Sentences with phrase «criminal justice questions»

Back to the present day, In this prior post and in many others, I have already detailed some of the federal criminal justice questions I would love to hear asked of the candidates this season.

'' Roberts v. criminal law from Descriptive Epistemology Sentencing Law and Policy: Assailing the lack of criminal justice questions at the Roberts hearing The Senate Judiciary Committee's questioning of Judge Roberts concluded this morning, and there was another small criminal justice interlude.

Not exact matches

The recent ruling draws big questions about the criminal justice system, and how it is handling the prosecution of two children.

When you look at Scripture, God's justice is asking different questions than I think we do in the contemporary criminal justice system.

The criminal justice system answered his question at his sentencing.

By then a criminal justice major at Alabama, he also began to ask questions about the war that had caused his father's death.

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An example that is particularly relevant since the question alludes to the use of the criminal justice system to enforce property rights is that in Germany and some Nordic countries, they punish many less serious criminal offenses with «day - fines» rather than incarceration.

Cuomo, saying there is a «crisis of confidence» in the criminal justice system, signed an executive order to have the state's attorney general take over from local district attorneys, anytime a unarmed civilian is killed in an encounter with police, and there are questions about what happened.

Trump's efforts to undo much of the Obama administration's criminal justice reforms bring into question his own commitments.

DrugScope also welcomed the Council's decision that community orders should be considered as a realistic alternative to prison for drug dependent individuals, and questioned once again whether using the criminal justice system to respond to offences of drug possession was «the most effective way to reduce drug - related harms both to individuals and the wider community.»

In February, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito appointed a criminal justice commission headed by former New York State chief judge Jonathan Lippman, to look into the possibility of closing the infamous jail, and members of the real estate industry are getting more involved in answering that question.

Monday Questions — Impact of restrictions on leafleting under the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005; future of passport personal interview offices; plans for a full fiscal, monetary and banking union of the eurozone; compliance with European Council directive 2010 / 64 / EU on the right to interpretation and translation in criminal proceedings Legislation — Justice and security bill Short Debate — Long - term strategy for the arts and cultural sector

Question I was wondering whether or not the phrase / sentence / claim / statement: «The United States Federal Government ought to alter the Criminal Justice System» be hypothetically feasible?

Making reference to the Courts Act of 1993 (Act 459), Mr Justice Ofoe said Section 31 (2) holds that «an appellate court, on hearing an appeal in a criminal case, shall allow the appeal if the appellate court considers (a) that the verdict or conviction or acquittal ought to be set aside on the ground that it is unreasonable or can not be supported having regard to the evidence, or (b) that the judgement in question ought to be set aside as a wrong decision on a question of law or fact, or (c) that there was a miscarriage of justice, and in any other case shall dismiss the appeal.Justice Ofoe said Section 31 (2) holds that «an appellate court, on hearing an appeal in a criminal case, shall allow the appeal if the appellate court considers (a) that the verdict or conviction or acquittal ought to be set aside on the ground that it is unreasonable or can not be supported having regard to the evidence, or (b) that the judgement in question ought to be set aside as a wrong decision on a question of law or fact, or (c) that there was a miscarriage of justice, and in any other case shall dismiss the appeal.justice, and in any other case shall dismiss the appeal.»

«When confronted with their conduct, the Manganos and Mr. Venditto obstructed justice in an attempt to cover up their criminal behavior and Linda Mangano and John Venditto lied to federal agents when questioned about these actions,» he said.

«The jails and prisons that brutalize our children with cruelty and solitary confinement makes you question whether we have a criminal justice system at all.

Mr. Lipton added that the groups in question — Citizen Action, New York Communities for Change and Make the Road Action — had been critical to efforts to raise minimum wage and criminal justice reform, among others.

Cuomo, saying there is a «crisis of confidence» in the criminal justice system, signed an executive order to have the state's Attorney General take over from the local District Attorney, anytime a unarmed civilian is killed in an encounter with police, and there are questions about what happened.

Criminal justice reform advocates say the strategy leads to the types of confrontations that Garner, who was being questioned for selling illegal cigarettes, faced.

News organizations» abilities to build trust with sources and gather sensitive information have been called into question by recent disclosures about surveillance: the U.S. Department of Justice's admission that it secretly obtained phone records from the Associated Press, Microsoft's admission that it read a blogger's personal Hotmail account to find a source of an internal leak and criminal investigations that have used email traces to identify and prosecute anonymous sources.

Clearly told, the movie also asks questions about the criminal justice system and how the poor and minorities become trapped in it that somebody will have to answer one day, with a special focus on the war on drugs.

With exclusive access to Valle, Erin Lee Carr's unflinching documentary asks a fundamental question that challenges our beliefs about the criminal justice system, and even the very nature of right and wrong: can you be guilty of a crime you only thought about committing?

SWAT is not just about dispensing justice with deadly arsenals but gamers are also given the option of arresting the criminals so that they can be questioned at a later time.

Some of the major factors that lead to credit - deficiency and create risk are: poverty, pregnancy and parenting, questioning sexuality, full time work requirements, family issues leading to homelessness, foster care, inclusion in the criminal justice system, disengagement with traditional education systems, and other similar circumstances.

«Elkins» photographs are not an overt indictment of the American criminal justice system, but they do ask us to question our own stances on the use of capital punishment and solitary confinement.

