Sentences with phrase «complaining witness against»

Judge Wade McCree, while serving as the presiding judge in a felony child — support case against Robert King, maintained a romantic and sexual relationship with the complaining witness against King.

Not exact matches

The Bible witnesses to the struggle of the Hebrews in the wilderness where they were so preoccupied with the lack of creature comforts that they constantly complained against God and Moses.

A minor complication is that the law defines the crime in terms of «against the will of the complaining witness, by force, threat, intimidation, or ruse», which could be interpreted as «any of these five reasons».

The act is accomplished against the will of the complaining witness by force, threat or intimidation, and

The Commonwealth need not demonstrate that the complaining witness cried out or physically resisted the accused in order to convict the accused of an offense under this article, but the absence of such resistance may be considered when relevant to show that the act alleged was not against the will of the complaining witness.

If the statute said «against the will of the complaining witness by force, threat, intimidation, or ruse», it would mean «by force which is one of the following four».

Has the complaining witness brought other charges against other that were proven to be false?

The latest in the salacious saga of Michigan Judge Wade McCree has been making the law blog rounds this week (via Jonathan Turley, Above the Law), with the release of McCree's answer to the state Judicial Tenure Commission's complaint against him over a series of alleged ethics violations related to his sexual relationship with a complaining witness in a child support case.

You will likely believe that the complaining witness has no case against you, and you expect the prosecutor to see that too.

Proffitt's lawyer argued that allowing the complaining witnesses to testify would add fuel to the fire against Proffitt with his jury.