Sentences with phrase «commits homicide»

Homicide 222 (1) A person commits homicide when, directly or indirectly, by any means, he causes the death of a human being.

Such non-compliance was implicated in several cases were psychiatric patients had committed homicide.

By CARL ELLIOTT «Only a physician can commit homicide with impunity,» said Pliny the Elder.

«Only a physician can commit homicide with impunity,» said Pliny the Elder.

THIRTY - SIX years ago, an American psychiatrist named Everett Ellinwood published a landmark study examining 13 people who had committed homicide while Important Announcements!

«Blawg Review # 38: Resolve to be a better blawgger Main Note to self: When committing homicide, don't post «I did it.»»

«Note to self: When committing homicide, don't post «I did it.»

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He's speaking after an appeal court judge overruled a previous decision that Oscar Pistorius had committed culpable homicide when he killed his late girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, and changed it to murder.

Twelve homicides were committed with shotguns, and four with rifles.

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

Most homicides are committed not by strangers, but by young people who lash out at friends or family.

Michael Joncas reflects on Andre Dubus» 1983 short story about a father wrestling with his conscience as he covers up the vehicular homicide committed by his daughter.

I turned intentionally to a life of crime at age twelve and found myself facing the death penalty at age twenty for offenses including conspiracies to commit bank robberies, hijackings, and homicide, and then, after a merciful and undeserved reprieve from God, spent ten years in America's worst prison trying to figure out, among other things, the nature of punishment — and «Saving Punishment» by Stephen Webb is certainly the best meditation I've come across on the subject.

Late in March, talking through a speakerphone with a homicide detective, the lawyers learned just how certain the police were that Thompson had committed the murders.

For over 15 years she prosecuted some of the most despicable defendants who committed the most heinous crimes, prosecuting hundreds of felony crimes including homicides, stalking, domestic violence, child sexual assault, and gang crimes.

Jauro and Sanni were charged before Hon. Justice Josiah Majebi of the Okene division of the High Court of Justice on four counts of criminal conspiracy to commit armed robbery, armed robbery, criminal conspiracy to commit criminal homicide and culpable homicide, all of which contravene sections of the Penal Code.

A Kingston man with alleged gang ties who already is under indictment for an Ulster County killing last fall has been indicted on charges he helped commit a February homicide in Queens, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York.

The overall number of homicides committed at U.S. schools has declined since the 1990s — a trend that jibes with the declining rate of homicides carried out by juveniles across the globe.

The changes in sleep and cortisol were largest when the crime committed the previous day was homicide, moderate for assault and sexual assault, and nonexistent for robbery.

The new knowledge about murderers who commit what is called spontaneous domestic homicide — emotionally driven crimes that are not premeditated — could enable early intervention to prevent the homicide, the authors said.

«The findings provide important information that may help prevent future domestic homicides, because they help identify individuals at risk of committing domestic murders,» said lead author Robert Hanlon, director of the forensic psychology research lab at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Among those homicides, 10 percent were committed using the officer's own service weapon.

Over 90 percent of these homicides of officers were committed using firearms, with short - barreled weapons being used 72 percent of the time.

«Our analysis shows that having access to firearms is a significant risk factor for men committing suicide and for women being victims of homicide,» said Andrew Anglemyer, PhD, MPH, an expert in study design and data analytics in Clinical Pharmacy and Global Health Sciences at UCSF, who is also a U.S. Army veteran.

Homicides committed by patients with mental illness have received much media attention, but patients» risk of being victims of homicide and their relationship to the perpetrators has rarely been examined.

In 2003, the South Carolina Supreme Court upheld the conviction of Regina McKnight, an African American woman who was convicted at the age of twenty - two for committing «homicide by child abuse.»

Detective Lilly Rush (Kathryn Morris) remains committed to resolving unsolved crimes with the help of the Philadelphia Police Department's homicide squad in the fourth season of «Cold Case.»

