Sentences with phrase «allow criminal prosecution»

The parliament in that country has approved a new law that would allow criminal prosecution for blogs, chat rooms and social networking sites.

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The bill, however, is encountering fierce opposition from district attorneys who complain it will, among other things, allow criminal defendants to bring bogus charges against prosecutors in a bid to bog down prosecutions.

At that point, defense attorneys are expected file a Rule 29 motion, allowed in any criminal trial, in which they will argue that the prosecution failed to present enough evidence to prove its case.

«As such,» (a) requirement that the government trace each dollar of the transaction to the criminal, as opposed to the non ‐ criminal activity, would allow individuals effectively to defeat prosecution for money laundering by simply commingling legitimate funds with criminal proceeds.»»

By Section 270 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, a plea bargain agreement is allowed as in this case, wherein the first defendant has provided relevant information to aid the prosecution of this case... it appears to me that by the above provisions of the ACJA, under a plea bargain agreement, the appropriate sentence to be recommended should be within the appropriate range of punishment stipulated for the offence charged.

Allows privately funded industrial hemp research to be conducted in Hawaii under certain conditions; requires monitoring by department of public safety; requires reporting to county law enforcement; exempts argonomic data derived from research from public records disclosure; confers immunity from criminal prosecution for the research.

Allows privately funded industrial hemp research to be conducted in Hawaii under certain conditions; requires monitoring by department of public safety; requires reporting to county law enforcement; exempts agronomic data derived from research from public records disclosure; confers immunity from criminal prosecution for the research.

Allows private funded industrial hemp research to be conducted under certain conditions; requires monitoring by the DPS; requires reporting to the respective county law enforcement; exempts agronomic data derived from research from public records disclosure; confers immunity from criminal prosecution for the research.

At another firm, which has acted for multiple defendants in SFO investigations and prosecutions, a prominent partner says: «The advent of DPAs has allowed the state to do something it has been lamentably bad at doing: to use the criminal justice system as, potentially, an effective tool in the regulation of business.

A very small minority of states allow for reimbursement of fees upon an acquittal, but even then, it is often necessary to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that you were actually innocent, so a dismissal on procedural grounds or an acquittal at a criminal trial where the prosecution must show beyond a reasonable doubt that you are guilty, is not sufficient to show that it is more likely than not that you are innocent.

@Harper true, the dual sovereign theory does allow both state and federal prosecution for the same criminal act, but the same sovereign (i.e., the same prosecutor's office, either state or federal) can not retry someone once jeopardy is attached.

We do know, that Virginia's Supreme Court generally favors allowing criminal defendants a reasonable opportunity to cross examine prosecution witnesses:

Earlier this month, McMaster sent Buckmaster a letter threatening criminal prosecution if «the portions of the Internet site dedicated to South Carolina and its municipal regions and which contain categories for and functions allowing for the solicitation of prostitution and the dissemination and posting of graphic pornographic material are not permanently removed» by the close of business on May 15.

All criminal prosecutions in the United States are brought by «the People» or «the State» or in the name of «the People» or «the State» even in the small minority of states (not including California) in which private individuals can bring and prosecute criminal complaints (Massachusetts is one of the outliers in the U.S.; England also allows private individuals to prosecute some crimes in a similar fashion, although the government can take over a case if it wishes to do so.)

Now, I've learned that in a criminal trial where the defendant is alleged to have strangled his wife, but contends that it wasn't he who caused her death but a canine, the court may allow the prosecution to present expert testimony on the possibility of smothering - by - dog.

[The case] involves a criminal defense attorney (strike 1) who is outspoken about the need to zealously defend individuals accused of the most heinous crimes (strike 2) charged with helping a convicted terrorist plan further terrorist attacks (strike 3) in an atmosphere where the prosecution was continually allowed to discuss bin Laden despite his irrelevance to the case (strike 4).

In this regard, a civil - rights based approach treats sexual violence as a violation of the Criminal Code and human rights law, which allows for both criminal prosecution as well as civil lCriminal Code and human rights law, which allows for both criminal prosecution as well as civil lcriminal prosecution as well as civil lawsuits.

Accident victims tend to feel unengaged with any criminal prosecution or regulatory investigation; a civil lawsuit allows the injured victim to control the process of getting answers.

Finally, the Court of Appeal found that allowing the Crown to use an insurance statement (required as part of a process designed to facilitate the determination of liability) as part of a criminal prosecution would be to allow the Crown to do, through other means, what ss.

Insult to foreign heads of state In April 2016 the Turkish government requested that the German government allow prosecution of satirical television present Jan Böhmermann under Criminal Code Art. 103 over a vulgar poem Böhmermann read on television ridiculing Turkish President.

However, there is a number of procedures available that allow, under certain conditions, for settlements with the prosecution or other ways to avoid further prosecution and criminal sanctions, or adjudication by a criminal court in a public hearing.

January 25, 2015 — «Proposed legislation in the Missouri Senate could significantly alter criminal prosecution with a fundamental change in the structure of prosecuting attorney offices that is tied to structural reforms of the circuit court system.Senate Bill 79, sponsored by Sen. Bob Dixon (R - Greene County), would allow county commissions to abolish the office of county prosecuting attorney to join a state's attorney system that could potentially have some elected prosecutors covering multiple counties.»

More practically, as a solicitor, the biggest changes are probably the most recent — the introduction of the new regulatory regime in Scotland which allows the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency to accept an offer of an enforcement undertaking, as an alternative to a criminal prosecution, where there is a reasonable suspicion that an offence has been committed.

Accident victims tend to feel unengaged with the criminal prosecution; a civil lawsuit allows the injured victim to control the process of getting answers.

In setting up the firm, we tried to create a product which would be unique on the market, allowing us to solve complex corporate conflicts and conflicts with the risk of criminal prosecution for our clients» management teams.

Yet it also allows for prosecution of those intermediaries under federal criminal law (such as federal anti-trafficking statutes that are already in place).

Charges are unlikely to be filed against average users who perform these actions, but programmers and organizations who create and distribute the tools to allow them to do so are at risk of criminal prosecution under the DMCA.

H.R. 1865, the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), allows for private lawsuits and criminal prosecutions against Internet platforms and...

It allows mothers to anonymously drop off their newborn baby without fear of criminal prosecution IF (1) the baby is unharmed, (2) is no more than 72 hours old, and (3) is brought to a designated drop off site.