Sentences with phrase «as aggravated»

Increases in female arrest rates for violent offenses may therefore be due, at least in part, to net - widening policies, such as more aggressive policing of low - level crimes, and the increasingly common reclassification of simple assaults as aggravated assaults.

She has experience dealing with all types of criminal matters, including indictables such as aggravated assault and drug offenses, as well as municipal, juvenile offenses, and traffic and DWI matters.

As aggravated damages are considered part of compensatory damages they are subject to the Andrews - cap, whereas punitive damages are not.

Counsel for the defendant submitted that as aggravated damages were purely compensatory and the complainant had already received an award for psychological injury, there should be no award of aggravated damages because this would in effect duplicate compensation.

The article looks at whether the Ontario courts are increasingly using punitive damages as a vehicle to award former employee's compensation for «bad faith» employer conduct in dismissal, as aggravated damages (arguably the more appropriate vehicle) are more difficult to attain.

You can face charges for felony DUI, which is also known as aggravated DUI, if you drive under the influence of drugs and / or alcohol and:

The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal In Branco v. American Home Assurance Company et al. has provided greater detail and clarity in relation to punitive damage awards as well as awards for mental distress, previously referred to as aggravated damages, in long term disability claims.

The chances of being a victim of a violent crime in Spring Valley, such as aggravated assault, rape, murder, or armed robbery, is 1 in 250.

The value of competent and aggressive legal representation when charged with a 3 (g) offense such as Aggravated Robbery can not be overstated.

However, if a trespass is particularly dangerous or violent it may be charged as aggravated trespass.

Long Answer The basic reasoning This would be actionable as aggravated sexual battery and punishable by up to 20 years in prison, because the facts demonstrate a touching of intimate parts with an intent to molest (i.e. sexual abuse) and this is accomplished through the victim»...

In an effort to appear tough on crime, it is not unheard of for a prosecutor to charge a simple bar fight as an aggravated assault.

New York also classifies the criminal offense of driving with a BAC of.17 percent or above as an Aggravated DWI.

It would mean that an alien's status as an aggravated felon — and his eligibility for removalor cancellation thereof — would turn on a fortuity, the particular day in a particular calendar year in which he began serving his sentence.»

Where I used to feel frustrated at not being able to find everything on my shopping list, or having to decide between just corn flakes, muesli, and some kind of honey puffs in the cereal aisle, after a year living abroad, I found myself just as aggravated on a trip back to the U.S. by the amount of time I spent trying to decide between 50 different types of chewing gum or shampoo.

The movie has its merits: the final 30 minutes, in which we see Gordon - Levitt's Petit preen and twirl in the sky as aggravated police officers try to snatch him from either end of the cable, is an exhilarating piece of filmmaking that you won't find in Marsh's documentary and must be watched in a theater, in 3 - D.

Attacks are treated as an aggravated offence with sentences of up to three years imprisonment for the attacking dog's owner, under the 2014 Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act.

And because you don't have to do anything other than talk to it to get it going, it's not as aggravating when it messes up.

As aggravating as it is for you, for your child, finding ingenious ways to try and get what she wants or avoid what she doesn't want to do is a way for her to exercise influence in a world run by adults.

As aggravating as some situations at this point in time, I will gladly take this challenge on now rather than later.

Death Sentence Aggravating Factor Expansion — Vote Passed (271 - 143, 16 Not Voting) Passage of the bill that would require courts and juries to consider if a defendant killed or attempted to kill a state law enforcement officer, local law enforcement officer or first responder as an aggravating factor when determining whether to impose the death sentence on a defendant.

Dietary modifications can help in a big way: avoid dry fruits, apples, melons, potatoes, tomatoes, eggplants, beef, and peas, as these all aggravate vata further.

Food sensitivities are now becoming more recognized as an aggravating factor in many diseases such as gastrointestinal concerns, fatigue, weight gain, headaches and more.

