Sentences with phrase «acting as prosecutor»

In short, according to the Thacher report, Stancik acted as prosecutor, judge, and jury.

Some of these bodies also act as prosecutors, for example the Serious Fraud Office and the Financial Conduct Authority.

Law students alternate between acting as prosecutors and defense attorneys in mock hearings.

During his practice in Chicago, Mr. Kem - Thomas acted as a prosecutor for the City of Chicago and as a guardian ad litem in the Office of the Cook County Public Guardian (Juvenile Division).

In fact, a member of our team has acted as the prosecutor in the venue, on top of our staff having handled countless offenses in Holmdel Township.

Not exact matches

The FBI was acting as part of a probe related to Cohen by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, who were acting on a referral from special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election as well as potential collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.

Jackson was in court Monday, as prosecutors charged him with murder as an act of terrorism in addition to the murder as a hate crime charge he'd already been facing.

King wrote that when acting as a federal prosecutor, Sessions used his power to «chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens.»

«The US government acted as police force (identifying the foreign government's crime), prosecutor (making the legal arguments), jury (ruling on the evidence), and judge (sentencing the foreigner to US retaliatory punishment),» Chad Bown, a senior fellow at the pro-free trade Peterson Institute for International Economics, wrote in a memo about Section 301's history earlier in August.

Prosecutors say that later that day Alfred Degiorgio, acting as the spotter on a hill overlooking the Caruana Galizia home, called to tell his brother, George Degiorgio, when Caruana Galizia left the house.

After March 4, 2013, an International Arrest Warrant will be issued against these Defendants.The guilty verdict followed nearly a month of deliberations by more than thirty sworn Citizen Jurors of the 150 case exhibits produced by Court Prosecutors, The Court's judgement declares the wealth and property of the churches responsible for the Canadian genocide to be forfeited and placed under public ownership, as reparations for the families of the more than 50,000 children who died in the residential schools.To enforce its sentence, the Court has empowered citizens in Canada, the United States, England, Italy and a dozen other nations to act as its legal agents armed with warrants, and peacefully occupy and seize properties of the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada, which are the main agents in the deaths of these children

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.

However, even if you believed you'd found a brilliant and unassailable argument as to why failure to prosecute in this case constituted one of the rare exceptions to the general presumption that a prosecutor is acting permissibly when exercising prosecutorial discretion, you would still run into the problem of standing.

Her statement was released shortly after Nassau County DA Madeline Singas, appointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to act as special prosecutor and investigate Schneiderman, promised to leave «no stone unturned» in her investigation of the ex-AG, a two - term Democrat whose hopes for a third term disappeared as the scandal exploded.

And at Silver's retrial, prosecutors say all the activities that may no longer be official acts — meetings with lobbyists, helping Taub set up a mesothelioma charity race and find jobs for his kids, using official letterhead to oppose a methadone clinic near a Glenwood property — can still be put before the jury as «circumstantial evidence.»

Trump intends to nominate Acting U.S. Attorney Grant Jaquith to serve as the top federal prosecutor in a 32 - county region of upstate that includes Syracuse.

Immediately before he was elected senator in 2015, he was a federal prosecutor in the Brooklyn - based Eastern District, where he served as acting head of the public integrity section.

The 2016 rule book of ethical guidelines for the association says that prosecutors generally may not «act in a manner that could be interpreted as lending the prestige and weight of their office to a political party or function.»

The Assembly has always been prepared to either appoint a special prosecutor or to allow the attorney general to act as a special prosecutor.»

The two prosecutors, which included acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Joon Kim, also denounced the de Blasio camp's behavior on behalf of his election campaign in 2013 and the state Senate race a year later as inappropriate if not illegal.

As the agency's special prosecutor, she was one of its highest - ranking officials, and after months of feeling that the agency's acting director had created a «frat - house culture,» including having an inappropriate relationship with a staffer, she confronted him.

Separately, a 2015 executive order from Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo gave the attorney general the authority to act as a special prosecutor, but only to investigate the deaths of unarmed civilians by law enforcement.

The Lopez scandal, which includes claims of sexual harassment made against him by two other women, is the subject of probes by the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics and Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan who is acting as a special prosecutor.

Charging Cappuccilli was one of Cuomo's last acts before he leaves his job as the state's top prosecutor and takes the oath of office to be New York's next governor.

One specific incident involving Dr. Taub that prosecutors cited — a public ceremony honoring him that was prepared by Silver's staff — is an example of an act that may not suffice as «official» in the post-McDonnell world, Fisher noted.

And there's also another bill, sponsored by Democratic Assemblyman Nick Perry, also of Brooklyn, which would allow a judge to appoint another DA or AG to act as a «special district attorney» in criminal matters where the judge finds that the county prosecutor is «disqualified.»

