Sentences with phrase «alleged victims of the crime»

The methodology of the crime statistics changed significantly during that period, the BBC report suggested, because the alleged victim of the crime, rather than police officers, decided whether it should be recorded as a violent crime.

This seems the correct course of action in terms of the alleged victims of the crime «getting it over and done with».

Not exact matches

The 66 - year - old cardinal and others have been accused by Preynat's alleged victims of not reporting the crimes to the authorities, after a former scout in 2014 accused the cleric of abusing him in the 1980s.

Evans — who spent two and a half years in prison for the crime he would later be cleared of committing — being found not guilty does not mean the alleged victim lied.

As a Brooklyn rape case has grown more complicated, some members of the community have found themselves torn between a gut reaction to support the 18 - year - old alleged victim and nagging fears about a rush to judgment against the five teenagers accused of a heinous crime.

Yasmin Seweid, 18, joined a growing list of local and national alleged hate - crime victims when she told cops she was taunted Dec. 1 on the No. 6 train by three men who called her a terrorist and tried to snatch her hijab off her head while straphangers did nothing.

The brother of one of James «Whitey» Bulger's alleged victims criticized «Black Mass,» the forthcoming movie about the gangster, saying Friday the big - budget Hollywood film is an insult to those still grieving for loved ones slain by the once - feared crime boss.

Updated: A Michigan man and convicted sex offender who pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in an alleged rape of a 12 - year - old girl was awarded joint legal custody of the boy who was conceived as a result of the crime, according to the victim's lawyer.

To refrain from contacting in any way the victim of the alleged crime, witnesses in the case or any other individuals specified in the Undertaking.

In order to be convicted of this crime the prosecution must be able to prove that you knew the victim of your alleged battery was a police officer performing his / her professional duties.

In 2011, in the Wellington v. Ontario decision (2011 ONCA 274), the Court of Appeal firmly stated that there is «a long list of decisions rejecting the proposition that the police owe victims of crime and their families a private law duty of care in relation to the investigation of alleged crimes.»

This would be a duty to potential victims of crime, enforceable mainly by people who have subsequently become victims because of an alleged failure to carry out the duty.

The search for principle takes longer and longer, and in the meantime cases awaiting trial are delayed, to the disadvantage of the defendants awaiting trial, the witnesses to the events which bring the defendants to court, and the victims of those alleged crimes.»

Being accused of a sex crime is absolutely devastating, especially if the alleged victim is a child or a family member.

HB 5364 of 2015 provided that that in any criminal prosecution involving an alleged violent crime and testimony from a victim of such crime, such victim shall be permitted to be accompanied by a therapy dog while testifying in the criminal prosecution, provided such dog is not visible to the jury.

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.

There are victims of crime (or complainants who claim to be victims of alleged crimes, as we should probably say down to the moment of conviction), and there are those wrongfully convicted, but no - one else is a victim of the system, are they?