Sentences with phrase «by police and prosecutors»

Proper interview techniques and procedures by police and prosecutors are essential to ensure the reliability of identification evidence.

Whether you have been arrested on a misdemeanor like shoplifting or a felony like armed robbery, your only chance of fair treatment by police and prosecutors is to retain a seasoned criminal defense attorney as soon as possible.

The newest issue of RI Lawyers Weekly features attorney Jason Knight in an article on the recent Tempest ruling, in which a 1992 murder conviction was overturned because of improper actions by police and prosecutors.

The Advocate tells the story of the 2015 incident, as alleged by police and prosecutors.

Not exact matches

The prosecutors» office in Vienna is consolidating «hundreds of complaints» about a scheme known as «Optioment» that have been filed at police stations across the country, and which add to a warning by financial watchdog FMA, spokeswoman Christina Ratz said by telephone.

German police on Tuesday detained a second soldier suspected of involvement in what prosecutors believe was a plan by a military officer and a student, both in custody, to carry out an «extremist» attack and blame it on migrants.

Reduces surging crime, drugs and violence by creating a Task Force On Violent Crime and increasing funding for programs that train and assist local police; increases resources for federal law enforcement agencies and federal prosecutors to dismantle criminal gangs and put violent offenders behind bars.

More reputable people may then tell similar untruths: some confused, or misremembering, or misguided, or mobilized by the media, or browbeaten by enthusiastic police or prosecutors or therapists; others opportunists who see little risk and lots of upside in a venture that someone else has boldly opened.

Fillmore said the law is purposefully open - ended so police and prosecutors can work on a case - by - case basis.

But on Wednesday afternoon, their ritual went terribly wrong when the two were confronted by a man with a lengthy criminal record on a Rogers Park street, according to Chicago police and Cook County prosecutors.

She expects to be handcuffed, put in a police car, driven to the courthouse and brought before a judge after being secretly indicted by a grand jury run by a special prosecutor who was secretly selected to investigate campaign finance filings from 2009.

Cuomo's campaign spokesman Abbey Fashouer directed a reporter to his ally Charlie King, who hailed Cuomo's record, including ordering a special prosecutor to probe certain killings by police, increasing the minimum wage and an announcement a day earlier that parolees would be enfranchised.

Cuomo's criminal justice reforms have not always been embraced by local prosecutors, who have raised issues in the past to overhauling juvenile justice and an executive order giving the attorney general the power to investigate and prosecute cases in which civilians die in interactions with police.

«If there's a shooting up in Buffalo, New York, a young unarmed guy is killed by the police up there, a special prosecutor is supposed to swoop down and deal with it but what happens if something breaks out in Brooklyn a week later and it breaks in Syracuse — how is this person supposed to tell the folks up in Buffalo, «Hold on, I'll be back, I've got ta go to Brooklyn?»»

Bellone ticked off a long list of what he said were failings by Spota, including the prosecutor's support for Burke and Spota's blocking of Suffolk police from cooperating with federal agents on the Gilgo Beach murders.

Members of the Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic & Asian Legislative Caucus on Wednesday at the state Capitol called for the appointment of a special prosecutor to handle cases of police brutality and deaths caused by police confrontations.

But for the past week, Buffalo's legal community has been buzzing about his relationship with Pigeon — a political operative whose dealings are under investigation by the state Attorney General's Office, federal prosecutors, the State Police and the FBI.

The Westchester County Democratic Committee Chairman Mr. Reginald A. Lafayette said that he doesn't think New York State needs and Independent Prosecutor for questionable police shootings and that we have to determine whether or not we need an independent prosecutor on a case by case basis,» Chamberlain tells BW.

His latest statements allude to dangerous loopholes that would authorize a special prosecutor for only one year and would fail to cover all cases where civilians are killed by the police or die in police custody.

The Asantehene pointed out that the delays by the Department to provide timely legal advice to state and police prosecutors to discharge their duties in the law courts were source of concern to many Ghanaians, especially those involve in civil and criminal cases.

«We are clear that the yardsticks for testing the credibility and reliability of victims in sexual abuse cases do not serve the police or prosecutors well and risk leaving an identifiable group of vulnerable victims unprotected by the criminal law.

After meeting in April with relatives of New Yorkers who have died during interactions with police officers, Cuomo said that if the Legislature failed to come to an agreement on his proposal for an outside monitor, he would go a step further and enact a special prosecutor by executive action.

LaPosta urged the Democrats under investigation by the State Police «to fully and effectively cooperate with the special prosecutor in this case.

Cuomo said de Blasio was «clearly frustrated» by the legislative session and that even he did not get everything he wanted, citing a law to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate police killings that did not pass.

Advocates of Cuomo's «soup to nuts» overhaul of the criminal justice system — his response to the fatal arrest of Eric Garner and the nationwide demonstrations prompted by it and other high - profile incidents of police violence — are asking him to ignore the Legislature and appoint a special prosecutor, and he seems ready to oblige.

The half - dozen cases that are now part of the investigation, which began in 2013 and has already claimed a county police chief, were all handled by Mr. Spota's top anticorruption prosecutor, Christopher McPartland.

This program is designed to target and shut down known drug markets by establishing programs through which police can collaborate with both prosecutors and the general public.

