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However, given the nature of the comments made by the court, it is likely that these comments will be used by prosecutors in future cases.

In sum, I questions the assertion that federal judges «should not make policy judgments» at sentencing because: (1) such judgments seem inevitable and are clearly made by prosecutors in every criminal case, and (2) a fair reading of the text of 3553 (a) suggests that Congress has ordered federal judges to make individualized policy judgments in each and every sentencing.

The Judge offers the following generic model, used by prosecutors in criminal cases, as a starting point to create your own syllogisms:

But Hurley's attorneys contend that the deception was the only means available to Hurley to obtain this information and that Hurley's actions were no different from tactics employed by prosecutors in their investigations.

Transforming Summary Justice follow - up report, discovered that the duty to disclose unused material was complied with fully by prosecutors in only 56.9 % of applicable cases within the file sample.

Jurors have heard nine weeks of testimony put forth by prosecutors in efforts to buttress their case that Edward Mangano and Venditto took bribes from restaurateur Harendra Singh.

Silver is the most prominent in a string of state lawmakers convicted by prosecutors in the office of Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.

Cuomo said Singas» probe would supersede other investigations by prosecutors in the case.

NYCHA's compliance with federal requirements «regarding lead and lead - based paint in public housing,» is being probed by prosecutors in US Attorney Preet Bharara's office, Judge Deborah A. Batts wrote in the order.

The searches open a new front for the Justice Department in its scrutiny of Mr. Trump and his associates: His longtime lawyer is being investigated in Manhattan; his son - in - law, Jared Kushner, is facing scrutiny by prosecutors in Brooklyn; his former campaign chairman is under indictment; his former national security adviser has pleaded guilty to lying; and a pair of former campaign aides are cooperating with Mr. Mueller.

The warrants in the Cohen case were reportedly obtained by prosecutors in the US attorney's office in the Southern District of New York.

It is unclear whether it would have put to rest the mortgage investigation by prosecutors in California.

Cohen is under federal criminal investigation by prosecutors in New York.

Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, both conservatives, hinted during an hour - long argument in the case at support for the Justice Department's stance that because Microsoft is based in the United States it was obligated to turn over data sought by prosecutors in a U.S. warrant.

Schegelskaya's name is also on a list of 13 people, including Vannoni, who have been under investigation since 2009 by a prosecutor in Turin for fraud, conspiracy, and allegedly administering drugs that could harm public health.

The EAW was issued by a prosecutor in Sweden.

As such, the decision whether to use a stay should be made independently by the prosecutor in accordance with the traditions of the prosecutor as a Minister of Justice.

(b) Acts undertaken by a prosecutor in preparing for the initiation of judicial proceedings or for trial, and which occur in the course of his role as an advocate for the State, are entitled to the protections of absolute immunity.

Not exact matches

FBI agents seized documents using several warrants after the case was referred in part by Mueller to New York federal prosecutors, Cohen attorney Stephen Ryan wrote in an email.

To avoid such a danger, the Justice Department creates a «taint team» of lawyers not involved in the case to review records and decide which ones shouldn't be seen by prosecutors on the case.

«We don't know exactly what McGahn said, but the mere fact that he put a stop to that letter is another piece of evidence that Mueller could use to say, «Donald Trump was warned by the White House counsel that this was a problematic step and decided to do it anyway,»» former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti told Business Insider in September.

During the trial, prosecutors argued that Dzhokhar was a full and equal partner in the bombing, while Clarke characterized him as a naive teenager who was greatly influenced and radicalized by his older brother.

The Air Force Court of Appeals in May 2017 also reversed a conviction in the sexual assault case U.S. v. Boyce after finding that public statements by Sens. Claire McCaskill and Kirsten Gillibrand regarding the «Marines United» scandal earlier this year created «the appearance of unlawful command influence» in the case, as retired Col. Don Christensen, a former Air Force chief prosecutor and current president of the advocacy group Protect Our Defenders, told Task & Purpose at the time.

Perhaps the closest parallel was in a case filed by federal prosecutors against Lavabit, a privacy - oriented email service used by Edward Snowden.

Trump and Cohen had sought a delay because of a pending criminal investigation of Cohen by federal prosecutors in New York.

