"AS CASES OF sexual abuse with which the courts have to deal, this case comes top of the scale," said Geoffrey Marson QC as he passed sentence on October 19th.
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The King found them all guilty, although he found Lake himself guilty of less serious crimes than the others. The King and the Lords in the Star Chamber passed sentence on 13 February 1619/20.
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A former soldier, who had been court-martialed during the Second World War, sets out to murder the officers who had passed sentence on him. A newspaper journalist and his wisecracking girlfriend try to track down the killer when solicitor Hartnell, the prosecuting officer at the court martial, receives threatening letters.
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177-179 Anullinus passed sentence on the three virgins of Tuburga,Abbot Giuseppe Ricciotti, The Age Of Martyrs: Christianity from Diocletian (284) to Constantine (337) (TAN Books, 21 Sep. 2015) 109. and possibly Perpetua.J. Armitage Robinson, The Passion of St. Perpetua: together with an appendix containing the original Latin text of the Scillitan Martyrdom (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 3 Sep.
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A Marshal's duties consisted in providing security to the King and keeping order where he was present. Marshals commanded two regiments of infantry, a regiment of militia, and a special court of law with a marshal's judge (sędzia marszałkowski), marshal's clerk (pisarz marszałkowski) and assessors (singular: asesor). These courts passed sentence on the spot, without possibility of appeal. For crimes such as drawing a weapon in the King's presence, the penalty was death.
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On Saturday, 10 December, Sergeant Peter Phesant, presumably acting for the recorder, passed sentence on him. On his return to prison Holland heard many confessions. On Sunday and Monday he was able to say Mass in prison, and soon after his last Mass was taken off to execution. There he was allowed to make a speech and to say many prayers, and when the cart was turned away, he was left to hang till he was dead.
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One month later, 3 April, Brown was sentenced to 35 years imprisonment for each count of murder. The trial judge, who had passed sentence on Brown, declared that the murders were "among the most gruesome of the past 40 years". He went on to add, "they represent unbridled mindless violence and a total disregard for the value and dignity of human life": Brown made an unsuccessful appeal to have his murder conviction overturned on 24 May 2011.
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Quaker writer George Bishop wrote, > Yea, Wenlock Christison, though they did not put him to death, yet they > sentenced him to die, so that their cruel purposes were nevertheless. I > cannot forbear to mention what he spoke, being so prophetical, not only as > to the judgment of God coming on Major-general Adderton, but as to their > putting any more Quakers to death after they had passed sentence on him. Bishop, George. New-England judged, by the spirit of the Lord.
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The court therefore decided to entrust the fiscaal (prosecutor), Jacobus Spoors with an inquest, in which all witnesses were deposed, and which resulted in a lengthy report. This was accepted by the Court, which passed sentence on the living defendants on 14 December 1797. All were acquitted, as the preponderant responsibility for the mishap with the squadron was adjudged to lie with admiral Lucas. The report and the sentence were communicated to the National Assembly, which decided to publish both in 1798.
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The King was placed under a strong guard. The Assembly would have liked to assign him the Luxembourg Palace, but the insurgent Commune demanded that he should be taken to the Temple, a smaller prison, which would be easier to guard. 14 July had saved the Constitutional Assembly, 10 August passed sentence on the Legislative Assembly: the day's victors intended to dissolve the Assembly and keep power in their own hands. But because the new Commune, composed of unknowns, hesitated to alarm the provinces, the Girondins were kept and the Revolution was mired in compromise.
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Quaker writer George Bishop wrote, > Yea, Wenlock Christison, though they did not put him to death, yet they > sentenced him to die, so that their cruel purposes were nevertheless. I > cannot forbear to mention what he spoke, being so prophetical, not only as > to the judgment of God coming on Major-general Adderton, but as to their > putting any more Quakers to death after they had passed sentence on him. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow recreated the Christison trial in his play John Endicott which included the damnation of Atherton by the accused.Longfellow, Henry W. Poetical Works.
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In August 2004, Horne was cautioned by the police for two cases of bigamy.Sunday Mirror, 8 February 2004, accessed 29 July 2009 Her first sentence for bigamy was given by Ipswich Crown Court around 2004, when she was sentenced to six months in prison. In June 2009, she was charged again, this time at Minshull Street Crown Court in Manchester. The court passed sentence on 27 July 2009, when she was given a ten-month jail sentence, suspended for two years, since the court learned that she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and was under medication.The Times 28 July 2009, accessed 29 July 2009 In 2011, Horne tried to obtain prescription drugs by posing as her latest husband.
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His execution was delayed by several hours so that the House of Commons could pass an emergency bill to make it an offence to proclaim a new King, and to declare the representatives of the people, the House of Commons, as the source of all just power. Charles was then escorted through the Banqueting House in the Palace of Whitehall to a scaffold where he would be beheaded. He forgave those who had passed sentence on him and gave instructions to his enemies that they should learn to "know their duty to God, the King - that is, my successors - and the people". § "After the trial" ¶ 4 He then gave a brief speech outlining his unchanged views of the relationship between the monarchy and the monarch's subjects, ending with the words "I am the martyr of the people".
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