Sentences with phrase «even by law enforcement officers»

The historic technical distinction in the law (especially in tort law) between assault and battery has been collapsed in the everyday vernacular and this had made its way even into the way that the words are used even by law enforcement officers and legislators, who grew up speaking the vernacular language like everyone else.

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It has indeed caused «severe embarrassment» to the nation, as he laments, for the Senate investigation has laid before the public the elements of a terrible irony: that acts which are illegal and unethical for citizens to engage in at home are condoned, even aggressively pursued, by American law - enforcement officers and secret agents both at home and abroad.

Once a migrant makes the decision to leave, there are a hundred ways his or her journey might be upended, from being stuck in a sort of prison camp run by the smugglers (who ransom their captives to extract even more money from their families), to arrest by law enforcement officers of varying degrees of legitimacy, to starvation and death by disease or exposure.

Unfortunately, there have also been a growing number of frivolous lawsuits, particularly actions for damages against law enforcement officers whose conduct has been judicially sanctioned by state trial and appellate courts and, in many instances, even by this Court.

But, of course, lying to law enforcement officers in an official criminal investigation, or lying to a court during a court proceeding, is a crime, even by a victim of that crime, even though lies of that type are rarely prosecuted.

A parent may even be arrested and charged with a crime by a law enforcement officer for refusing to obey the court's parenting time orders.

If you are pulled over by a law enforcement officer and can not produce proof of insurance you may still be fined even if you do have coverage.