Sentences with phrase «by accused persons»

In a pair of decisions delivered this morning, R. v. Summers, 2014 SCC 26, and a companion case, R. v. Carvery, 2014 SCC 27, the Supreme Court has endorsed the trial courts» practice of routinely crediting time spent by accused persons before their sentencing on a more than one - to - one basis against the total duration of their sentence, the Truth in Sentencing Act, enacted by Parliament in 2009, notwithstanding.

In his written address, Inibehe Effiong, Counsel to Udo, is seeking to determine whether the assault and torture meted by the accused persons on his client, amount to «a breach on the applicant's fundamental human rights to dignity of his human person as guaranteed in section 34 (1)(a) of Nigeria's 1999 constitution (as mended), as well as the African Charter on Human and People's Rights».

However, when the bank approached Total Nigeria Plc for repayment, it was discovered that the purchase orders were forged by the accused persons.

But Ajibola opposed Nmadu's plea, saying that the court ought not be moved by appeal to sentiment by the accused persons.

Justice Onibokun maintained that the confessional statements made by the accused persons further corroborated Popoola's evidence.

«By the said pieces of evidence, I hold the prosecution has satisfactorily established the death of the deceased and that same was caused by the accused persons.

The conviction stemmed from a guilty plea by the accused person.

[45] In explaining how I reach this conclusion, I first outline the approach to the review of prosecutorial discretion, including the threshold evidentiary burden that must be met by an accused person alleging an abuse of process based on the improper exercise of prosecutorial discretion.

Settlement usually begins with a proposal by the accused person after filing a defense.

Not exact matches

But citing people with knowledge of the probe, Bloomberg reports that Wells Fargo (wfc) is being accused of seizing cars without first receiving the proper documents, resulting in an investigation by the Department of Justice and bank regulators

It would be possible for another brand to re-create a stunt like this... but my guess is that it would be accused of being derivative — and that it would only be shared by people to show the brand's failure to come up with anything original themselves.

An online petition accusing Starbucks Corp. of «extreme» cutbacks in work hours at its U.S. cafes, hurting both employee morale and customer service, has been signed by more than 9,000 people.

By selling off all of his Litecoins and thus taking himself out of one major part of Litecoin's equation, people could no longer accuse him of manipulating the Litecoin market.

«You may have heard about a quiz app built by a university researcher that leaked Facebook data of millions of people in 2014,» Zuckerberg said in the signed ads, referring to the data analytics firm accused of misusing the social network's user information during the 2016 US election.

Wu is accused of fraudulently raising 65 billion yuan ($ 10 billion) and abusing his post to benefit himself, according to a report by prosecutors that was posted on the social media account of the Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People's Court.

The 19 - year - old accused of killing 17 people in Parkland last month was thought to have few assets, other than a Kia owned by his dead mother.

People accused the company of trying to profit off the backs of the taxi drivers by taking advantage of the demand for rides.

By attacking innocent people, Osama was only doing what he accused the US Government of doing.

It's not interesting because it was almost certainly a joke to annoy some fundamentalist Christian pro-lifer who had been falsely accusing these people of being influenced by Satan.

I didn't speculate on this in the review, but it did seem that by placing his comments about the sex abuse crisis in that section, he might have been trying to suggest that he had worries, like those worries shared by the late Avery Cardinal Dulles and others, about a one - size - fits - all policy that applies to all those accused of any sort of sexual overtures to people under the age of eighteen.

Unfortunately, her reply is little more than a show of concern for herself and her friends, and the fact that we are once again faced with an accused person in a ministry position who spews indigation without the slightest attempt to engage by offering counterpoints or supported statements lends still more credibility to Julie's account.

My own father, a person of the highest moral character and integrity was accused of being shady by my abuser because he tried to find us alternative housing when my abuser (although court ordered to pay the mortgage) willfully and vindictively drove it into foreclosure and the kids and I homeless, while he went off and bought he and his spiritual wife a new home.

First, by referencing the person «accused of something», Brian again implies that this is just a mere accusation, a nontruth, a lie, and that he himself, as well as Tony and everyone else mentioned by Julie, are innocent.

So, when time is spent suggesting what people meant, or people being accused of this or that, and that could be solved by a private conversation or message, it only seems wise as then the important issues can be gotten to.

I have been accused (and yes, accused is the right word) multiple times of having a personality disorder (despite a complete lack of any diagnosis), by people who were completely unqualified.

An all powerful creator would not make an excuse by putting it back on the people... wouldn't he search for a way to help them understand instead of accusing them of not having faith... trust must be earned by anyone asking for «faith»... an all knowing god would understand this... if no trust... no faith can be had... reading a book does not fulfill even the barest minimum of building a trust which is necessary if you are to ask for «faith».

