Sentences with phrase «prosecutors say the case»

The prosecutor said the case was brought by the authorities of the University of Lagos to the office of the Lagos state domestic and sexual violence response team.

The prosecutor said the case was later referred to the Domestic Violence Victims Support Unit, (DOVVSU), of the Agona Swedru Divisional Police Command, where Newton admitted to the offence.

Not exact matches

The boy reached into his waistband — probably to show the officers the gun was a toy, the prosecutor on the case said — and Loehmann shot him within two seconds of arriving.

Prosecutors said they would retry the case.

Lawyers and prosecutors say that requiring such proof would make it harder for authorities to pursue insider trading cases, potentially preventing prosecutions in which corporate executives tip friends or relatives without any tangible quid pro quo.

Federal prosecutors have declined to say if they are looking at any other aspects of the case.

The eight justices, who open their 2016 - 17 term on Monday, will hear arguments on Wednesday in the case of an Illinois man, Bassam Salman, who prosecutors said made nearly $ 1.2 million trading on inside information about mergers involving clients of Citigroup Inc, where his brother - in - law worked.

Spartanburg attorney Michael Morin, who opposed Gowdy in a death penalty case and later worked for him in the prosecutor's office, said Gowdy excelled at appealing to a jury's emotions.

It was too new,» says a prosecutor involved in the case.

Ackal's case made headlines last June, after he was recorded making threats to shoot a prosecutor between his «Jewish eyes» after the prosecutor said he would send Ackal to prison.

Larson once presided over cases in Riverside, and Pym argued cases in Larson's courtroom several times as a prosecutor while Larson was a judge, he said.

The woman claimed she was filming the incident in order to document the crime, but the prosecutor on the case said that she «got caught up in the likes.»

Alex Bastian, a spokesman for the district attorney's office, said Thursday that prosecutors had found sufficient evidence for the charges at every step of the case.

Prosecutors say they used DNA and a genealogical website to identify suspect Joseph DeAngelo, decades after the case had gone cold.

Prosecutors ultimately declined to retry the case, saying witnesses were scattered around the world, the Centre Daily Times reported in 2006.

«It's the nuclear option,» said Jeffrey Neiman, a lawyer in Florida who was one of the lead prosecutors on the federal government's initial 2009 case against UBS's Swiss bank.

The case against Hillary Clinton is easily prosecutable, says former prosecutor and New York mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Asha Rangappa, a former FBI agent and senior lecturer at Yale University, said the news means prosecutors may be onto a strong case.

NEW YORK (AP)-- The once high - flying hedge fund SAC Capital was sentenced on criminal fraud charges Thursday under a $ 1.8 billion deal that prosecutors say included the largest criminal fine ever imposed in an insider trading case.

Prosecutors also fear that Manning might not be a cooperative witness and that defense attorneys might raise questions about her credibility, officials familiar with the case said.

In the case of Mining Max, prosecutors say the company was actually running a pyramid scheme, pushing investors to recruit others to receive better returns.

NEWARK, N.J. / BOSTON (Reuters)- Federal prosecutors said on Thursday they have charged five men responsible for a hacking and credit card fraud spree that cost companies more $ 300 million and two of the suspects are in custody, in the biggest cyber crime case filed in U.S. history.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP)-- Four white people are facing charges in the deaths of two black men whose bodies were found dismembered and chained to cinder blocks in an Oklahoma City pond, but the prosecutor handling the case said Thursday the killings are not believed to be racially motivated.

Broward State Attorney Mike Satz, the prosecutor in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting, says the case involves «the attempted murder of everyone at that school.»

«It's not strictly criminal money laundering unless the underlying money is proceeds of another crime, and I don't think we have any indication that that's the case,» said former federal prosecutor Randall Eliason.

Bill Cosby's wife is calling for a criminal investigation into the prosecutor behind his sexual assault conviction, saying the case was «mob justice, not real justice» and a «tragedy» that must be undone.

A CPS spokesman said: «We are pleased that the prosecutor in Kosovo has lodged an appeal against the judge's decision in this case.

