to ...
The Mirror (London, England);  February 27, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Byline: By ADRIAN SHAW DOUBLE killer Levi Bellfield was too scared to take his own punishment yesterday as he started the rest of his life behind bars. The 20st brute who preyed on lone women refused to enter court to listen to a judge hand down a full life sentence, whingeing through his QC that