Sentences with phrase «criminal justice legislation»

The search for the legislative intention in the context of criminal justice legislation makes unreasonable demands on the intellectual efforts of judges and lawyers.

The Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill is a mixed bag of reforms with many having the appearance of being designed in haste — always a recipe for disaster as far as criminal justice legislation is concerned.

New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries says he expects criminal justice legislation to hit the House floor in the next few weeks with bipartisan support.

To counter such attacks, Boyle cited criminal justice legislation he helped pass that took aim at the heroin epidemic and MS - 13 gang violence.

Penalties for a host of minor offenses will be eased under a sweeping package of criminal justice legislation on which the NYC Council is set to vote tomorrow.

Still, the governor was not able to pass criminal justice legislation, and he failed to secure an education tax credit that he had personally promoted, antagonizing some of his fellow Democrats in the process.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo called the session a success, though some priorities foundered, like criminal justice legislation.

One must therefore be careful before jumping in to criticise the 68th piece of criminal justice legislation since 1997.

Assemblyman Lentol heads the Codes Committee which evaluates all criminal justice legislation in the state and shares his thoughts on what went wrong last week and what the Assembly will be focusing on in 2007 with the new administration.

has complained that «impenetrable» criminal justice legislation is causing major delays in British trials.

Our second feature takes a critical look at the federal government's changes to criminal justice legislation.

Over the last 15 years, there has been a major shift in criminal justice legislation as a result of DNA exonerations.