As required under the Section 16 of the Office of the Special Prosecutor Act 2017, the deputy special prosecutor must be of «high moral character and proven integrity», a quality the North Tongu Member of Parliament, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa sought to know if the nominee deems herself fit.

(He's referring not only to his time as a prosecutor in former Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau's office, but also to his unearthing of the Martin Act while working for Eliot Spitzer, enabling the then - AG to take on Wall Street).

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Ahmad Khan Rahami, earlier named as a «person of interest» in the weekend explosions in New York City and New Jersey, was taken into custody and hospitalized this morning after a shootout with police in Linden, New Jersey, the Union County acting prosecutor said.

Other former prosecutors who worked alongside Gonzalez have also lauded his appointment as acting DA.

As Kim noted in his statement, federal prosecutors «conducted a thorough investigation into several circumstances in which Mayor de Blasio and others acting on his behalf solicited donations from individuals who sought official favors from the City, after which the Mayor made or directed inquiries to relevant City agencies on behalf of those donors.»

Defense teams have argued that prosecutors in corruption trials are trying to criminalize acts that are just politics as usual.

As a federal prosecutor representing Long Island, Brooklyn and Queens, and as Acting Deputy Chief of the Public Integrity Section, Todd took down corrupt elected officials who used taxpayer dollars to fund lavish lifestyles, as well as drug kingpins and other major felonAs a federal prosecutor representing Long Island, Brooklyn and Queens, and as Acting Deputy Chief of the Public Integrity Section, Todd took down corrupt elected officials who used taxpayer dollars to fund lavish lifestyles, as well as drug kingpins and other major felonas Acting Deputy Chief of the Public Integrity Section, Todd took down corrupt elected officials who used taxpayer dollars to fund lavish lifestyles, as well as drug kingpins and other major felonas well as drug kingpins and other major felonas drug kingpins and other major felons.

Cuomo's feud with de Blasio appears to be helping insulate him from backlash he has faced from police unions for signing an executive order giving the Attorney General the ability to act as special prosecutor in cases where police kill unarmed civilians.

Specter rose to prominence in the 1960s as an aggressive Philadelphia prosecutor and as an assistant counsel to the Warren Commission, developing the single - bullet theory that posited just one bullet struck both President Kennedy and Texas Gov. John Connally — an assumption critical to the argument that presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.

Prosecutors originally charged the once - powerful Democrat with embezzling funds while acting as a court - appointed referee for home foreclosure proceedings.

Acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim, the head of the federal prosecutor's office in Manhattan, recently told the judge that breaking the case into two trials is fair in order to accommodate scheduling conflicts for defense lawyers as well as Ciminelli's health issues.

Madeline Singas, the chief assistant Nassau County prosecutor, was sworn in as the acting district attorney Tuesday, when her former boss, Kathleen Rice, took the congressional seat she won on Election Day.

But one Staten Island Democratic source told the Observer that the candidate would depend on whether Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, opts to appoint a district attorney — likely a fellow Democrat — to keep the seat warm ahead of November, rather than allowing for the office's top - ranked prosecutor to serve as acting DA.

MINEOLA, N.Y. (CBSNewYork / AP)-- A career prosecutor has been sworn in as acting Nassau County district attorney.

Madeline Singas sees her years in the courtroom as a fitting prelude to becoming Nassau's acting district attorney, and says no one in the county has her qualifications to serve a full term as top prosecutor.

Prosecutors Monday focused heavily on the energy company dealings, but Howe said he acted as a middleman for an alleged $ 35,000 bribe from Syracuse developers Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi of Cor Development allegedly paid to Percoco.

Biancavilla said he received the payments, which he called stipends, because he was on - call on nights and weekends as a homicide prosecutor and was serving as an acting deputy bureau chief, although his Civil Service title was lower.

A perjury charge against an acting district attorney «taints the very essence of who we are as prosecutors and goes against all that we strive to do to ensure the public's trust in the criminal justice system,» said DAASNY president and Oneida County District Attorney Scott McNamara.

Halloran is on trial for allegedly acting as a power broker in what prosecutors described as an elaborate ploy by state Sen. Malcolm Smith (D - Hollis) to bribe his way onto the GOP ticket in the 2013 mayoral elections.

Contending prosecutors took his comments out of context and failed to understand he was legally acting as a political consultant, the former Republican city councilman has spent several days on the witness stand detailing precisely what he meant in hours of conversations -LSB-...]

Prosecutors charge that the medics — five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor — infected 426 children at a hospital in Benghazi as an act of bioterrorism.

Environmental activist Grace Sinden asks: Did you got to court or have a lawyer as an acting coach in preparation to play a prosecutor?

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