Sentences with phrase «accused is a citizen»

It will have jurisdiction only by consent of either the state where the crime was committed or the state in which the accused is a citizen.

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Friday's indictment did not accuse any Americans of being knowingly involved in Russia's influence operation, but experts said the charges are likely an avenue to the next step: determining whether any US citizens or, more narrowly, members of Trump's campaign had knowledge of, aided, or abetted the Russian effort.

Notably, Republicans also recommended Congress repeal the Logan Act, which makes it illegal for private citizens to conduct policy negotiations on behalf of the US and which several of Trump's associates, including Flynn, have been accused of violating.

Accusing Rachel Notley of doing that is to me meaningless because the very reason behind the anger with political parties and even the political process is exactly the dishonesty, arrogance towards citizens.

Meanwhile, Iraq's beleagured president Nouri al - Maliki accused the organisation of trying to destroy the «centuries - old heritage» of Christians in Iraq, he said: «What is being done by the Daesh terrorist gang [ISIS] against our Christian citizens in Ninevah province, and their aggression against the churches and houses of worship in the areas under their control, reveals beyond any doubt the extremist criminal and terrorist nature of this group, he said.

The recommendations were immediately attacked by critics ranging from the American Civil Liberties Union, which accused the panel of waging «war against innocent American citizens,» to, perhaps more surprisingly, The Wall Street Journal, which called the commission's proposal «an example of enforcement mentality run amok.»

The US government accuses Mr Hamza of being in contact with terrorists before the kidnapping of western tourists in Yemen in 1998, an act which cost three British citizens their lives.

«Babar is a British citizen accused of a crime said to have been committed in the UK and all the evidence against him was gathered in this country.

Another way of saying this is that politically, Democrats can accuse Trump of colluding with the Russians based on a meeting with a Russian citizen who knew people in the Russian government.

MIDTOWN EAST — Disability rights activists accused the city of treating them as «second class citizens» at the unveiling of an accessible taxi they say is being downplayed by Mayor Bloomberg's administration.

The Kaneshie Magistrate Court will later Tuesday hear the extradition case involving British citizen Arthur Simpson - Kent, who is accused of murdering his girlfriend in the UK.

There is no need to accuse people of poor planning to realize that a rational citizen may well decide that money is better spent on near - term expenses (for example, their children's education) than on saving for an unlikely event.

«It is clearly a false allegation and severe distractions for DSP Mohammed Isah Hamman or any other person to wrongly without any proof or evidence accuse the Inspector General of Police of failure to remit money realised from policemen attached to private citizens and oil companies amounting into about N10 billion monthly internally generated revenue (IGR), when the truth and facts are that Nigeria Police Force is not a revenue generating agency.

Labour accused Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, of «sociologically cleansing» poorer citizens out of London through the policy, which was announced last week as part of the spending review.

When Bharara had Reza Zarrab — a dual Turkish - Iranian citizen with close ties to Erdogan — indicted last year, the Turkish president accused Bharara of being a Gulen sympathizer.

As a leading European commissioner accused the British government of peddling myths about migrants, Umunna said highly skilled EU citizens should be banned from taking low - skilled jobs in Britain.

Justice AdemoIa held that in criminal trial an accused person is assumed innocent until proven guilty and that a citizens health is very paramount in any trial case and before the law.

He knew what such a move would entail, and indeed he was accused of being a traitor when the government tried to suggest that his actions had a negative impact on their counterterrorism programmes, but he knew he couldn't watch the citizens of Earth be continually deceived.

April 30, 2018 • Danish citizen Salah Salem Saleh Sulaiman was charged with spreading fake news after he posted a video to YouTube accusing police in Kuala Lumpur of a slow response to a shooting.

A lesson focused on the Bill of Rights with the essential question, «What rights are granted by the Bill of Rights to citizens who are accused of a crime?»

Another way to expedite permanent placement for neglected animals is to use statutory provisions that allow a private citizen or organization to file a civil suit for an injunction against an accused animal abuser, thereby allowing the Court to terminate the defendant's interest in the animals.

Which is, of course, precisely what leftists do when they point to the modern industrial economy and the citizens of the developed countries and accuse them of altering the climate of the earth.

I accuse Canada's politicians and its citizens of wilful blindness, of failing to be informed about critical issues that they have the power to influence and of failing to take action when they are aware of avoidable ecological crises.

On Tuesday we relayed a story from The Daily Beast claiming that «The Bush Six» — the Bush administration lawyers accused of greenlighting the use of torture in America's war on terror — were about to be indicted by Spanish prosecutors for their role in the torture of five Spanish citizens held at Guantanamo.

An extradition order against two Canadian citizens accused of arranging an «honour killing» in India has been restored by the Supreme Court of Canada.

