Sentences with phrase «criminal justice case»

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The Supreme Court decided two key criminal justice cases Monday, upholding individual rights.

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In the first such criminal case targeting Russia, the Department of Justice is charging a pair of Russian spies with directing the 2014 attack on Yahoo.

«Its report said the case could revive «accusations that the criminal justice system favoured those from the middle and upper classes.»

Justice Department confirms criminal probe in Uber case.

Most of the civil forfeiture cases have been put on hold while the Justice Department is pursuing a criminal investigation.

Matthew Whitaker, a former US attorney and 2014 Republican primary candidate in Iowa's Senate race who is now the executive director of the conservative Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, told Business Insider in an email that Comey's testimony made it «clear» that «there is absolutely no criminal case to be made against President Trump for obstruction of justice.»

He also wanted to know if the Department of Justice was pursuing a criminal case against Flynn, and expressed concern that firing Flynn could «interfere with the FBI taking action against» him.

But while Justice Department documents sometimes publicly identify «secure government wallets,» many criminal cases do not, making it unclear where the Bitcoin went.

He went on to use the specifics of Mill's case to paint a picture of injustice in the criminal justice system at large, including how black people are disproportionately imprisoned for probation or parole violations.

Only if the RCMP pursues a criminal case is there any hope of justice in the investors» eyes, and so far there have been no charges.

FBI agents on the case expected that Petraeus would be asked to resign immediately rather than risk the possibility that he could be blackmailed to give intelligence secrets to foreign intelligence agencies or criminals... [T] he FBI, Justice Department, and the White House held off on asking for Petraeus» resignation until after the election... FBI agents on the case were aware that such a decision had been made to hold off on forcing him out until after the election and were outraged.

Samson had pleaded guilty in July to bribery in a criminal case brought by the U.S. Justice Department.

The DNC may have concerns about exactly how much justice and / or transparency it is going to obtain under the criminal probe into the same matter by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and wants its own civil RICO action to move forward in case the former turns out to be a dud investigation.

Bill Cosby's wife is calling for a criminal investigation into the prosecutor behind his sexual assault conviction, saying the case was «mob justice, not real justice» and a «tragedy» that must be undone.

Coming on the heels of prestige true crime series like Serial and HBO's The Jinx, the Netflix's documentary series offers an astonishing look at the criminal justice system through the bizarre case of Steven Avery.

When we seek instead to «pay something back to the victims and bring them closure,» we are doing a justice either lower (as in civil - court cases) or higher (as in repaying blood with blood)» but, in any case, something that should not be a model for how we deal with criminals.

I, for one, am willing to let the procedures of criminal justice play out (all the while, I am thankful that strong spokesmen for the African - American community made this case so public).

By this time I'd earned an M.S. in Criminal Justice, my focus in this degree was case law and judiciary process, which of course included an extensive study of policing histories and practices.

He simply can not be expected to judge all the cases that are so hard to prove, even in the criminal justice system.

The Philadelphia scandal could open a historic chapter in the abuse crisis, church watchers say, changing the way the American criminal justice system deals with such alleged cases.

But the mystery of human freedom and the requirement of justice itself to treat like cases with a like response render that ideal virtually useless in the criminal justice system.

Cuomo has spoken in recent days both to Lynch as well as activists including Russell Simmons and Jay Z regarding potential reforms to the state's criminal justice system following the Garner case.

«I have faith and trust in the criminal justice system, and similarly I have faith and trust that this jury took its responsibility to weigh the evidence in this case seriously and render a verdict that they deemed appropriate.

On the prayer by the engineers asking for an order of perpetual injunction restraining the Lagos State Attorney General or any officer under his authority from initiating or commencing criminal proceedings against them based on the verdict of the Coroner, Justice Buba held that such request was ungrantable in the circumstance of the case under review.

These cases are often dealt with outside the criminal justice system: a woman filmed crushing a kitten and the video's cameraman both lost their jobs following a «successful» human flesh search and a man recorded arguing with a foreigner over a traffic violation was forced to make an apology on national TV.

