Sentences with phrase «if victims»

But if prosecutors don't accept a plea deal (or if the victims» families tell the prosecutors they don't want it), then they'll push for the death penalty.

If these victims had renters insurance in California, they would have had access to the help they needed, as well as replacement cost coverage for their personal property.

If victims assistance is being held back, can I tell a debt collector to collect from the victims assistance program, or would I be better off telling them to accept something I grew (and painted),...

If the victims decide to pursue compensation by filing a negligent security claim, the issue will be whether or not these criminal acts were foreseeable.

If the victims are particularly vulnerable such as the young or the elderly, the consequence can be jail time.

If victims claim punitive damages, the jury will consider factors including the degree of reprehensibility of the defendant's actions, the disparity between the punitive award and the actual harm, and the amount of sanctions usually imposed for similar actions.

If the victims of Hurricane Harvey can access out - of - state lawyers for free legal services and no one claims that the quality of those services will be harmful to those victims, or even simply inadequate, then on what basis can it be legitimate to deny the victims access to out - of - state lawyers on a fee - paying basis in a more competitive marketplace than one that is limited to Texas lawyers only?

Thus, if all victims act together and uniformly reject to pay any money at all to ransomers, then all data ransoming will end, and the scourges of data ransoming will be permanently out of business, assuming data ransomers act like rational economic actors and stop their theft and ransoming if there is no way to make money from it.

Gary Montgomery knows that personal injury claims can be frustrating, especially if victims are facing mounting medical bills, have lost a loved one in the incident or have suffered catastrophic or permanent injuries.

However, a personal injury lawsuit can provide victims and their families with the financial help they need to cover hospital bills, rehabilitation expenses, loss of income if victims can not work due to injury and funeral costs.

If the victims» families can prove that the company was grossly negligent and / or clearly failed to prevent the passengers from reasonable harm, they may be held responsible.

«If victims are mad at anybody, they should not be mad at the courts, they should be mad at governments, which have consistently made business decisions to underfund the system in the expectations that judges will let them off the hook,» said lawyer Frank Addario, who represented Ontario's Criminal Lawyers» Association as an intervener in the Jordan case.

In addition, if victims can no longer work and / or require long - term care, their finances can quickly become unmanageable.

If the victims want to pursue damages, an investigation into what caused their accident will be crucial.

Groups of corpses lie openly in the street, awaiting burial, and are strewn throughout the rooms of a large home as if the victims of a mass murder or suicide.

If victims resist, players can knock them out and rob or kill.

If these victims had renters insurance in California, they would have had access to the help they needed, as well as replacement cost coverage for their personal property.

It's not every director who can show three kids (including an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes) perforated by bullets without so much as flinching, but that's Cooper's M.O., refined over the three films since his relatively marshmallowy «Crazy Heart»: As in «Black Mass» before this, violence packs more punch if depicted matter - of - factly, which somehow registers as «realistic» these days (although one suspects that it would be far more horrifying if his victims suffered slow, agonizing deaths after being shot).

Mr Kelly said: «In any case of any sort, if the victims see that people they feel are responsible get away with murder.

It is not only vile and barbaric, it is extremely savage — and it doesn't matter if the victims are PDP, APC or even the so - called «cultists».

Further, another group from your tribe, the Fulani Herdsmen, have been terrorizing the Middle Belt and Southern Nigeria, raping women and killing innocent civilians with impunity; yet you have continued to carry on as if the victims are the animals themselves.

Under previous law, as interpreted by the Supreme Court in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., the statute of limitations on such suits ran out 180 days after the alleged discrimination occurred, even if the victims never knew about it.

What if the victims are Jewish... my mother would be quite insulted.

doesn't matter if the victims were other atheists or religious -------------------- I'll quote it again because you are willfully ignorant:

Both victims and perpetrators will feel safe in telling their stories, the TRC legislation assumes, if victims are assured that the public will now really listen to them and if perpetrators are assured that they will not be prosecuted to the full extent of new law.

These words imply that if the victims were not weaklings, they would not suffer any consequences from emotional and spiritual abuse.

Over and over again, your attitude seems to suggest that if victims of church abuse would «Just shut up already!»

Even if victims get through the process and receive a settlement, that money comes not from their harasser's office but from the Settlement and Awards Fund.

What's more, by protecting rich people who harass or abuse others, NDAs can put countless ordinary people at risk — you'll never find out your new boss is a harasser if all his victims are prohibited from talking about it.

«If the victim really doesn't know» who did it, «and is tuned into social media, and sees a frenzy of people ID «ing someone, they will latch on to it,» said Philadelphia - area defense lawyer Michael Fienman.

If the victim is a minor — which Chyna is not — or if the perpetrator has prior convictions for revenge porn, the punishment may be increased to a year in jail or a $ 2,000 fine.

Per New York law, (NY Insurance Law § 2612; 11 NYCRR 244), a victim of domestic violence, the legal representative of the victim, or, if the victim is a child, the child's parent or guardian, may request to receive policy information or claims - related information by providing an alternative address, telephone number, or other method of contact.

Per Illinois law, (IL Rule 2028.5 +; 215 ILCS 5 / 355b), a victim of domestic violence, the legal representative of the victim, or, if the victim is a child, the child's parent or guardian, may request to receive policy information or claims - related information by providing an alternative address, telephone number, or other method of contact.

It's also not the victim's fault if the victim happens to be male.

This type of allegation is common in spurious sex - abuse cases, in part because it solves a common problem: If the victim was never alone with the predator, when and where did the assault take place?

More often than not, particularly in the case of sexual assault, they're really used to mitigate and to minimize — almost as if the victim handles it «properly,» if the victim just forgives, all of the feelings are going to go away.

Everyone would be instantly appalled if Christians started acting out vengeful fantasies, even if the victim was broadly agreed to have deserved punishment.

If the victim were able to report on her painful and humiliating experience in a clear manner, with all the data arranged in a consistent order, this very quality would make us suspicious of its truth.»

The criminal process can take a very long time and if the victim refuses to cooperate with law enforcement and the DA, convictions are very difficult, especially against someone with Foster's resources, but that doesn't mean he should just be allowed to keep making millions off of football.

Even if that victim is not comfortable taking things to police.

If the victim is not in cardiac arrest, or has a rhythm that is untreatable with defibrillation, the AED will make that determination and not allow a user to administer a shock.

I have heard that this is a type of bullying where, if the victim objects, then the perpetrator belittles him or her as being «oversensitive,» thus adding salt to the wound.

The parents also can be subject to a civil suit if the victim's parents choose to sue.

The definition of child sexual abuse does not include abuse of an adult by an adult (even if the victim is developmentally delayed), or other types of child maltreatment.

«The only instance in which a complaint would not be handled by the ethics committee would be if a victim insisted for reasons of personal privacy that it not go before the committee.

Former Federal Prosecutor Paul Shechtman was quoted, «Most prosecutors would say if your victim does not want to cooperate you have a nightmarish case.

If the victim has children, they should automatically be classed as having priority need, if not they must be seen as being more vulnerable through being homeless than an ordinary person.

«If a victim was to go to the hospital and doesn't want to cooperate with police at that time, the hospital doesn't necessarily turn over that rape kit to a local police department,» said Captain Jeff Rinaldo, with Buffalo Police.

«Most prosecutors would say if your victim does not want to cooperate you have a nightmarish case,» noted Paul Shechtman, a former federal prosecutor and state director of criminal justice for former Gov. George Pataki.

«The only instance in which a complaint would not be handled by the ethics committee would be if a victim insisted for reasons of personal privacy that it not go before the committee,» Whyland said.