Sentences with phrase «criminal prosecution because»

It would imply that they have full power over whether I am subjected to criminal prosecution because they claim they have the power to «investigate» anything I've done and report it.

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And the European told me that in Europe, it's really a no - no to use customer funds for your own — to gamble with that at all, that this is so criminal that if there is no criminal prosecution of Corzine, if it turns out that he did take the money, then that is going to lead the European capital markets to withdraw their money from the American capital markets, because the whole — the whole of Wall Street would turn out to be gangsters, without any prosecution, without any rule of law at all.

Sales could be prosecuted under the criminal accessory component of this law, though such prosecutions were rare, because the state's policy was meant to prevent birth - control clinics from operating in Connecticut.

It is not a criminal prosecution; questions about criminal prohibitions are involved only because the court reached out for them.

Hospital admissions fell but this was arguably only because users, burdened by the stigma of being branded criminals and the fear of prosecution, no longer felt as able to seek help when they needed it.

«Because I ordered him to testify, his testimony can not be used against him in any criminal case, except in a prosecution for perjury, giving a false statement, or otherwise failing to comply with the order to testify,» Azrack said.

The criminal prosecutions spawned by the CityTime case reached a quiet denouement when a federal judge in Manhattan sentenced Carl Bell, a computer specialist at the center of the scheme, to three years» probation, showing leniency because he had given crucial help to investigators.

Mr. Charles Ofori, according to a report by the Daily Graphic and other news portals, called for the prosecution of judges implicated in the corruption scandal because he found their actions a criminal offence.

The senior member subsequently flagged the contribution when Kasowitz notified the office of his involvement in the Trump case and instructed the campaign to return it, and the office concluded its probe after two years because it did not yield enough evidence to support a criminal prosecution.

In February 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit agreed, saying that because prosecutors could bring a criminal prosecution against him based on the contents of the decrypted files, the man «could not be compelled to decrypt the drives.»

Ignoring the picture's preposterous premise that an expert witness for the prosecution would ever exhibit such sensitivity towards a defendant in a criminal case, the film nonetheless works because of the way in which two females manage to mind - meld and make peace on a middle ground.

The NASUWT's own figures show that in 2017 out of the 119 members asked to attend a police interview because of a criminal allegation arising out of their employment, the Police / Crown Prosecution Service found that in 83 cases there was «no case to answer» or no further action required.

This will not result from the payday loan company per se but because the police were notified and information was provided resulting in a criminal investigation and successful prosecution.

Under the «Recommendations» section, criminal prosecution is immediately mentioned, stating «Because paid loot boxes in the examined video games are illegal, criminal prosecution should be undertaken if these loot boxes continue to be offered.

The US Attorney requested a stay in the case because of concerns for the integrity of «a pending criminal prosecution that has substantial overlap with the witnesses and conduct at issue in the Civil Cases».

And for Canada's 13 other jurisdictions, because they have very similar legislation, and are responsible for prosecutions under the Criminal Code, provincial and territorial Attorneys General should similarly be notified.

AMPs are attractive to regulators because they fill a gap between traditional administrative remedies and criminal prosecution.

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The court still reversed the contempt finding, holding that Markowitz had a Fifth Amendment right not to identify the clients because doing so might expose him to criminal prosecution, but that element doesn't seem to exist in the Cohen situation.

This applies directly in the case of federal criminal prosecutions in the federal courts, and applies in state courts because it is incorporated to apply in state court cases through the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States under 20th century case law applying the «Selective Incorporation doctrine.»

The U.S. Constitution has always played a role in criminal law because it defines important individual rights that must be preserved even in a state prosecution involving a state crime.

It's like giving taxpayers a second chance of coming forward on their own and amending the return filed because there would be no penalty on the taxes owed or criminal prosecution.

No one seems to want to do this, so we regularly hear of criminals avoiding prosecution because the system is under too much strain.

Professor Hoffmann rationalizes that criminal prosecution has little deterrent effect because the physician's actions in these negligence cases are not intentional.

Regardless of where you stand on the question of whether there should be criminal prosecution in these cases (you can read my thoughts on this here), any Maryland accident lawyer will tell you that this question is of little consequence to the family's wrongful death lawsuit because there is little difference to the accident case whether the conviction is for vehicular manslaughter or for the ticket that this P.G. County police officer did receive in this case (assuming the ticket is involves something beyond speeding).

I am pursuing a CRIMINAL private prosecution of the ATTORNEY GENERAL OF ONTARIO The Crown has this defense The Applicant's information failed to allege «a person» committed an indictable offence because the Attorney General (in its capacity as chief law officer) is not «a person» who can be prosecuted criminally.

«I recall making a strategic error in Magistrates» Court when, in addressing the Bench, I argued that the case should be dismissed because the prosecution had failed to disclose any evidence of mens rea, probably the most basic concept of criminal law.

You'll be in a situation where you're trussed into a process — there used to be a sense that if you went on the witness stand and you took an oath then you would tell the truth because the sanctions for not telling the truth were very great, people were worries about perjury and contempt of court — and in fact the family courts can make a reference to the criminal courts for prosecution for perjury but they just don't do it.

This is invaluable because even civil cases can expose iGaming companies to criminal prosecution.

Because criminal prosecutions take priority, plaintiffs with civil claims — workers, victims of government misconduct, consumers, and others — face severe delays in vindicating their rights.

But, federal criminal prosecutions were extremely rare in the first 90 - 150 or so years of the existence of the federal government because the scope of federal government activity relative to state government activity was much smaller, and because the combined scope of all government was smaller in a less complex economy.

On the day the case against Craigslist killer Phillip Markof's criminal prosecution was formally dismissed because of his death by suicide, Brody, Hardoon, Perkins & Kesten, LLP called a press conference to give Carmen Guzman, the mother of murder victim Julissa Brisman, an opportunity to speak about her daughter and her murder prior to attending a memorial service for victims of homicide at Boston's Garden of Peace.

If the government were to use the criminal law as a means of enforcing its public health agenda, we could potentially face the prosecution of parents for all manner of actual or perceived failures in respect of their children's health, including those who refuse or fail to vaccinate their children, because that exposes them to potentially life - threatening diseases and threatens the health of others by diminishing the «herd immunity» in the population.

However, perhaps a prosecution of a law society under Criminal Code s. 122 for its failure to perform its duties in regard to access to justice by at least trying to solve the unaffordable legal services problem would fail because, even if an official knows that a decision does affect his / her personal interests, there is no offence, «if the decision is made honestly and in a genuine belief that it was a proper exercise of his jurisdiction.

If you have a federal act that is not the Criminal Code, and you have a prosecution under the federal act and a prosecution under the Criminal Code for the same delict — I always use the word «delict» because I'm old, I suppose.