Sentences with phrase «evidence by the crime»

Second, the contamination of the DNA evidence by the crime lab renders it completely unreliable.

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He recalled that in the one case that perhaps came closest — the show - trial conviction of several influential military and intelligence officers for drug trafficking and other crimes in 1989 — there was even some circumstantial evidence that the illicit activities had been tolerated by superiors.

High - level Justice Department officials and a magistrate judge had to conclude there was probable cause that Cohen had evidence of a federal crime, that he could not be trusted to hand over evidence voluntarily, and that there was reason to believe Cohen had voided his attorney - client privilege by «engaging in crime or fraud,» attorney Ken White writes.

The Enrollment Program also authorizes a superior court to have jurisdiction over enrollees by allowing it to «appoint a receiver, monitor, conservator, or other designated fiduciary or officer of the court for a defendant or the defendant's assets,» as well as authorizes the Commissioner of Business Oversight to «include in civil actions claims for ancillary relief, including restitution and disgorgement, on behalf of a person injured, as well as attorney's fees and costs, and civil penalties of up to $ 25,000» for up to four years after the purported violation occurred and «refer evidence regarding violations of the bill's provisions to the Attorney General, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the United States Department of the Treasury, or the district attorney of the county in which the violation occurred, who would be authorized, with or without this type of a reference, to institute appropriate proceedings.»

Rudolph W. Giuliani's media blitz to convince the public that neither Donald Trump nor his lawyer had violated the law by paying a porn star to keep quiet about an alleged affair might have backfired, giving investigators new leads to chase and new evidence of potential crimes, legal analysts said.

Though some analysts cite evidence that indictments from the ICTY deterred war crimes in Yugoslavia, such claims are vastly overshadowed by the Serb massacre of some eight thousand Bosnian Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in July 1995, with the Hague sulking in the north.

On Thursday the UN Security Council unanimously agreed to set up an investigation to collect evidence of crimes against humanity and possible genocide committed by Islamic State (IS) in Iraq.

The Christian god is guilty of horrid crimes against humans Evidenced by the atrocities recorded in the bible

«Attempts now to rewrite the story of this hate crime appear to be based on untrustworthy sources, factual errors, rumors and innuendo rather than the actual evidence gathered by law enforcement and presented in a court of law,» the spokesperson said.

Since his first arrest, Byle has been plagued by problems with Turkish authorities, including a five - year court battle for residency that ended, seemingly, in January 2015, when a court ruled that the government had not shown significant evidence that he was «a threat to national security and public morals» or that he had ever even committed a crime.

When it comes to the death penalty, 310 people convicted of crimes in the U.S. have been exonerated by DNA evidence since 1989, according to The Innocence Project.

«But if this charge is true (that she wasn't a virgin on her wedding night), and evidence of the girls virginity is not found, they shall bring the girl to the entrance of her fathers house and there her townsman shall stone her to death, because she committed a crime against Israel by her unchasteness in her father's house.

But you are correct that the actual case / crime only entails the actual struggle, and by that point it was just two dumb - dumbs in a fight, and the lack of evidence is what really made acquittal the only choice for the jury.

«Attempts now to rewrite the story of this hate crime appear to be based on untrustworthy sources, factual errors, rumors and innuendo rather than the actual evidence gathered by law enforcement and presented in a court of law.

If and when there is doc - umentation and proof showing anyone in the RC hierarchy has committed a crime by participating in or knowingly and purposely hiding evidence, then he should be arrested and prosecuted according to the law.

So while there were no «headset malfunctions» or «surreptitous video surveillence» people forget that the cover0up is worse than the crime, and Amendola should be charged by NFL security with destruction of evidence and obstruction of justice for giving away a ball that should of been properly marked «Exhibit A.»

Offering no evidence to back up his claim, the president said former national security adviser Susan Rice may have committed a crime by seeking the identities of Trump associates who were swept up in the surveillance of foreign officials by American spy agencies and that other Obama administration officials may also have been involved.

Now if the police had enough evidence or witnessed a crime happening, failed / neglected to act accordingly by arresting, then later that day or the next day that crazy guy walking around with a gun shoots you or kills a family member, hell yeah sue.

The charges mark the second major inquiry of the Cuomo administration by the office of Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan; eight months ago, after investigating Mr. Cuomo's handling of an anticorruption panel that he had created and abruptly shut down, Mr. Bharara said there was «insufficient evidence to prove a federal crime.»

In the May 12, 2016, article that prompted Bellone to call for Spota's resignation, Newsday reported that sources said wiretaps from the 2008 prosecution of criminal defense attorney Robert Macedonio contained «evidence of a lot of crimes that have not been acted upon» by Spota's office.

All five of the men, juveniles at the time they were tried and sentenced, were exonerated when DNA evidence proved another man had committed the crime by himself.

When I found they tried to hide from me for ever, I have the braveness and candidness to post my testimony and evidence on the web, into the light for public scrutiny; By contrast, ZZZ / YYY / VVV continue to hide their real identities and materials they made up (e.g. Gabriele Scheler's recanted testimony) to mess up this case in the darkness, which leaves room for ZZZ / YYY / VVV to crook justice on their hands; I believe ZZZ / YYY / VVV had colluded with Scheler and Thrun to terrorize / extort authorities, as well, which should be another set of crimes from them against human society;

Justice E.S Chukwu of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, Tuesday, admitted as evidence, a compact disc (CD) tendered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to the effect that the statements of Imaobong Akon Esu - Nte, an accountant with the Nigeria Prison Service and five others being prosecuted by the agency were voluntarily rendered.

