Sentences with phrase «for police and prosecutors»

Root causes go to misaligned incentives for police and prosecutors; they want to close cases and get convictions; In the words of Terry Pratchett, «If there was a crime, there should be punishment.

This makes it hard for police and prosecutors to do their jobs because immigrants become reluctant to report crimes or cooperate with investigations,» said Morgenthau in a detailed statement.

Liberty argues new measures should be introduced to make it easier for police and prosecutors to collect sufficient evidence to bring criminal prosecutions against terror suspects.

In order for the police and prosecutor to prove you guilty of DWI, they must demonstrate that there was a valid basis for the motor vehicle traffic stop.

Not exact matches

The newspaper reported on Tuesday that local prosecutors decided not to pursue charges against Cuban seven years ago after a woman told Portland police that Cuban sexually assaulted her in a nightclub, claiming that he reached into her pants and penetrated her vagina with a finger without her permission while they posed for a photograph.

(Chicago constructed this story from thousands of pages of federal court records, police reports, and court testimony from related cases, as well as from official government reports and dozens of interviews with federal and local law enforcement officials and attorneys for some of the defendants; through a spokesman, prosecutors in the Zambada case declined comment.)

«The US government acted as police force (identifying the foreign government's crime), prosecutor (making the legal arguments), jury (ruling on the evidence), and judge (sentencing the foreigner to US retaliatory punishment),» Chad Bown, a senior fellow at the pro-free trade Peterson Institute for International Economics, wrote in a memo about Section 301's history earlier in August.

Reduces surging crime, drugs and violence by creating a Task Force On Violent Crime and increasing funding for programs that train and assist local police; increases resources for federal law enforcement agencies and federal prosecutors to dismantle criminal gangs and put violent offenders behind bars.

New Haven prosecutors indicted Seale for the torture and murder of a party member suspected of being a police informant, and the Panther supporters responded with agitprop that directed attention toward general accusations of racism and oppression and hence away from the mundane question of whether Seale had committed the murder.

thefinisher1 Are prosecutors, police and juries stubborn spoiled brats for accepting what DNA, fingerprint, video, and all kinds of other evidence indicate about who committed a crime rather than having the faith to just take the accused word that they didn't do it?

«Whether such cases end in conviction or acquittal appears to rest on, firstly, the ability of police or prosecutors to link the defendant with a particular association, and secondly, whether the judge decides to uphold an individual's constitutional right to share beliefs as a private citizen,» Victoria Arnold reported for Forum 18.

The Dallas Police Department referred this case to a prosecutor for presentation to a grand jury, and the grand jury will determine whether to formally charge Manziel with a crime.

Owning a registered gun and not knowing our hippie pinko laws in Cali does not make him a bad person, and further my friend - there is no proof of this prosecutors allegations and 2 red flags for me are - the motivations of said prosecutor to set «an example» and the fact his GF gnarked to police about said weapon.

Nestlé has been exposed for violating marketing requirements for breastmilk substitutes and the police have passed a file to the Director of Public Prosecutors.

The measures include long - sought bills such as raising the age of criminal responsibility to 18 and enhancing grand jury transparency as well as enshrining a special prosecutor for cases in which civilians die in encounters with police.

In the last few weeks Cuomo has signed the sex assault legislation, securing his support among women's group; established a special prosecutor for cases of civilians who die at the hands of police; and spoke at the NAACP National Convention in Philadelphia.

While it is unusual for this type of dispute to play out in public, prosecutors say this happens all the time between their office and the police department.

Suffolk County Police Commissioner Timothy Sini's campaign for county district attorney outraised that of Republican defense attorney and former prosecutor Ray Perini.

Gagan, 46, is a former Manhattan homicide prosecutor and has served as a State Police chief counsel for the past few months.

Newsday reported in January that Spota's top corruption prosecutor, Christopher McPartland, is under federal investigation for possible obstruction of justice involving the case of James Burke, the former Suffolk police chief and district attorney's chief investigator who pleaded guilty in February to beating up a suspect and then arranging a cover - up.

ALBANY — Following a meeting with the mothers and relatives of 10 men and women who died in interactions with police officers, Governor Andrew Cuomo indicated for the first time that he would unilaterally appoint a special prosecutor to review such cases if the Legislature didn't act on his proposal for an independent police monitor.

Bellone ticked off a long list of what he said were failings by Spota, including the prosecutor's support for Burke and Spota's blocking of Suffolk police from cooperating with federal agents on the Gilgo Beach murders.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Senate Democrats have pushed for special prosecutors to look into police shootings of unarmed citizens, but many Republicans oppose the idea because they say it will undermine locals District Attorneys.

After a grand jury chose not to indict a police officer involved in the death of Eric Garner last year, Democratic leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins called for the placement of body cameras on police officers and introduced legislation that would require the use of a special prosecutor in cases involving police officers who kill unarmed legislation.

Members of the Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic & Asian Legislative Caucus on Wednesday at the state Capitol called for the appointment of a special prosecutor to handle cases of police brutality and deaths caused by police confrontations.