A day after activists and the families of civilians killed by police demonstrated outside Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Midtown office, they joined him at John Jay College as he signed an executive order making Attorney General Eric Schneiderman the special prosecutor for all cases statewide in which an officer is responsible for a civilian's death — making New York the first state to create such a role to oversee the controversial issue of police - involved homicides.

ALBANY — The New York Police Department, the mayor and the city's top prosecutors on Monday endorsed a proposal to decriminalize the open possession of small amounts of marijuana, giving an unexpected lift to an effort by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to cut down on the number of people arrested as a result of police Police Department, the mayor and the city's top prosecutors on Monday endorsed a proposal to decriminalize the open possession of small amounts of marijuana, giving an unexpected lift to an effort by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to cut down on the number of people arrested as a result of police police stops.

Police and prosecutors have never disclosed the circumstances under which he was shot twice by Deputy David Hughes.

Cuomo also called for better training and more transparency in police departments, more racially diverse police forces, grand jury procedures and actions by local prosecutors.

Enrico Moriconi, a veterinarian who served as a consultant to the prosecutor and reviewed evidence gathered by the police, says that 6023 dogs died at the center between 2008 and 2012, compared with 98 in the 2 - year period that followed the animals» seizure in 2012.

If another black child is unjustly killed by a police officer, and the police officer is not found guilty, «I hope the prosecutor was not in an HLS classroom,» she said.

The uproar over the murders of black men such as Michael Brown and Eric Garner by police officers are leading criminal justice reform advocates to push legislatures and governors to enact new policies, including the creation of independent prosecutors for cases involving cops as well as the rewrite of use - of - force laws that allow rogue cops to get off scot - free.

Many readers will recognize this as a variation on the still controversial 1987 Tawana Brawley case, in which a New York State teen found in a similar condition claimed to have been raped and abused by white men, including a police officer and prosecutor.

Considering the enduring popularity of police procedurals and legal dramas in popular culture, the formula behind Capcom's Ace Attorney might read like a sure - fire money - maker — a game where you play as a rookie defense attorney named Phoenix Wright who shields his obviously innocent clients from the wrath of increasingly aggressive prosecutors by pointing out the holes in the state's case, inevitably producing the real culprit just in the nick of time.

Police and prosecutors say a lone thief has stolen five paintings worth a total of Euros 500 million ($ 613 million), including works by Picasso and Matisse.

Instead, thoughtless policies and statutory amendments like those about to be heaped upon us by the omnibus crime bill are turning some of our most important members of society — police officers, prosecutors and judges — into parodies of 1980's computer programs.

The Economist noted last November that «an unexpected by - product of Mr. Zuma's scandal - plagued presidency has been a growing public interest in the justice system...» The judiciary, said the newspaper, had acted «as a bulwark for South African democracy at a time when other institutions, including the police and state prosecutors, have been compromised.»

The videotaped police interview is not the first time Liard was accused of the crime, the prosecutors said, arguing she was first confronted by Lasota's sister and mother.

Scheck of the Innocence Project adds that the «parade of horribles» feared by prosecutors hasn't happened in other states that require early disclosure of police reports and witness statements.

New York's current laws allow prosecutors to withhold key evidence, including witness names, police paperwork and prior statements by witnesses, until immediately before the prosecutor delivers an opening statement.

He has been referred clients by other lawyers, judges, prosecutors and police officers, as well as former clients and their families.

In cases such as drug crimes, prosecutors tend to rely heavily on the evidence collected by police during a search and seizure.

Home Office Circular 16/2008 — Simple Cautioning of Adult Offenders: This circular, which replaces Home Office Circular 30/2005, provides guidance to the police and prosecutors on the use of the simple caution (and emphasises that simple cautions should generally be used for low - level offending), encourages greater consistency in the use of the simple caution, clarifies how the police and CPS responsibility for simple cautions is affected by the statutory charging scheme, sets out the process of administering a simple caution, emphasises the importance of accurate recording of simple cautions, and provides a standard simple caution pro forma.

As I have said time and time again, this work is filled with proverbial projectile vomiting, projectile diarrhea, underhandedness by too many prosecutors and police, unfairness by too many judges, and shoveling sh*t.

If someone feels that «by electronic means» must be formally - included in the definition of harassment, that suggests that police and prosecutors are deploying an impoverished idea of harassment when choosing which cases to pursue.

-- A person who falsely assumes or pretends to be a firefighter, sheriff, officer of the Florida Highway Patrol, officer of the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, fire or arson investigator of the Department of Financial Services, officer of the Department of Financial Services, officer of the Department of Corrections, correctional probation officer, deputy sheriff, state attorney or assistant state attorney, statewide prosecutor or assistant statewide prosecutor, state attorney investigator, coroner, police officer, lottery special agent or lottery investigator, beverage enforcement agent, or watchman, or any member of the Florida Commission on Offender Review and any administrative aide or supervisor employed by the commission, or any personnel or representative of the Department of Law Enforcement, or a federal law enforcement officer as defined in s. 901.1505, and takes upon himself or herself to act as such, or to require any other person to aid or assist him or her in a matter pertaining to the duty of any such officer, commits a felony of the third degree,

On the other hand, the grand jury decision, public statements by police, prosecutors, and politicians, and published articles leave out too much detail.

The Times alleges in vivid detail how Changhong used police, prosecutors and judges to try to collect monies it believed were owed by Apex.