[Milk has]... already been identified as an aggravating factor in the acne epidemic... [but] it is even more important that excessive milk consumption can promote diseases commonly associated with a Western lifestyle.»

People who have high intake of salt are more at risk of developing, as well as aggravating their hypertensive condition.

It's certainly satisfying to find a Power Moon, but it can be equally as aggravating to decipher its whereabouts.

But as aggravating as these are, they exist for a reason — namely, they add an element of tension that's missing from most modern RPGs.

Indeed enhanced evaporation of water vapour into the atmosphere is conventionally regarded as an aggravating factor because water vapour is itself a greenhouse gas (see below about that).

As aggravating (and common) as it is when scientists use illogical or unscientific arguments to promote science, it's perhaps even more irritating when they employ bad or deceptive scientific arguments.

And honestly, few common maladies are as aggravating as angry sinuses.

In addition, this failure to appear will act as an aggravating factor in your case and will make leniency from the judge less likely.

Ellacott had been properly sentenced even though the Superior Court Justice had erred when he used Ellacott's testimony and his denial of guilt as aggravating factors in his decision.

Aside from the sentence imposed, the J.R. Contracting case is also notable because the court held that the Regulatory Modernization Act (an Ontario statute enacted in 2008 that, principally, provides for information sharing between provincial ministries and bodies) provided the authority for the supervisor's environmental convictions to be treated by the Crown Prosecutor and court as an aggravating factor when sentencing for the OH&S violation.

As mentioned above, domestic assault is not a separate charge from assault, however it is likely that the judge will use the fact that the abuse occurred in an intimate relationship setting as an aggravating factor in the case.

It would also require a court imposing a sentence to consider evidence that an offence was motivated by bias, prejudice or hate based on gender identity or expression as an aggravating circumstance.

Discriminatory remarks and insults must in any event be considered as an aggravating factor, it made clear.

Justice Graesser sentenced White to 5 years for the sexual assaults against RH and TK, and to 2 years for the robberies against SH and TK, all consecutive, taking choking into account as aggravating in each instance.

As for the significance of choking as an aggravating factor, Justice Graesser noted that as a separate offence, it is subject to a maximum sentence of life imprisonment under section 246 (a) of the Criminal Code.

Essentially, he treated the choking as an aggravating factor in relation to the sentencing for the other offences committed against each victim.

Crown counsel asked the Supreme Court justice to impose more than a year of actual imprisonment, citing the quantity, type and amount of drugs, as well as the inter-provincial trafficking component, all as aggravating features.

The criminal law has statutorily recognized the concept of breach of marital trust, in s. 718.2 of the Criminal Code of Canada, by requiring the sentencing judge to consider an increase in sentence where, as an aggravating circumstance, the offender abused his spouse or common - law partner when committing the offence.

When sentencing an offender the Court will consider the breach of trust between domestic partners as an aggravating factor.

This is exemplified by the ways in which the courts may treat any disparity in age between the victim and the offender as an aggravating factor and society's revulsion at the abuse of the very young or of the very old.

[23] Accordingly, the sentencing judge erred in principle in failing to consider as aggravating the respondent's attempt to conceal the real cause of damage to his vehicle.

Thus, in order to ensure that the proposed Criminal Code amendment achieves its objective, the bill deliberately does not set a chronological age as an aggravating factor.

This was one of the counters that the school considered, since it is a common place among outsiders to associate Bitcoin with illegality; And being a school that works with children, the false criminal reputation of bitcoin is seen as an aggravating factor for the situation.

I'd nominate and vote AND volunteer for you, only I won't be as aggravating as the PBS folks or the Vote For My Candidate folks are!

Not exact matches

(Illinois law allows claimants to file for benefits for pre-existing conditions as long as they can show work aggravated the situation.)

Handouts such as the old age living allowance and low - income working family allowance had also eased the aggravating impact of the aging population, he said.

Conversely, its absence tends to make utilities and their investors nervous, and Congress's tendency to reauthorize it for as little as a year at a time just aggravates that angst.