A top official at the state Division of Criminal Justice Services who was found to have threatened female employees with physical violence and engaged in years of sexual harassment, racism and ageism was not disciplined by the agency, which instead punished two women who provided testimony about the case to the state IG's office.

Walter is calling on the Inspector General's office to open an investigation into the way the Division of Criminal Justice Services and the State Police administration handled the case.

Two female employees at the state Division of Criminal Justice Services who were punished following their testimony in a sexual harassment investigation have not been contacted by the ethics commission that was asked more than a month ago by Cuomo to conduct an expedited review of the case.

Cuomo's chief counsel issued a statement Sunday saying their office had asked the Governor's Office of Employee Relations to «investigate» the treatment of a female attorney who was terminated by the Division of Criminal Justice Services after testifying as a witness in a sexual harassment case last year.

An intelligence contractor was charged with sending a classified report about Russia's interference in the 2016 election to the news media, the Justice Department announced, the first criminal leak case under President Trump.

Two female employees at the state Division of Criminal Justice Services who were punished following their testimony in a sexual harassment investigation have not been contacted by the ethics commission that was asked more than a month ago by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to conduct an expedited review of the case.

As a Supreme Court Justice, Judge Fahey was assigned to handle a civil calendar as well as criminal Special Term and presided over a variety of cases in Erie County as well as the outlying counties in the Eighth Judicial District.

«It is of great concern that sexual assault cases have not been pursued with full vigor by our criminal justice system. . .

According to the New York Daily News, Cuomo said: «It is of great concern that sexual assault cases have not been pursued with full vigor by our criminal justice system.»

The five - justice panel heard appeals in a number of civil and criminal cases Friday, including a medical malpractice case, a divorce dispute and the legality of an arrest in a criminal case.

The plaintiff, however, is urging the court to hold that Sections 293 and 294 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) of 201 which the EFCC relied on to secure remand orders from a magistrate court were inapplicable in his case.

Capping how long cases can go on and putting pressure on the system to speed up case processing will help move Rikers toward the 5,000 - population goal while also reducing the impact the criminal justice system can have on individuals, she added.

Although the particular consequences of the criminal justice system's failures were exceptional in this instance, our research suggests that the case is worryingly indicative of wider, systemic failings.

Cuomo said the order was necessary because there is a «crisis of confidence in the criminal justice system» following several high profile cases in New York City and across the country where police have killed unarmed men.

Former city Correction Commissioner Martin Horn has, like Mark - Viverito, championed proposals to drive down Rikers» population by diverting the mentally ill and expediting court cases to speed pretrial detainees through the criminal justice process.

Gurian and several others have been dought to justice and the case is winding down with an announcement Wednesday by the U.S. Attorney's office in Albany that $ 4.7 million of forefeited criminal assets will go the Albany County Sheriff's Department to help fight crime.

With criminal cases languishing for years, a plague of delays in the Bronx criminal courts is undermining one of the central ideals of the justice system, the promise of a speedy trial.

@Anixx When you are a witness in a criminal case, you claim you don't remember anything and a court finds that to be very unlikely, it can bring you in trouble for obstruction of justice in some jurisdictions.

The case, along with a police shooting in Missouri of teenager Michael Brown that led to no charges of a local police officer there, led to a series of protests in cities around the country and a debate over police tactics as well as calls to reform the criminal justice system.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant Attorney General Meredith McGowan, under the supervision of Felice Sontupe, Section Chief, Terri Gerstein, Chief of the Labor Bureau, Janet Sabel, Executive Deputy Attorney General for Social Justice, and Nancy Hoppock, Executive Deputy Attorney General for Criminal Justice.

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.

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During his annual State of the State speech, Cuomo, a Democrat, announced a seven - point program to address criminal justice reforms, which included an independent monitor to investigate cases when unarmed civilians are killed by police.

In 2003, the Criminal Justice Act increased the pre-charge detention period for terrorism cases from seven to 14 days.