Editor's Note: Rena M. Hymans is a Sturgis attorney who explains questions concerning the law. Here is her first column. A suspended imposition of sentence seals your criminal conviction. To be ...

Alexandra Eckersley received separate sentences of 12 months and six months on different charges, both of which were suspended by the court, allowing her to return home.

The court clarified that Mamai, a noted opposition politician, is indeed banned from all conceivable forms of participation in social or political conversations in Kazakhstan.

Prosecutors are seeking the revocation of 40-year-old Troy Allen Hale's April 2024 suspended sentence in Flathead County District Court.