Sentences with phrase «elect by indictment»

If you're charged with a serious crime such as sexual assault, aggravated assault, the crown is going to elect by indictment.

Not exact matches

Early on Wednesday the NYPost reported that «Queens Assemblyman William Scarborough was hit Wednesday morning with a 23 - count indictment charging him with using campaign funds for personal expenses, authorities said.Scarborough, a Democrat first elected in 1994 to represent the 29th Assembly District in southeast Queens, was arrested following a joint probe by the offices of state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.»

By then, electeds are facing a criminal indictment and prison.

A 13 - count federal indictment alleges that Mangano, the highest - ranking elected official in Nassau County, and Venditto used their positions to help the federally indicted Singh, who was identified by sources, to procure lucrative county contracts and loans guaranteed by the town of Oyster Bay.

The Court also rejected the trial Judge's finding that the law was sound because the mandatory minimum sentence only applied where the Crown elected to proceed by indictment and that the «reasonable exercise of Crown discretion would result in summary proceedings».

However, there is a category of hybrid offences where, even when the Crown elects to proceed by indictment, the accused will have no choice as to mode of trial, but must be tried by a Provincial Court judge.

If the Crown elects to proceed by Indictment then the accused can choose (or elect) to have his trial heard by a Judge or by both a Judge and Jury in Supreme Court.

Assault is a hybrid offence, meaning that the prosecutor can elect to proceed summarily or by indictment.

If charged with a section 271 sexual assault, the Crown will elect how they wish to proceed; either summarily or by indictment.

The Crown elected to proceed by indictment.

Since 2005, if the Crown elects to proceed by indictment, the maximum sentence is five years incarceration, increased from the previous maximum of two years.

The district judges shall be elected by the qualified electors of their respective districts, and shall hold office for the term of 6 years (excepting those elected at said first election) from and including the first Monday of January, next succeeding their election and qualification; provided, that the First Judicial District shall be entitled to, and shall have three district judges, who shall possess co-extensive and concurrent jurisdiction, and who shall be elected at the same times, in the same manner, and shall hold office for the like terms as herein prescribed, in relation to the judges in other judicial districts, any one of said judges may preside on the empanneling [empaneling] of grand juries and the presentment and trial on indictments, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by law.