In 2014, Eastern State received Center support for Prisons Today: Questions in the Age of Mass Incarceration, an exhibition exploring the nature of the current criminal justice system in the US.

Last March, through numerous state open records requests, E&E Legal uncovered emails showing that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman formed a secret coalition of several other states» attorneys general (AGs) and prominent green activists to use the criminal justice system to target organizations that question the climate change agenda under fraud and racketeering laws.

The Worst $ 90,000 Ever Spent: Ten Questions About Mike Duffy, Nigel Wright, the Criminal Code and the Canadian Criminal Justice System Peter Sankoff, Professor, University of Alberta Faculty of Law

«The difficulty is that the Supreme Court has said on a number of occasions that Aboriginal people face systemic discrimination in the criminal justice system,» says Rudin, «and this case doesn't really let us figure out how we're going to deal with that question.

They are unfamiliar with the criminal law and the justice system and they have many questions.

States are changing criminal justice procedures to grant inmates more access to DNA evidence, address questions about witness identifications, change the way evidence is handled and modernize other procedures, hoping the changes will result in better convictions and fewer challenges, The New York Times reports.

[13] The threshold question on this appeal is whether the justice of the peace who issued the search warrant acted on reasonable and probable grounds, as required under both the Criminal Code and the Charter.

Conor has published numerous articles in leading peer reviewed journals on questions of international law, in particular in the areas of remedies in international law, international human rights law, international humanitarian law and international criminal law including pieces in the Journal of International Criminal Justice (Oxford University Press), European Human Rights Law Review (Sweet and Maxwell) and the International Journal of Transitional Justice (Oxford University Press) amongcriminal law including pieces in the Journal of International Criminal Justice (Oxford University Press), European Human Rights Law Review (Sweet and Maxwell) and the International Journal of Transitional Justice (Oxford University Press) amongCriminal Justice (Oxford University Press), European Human Rights Law Review (Sweet and Maxwell) and the International Journal of Transitional Justice (Oxford University Press) among others.

But a more accurate title might be a «national civil law lesson,» since less than 2 % of the questioning was focused on criminal justice issues that occupy 50 % of the work of the Supreme Court.

Docket Unimportant to Senate from Injustice Anywhere... I share Professor Berman's disappointment in the failure of any of the senators on the Judiciary Committee to ask substantial and meaningful questions about criminal law of Chief Justice nominee John Roberts.

The reasons of Madam Justice Stewart depend on the presence of a crime, but there is a serious question as to whether this can be taken as having been established by a finding that is based on the civil standard (balance of probabilities) as opposed to the criminal standard (beyond a reasonable doubt).

Philip Rosen believes that this practice reflects a prosecutorial bias on the part of the Department of Justice, resulting in a «deference to judicial determinations of guilt and an insufficiently rigorous questioning of the foundations of criminal convictions.»

ILF's publication, «Measuring Justice» began to answer three baseline questions in defining and evaluating quality for criminal legal aid providers: Why does quality matter?

If you have questions about access to justice in Canada, please contact the criminal defence lawyers at Affleck & Barrison online or at 905-404-1947.

If, however, the ECtHR continues to criticise the powers of COs to «try» cases internally, this begs the question whether summary only offences (such as battery contrary to the Criminal Justice Act 1988, s 39 and AA 1955, s 70) should be tried by a CO..

In a recent judgment, Justice Lynne Smith of the British Columbia Supreme Court identified grounds upon which to reopen the question of the constitutionality of the criminal prohibition against physician - assisted dying, claiming, in effect, that while the Supreme Court had at the time of the Rodriguez been correct in stating that a blanket prohibition on physician - assisted dying would be rationally connected to the goal of protecting the most vulnerable people in Canadian society, such a prohibition is overbroad (you don't need to deny everyone the right to physician - assisted suicide in order to protect society's most vulnerable persons) and grossly disproportionate in its effects.

However, criminal cases went to the Supreme Court only when «there has been a dissent on a question of law in the provincial Court of Appeal or where the acquittal of an accused has been reversed by the Court of Appeal», as noted by former Supreme Court Justice Frank Iacobucci.

If you're considering any sort of job in one of the many criminal justice careers, chances are you have a lot of questions about what sort of careers may be available to you.

«Justices signal dismay at Texas; Decision to hear capital cases may suggest high court questions handling»: The Dallas Morning News today contains an article that begins, «The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear three Texas death penalty cases in its new term, a move that veteran court watchers called the latest signal of the court's increasing frustration with how condemned inmates» appeals are handled by Texas» highest criminal judges and the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.»

The Tories find support in a public that seems to question the justice of criminals not serving the actual sentences they receive, and the accepted law - school wisdom that we would rather see ten guilty people go free than one innocent person imprisoned.

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Imperial Oil v. Jacques, 2014 SCC 66 (35226, 35231) Justices LeBel and Wagner: «The question raised by the appeals [herein] is whether a party to a civil proceeding can request the disclosure of recordings of private communications intercepted by the state in the course of a criminal investigation.

The vast difference in outcomes for defendants assigned different counsel types raises important questions about the adequacy and fairness of the criminal justice system.

He says: «This raises serious questions about the prudence of the record criminal justice expenditure of recent years.