Sentences with phrase «alleged victims make»

First, many alleged victims make deliberately false accusations out of spite.

And only after the alleged victim made the case public did Highpoint's pastor Chris Conlee admit that the information was not new to him or to the church leadership.

Not exact matches

This week, Uber temporarily lost its CEO, saw a board member leave after making a sexist comment, and was sued by a rape victim who alleges the company improperly gained access to her medical records.

The Making a Murderer series depicts the trials of both Avery and Dassey, which ended with their convictions in 2007 and in which the defendants» respective attorneys alleged that their clients were the victims of police misconduct.

Once a statement has been taken from the alleged victim, Greater Manchester Police will then make a decision on whether to continue with inquiries or not.

Ferdinand, 26, was the victim of an alleged racist comment made by Terry during a Premier League match two weeks ago.

Furthermore, the prime minister is able to use honours for leverage: many of the victims of Harold MacMillan's «night of the long knives» were mollified with peerages; more recently it was alleged in some quarters that Tony Blair convinced a number of ageing Labour MPs to retire in 2001 to make way for young New Labour high - fliers, by promising them peerages.

JCOPE does not need the alleged victim to make a formal complaint and it does not need a referral in order to commence a probe of the Klein matter.

Among the provisions, the law would empower Child or Adult Protective Services to seek a court order to enter premises to investigate claims of abuse if access is denied by the homeowner; allow Child Protective Services to share information about prior abuse with Adult Protective Services; and make it a Class A misdemeanor to deny Child or Adult Protective Services access to an alleged victim for an interview.

Over the past few years, cuts to legal aid and changes to lawyers» fees have made it harder for alleged victims of human rights abuses by UK - linked companies to have their cases heard in UK courts.

He filed a lawsuit against the Weinstein company seeking more compensation for Weinstein's alleged victims, and he's also been tasked with investigating Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr.'s office's handling of criminal complaints made against Weinstein.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has admitted that he made a mistake when he approved a secret settlement for two of Lopez's alleged victims, and has fired his top counsel, saying the attorney withheld from him information on accusations against Assemblyman Kellner.

It's examining sexual harassment charges against Assemblyman Vito Lopez, and how some initially secret payments were made, using taxpayer money, to alleged victims.

In some cases, the person alleged to have made the false report had undoubtedly been the victim of some kind of offence, even if not the one that he or she had reported.»

With one alleged victim of climate change after another — from pikas, penguins and polar bears to whales — he thoroughly dismantles the so - called science that blames each and every worrisome observation on man - made climate change, and he explains the true causes, natural and man - made, of their travails.

Their goal was to make the victim look unreliable, untrustworthy, promiscuous - to be blamed for the alleged rape - in order to convince the jury to acquit their client.

The contact made between the alleged victim and the accused must be sexual in nature and must have violated the sexual integrity of the victim.

In fact, it is one of the only crimes that makes an act illegal, regardless of consent or the state of mind of the alleged victim.

Far from trying to «silence the alleged victims or suppress the investigation of non-consensual acts», I'd much rather that they be talking to the police, and that the police be investigating the alleged acts (using the considerable tools at their disposal — including the threat of criminal charges for those making false allegations — to get to the truth), then to have this drama play out in private discussions between the complainants and the CBC, Mr. Ghomeshi's friends or the Toronto Star, and in civil and labour disputes between the CBC and Mr. Ghomeshi, and whomever else he might choose to sue down the road.

The trial judge found that the incidents complained of took place outside the workplace, the employee had made a timely apology to the victim which he had accepted and several of the incidents alleged to have amounted to sexual harassment and breach of the employment contract in fact was found to be «consensual conduct among friends».

• Be compassionate: Allegations of harassment / violence are difficult to make and can be devastating on both the victim and the alleged harasser.

However, participants high in psychopathic traits believed that the alleged victim was making a false allegation more often when she was less emotional, and they were less punitive towards the false allegation than individuals low in psychopathic traits.

«Paris Hilton MADE OUT WITH ANOTHER GIRL at a nightclub in Vegas early Monday morning... and moments later, her new boyfriend was arrested for battery... at least that's what the alleged victim is telling police.