Sentences with phrase «when criminal charges»

This means, Quebec could follow the province of British Columbia guidelines on when criminal charges can be laid in a case of assisted suicide.

Civil liability may be easier to prove when a semi-truck driver is given a citation following an accident that causes injury or death, but it is not impossible for an injured victim or their family to receive compensation even when no criminal charges are filed.

When criminal charges or family law disputes are the source of legal difficulty, we know the stress and anxiety you are experiencing.

Ohio college students, especially those with out - of - state roots, need effective local defense representation when a criminal charge interrupts their personal lives and academic momentum.

Not exact matches

The real sting came in late January when it pleaded guilty to a criminal bribery - related charge and agreed to pay a $ 10.4 - million fine.

The notorious Al «Chainsaw» Dunlap, accused of zealously fabricating Sunbeam's financial statements when he was chief executive, is facing only civil, not criminal, charges.

However it's frustrating to see that African Americans and Native Americans are being killed at significantly higher rates than any other group, especially when the police officers responsible for those deaths — those of Tamir Rice, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, and Eric Garner to name a few — rarely face criminal charges.

The report does not describe what happens when a person calls, but it's likely that criminals will charge a fee to unlock the computer under the false pretense that they are Apple employees.

You get charged once your application is processed — when the broker or landlord runs your credit, background check, and criminal and eviction history — but in some cases, there are so many people interested in the apartment that not everyone's papers are processed.

Unlike Serial, which explored how a suspect's race and religion might have been held against him, The Jinx riveted viewers by exploring the role of privilege and how Durst's high - priced legal defense team could manage to help him evade the most serious criminal charges against him even when, in one case, he'd actually admitted to having dismembered a person's body.

Asked why the team would continue employing Sneed when, already having pled guilty to criminal charges for violence against one woman, he allegedly physically assaulted another woman — who was also a team employee — Pittman declined comment.

We have taken advice and he is not been charged with any criminal offence and there is no active legal proceedings and we plan to raise this with the Information Commissioner when we meet her this week.

When they showed up to collect his firearms, including an AR - 15, Smith refused to cooperate and was arrested for violating the order — a separate criminal charge on which he is now being held without bond.

Were a person to have violated a court order directing the return of a runaway slave when Dred Scott was the law, would a genuinely held belief that a slave was a human person and not an article of property be a matter the Court could not consider in deciding whether that person was guilty of a criminal contempt charge?

The first, in 2004, happened when the Rhea County Commission voted to introduce legislation that would amend Tennessee's criminal code so that the county could charge gays and lesbians with «crimes against nature.»

Why should a criminal be charged for two or more counts if of murder, in those jurisdictions, for taking the additional lives when at the same time it says that it is ok for a woman to take the same life of the unborn baby?

In many instances I risked the practice's and my own credibility, my license, and even my freedom because as a practitioner working outside the norm, I could face criminal charges for supporting a woman's individual rights when those decisions differ from the standard of care or from what the average jury member would choose for their own healthcare.

Kentucky actually has a law that forbids public interference of a breastfeeding mother, but because she was not breastfeeding when the police arrived (who threatened to charge her with criminal trespassing if she did not leave), the police did not enforce the law.

In statement after statement on Monday afternoon, Senate Republicans took a tough - on - crime posture when it came to raising the age of criminal responsibility in New York, blaming Assembly Democrats for pushing for an expansive number of charges that would be tried in Family Court.

The bill would create a legal definition for criminal street gangs in the state's penal statutes, a step designed to give prosecutors more options when selecting charges and help law enforcement better track gangs.

To deal with shortages of volunteers working the gambling ventures, Cuomo wants to lift barriers that prohibit people with certain criminal backgrounds — such as a public drunkenness charge when they were a teenager — from working at a bingo parlor.

What: A guilty plea by Howe was unsealed when Preet Bharara announced a criminal complaint filed in Manhattan on public corruption charges against nine people in September 2016.

Two lawyers at the center of events that led to criminal charges against former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and former Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto testified this past week that they had starkly different reactions when they realized the state constitution barred the town from guaranteeing loans for a private business.

This enhanced penalty ensures that perpetrators are charged with felony animal cruelty charges when they face other felonies, such as burglary, and would serve as a deterrent to make criminals think twice before executing an animal or face additional jail time.

And when asked about talk of criminal charges, he dismissed it as «hyperbole.»

The likelihood of criminal charges over the Libor scandal increased dramatically today when the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) opened an investigation.

The school, which has campuses in Albany and Utica, fell from grace last September when its founding president, Alain Kaloyeros, was arrested on criminal bid - rigging charges.

BTW, if the former governor (s) and legislative leaders were doing something DECEPTIVE (and presumably illegal), why didn't Andy sue them or have them brought up on criminal charges when he was AG?

«The accused is also facing a charge of criminal breach of trust when she allegedly diverted the sum of N57m to personal use, an offence that is contrary to Section 311 and punishable under Section 312 of the Penal Code.»

