Sentences with phrase «assault upon the court»

Nor is there in this view any assault upon the court or the judges.

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In returning its verdict Thursday afternoon on the sixth day of deliberations, the Superior Court jury also pronounced Jose Ines Garcia Zarate not guilty of assault with a firearm, finding credence in defense attorneys» argument that the shot that ricocheted off the concrete ground before piercing Steinle's heart was an accident, with the gun discharging after the defendant stumbled upon it on the waterfront on July 1, 2015.

The only remotely possible way this may be an assault is if a court decides that you can't consent to having an STD inflicted upon you, which therefore would be an assault.

The court convicted D.J.W. of aggravated assault and assault with a weapon, and stayed the conviction for criminal negligence causing bodily harm, conditional upon the conviction for aggravated assault.

In a 6 - 3 decision in R. v. J.A., the top court overturned an Ontario Court of Appeal ruling and reinstated a sexual assault conviction on a man who had sex with his partner during an mutually agreed - upon erotic asphyxiation sescourt overturned an Ontario Court of Appeal ruling and reinstated a sexual assault conviction on a man who had sex with his partner during an mutually agreed - upon erotic asphyxiation sesCourt of Appeal ruling and reinstated a sexual assault conviction on a man who had sex with his partner during an mutually agreed - upon erotic asphyxiation session.

In Welch, the Ontario Court of Appeal rejected the defence argument of consensual sado - masochistic (SM) sex, holding that in the sexual assault context, «a victim can not consent to the infliction of bodily harm upon himself or herself... unless the accused is acting in the course of a generally approved social purpose when inflicting the harm.»

Of course, such judges almost invariably accompany dicta touching upon the possibility of judicial disobedience to constitutionally suspect legislation with lavishly extravagant examples such as a full - frontal assault upon the basic tenets of democracy or the evisceration of the courts» powers of judicial review.

The court frowns upon a parent who abandons his or her child, physically, sexually or emotionally abuses the child, has a history of domestic violence, assaulted or sexually assaulted the child and caused bodily harm, or has an adult sex offender conviction.