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year term of probation and $ 1,000.00 fine, accused was also ordered to provide DNA sample pursuant to s. 487.04 of Criminal Code — Accused appealed against order to provide DNA sample — Appeal allowed — Order was issued to destroy DNA sample that was taken — Trial judge erred in failing to exercise discretion not to order DNA sample — Accused was first time offender, in circumstances that resulted in serious injuries, but with no intention of causing those injuries — Accused had otherwise been exemplary citizen, and likelihood of re-offending was accused pushed her following verbal exchange, as a result victim lost balance and ended up against stove, thereby sustaining serious burns to body — Trial judge accepted victim's evidence that there was some kind of pushing — Accused convicted on one count of assault causing bodily harm, and sentenced to two - year term of probation and $ 1,000.00 fine, accused was also ordered to provide DNA sample pursuant to s. 487.04 of Criminal Code — Accused appealed against order to provide DNA sample — Appeal allowed — Order was issued to destroy DNA sample that was taken — Trial judge erred in failing to exercise discretion not to order DNA sample — Accused was first time offender, in circumstances that resulted in serious injuries, but with no intention of causing those injuries — Accused had otherwise been exemplary citizen, and likelihood of re-offending was Accused convicted on one count of assault causing bodily harm, and sentenced to two - year term of probation and $ 1,000.00 fine, accused was also ordered to provide DNA sample pursuant to s. 487.04 of Criminal Code — Accused appealed against order to provide DNA sample — Appeal allowed — Order was issued to destroy DNA sample that was taken — Trial judge erred in failing to exercise discretion not to order DNA sample — Accused was first time offender, in circumstances that resulted in serious injuries, but with no intention of causing those injuries — Accused had otherwise been exemplary citizen, and likelihood of re-offending was accused was also ordered to provide DNA sample pursuant to s. 487.04 of Criminal Code — Accused appealed against order to provide DNA sample — Appeal allowed — Order was issued to destroy DNA sample that was taken — Trial judge erred in failing to exercise discretion not to order DNA sample — Accused was first time offender, in circumstances that resulted in serious injuries, but with no intention of causing those injuries — Accused had otherwise been exemplary citizen, and likelihood of re-offending was Accused appealed against order to provide DNA sample — Appeal allowed — Order was issued to destroy DNA sample that was taken — Trial judge erred in failing to exercise discretion not to order DNA sample — Accused was first time offender, in circumstances that resulted in serious injuries, but with no intention of causing those injuries — Accused had otherwise been exemplary citizen, and likelihood of re-offending was Accused was first time offender, in circumstances that resulted in serious injuries, but with no intention of causing those injuries — Accused had otherwise been exemplary citizen, and likelihood of re-offending was Accused had otherwise been exemplary citizen, and likelihood of re-offending was remote.

Then, the prosecutor has to convince a jury of average citizens that the person in question here committed the crime he is accused of beyond a reasonable doubt.

We're told citizens accused of wrongdoing in democracies are entitled to due process.

Here, citizen Marc Dreier, whom the Government accuses of colossal criminality, calls upon the Court to fulfill the pledge of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution that «Excessive bail shall not be required.»

The accused, Zachary Leonard, was a Canadian citizen and a member of the Rainy River First Nations.

The story told in this film is an excellent illustration of the message on FIJA's home page that: «The primary function of the independent juror is not, as many think, to dispense punishment to fellow citizens accused of breaking various laws, but rather to protect fellow citizens from tyrannical abuses of power by government.»

The primary function of the independent juror is not, as many think, to dispense punishment to fellow citizens accused of breaking various laws, but rather to protect fellow citizens from tyrannical abuses of power by the government.

Justice Sopinka, in Morin at para. 29, reminded us all that society as a whole has an interest in seeing that the least fortunate of its citizens who are accused of crimes are treated fairly.

Particularly, at a time when the gaps in access to justice continue to grow, when there are no meaningful increases in funding for Legal Aid, and as litigants and accused increasingly represent themselves in court, it is essential that protections are in place to ensure that every citizen has access to equal justice regardless of income level or ability to pay.

Suppose a Canadian citizen is accused of committing various acts in Singapore which are punished with a fine (littering, selling gum and hacking into wifi).

If letters and private documents can thus be seized and held and used in evidence against a citizen accused of an offense, the protection of the Fourth Amendment declaring his right to be secure against such searches and seizures is of no value, and, so far as those thus placed are concerned, might as well be stricken from the Constitution... The tendency of those who execute the criminal laws of the country to obtain conviction by means of unlawful seizures and enforced confessions, the latter often obtained after subjecting accused persons to unwarranted practices destructive of rights secured by the Federal Constitution, should find no sanction in the judgments of the courts which are charged at all times with the support of the Constitution and to which people of all conditions have a right to appeal for the maintenance of such fundamental rights.

India's ruling party is scrambling to defend its use of followers» data after a pseudonymous security researcher accused PM Narendra Modi of snooping on citizens with his personal app, which has been installed by around five million users.

They would have been accused of ignoring the potential of the Indian mobile market, and of treating the nation as a «second class citizen in the world of technology.»

US officials are denying accusations raised in an incredible BuzzFeed News report published Friday, in which a senior US Treasury official accused the intelligence arm of the Treasury Department of illegally spying on US citizens.

Attorney McShane is a trial attorney who specializes in using forensic science in defending the citizen accused among us who has been accused by the Government Frequency about 3 posts per month.