Sentences with phrase «allowing guilty people»

Despite training for the position at 15, Garrus begins to lose faith when he realizes all the holes in the system that allow guilty people a free pass.

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The pope and all those people that have allowed the abuse are just as guilty.

That charge was dropped, and he pleaded guilty to allowing another person to drive under the influence, resulting in a one - year probation sentence.

«Mr. Coughlin not only sounds like a spokesperson for the very people whose corruption and mismanagement allowed Boko Haram to bring Nigeria to its knees — and whose disastrous legacy President Buhari has spent the last one year redeeming Nigeria from — he is also guilty of failing to observe the most basic rules of responsible journalism.

They will have to go through the process and be declared guilty or not guilty; in case of suspended cases, where a person is neither guilty nor innocent will no longer be allowed to exist.

The New York junior senator says she's supporting laws that would allow police and state governments to take guns away from people found guilty of domestic abuse.

You might wonder how a system like this is allowed to operate in our DEMOCRACY, in a country where we've been brought up to believe that a person is innocent until proven guilty.

If you allow a dangerous dog to run loose and it harms a person, you could be found guilty of a misdemeanor, or a felony if a death results, and punishable by imprisonment and large fines.

«Indoor» and «Weight Loss» formulas tend to be higher in carbohydrates because carbs allow the «person» to feed a larger portion of food to their cat, and avoid feeling guilty about reduced amounts of food.

Accommodation that won't allow pets, makes it difficult for people to holiday without feeling guilty about leaving their furry friends.

That phrase encompasses many things and means different things to different people, but to me, it means not feeling guilty and allowing myself to recharge while pursuing activities outside veterinary medicine.

The People's Challenge to the Government regarding Brexit raised # 170,550 and Joint Enterprise: Not Guilty by Association (JENGbA) raised over # 10,000 to allow them to successfully intervene in the Supreme Court case of R v Jogee [2016] UKSC.

(4)(b) Every person is guilty of an offence under this Act who: allows any other person to have possession of any official document issued for his use alone, or communicates any secret official code word or password so issued, or, without lawful authority or excuse, has in his possession any official document or secret official code word or password issued for the use of a person other than himself, or on obtaining possession of any official document by finding or otherwise, neglects or fails to restore it to the person or authority by whom or for whose use it was issued, or to a police constable.

The American criminal justice system is far from being sufficiently enlightened, starting by too many presumed - innocent people caged without bond pending sentencing, moving to Virginia's crabbed criminal discovery system, continuing to Virginia's system that allows prosecutors to scare defendants to plead guilty by their refusal to waive a jury that in many instances and locations can mean more racist jurors than judges on top of the jurors often being more wild cards than judges for sentencing, continuing to the many judges who choose judicial efficiency over a fair trial, continuing to the brutal capital punishment system, cntinuing to excessive mandatory minimum and guideline sentencing, and continuing to the slew of innocent convicted people (many of whom plead gulilty rather than risking a worse fate), and continuing to frequently excessive sentences and excessive probation violation sentences.

Most courts, including Maryland, believe that it is unfair to defendants in civil cases to allow traffic ticket guilty pleas to hover over an accident case because tickets are — for better or worse — not a big deal to most people.

The state has also passed a law allowing people to erase or revise old convictions if they successfully argue that they were not advised at the time that a guilty or no - contest plea would endanger their immigration status.

A parent or guardian who allows an underage person to gamble in Atlantic City, New Jersey is guilty of a disorderly persons offense.

I think it would be fair if both the judge would be allowed to include the lesser offence (to avoid a guilty person walking free), and for the defence as well (to prevent the defendant from unfairly being found guilty of the worse charge because the jury doesn't want him to go free when he is clearly guilty).

Why would we allow insane people then to be found guilty?

A person is on bail when they are allowed to be in the community between their arrest and the disposition of their charges, either after a trial or upon a guilty plea and sentencing before the Court.

When a judge allows a person to have deferred adjudication he is really postponing finding the person guilty of the offense and if you are never found guilty, due to not getting another ticket during your probationary period usually, than your ticket would be dismissed.