The case has echoes of WhatsApp's repeated blockage in Brazil, where prosecutors were frustrated by their inability to access the private messages of a suspect in a major drug case.

A spokesman for the prosecutors in the city of Brunswick (Braunschweig) told Fortune that recent disclosures suggesting that chief executive Martin Winterkorn was aware of the long - running deception of U.S. regulators already in May 2014 — over a year before the company finally admitted it to the world — weren't enough by themselves to justify opening an investigation into the former boss.

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.

Nicolas De-Meyer, 40, was identified in an indictment unsealed Wednesday by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, who say he used a fake name, «Mark Miller,» to sell hundreds of bottles of the stolen wine to a North Carolina wine dealer he had found on the internet from 2014 to 2016.

She's more emblematic of the 1990s than of the 2000s, but remember this: Martha Stewart bet that by not appealing her conviction (for lying to prosecutors, in case you forgot) and by simply getting her five - month prison stretch done with in March 2005, she would minimize the damage to her reputation and quickly get her company back on track.

The night after they obtained a guilty verdict against one defendant, in 2011, prosecutors and their staff spent a total of $ 763.80 for dinner at a country club (divided by the 18 individuals present, that comes out to $ 42.39 each).

A wave of insider trading cases brought by Manhattan federal prosecutors, meanwhile, resulted in Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam's conviction in 2011 and a $ 1.8 billion settlement and plea deal in 2013 with hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors LP.

«The only way the American people can have faith in this investigation is for it to be led by a fearless, independent special prosecutor.»

Other key matters under investigation by Mueller's team, with its 17 career prosecutors, include whether Trump or any of his associates helped Russia meddle in the 2016 campaign.

McIntyre, identified only as «Individual 1» in the complaint, was defrauded of $ 400,000 by Caspersen, according to prosecutors.

But the account echoed wording in a comment made a day earlier to The Associated Press by longtime Comey friend Daniel Richman, a former federal prosecutor, who said the president had removed «somebody unwilling to pledge absolute loyalty to him.»

Foreign oil companies would refuse to dish out any more money to develop the country's resources if it knew that it could be kicked out at any moment by overzealous prosecutors in small towns.

Legal experts told Business Insider that the plea deal struck by Michael Flynn, the former White House national security adviser, with the special counsel Robert Mueller was most likely evidence that Flynn has damaging information to offer prosecutors on other persons of interest in the Russia investigation.

The president's credibility has also been tainted by her sometimes erratic response to the shocking death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman as he was investigating an alleged cover - up deal between her government and Iran to shield the Islamic Republic from prosecution in the 1994 bombing of Jewish center.

Dutch prosecutors have revealed that Slobodan Praljak died of a heart attack after drinking cyanide as his conviction and sentence for war crimes was affirmed by the the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands, on Wednesday.

Hired by prosecutors, Zdziarski's job included analyzing the phones of the defendants for proof that they participated in the plan to rob and murder Lambert — even as several of them vehemently denied it.

The FBI was acting as part of a probe related to Cohen by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, who were acting on a referral from special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election as well as potential collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.

Such decrees have been cited by Venezuela prosecutors as a means of extracting bribes in some recent PDVSA corruption cases.

«Group after group and committee after committee within GM that reviewed the issue failed to take action or acted too slowly,» Anton Valukas, the former federal prosecutor hired by the automaker to investigate the reason for the delay, said in a 315 - page report.

The FBI agent says De-Meyer denied using a fake name, as he was accused of doing in an indictment unsealed Wednesday by federal prosecutors in Manhattan.

While they opened the trial by admitting Tsarnaev's role, he has maintained his not - guilty plea, leaving prosecutors to first convince the jury of his guilt before moving on to the question of whether he should be sentenced to death or to life in prison without possibility of parole.

At the conclusion of his four - month trial in 2007, prosecutors sought to convict on two alternative theories: one, that defendants actually stolen money from the company or; two, that by failing to disclose these payments, they'd deprived shareholders of their intangible right to honest services.

chairman of the Renova Group asset management company.Treasury said two of his associates in the company had been arrested by Russian prosecutors in a bribery investigation connected to a power generation project.

KPMG had been struggling in the years before the conduct is said to have occurred, having fared poorly in audit inspections by the PCAOB in 2013 and 2014, federal prosecutors said.

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.