Sentences with phrase «federal prosecution when»

During the Obama administration, the Justice Department issued guidelines to help banks avoid federal prosecution when dealing with pot businesses in states where the drug is legal.

Not exact matches

Laufer reassures us, «The Obama administration and the DOJ have issued the Cole Memo, which deprioritizes federal criminal prosecutions of marijuana crimes, when commercial operators are operating in accordance with state laws.»
The trial, in federal district court in Manhattan, will heat up on Monday, when the prosecution's star witness, former longtime Cuomo associate and lobbyist Todd Howe is scheduled to begin his testimony.
The criminal prosecutions spawned by the CityTime case reached a quiet denouement when a federal judge in Manhattan sentenced Carl Bell, a computer specialist at the center of the scheme, to three years» probation, showing leniency because he had given crucial help to investigators.
«It is on record that when anti graft agencies sent invitation letters to judges suspected of corruption, they had rushed to the Federal High Court to obtain interlocutory injunctions to prevent their arrest, investigation and prosecution.
The federal Minister of Justice, as the chief lawmaker, is too close to the prosecution of a case to render an impartial decision when approached with a post-conviction review application.
When «Mandatory» Does Not Mean Mandatory: Failure to Obtain Criminal Restitution in Federal Prosecution of Human Trafficking in the United States, Wilmer Hale and The Human Trafficking Pro Bono Legal Center (September 2014)
The reason double jeopardy does not apply when a person faces both a federal and state prosecution for the same conduct is that separate and distinct crimes are being charged.
properly licensed out - of - state lawyers who limit their practice exclusively to certain areas of federal law, such as patent prosecution or immigration law, when federal law specifically authorizes the lawyer's practice;
In both civil and criminal settings, if the person is given immunity eliminating the threats of criminal prosecution, then they can be compelled to give testimony (though it gets sticky when the same conduct can be classified as an offense under both state and federal law).
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