Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.
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.)
The parliament
in that country has approved a new law that would
allow criminal prosecution for blogs, chat rooms and social networking sites.
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 l
Criminal Code and human rights law, which
allows for both
criminal prosecution as well as civil l
criminal prosecution as well as civil lawsuits.
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.
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).