«It does not seem to me to be a good thing for the police and the whole panoply of the criminal law and prosecutors to invade politics for often, not in my case actually, but it's often for party political reasons,» he added.

But for the past week, Buffalo's legal community has been buzzing about his relationship with Pigeon — a political operative whose dealings are under investigation by the state Attorney General's Office, federal prosecutors, the State Police and the FBI.

The Westchester County Democratic Committee Chairman Mr. Reginald A. Lafayette said that he doesn't think New York State needs and Independent Prosecutor for questionable police shootings and that we have to determine whether or not we need an independent prosecutor on a case by case basis,» Chamberlain tells BW.

His latest statements allude to dangerous loopholes that would authorize a special prosecutor for only one year and would fail to cover all cases where civilians are killed by the police or die in police custody.

«We remain committed to demanding an executive order for a special prosecutor for all police killings, because establishing prosecution that is independent and external of local DAs is the only way to resolve the conflict of interest that has systemically failed to provide justice in these cases within our state and across the nation,» the group said in a joint statement.

If President Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing — that included police commissioners and law enforcement experts — did not include loopholes in their recommendation for independent prosecutors in police killings, neither should Governor Cuomo's executive order.

A German nurse currently serving a life sentence in prison for murdering six patients may have killed 84 more, making him one of the country's worst ever serial killers, police and prosecutors said Monday.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo today announced he would accede to Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's request to be named special prosecutor for cases in which a police officer kills a civilian — even as the governor noted that he took the step with reluctance, and that the appointment would last just one year.

Suffolk County Police Commissioner Timothy Sini's campaign for county district attorney outraised that of Republican defense attorney and former prosecutor Ray Perini, according to state campaign finance records released Monday.

His claims were another black eye for the NYPD in the ongoing corruption probe focusing on high - ranking police officials and Brooklyn businessmen Jona Rechnitz and Jeremy Reichberg, who prosecutors say provided gifts in exchange for favors.

Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Stephen Adjei informed the court on Tuesday that the substantive prosecutor, DSP Aidan Dery, had gone for a course and prayed for a short adjournment.

«We are clear that the yardsticks for testing the credibility and reliability of victims in sexual abuse cases do not serve the police or prosecutors well and risk leaving an identifiable group of vulnerable victims unprotected by the criminal law.

After meeting in April with relatives of New Yorkers who have died during interactions with police officers, Cuomo said that if the Legislature failed to come to an agreement on his proposal for an outside monitor, he would go a step further and enact a special prosecutor by executive action.

[NYDN] • Except we're not sure that last one's such a done deal: There's a growing push for police commissioner Ray Kelly to resign and for a special prosecutor to replace the Queens D.A. on the case.

On Tuesday, Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association — New York City's largest police union — said «there will be pressure on a special prosecutor to indict an officer for the sake of public perception and that does not serve the ends of justice.»

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has picked a veteran prosecutor to lead a new unit that will investigate and potentially prosecute police for killing unarmed civilians.

With session over and his legislative opponents out of town, Cuomo leaped into action, issuing an executive order to create a special prosecutor for police killings.

Mr. Cuomo's operation pointed to his track record for the black community, including increasing the minimum wage to $ 15 per hour, raising the age of criminal responsibility to 18 and issuing an executive order naming the state attorney general as a special prosecutor for police - related civilian deaths.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo last year signed an order that required the AG's office take over as special prosecutor for cases in which a police officer shoots and kills an unarmed civilian.

Councilman Brad Lander said «that close working relationship makes it simply structurally impossible — based on natural human sympathies and the structural demands of the justice system for that very same district attorney to be the objective and fair prosecutor of those exact police officers, when the situation demands one.»

Spota, 76, of Mount Sinai, and McPartland, 51, of Northport, along with Burke and other members of the Suffolk County Police Department «had numerous meetings and telephone conversations wherein they discussed the assault,» the victim's allegations against Burke, and the federal investigation, prosecutors said in a letter to the judge asking for strict bail conditions.

Since assuming the title of commissioner, the former federal prosecutor has worked to repair relations with the FBI and other federal agencies — relationships that suffered under the regime of James Burke, the former police chief who is serving prison time for beating an inmate and trying to cover it up.

The governor says he will use his executive powers to remove 16 - and 17 - year olds from adult prisons, and appoint the attorney general for a one year term as a special prosecutor in police cases where a civilian is killed.

A day after activists and the families of civilians killed by police demonstrated outside Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Midtown office, they joined him at John Jay College as he signed an executive order making Attorney General Eric Schneiderman the special prosecutor for all cases statewide in which an officer is responsible for a civilian's death — making New York the first state to create such a role to oversee the controversial issue of police - involved homicides.

Police prosecutor, Chief Inspector K. Adu, told the court that on January 13, this year at about 5:30 am, Kennedy Abanyo, an auto mechanic and Charles Abankwa, a mason, were walking home around Saleem Estate at Nmai Dzom when they saw the convict running away with a ladies» handbag while the owner (the lady) screamed after him for help.