Sentences with phrase «from police and prosecutors»

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(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.)

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.

She expects to be handcuffed, put in a police car, driven to the courthouse and brought before a judge after being secretly indicted by a grand jury run by a special prosecutor who was secretly selected to investigate campaign finance filings from 2009.

In his role as a leader of the Syracuse Gang Violence Task Force, John brought prosecutors, police, clergy, community leaders, and neighbors from differing backgrounds together to successfully reduce violence crime and improve the quality of life in targeted neighborhoods within our community.

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.

Donovan, a former Staten Island prosecutor, said he took no action before or after O'Connell's arrest, and added that neither O'Connell nor anyone from the Staten Island police precinct where O'Connell was arrested contacted him about the case.

In addition, the National Association of Police Organizations and Upstate New York Police Benevolent Association said they are backing Katko, a former federal prosecutor from Camillus.

Thy include changes to the criminal justice laws, including raising the age from 16 to 18 to treat teenagers as adults in the court and prison system, and appointing a special prosecutor in police cases where an unarmed civilian is killed.

Prosecutors have already received files from 12 police forces — in Avon and Somerset, Cumbria, Derbyshire, Devon and Cornwall, Gloucestershire, Greater Manchester, Lincolnshire, London, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire and West Yorkshire.

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.

In a statement Friday afternoon, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office appeared to suggest it may consider removing Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel Abelove from office, after the local prosecutor was arraigned earlier in the day on two counts of official misconduct and one count of perjury in connection with his handling of the April 2016 police shooting of Edson Thevenin on the Collar City Bridge.

He added that well - defined policies and clear lines of communications should be established across the whole organization — from forensic science laboratories to police departments to prosecutors» offices.

Considering the enduring popularity of police procedurals and legal dramas in popular culture, the formula behind Capcom's Ace Attorney might read like a sure - fire money - maker — a game where you play as a rookie defense attorney named Phoenix Wright who shields his obviously innocent clients from the wrath of increasingly aggressive prosecutors by pointing out the holes in the state's case, inevitably producing the real culprit just in the nick of time.

Gund's most recent projects include: Dispatches from Cleveland (CIFF, MSPIFF), a five chapter documentary that looks at the police murder of 12 - year - old Tamir Rice and shows how people joined together to vote out the prosecutor who didn't have their backs; Chavela (Berlinale, Hot Docs, Ambulante) a documentary about the life of the iconic Latin - American gender - bending diva, Chavela Vargas; and Born to Fly (SXSW, Full Frame), a documentary that pushes the boundaries between action and art, daring us to join choreographer Elizabeth Streb and her dancers in pursuit of human flight.

'' [We] set out to jump - start just this kind of conversation, bringing together judges, probation officials, prosecutors, police chiefs and defense attorneys from across the country to discuss lessons they have learned from projects that did not succeed.

On Wednesday, Seattle's city attorney, a former federal prosecutor, and a city councilman who used to be a police officer all testified in support of a bill that would legalize the sale, possession and delivery of marijuana for adults over 21 years old — and, in theory at least, generate millions of dollars from taxes on the product.

He is known for challenging police and prosecutors and preventing clients from paying penalties they don't deserve.

Rouben says during the trial prosecutors and police were getting more information from the complainants that «contradicted or elaborated on information» they had already received.

Like other portions of the valley, however, Visalia and Tulare County as a whole also are the home to sometimes overzealous prosecutors who do not always get all of the facts from understaffed and overstretched police.

Crime victims, police, prosecutors and courts all gain from an efficient system that minimizes errors and focuses resources on the punishment of the guilty.

Crown Prosecutors and the police or investigators from other public bodies, such as HM Revenue and Customs, now routinely work much more closely together than they did in the late 1980s when the SFO was established.

More members were appointed from the police / prosecutor interests, and every vote taken was controlled by their group thereby ignoring the proposals of the parties who actually deal with sentencing issues for example.

On 14 January it was widely reported that police and prosecutors are considering use of the «text sting», a stratagem imported from the US and Canada in which complainants under police management will try to trap their alleged tormentors into making written apologies by sending such heartfelt recriminations as: «How could you have treated me like that?»

That means police and prosecutors must ensure it takes no more than 18 months from the laying of a charge to complete a trial in provincial court, and 30 months for serious, often more complex cases in superior trial courts.

«Canadians deserve a constructive response from those responsible, including the police, Crown prosecutors, courts, governments, corrections authorities, victim services officials, and others», write Perrin and Audas.

The CLC guide titled Death and Injury at Work: A Criminal Code Offence was written by two University of Ottawa law students based on research and advice from police officers, prosecutors, lawyers and worker health and safety representatives.

Prosecutors mentioned three earlier crimes to which Cruz pleaded guilty, but records from the Broward County Sheriff's Office and Coral Springs police show his encounters with law enforcement were much more extensive.

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