«Most people in this country do drink safely and responsibly but the evidence of the damage that is caused by those who don't is plain to see; alcohol abuse still costs us # 20 billion a year in crime and damage to health.»

The appeal comes after a statement1 by Justice Minister Andrew Selous that proposals to create a new offence of «failure to prevent economic crime» would not be taken forward, with the minister saying that there is «little evidence of corporate economic wrongdoing going unpunished».

Lucas, with support from Dominic Raab, Sadiq Khan, John McDonnell and countless others, has been at the forefront of a growing call for immediate change, polarised around four individual cases which share one common theme: British citizens on the verge of being extradited to America on allegations unsupported by evidence that they have used computers to commit crimes.

Justice A. S. Umar of the Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja on Monday, June 19, 2017 admitted in evidence two documents tendered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, against a former Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Usman Jibrin, who is standing trial for alleged corruption.

Bharara has subpoenaed the Moreland Commission's evidence and is believed to be investigating whether Cuomo and his aides — by their actions — committed any federal crimes.

The Supreme Court's ruling, setting a higher standard on what kind of behavior by an official is needed to establish a crime, could narrow the government's evidence.

The government has not, however, offered direct evidence of any such knowledge by Liu nor has he been charged with any crime.

In the course of the trial, the prosecution tendered in a post-mortem report of the MP, Forensic DNA Report, Blood stained T - shirt of Asiedu, a knife used by Asiedu, the three iPhones of the deceased, Asiedu's pair of slippers which he left at the crime scene, his prison records, and radiology report determining his age, his medical report, all as evidence to prosecute him.

«These conditions that have been stated need to be fulfilled by the state government to convince the IMN that the state government, which is also an accomplice in the crime, since it demolished our properties and deliberately wiped out practical evidences of the army's brutality on the movement, is not setting up the enquiry to justify the indictment of the Movement by both the federal and state governments.»

The Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), has asked Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State to present evidence of ownership of the $ 43.4 m, # 27,000 and N23m (about N13bn) uncovered in a house in Ikoyi, Lagos, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission last Wednesday.

Of course we can point out the utter failure of state - based solutions as evidenced by increasing brokenness in society and rising violent crime and anti-social behaviour... Better to encourage marriage to build family, and the independent voluntary sector to play a role etc..

Gazali, who aligned with Falana's submissions, added that there was evidence that the Inspector - General of Police's decision to set up the special investigative team was informed by complaints and petitions received on the crimes committed during the rerun.

Following the incriminating evidence reeled out against the Senate President, Bukola Saraki by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFFC, at the Code of Conduct Tribunal,...

Following the incriminating evidence reeled out against the Senate President, Bukola Saraki by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFFC, at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, on Wednesday, Senators loyal to the Senate President have sworn to resist his impeachment.

Some of the evidence was handed over to visiting Northern Cypriot officers in the UK and some directly to authorities there by a National Crime Agency official.

«We have not made any arrest yet, but we are looking at the evidence from the crime scene, including the threat letter dropped by the attackers,» he stated.

But the former Labour Europe minister Caroline Flint led calls today for a rethink, saying the latest review by Baroness Stern had found no evidence that «incidents of false allegations was higher in rape cases than any other crime».

More than 2,000 people convicted of crimes, including those imprisoned for murder and rape, will be notified by Texas prosecutors about the possibility of defective forensic evidence in their cases...

The work has many motivations, but as with most science, at the core lies a hunger for truth: By accumulating physical evidence, Haglund and colleagues aim to document crimes against humanity for the benefit of grieving families, humanity, international justice, and history.

Evidence left at the crime scene is abundant and global: Fossil remains show that sometime around 252 million years ago, about 90 percent of all species on Earth were suddenly wiped out — by far the largest of this planet's five known mass extinctions.

Sen would also ascertain levels of burglary, robbery and assault, with the aim of discovering whether evidence exists for strict gun laws increasing crime by reducing people's abilities to protect themselves.

An example of this is the use of satellite imagery by the U.S. government to identify the damage suffered by Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) shelters in Sri Lanka [4]; evidence of war crimes in Darfur, Sudan were gathered through satellite images [5]; Human Rights Watch, Arabia, identified 340 distinct sites in Aleppo, Syria where the opposition had used barrel bombs and airborne weapons to destroy residential neighborhoods through satellite imagery, something the opposition had denied it in the press.

Most of the forensic research done in the Netherlands is run by the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI), which supplies forensic expertise in areas as diverse as pathology, toxicology, DNA, trace evidence, tool marks, speech, handwriting, documents, computer crime, and more.

There is moderate evidence to support conclusions that background checks reduce firearm suicides and firearm homicides, and that laws prohibiting the purchase or possession of guns by individuals with some forms of mental illness reduce violent crime, according to the analysis.

It's clear virtually from the get - go that filmmaker Todd Phillips is looking to transform this true - life tale into a Martin Scorsese - like crime drama, as evidenced by War Dogs» less - than - subtle visuals and almost paint - by - numbers rise - and - fall structure.

Later, it is found in the possession of another man arrested for a different crime, and it is used as evidence to convict him of the murder committed by the main character.

Ahead of its release next month, a poster and trailer have arrived online for the upcoming crime thriller Marauders which stars Bruce Willis, Dave Bautista, Christopher Meloni and Adrian Grenier; take a look below... When a bank is hit by a brutal heist, all evidence points to the owner (Bruce Willis) and his high - powered clients.