All posts tagged "Prison Sentence"

The notion was once unthinkable.

Now, it’s entirely conceivable that Donald Trump could be running for president, or even serving as commander in chief, from some form of detention — even behind bars.

That’s because Trump on May 30 became the first current or former U.S. president convicted of felony crimes, found guilty by a New York jury of 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments to an adult film star ahead of the 2016 presidential election....

Shona Banda had been suffering from a debilitating diagnosis of Crohn's disease for nearly a decade before she took a colossal risk and tried medicinal marijuana. The only thing that made her last resort so risky was that the 38-year-old mother of two lives in Kansas, a state that has draconian drug laws.

A U.S. judge sentenced an 84-year-old nun, Sister Megan Rice, on Tuesday to 35 months in prison for breaking into a Tennessee military facility used to store enriched uranium for nuclear bombs.

Italy's top court on Thursday confirmed a prison sentence for former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi in the first ever definitive conviction in a tumultuous career for the billionaire tycoon.

The prison sentence of disgraced former Enron chief executive Jeff Skilling will be cut by as much as 10 years under a deal announced Wednesday by federal criminal prosecutors.