Sentences with phrase «ever prosecuted»

Adding insult to injury, a 2004 sex crimes study found that just half of rape cases resulting in an arrest were ever prosecuted (PDF).

But experience in the US, where DPAs have a long history, may suggest otherwise: few individual defendants are ever prosecuted following a DPA, fewer still ever go to jail.

But because of the weak protections afforded to livestock under state cruelty laws, only the most shocking cases are reported, and few are ever prosecuted.

Amazon also uses this argument to defend its previous bullying of publishers when they agreed to switch to an «agency model» of pricing, referring to the practice as «illegal collusion» (though in fact, no publisher was ever prosecuted for collusion).

«Only between 5 percent and 20 percent of forcible rapes in the United States are reported tot he police; a paltry 0.4 percent to 5.4 percent of rapes are ever prosecuted; and just 0.2 percent to 2.8 percent of forcible rapes culminate in a conviction that includes any time in jail for the assailant.

The «massive and brazen cyber assault» is «one of the largest state - sponsored hacking campaigns ever prosecuted by the Department of Justice,» U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman of the Southern District of New York, where the indictment was filed, said at a press conference this morning.

A former Spanish translator at the NYC Department of Education has been slapped with a $ 20,000 fine for what officials described as one of the biggest time thefts ever prosecuted by the city's ethics board.

And no medieval philosopher was ever prosecuted for a conclusion in natural philosophy.

Berman said the case is one of the largest state - sponsored hacking campaigns ever prosecuted by the Justice Department.

Which goes some way to explain why the police are struggling to imagine how they'll ever prosecute anyone under the Act.

Not exact matches

The announcement was a big one, to be sure: Zambada would be the highest - ranking cartel leader ever to be prosecuted in the United States.

No Christian writer of the New Testament, so far as our records reveal, ever faced the responsibility of applying high moral principles to preserving the institutions of society, administering governments, handling international relationships, prosecuting social reforms, or even mitigating by public measures the inequities of an economic system.1

Perhaps most shocking of all is that of all the British Muslims arrested since 2001 for terror offences, often named in the media and with their reputations forever dirtied, only a third were ever charged, just 12 % were prosecuted, and six per cent convicted.

... appointed the office's first - ever Hate - Crimes prosecutor, who is specially - trained to investigate and prosecute violations of the state's hate - crime statutes.

He added: «This power will give our law enforcement agencies the tools they need to tackle the increasingly complex and global nature of terrorism and gather and analyse evidence to prosecute terrorists who make ever greater use of new technology such as encrypted computers.»

A lifelong prosecutor with more than two decades of experience in the courtroom, Madeline has successfully prosecuted violent criminals, drug dealers, corrupt law enforcement officers and sex offenders, and started and led Nassau County's first - ever Special Victims Bureau.

Sterling K. Brown, who plays prosecuting attorney Christopher Darden, says it's easy to see why «The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story» drew in millions of viewers, becoming cable's most - watched new show of 2016 and FX's highest rated first - year series ever.

Despite our reported findings, I understand that no individual has ever been prosecuted for operating an unregistered school.

September 2009: Washington, D.C. — The Association of Prosecuting Attorneys» first - ever conference on Prosecuting Animal Cruelty and Fighting Cases, held at George Washington University Law School and sponsored by the Animal Welfare Institute

Now, more than ever, training is available for animal control officers to learn more about animal cruelty, how to gather evidence for it, and how to prosecute it.

More than ever, artists were condemned and even prosecuted, especially after the infamous attempts of particular political mechanisms to discredit, enable or even destroy art which embraced the ideas of equality, solidarity, modernization, and emancipation.

More than 1,000 rural activists, small farmers, religious workers and others fighting the region's rampant deforestation have been slain in the past 20 years, but only a handful of killers have ever been successfully prosecuted, according to a statement by the Pastoral Land Commission, a Catholic organization that tracks rural violence.

P.S. BTW If the climate change cartel ever do decide to prosecute we sceptics for crimes against humanity, it's me that will be in trouble not you.

Update: I posted this blog on Friday morning, Nov. 22, and at the time, no U.S. wind energy company had ever been prosecuted for violating federal bird protection laws.

So far no - one has ever been prosecuted, despite billions of euros of illegal or risky timber sold in Europe every year.

Add that the subject will likely have public relevance and sympathies and, probably, money enough for a crack team of lawyers, and you conclude that any prosecutor who goes that way without an airtight case will appear to the public to be wasting public resources to prosecute a minor crime (that many people won't ever consider as a crime) in order to get publicity.

Richard Hall thinks it's unlikely Blair will ever be prosecuted by the ICC for the Crime of Aggression, which the court will attempt (again) to define this summer, because it will lack temporal jurisdiction.

Career highlights include defending a director prosecuted in the largest direct tax prosecution ever conducted by CPS Revenue & Customs Division; advising a range of individuals involved in the US / UK investigations into the alleged manipulation of the foreign exchange market and the LIBOR / EURIBOR rate; pursuing an appeal against a sentence to the European Court of Human Rights; and conducting an internal investigation on behalf of a pharmaceutical company.

A victim can, in practice, not complain about a crime to law enforcement, and if no one ever tells law enforcement, the criminal justice system will never learn about it prior to the death of the perpetrator or the expiration of the statute of limitations, and the crime will never be prosecuted.

Or how about Jack McCoy — you ever see him prosecuting bad guys in a t - shirt and cargo shorts?

«No one ever says to a Crown attorney at a cocktail party: «How can you prosecute those people?»

Misusing the tools of «prosecutorial discretion» — justifications for not prosecuting a case — and «administrative closure» — continuances granted to avoid trial — prompted dismissals and ever - growing caseloads.»

If you have had more than one alcohol or drug - related arrest and are going to be prosecuted as a repeat offender, it is now more important than ever to consult with an experienced criminal defense / DWI attorney.

There is also a misconception that people are not charge or prosecuted for possession marijuana; they are — at an ever increasing rate.

Father and son in one of the first ever cases brought by the FSA (as it then was) for insider dealing and the subsequent legal challenge to the FSA's power to prosecute.

The decision to prosecute Nick Griffin, of the British National Party, on race hate charges, of which he was acquitted, arguably gave Griffin access to more media coverage than ever and led to allegations from concerned racial and religious groups that English race hate laws were intended to be more cosmetic than effective.