The court heard from prosecutor Edward Lucas who said: «The weddings that form the subject of this case were neither conducted correctly or legally and their sole purpose was to facilitate an industrial - scale abuse of the system of immigration control within the UK.»

Such a burial will have to wait, though, prosecutors say, because the remains are evidence in the case against Dr. Kermit Gosnell.

Fillmore said the law is purposefully open - ended so police and prosecutors can work on a case - by - case basis.

Though jurors couldn't arrive at a decision in the manslaughter trial, they said they wanted to send prosecutors a clear message to retry the case.

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

Staten Island DA Dan Donovan, who acted as the special prosecutor in Sen. Kevin Parker's assault case, released a statement in the wake of the Brooklyn Democrat's conviction on two misdemeanor charges, saying he respects the jury's decision despite the fact that it did not deliver a felony guilty verdict.

They say Vance has «tremendous confidence in his career prosecutors» who do the day - to - day work of bringing cases against Manhattan's criminals — even the high profile ones.

Federal prosecutors said NXIVM founder Keith Raniere's «decades» long history of abusing women and girls» is among the reasons he should remain in custody without bond while his criminal case is pending.

======================================= Probe Complicates Cuomo Endorsement Wall Street Journal — Michael Howard Saul BY MICHAEL HOWARD SAUL Andrew Cuomo defended accepting the state Independence Party's backing for governor on the grounds that it wasn't involved in a continuing criminal investigation — but a person familiar with the case said Thursday that the party remains in prosecutors» cross hairs.

If one believes Comey's account of his encounters with Trump, it could present a prosecutable case of obstruction of justice, several former prosecutors said.

A federal prosecutor Wednesday said that the government and the defense are having discussions aimed at a plea deal that would resolve the bribery case of Long Island restaurateur Harendra Singh.

In response, in papers filed Tuesday, Eastern District prosecutor Lara Treinis Gatz said while both cases involved investigations into potential bribery, legally there was a fundamental difference between the two: the Mangano case involved personal enrichment, giving of gifts and a no - show job to Mangano's wife while DeBlasio's involved campaign contributions.

A spokesman for prosecutors said there would be no comment on the impact of Howe's arrest on the Percoco case.

The trial is expected to last four to six weeks, and with jury selection already largely completed, prosecutors say when they kick off their case this week their third witness will be Taub — the one - time Columbia University researcher who was pivotal to one of the alleged schemes.

Prosecutors say one key element of their case is efforts the Skeloses made to conceal their dealings, including using so - called burner phones.

But in this case, Schneiderman, in a letter to the governor and legislative leaders obtained by public radio, said a plan to create a «criminal special prosecutor for state procurement» is «likely unconstitutional.»

Also charged in the 10 - count case are Peter Galbraith Kelly, a former energy company executive who hired Percoco's wife at a time when it was seeking assistance from Albany with a downstate power plant, and Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi, founders of Syracuse - based Cor Development that prosecutors say paid Percoco to help with projects in central New York.

«Most people don't realize that in the»80s and»90s Gentile had an impressive record as a prosecutor in the Queens D.A.'s office,» he said, pointing in particular to the now - councilman's prominent case against three white St. John's University lacrosse players accused of sexually assaulting a black classmate in 1990.

A defense attorney says Nassau prosecutors are part of an attempted police cover - up, and told acting District Attorney Madeline Singas in a letter that letting his client's drug case go to trial would be «prosecutorial misconduct.»

«For years we have been relying on federal prosecutors to bring the lion's share of corruption cases against state officials,» Kaminsky said.

Long Island Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a former federal prosecutor who was elected in 2016 running on an anti-corruption platform following Skelos» conviction (but was not involved in either the Silver or Skelos cases), released a statement saying the Silver decision demonstrates the need for state lawmakers to stop relying on the feds to bring corruption cases against state - level elected officials, and also pass more anti-corruption measures, which lawmakers declined to do this past session.

A special prosecutor in the case of Lindsay Henry, a Babylon Town attorney charged with assaulting his girlfriend, said he expects the case to be dismissed tomorrow if the alleged victim continues not to appear in court.

The vast majority of Troy Police Department officers are honest individuals,» said Columbia County District Attorney Paul Czajka, who is serving as a special prosecutor for the case.