Directed from a Buck Henry script, this uber - dark comedy casts Kidman as Suzanne Stone, a television broadcaster ready and eager to commit one homicide after another to propel herself to the top.

Paramount: why in the world would anyone, especially a professor and department head of psychology NOT lock up someone who has committed attempted homicide and has been cutting themselves?

Fargo (1996): Jerry Lundegaard plans a poorly thought out crime to improve his financial situation, but things get even worse when the kidnapping plot leads to murder and a local sheriff commits to solving the homicides.

We don't get much in - ring action in The Hurricane because the real - life backstory of boxer Rubin «The Hurricane» Carter is even more compelling — Carter was twice convicted for a triple - homicide that many believe he did not commit.

And on the fiction front, Cristi Puiu, in Aurora, fastidiously observed his main character's increasingly irrational behavior in a perhaps deliberately failed attempt to get inside the head of a seemingly normal individual who commits four acts of homicide.

December 6, 2012 • A study in Newark, N.J., found that homicides committed over a quarter century spread out very much like an infectious disease epidemic.

The two play a homicide and arson cop, respectively, who have to track down two crazy Eastern Europeans who commit a series of serial murders in order to cater to the Jerry Springer - heavy nature of American notoriety and fame.

Such wanton homicide might incense the Kenyan people against Al - Shabaab, while the top - level people would go on living and committing their atrocities.

Richmond homicide detective Felicia Stone and Trondheim police inspector Odd Singsaker find themselves working on similar murder cases, committed the same way, but half a world away.

So I haven't always written under that banner, but I've been interested for a long time in writing from the POV of someone who commits a crime, especially homicide.

In that same study it was found 100 % of people who committed sexual homicide had abused animals.

Post-mortems of a different kind were perhaps on David Rayson's mind when he painted Patio in 1998 — a decade in which the paved backyard became synonymous in the UK with the concealment of suburban homicide thanks both to a series of murders committed by Fred and Rose West in Gloucester, and to a sensational plotline in the soap opera Brookside.

Manslaughter is defined as a homicide committed without the intention to cause death.

If the person is convicted of committing a second violation within a 20 - year period of driving under the influence of alcohol or other drug, failure to stop and render aid in a motor vehicle accident involving death or personal injury, or reckless homicide, or any combination of these offenses, then a person may not apply for reinstatement until after the expiration of 5 years from the effective date of the most recent revocation.

Whether accused of healthcare fraud or homicide, our criminal defense team is committed to ensuring you receive the fair trial to which you are entitled.

There, all charges against Phillips stemming from a 1971 homicide were dismissed — after he spent 45 years in prison for a crime he insists he didn't commit.

Idem (5) A person commits culpable homicide when he causes the death of a human being,

In late 2012 an arrest warrant for eight former army offices went out; six were accused of complicity to commit murder, and two for homicide.

Murder in commission of offences 230 Culpable homicide is murder where a person causes the death of a human being while committing or attempting to commit high treason or treason or an offence mentioned in section 52 (sabotage), 75 (piratical acts), 76 (hijacking an aircraft), 144 or subsection 145 (1) or sections 146 to 148 (escape or rescue from prison or lawful custody), section 270 (assaulting a peace officer), section 271 (sexual assault), 272 (sexual assault with a weapon, threats to a third party or causing bodily harm), 273 (aggravated sexual assault), 279 (kidnapping and forcible confinement), 279.1 (hostage taking), 343 (robbery), 348 (breaking and entering) or 433 or 434 (arson), whether or not the person means to cause death to any human being and whether or not he knows that death is likely to be caused to any human being, if

It is true that Penal Code, section 197, subdivision 1, does provide that homicide is justifiable when resisting an attempt to commit a felony.

The fact that I killed John Doe while he was committing a felony, in direct relation to the fact that I oversaw the criminal act, it will be part of the necessary prima facie showing needed to mount the defense of excusable homicide.

The vast majority of homicides are committed by those without mental health disorders.

Within this category falls DUI, reckless driving, aggressive driving, and committing aggravated vehicular battery or vehicular homicide.