A typical message I heard while listening to radio broadcasts in northern Nicaragua accused the Sandinistas of «burning churches, kidnapping Nicaraguan children and sending them to Cuba, stealing land from campesinos, creating internal food shortages by sending Nicaragua's food to the Soviet Union, and killing old people in order to make soap.»

Not forgetting 2 of his own family have accused him of verbal & physical abuse again & again / 2 Cor.13: 1 & 1Tim.5: 19 / but Dollar's Prosperity message preys on those prideful, greedy, self centered, sinful people who want to be rich.Do some soul searching and repent if this applies to you; you've been sadduced into thinking God wants you to be rich by a con (CreativeFlowDollarMinistry) The only prosperity he's interested in is his OWN!!!

you say; «to accuse someone of having a demon or of being possessed by a demon is to remove a person from the sphere of God's grace and love, and lock them in a prison of shame, fear, and darkness, which is demonic.»

They were accused of disturbing the peace and of keeping people from working by turning their attention to revivals.

Trigster: the Book of Mormon was written by dark skinned people, who probably knew nothing of the white supremacy you accuse them of... it does use ancient language, but they were not racist in our terms, the Nephites and Lamanites of the Book of Mormon viewed themselves as «brothers,» they were all one race.

In a theological disagreement, people need a way to discredit their opponent, and by far the most widely used tactic throughout church history (including today) is to accuse a theological opponent of not believing in the inerrancy of Scripture.

Church leaders are accused of fostering psychological violence against homosexual people by repeating certain myths or ignoring the important issues responsible for many problems that gay and lesbian people experience, both in churches and the wider society.

The past week has seen his butler arrested, accused of leaking secret papers from the papal apartment; the head of his bank sacked for incompetence; and a demonstration on his front doorstep by protesters demanding that he reveal what he knows about Italy's most famous missing - person case.

When the pope comes to London next month, he is going to be greeted by substantial numbers of protests organized by people calling for his arrest and accusing him of the wildest hatreds.

So, you and your house are serving the Lord... by baselessly accusing an entire group of people of being liars, cheaters, and murderers.

How utterly ironic — and how incredibly sad — that GES members would accuse people like me of STUMBLING the lost by insisting they believe in Christ Crucified!!

Then, after a few months, at best only three years, of a public career in which He was hailed by a crowd which proved fickle and had won the adherence of a coterie of men and women who did not fully understand Him, He ran afoul of the leaders of the organized religion of His people, was accused by them of fomenting rebellion against the civil government, that of Rome, and was crucified by the order of the local representative of that government.

Why should he be called impertinent by declining to supply information which rabbinic law itself forbade the authorities to wheedle out of an accused person?

The new sin, for which Christians can claim «credit,» was to victimize people by accusing them of being victimizers, to make the revelation directed against sacrifice a new rationale for sacrifice.

You are here before me simply because you have been accused by your own people.»

Prosecco Blamed for Italy Flood Deaths The tragic deaths of four people swept away by flash floods in northern Italy have been blamed by critics on the regions burgeoning Prosecco industry accused of over-planting and damaging the lands ability to deal with rainwater...

Smarty Tourtle that means that 90 % of homebirths in US are attended by midwives that are so lacking in skills and training that they would not be allowed to come near pregnant women anywhere else in the developed world, and if you did not know that please learn more before you accuse people on here of being inflammatory.

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«It seems that the people who were taking around the petitions were unaware and did not have their facts straight,» said Commissioner Linda Blane, who said that the Park District was accused of overspending to renovate parks owned by the city and outside its jurisdiction.

According to him, even though some police officers were stationed at the court, «they were overwhelmed by the numbers that came to the court to beseech the court to enable these accused persons to escape».

The Supreme Court Justices also ordered that where applicable, criminal Action should be instituted against accused persons by the Attorney General.

And by governance on a daily basis, mean from the how from kings, aristocrats, down through every layer of bureaucracy till you get to your local tax collector, what / why / how these people ran the government administration on a day to day basis, from dealing with a rival city who recently stole one of your citizens crops, to pirates interfering with trade on the Mediterranean, to drought, city administration, what to do with tax money, neighborly disputes, superstition, weather, crime, theft, laws and battles of ideology, to political rivalries and infighting, to a foreigner spreading strange religious ideas in the city (or dealing with somebody accused of a crime they claim they did not commit), I mean everything and everything these officials may have dealt with, daily, and how they changed over time.

He revealed that the State Ministry of Justice had filed charges in the High Court against the accused persons and we stand by the pending charges and the trial process already lawfully initiated in Ilorin.

A reader forwarded me this interview conducted by Colorado - based radio host David Sirota with Harold Ford Jr., which gets pretty ugly toward then end when Sirota accuses the former Tennessee congressman of being an «avatar of the most powerful people in the country.»