Sentences with phrase «effect of a criminal conviction»

The effect of a criminal conviction can potentially follow you for the rest of your life.

Provincial and territorial Evidence Acts speak to the admissibility and effect of a criminal conviction.

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How do they compare to costs to society of prohibition of a particular substance, in terms of law enforcement, and opportunity costs from loss of otherwise productive members of society to our criminal justice system, either through incarceration or effects of having a conviction on their record?

The consequences of a criminal conviction can be far - reaching with negative effects for years to come.

Banks, Gubbins and Andrews urges everyone who has been charged with any kind of offence to get some initial free advice to make a fully informed decision before making what may be one of the most important decisions in life, given the potentially devastating effects a criminal conviction can have.

We have consistently fought against the introduction and normalization of exceptional powers such as preventive detention, and law enforcement powers for CSIS — arguing that the existing powers in the Criminal Code are strong, far - reaching and enable Canadian police to effectively conduct lawful surveillance, to effect arrests to prevent crimes including terrorist acts from being committed, and to collect evidence that can hold up in court to ensure convictions of the guilty.

Perhaps not surprisingly, the effect of Toronto v. CUPE has been to preclude virtually any re-litigation in subsequent civil lawsuits of the essential facts underlying previous criminal convictions.

As a judge, I shared one law clerk with another judge, and that clerk's primary responsibilities involved drafting proposed orders, reviewing motions, and researching the effects of various criminal convictions from various states on different grounds of removability, largely freeing me and my fellow judge to review applications for relief and the supporting evidence for those applications.

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Encounters With the Criminal Justice System.Table 3 shows that adolescents born to nurse - visited women (treatment group 4) reported more frequent stops by police (P <.001) but fewer arrests and convictions and violations of probation (P =.005 and.001, respectively); the arrest and convictions and probation violation effects were concentrated among children born to women who were unmarried and from low - SES families (P =.03 and <.001, respectively).

We analyzed all children born in Sweden between 1983 and 2009 to investigate the effect of SDP on multiple indicators of adverse outcomes in three areas: pregnancy outcomes (birth weight, preterm birth and being born small for gestational age), long - term cognitive abilities (low academic achievement and general cognitive ability) and externalizing behaviors (criminal conviction, violent criminal conviction and drug misuse).