Sentences with phrase «defendants charged»

Fact: «Although couched in gender - neutral terms, defendants charged with failure to protect are almost exclusively female.»

In state court, pro se defendants charged with felonies fared as well as, and arguably significantly better than, their represented counterparts... of the 234 pro se defendants for whom an outcome was provided, just under 50 percent of them were convicted on any charge....

At the time of all the convictions it was understood that defendants charged with this sort of conspiracy were guilty if they knew, or had reasonable cause to suspect, that the money was the proceeds of crime.

I can't speak to what went through the minds of the good people of Starke County, Indiana, when they decided to hand over to a kid whose entire legal experience was shorter than the shelf life of refrigerated blue cheese salad dressing the authority and discretion to put people in prison, but it seems that his assertion that defendants charged with felonies are less concerned with having a jury trial than saving the county some money.

First, thousands of defendants charged with crack cocaine offenses will continue to face irrationally long sentences.

The class action alleges that the Defendants charged foreign workers large recruitment fees to obtain legal employment at Mac's Convenience Stores in Western Canada.

Most defendants charged with possession do not have the advantage of experienced representation, and prosecutors can take advantage of that.

Now, he is using over a decade of criminal justice experience to protect defendants charged with weapons crimes.

Defendants charged in nearly identical circumstances often leave court with dramatically differing consequences.

Defendant Arpaio acknowledges that there is no constitutional right to a jury trial for defendants charged with «petty» offenses where the maximum sentence does not exceed six months imprisonment,

Mr Page has experience of complex driving cases representing Defendants charged with Drink Driving / in charge, careless and dangerous driving, speeding and other motoring offences.

One of Volokh's commenters viewed the judge's comments differently, as an expression of frustation that hundreds of other indigent criminal defendants charged with crimes don't attract the same interest and support from law professors.

[4] Men continued to have a significant presence in the Women's Court, however, both as defendants charged with «morals offences» and as clerks, witnesses, police officers, and lawyers.

Melissa has also served as an Assistant Public Defender in Broward County where she represented indigent criminal defendants charged in a variety of cases ranging from misdemeanors to first degree felonies.

She has successfully defended countless criminal defendants charged with all levels of criminal offenses and DUIs, from minor traffic tickets to serious felony charges.

Likewise, nonindigent defendants charged with this offense would be well advised to hire the «best lawyers they can get.»

Because robbery is such a serious offense, defendants charged with either form of the felony are looked down upon by all facets of the legal system: judge, prosecutor, and jury.

Green rattled through a lengthy catalogue of the SFO's recent achievements: two additional deferred prosecution agreements; a conviction rate by defendant of 89.5 % in the 2016 to 2017 financial year; 14 new investigations; 43 individual and corporate defendants charged and awaiting trials; and a successful challenge to claims of legal professional privilege made by ENRC.

One of the defendants charged is a woman, Suzanne Porcelli, who was charged with four counts related to the sex trafficking operation.

Most of the forty defendants charged in the 120 - count indictment face arraignment in Rockland County Court in New City.

Ciminelli, caught up in a public corruption probe by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, is one of nine defendants charged in a criminal complaint brought by federal prosecutors.

-- A citywide bail fund to provide bail for indigent defendants charged with low level misdemeanors whose bail is set at $ 2,000 or less, funded by an initial $ 1.4 million

Further, he said he believes other defendants charged on the same day last year could be making similar requests to get their criminal cases tossed out or re-assigned to courts in upstate.

In a filing in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Winterkorn was one of six defendants charged in an alleged scheme where they knew VW vehicles did not meet U.S. emissions standards and used software to cheat the U.S. testing process.

Files are also sealed when the charges are dismissed or the defendant charged is acquitted.

Abraham: Defendant charged with rape of his daughter.

Prosecuting a Defendant charged with Robbery on a taxi driver, where her defence included an allegation of sexual assault.

So how does a defendant charged with illegal gambling prove that his activities depend on skill?

As a defendant charged with a crime, you may be looking at prison or jail time, parole or probation, and a lifetime of restrictions placed on your civil liberties.

He has also been acting for a defendant charged in a large scale charities fraud prosecuted by the Charities Commission in conjunction with the Crown Prosecution Service and various other HMRC investigations into VAT fraud.

It was commonplace that if you had a young, black defendant charged with drug possession, DC jurors were not going to send them to jail.

P. 8, as appearing in 397 Mass. 1226 (1986)(«If a defendant charged with a crime for which a sentence of imprisonment or commitment to the custody of the Department of Youth Services may be imposed initially appears in any court without counsel, the judge shall follow the procedures established in G.L. c. 211D, and in [S.J.C.] Rule 3:10»).

A direction to a defendant charged with criminal damage that he serve on the prosecution the full names, dates of birth and addresses of all defence witnesses who were to be called at trial, before he indicated his defence, has been quashed by the court, as breaching both litigation privilege and legal professional privilege.

A defendant charged with a moving or equipment / miscellaneous traffic crime is required to appear in court at the date, time and location written on the citation, penal summons complaint, bail receipt or other notice given to the defendant upon being released following a physical arrest to plead to the charge or charges.

Not exact matches

NEW YORK, April 17 - The judge overseeing the $ 1 billion fraud case of defunct New York hedge fund firm Platinum Partners has ordered a separate trial for a defendant planning to argue that Platinum Chief Investment Officer Mark Nordlicht and other defendants were guilty as charged.

On Friday, Bernstein suggested on CNN that Mueller had filed charges earlier than expected to send a message to prospective defendants.

However, Mariotti added, prosecutors sometimes bring charges earlier if it's part of an effort to coerce a defendant into «flipping» as a witness and cooperating with the investigation.

Prosecutors criminally charged seven defendants in December 2016 over two alleged fraudulent schemes involving Platinum.

NEW YORK, April 17 (Reuters)- The judge overseeing the $ 1 billion fraud case of defunct New York hedge fund firm Platinum Partners has ordered a separate trial for a defendant planning to argue that Platinum Chief Investment Officer Mark Nordlicht and other defendants were guilty as charged.

He would of course be entitled to the reasonable doubt that the law grants all defendants were he ever criminally charged for this or other actions.

The charges and allegations contained in an indictment or complaint are merely accusations, and the defendants are considered innocent unless and until proven guilty, the DOJ noted.

That same day, charges came down on Dunn and other Nortel defendants.

All the defendants were charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud the US; the IRA and two defendants were charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud; and the IRA and four defendants were charged with aggravated identity theft.

«Given the nature of the charges against the defendant and the apparent weight of the evidence against him, defendant faces the very real possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison,» Ellis said of the former campaign manager.

The suit alleges the defendants are acting as a monopoly by keeping fees they charge merchants for credit card transactions artificially high and that those fees would be lower in a free market environment.

The people named in the complaint have not been charged with crimes — the defendants in the civil lawsuits are the properties the government wants to seize.

Another defendant was already in a California prison on unrelated charges and 14 others, including four whose true names are not yet known, are fugitives mostly believed to be in Mexico.

In February, the agency dismissed charges against six defendants in the case, according to federal court records.

NEW YORK — What do you do if you're one of the most criticized defendants in the nation awaiting a jury verdict on the criminal fraud and conspiracy charges filed against you?

Most recently, the agency brought charges against an additional defendant involved in the fraudulent initial coin offering (ICO) scheme conducted by Centra Tech Inc..