When asked if Schneiderman could face criminal charges, Police Commissioner James O'Neill said that he does not want to speculate on the matter.

«When politician after politician after politician elected by the voters falls to criminal charges, people lose faith.»

«I will make no comment now, or during the period of time that the grand jury is convened, regarding the days that the grand jury will be sitting; who may be called as a witness before the grand jury; what any witness has or will testify about before the grand jury; when the grand jury will conclude its investigation; what criminal charges will be considered by the grand jury, or against whom the grand jury might consider any such criminal charges,» said Mr. Donovan.

The charges in part read: «That you Col. Mohammed Sambo Dasuki whilst being National Security Adviser and Shaibu Salisu, whilst being the Director of Finance and Administration in the Office of the National Security Adviser and Hon. Waripamowei Dudafa (now at large) whilst bring Senior Special Assistant, Domestic Affairs to the President on or about 27th November within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court entrusted with dominion over certain properties to wit: the sum of N10billion being part of the funds in the account of the National Security Adviser with the CBN, the equivalent of which sum you received from the CBN in foreign currencies to wit: $ 47million and $ 5.6 million Euros committed criminal breach of trust in respect of the said property when you claimed to have distributed same to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Primary Election delegates and you thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 315 of the Penal Code Act, Cap 532, Vol.4, LFN 2004.

After all, the accusations only emerged from his wife when he left her, although she's presumably ruing the day she did that, given that she also found herself facing criminal charges.

Convicted killer David Sweat, who was serving life behind bars when he staged a daring escape from a maximum - security prison, is due in court to answer his latest criminal charges.

DUNKIRK - The Post-Journal is reporting that the ambulance driver who was operating an ambulance when it veered off the road and crashed — resulting in the death of a patient — has not received any criminal charges related to the incident, though the... [Read more...]

According to the state Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Muyiwa Adejobi, the suspect who hails from Borno State, was arrested January 5 at his residence, 15, Anifowose Street, Amolasho, Abeokuta, the state capital by police detectives attached to the Abeokuta Area Command when report of his criminal act was brought to the Area Commander in charge of Abeokuta metropolis, by the victim.

Norman Seabrook — the disgraced former president of the city corrections officers» union who skated on criminal bribery charges in a mistrial last month — just scored another win Monday when a Manhattan federal judge tossed the related civil suit against him.

In the normal course of business the criminal investigator conducts investigations and completes field interviews, takes statements from witnesses and victims and files charges and makes arrests when warranted.

A source close to Cuomo said, «This is another pathetic effort by a disgraced Eliot Spitzer — a guy who admitted frequenting prostitutes when he was prosecuting pimps, and who is lucky to have escaped not one but several criminal charges, including federal money - laundering — to rehabilitate himself.»

Off - topic questions included efforts at combating sex trafficking on Roosevelt Avenue, reports of criminal charges against a defunct arm of the Working Families Party, whether the mayor will veto proposed bills criminalizing police use of chokeholds and requiring police to advise people of a right to refuse before asking to search them, whether the mayor plans to see the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge when they visit New York, whether his message is getting lost in critical news coverage and his view of the Astoria Cove development deal.

«As if the palpable odium of intiating a vacuous criminal charge against a whistle - blower, no less a person than a distinguished senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was not bad enough, the prosecuting authority, obviously urged on by the Inspector General of Police, threw pretension to adherence to democratic tenets of the rule of law when it sought from the court, albeit most illegally, to obtain summons against Senator Misau, while deliberately witholding service of the copy of the charge on the Senator, an obvious stratagem conceived to frame up all manner of false allegations tailored to suit the obvious purpose of yet another gestapo strategy to use state powers to swoop on the Distinguished Senator and keep him out of circulation»

Basra was dominated by criminal groups when Britain retreated and it took the Iraqi armed forces - backed up by US troops - to start to turn that situation around (and here) in what was called Operation Charge of the Knights.

A Scottish Labour Party spokesman explained: «Eric Joyce was immediately suspended from the Labour Party when serious criminal charges were brought against him last week, so processes have already started.

When prosecutors announced on Thursday morning that they would not bring criminal charges against Mayor Bill de Blasio or his aides, following a series of overlapping investigations into his fundraising, they did not entirely clear the mayor from blame.

The indictment adds some criminal charges to those lodged when the 35 - year - old mayor of Mount Vernon was arrested March 12 but the alleged misconduct is the same as in the criminal complaint that was filed that day.

Officers say Walsh is to answer to a Criminal Mischief charge when he returns to City Court on April 13.

Kalu's legal ordeal began in 2007 when the EFCC first charged him at the High Court in Abuja with 107 that included official corruption and criminal diversion of public funds totalling over five billion.

Mr. de Blasio, rather than seeming relieved that no criminal charges would be brought, appeared by turns dismissive, defensive and combative when faced with questions throughout the day about the investigations, eager to move on to other topics and permanently put the issue to rest.

You would observe that there were instances when the commission brought 200 charges against an alleged criminal but could not prove a single charge.