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).