Sentences with phrase «from prosecuting criminals»

A subplot dealing with Barnes» kids and their desire for her to get back together with their father seems rather superfluous, while the constant reemergence of the case that caused Barnes to stray from prosecuting criminals gets more screen time than is necessary for the purposes of the overall story.

Not exact matches

Sales could be prosecuted under the criminal accessory component of this law, though such prosecutions were rare, because the state's policy was meant to prevent birth - control clinics from operating in Connecticut.

Christie should be impeached, removed from office, and prosecuted for this criminal act.

Prosecuting would be a «difficult and unworkable task, as little or no evidence is available regarding [the substances»] pharmacological activities in vivo in humans and expert witnesses may be reluctant to extrapolate data from animal models, in silico or in vitro studies,» lecturer in criminal law Amber Marks told the committee.

«Strikingly, these successes have come even though the Office of the Attorney General has long requested — and long been denied — original criminal jurisdiction to prosecute public corruption cases without first obtaining a specific referral from the Governor, Comptroller, or another State agency,» he wrote.

The prosecuting counsel, ASP Mireti Wilson, alleged that,» that you Olagoke Adedamola «m» and others now at large between same period and place at the aforementioned magisterial district did unlawfully kidnapped one Akinduro Robert and took him to unknown destination in such a manner as to prevent any person entitled to have access to him from discovering the place he is imprisoned and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under section 364 (2) of the criminal code cap 34 vol.II of Osun State of Nigeria 2002.

«As if the palpable odium of intiating a vacuous criminal charge against a whistle - blower, no less a person than a distinguished senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was not bad enough, the prosecuting authority, obviously urged on by the Inspector General of Police, threw pretension to adherence to democratic tenets of the rule of law when it sought from the court, albeit most illegally, to obtain summons against Senator Misau, while deliberately witholding service of the copy of the charge on the Senator, an obvious stratagem conceived to frame up all manner of false allegations tailored to suit the obvious purpose of yet another gestapo strategy to use state powers to swoop on the Distinguished Senator and keep him out of circulation»

So if society wants to prevent people from littering, they pass a law preventing littering (making it «criminal») rather than just prosecute litterers without a law.

It would increase the age of adult criminal responsibility from 16 to 18, ensuring that young offenders aren't automatically prosecuted and incarcerated as adults.

Following a Newsday story last week that detailed how the district attorney's office failed to prosecute apparent public corruption, drug activity and an armed robbery during an extensive wiretap investigation into Macedonio, County Executive Steve Bellone in a news conference accused Spota of leading a «criminal enterprise» and demanded that he step down or be removed from office.

Ramon Jimenez, the Green Party candidate for NY Attorney General, discusses the fight to keep Hostos Community College open, clemency for non-violent drug offenders, criminal justice reform, and the failure of the present Attorney General to criminally prosecute those who stole $ 1 million from Puerto Rican Day parade.

Any criminal found stealing from programs intended to help our county's poor will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.»

News organizations» abilities to build trust with sources and gather sensitive information have been called into question by recent disclosures about surveillance: the U.S. Department of Justice's admission that it secretly obtained phone records from the Associated Press, Microsoft's admission that it read a blogger's personal Hotmail account to find a source of an internal leak and criminal investigations that have used email traces to identify and prosecute anonymous sources.

This news excerpt was taken from an article posted January 16, 2009 by Mike on the CRIME AND FEDERALISM website, «A lawyer facing criminal charges for advising 10 nurses they could quit their jobs at a Long Island, N.Y., nursing facility gave «objectively reasonable» advice and can not be prosecuted, a Brooklyn appeals panel has ruled.»

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«We are creating a legal defense fund to support litigation, starting immediately, to demand that false and defamatory material be removed from blogs and Web sites and publications, and that the true criminals in this case be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.»

While leaving detailed practical guidance for employees to the actual prosecuting agencies, the court expressed the expectation that future difficulties should be avoided by early disclosure from jurors of their relevant professional involvement with the criminal justice system, and careful enquiry by the trial judge as to the significance of this in each case.

While bigamy and bigamy - related criminal cases do not seem to be frequently prosecuted in Florida, bigamy claims do seem to occur from time to time in what would otherwise be divorce cases.

A state has jurisdiction over a crime under constitutional due process limits on the scope of a state's criminal jurisdiction if the crime is either committed within the state (regardless of where the harm occurs) or is directed at or impacts the state (the classic example is a gunshot fired from the Ohio side of the state line killing someone located in Indiana, which could be prosecuted in either state, or in both states as it doesn't violate double jeopardy to be prosecuted for the same offense by more than one sovereign).

I followed my passion from law school to working as a prosecuting attorney where I prosecuted thousands of criminal cases and handled more jury trials than any other prosecutor during the same time frame.

Whether that includes removing s. 13 from the Human Rights Code and relying solely on the Criminal Code to prosecute hate crimes remains to be seen.

Under former President Obama, immigration adjudication nearly halted due to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) policies that prosecuted fewer cases and removed fewer of those ordered removed from the United States, including criminal aliens.

While there, Mr. Cuan prosecuted hundreds of criminal cases ranging from misdemeanors to serious felonies, litigating against some of the finest trial attorneys in the country.

From 1978 to 1986, Brian served as an Assistant Crown Attorney, prosecuting criminal cases.

After graduating from the University of Illinois College of Law, he prosecuted cases in court every day for the People of the State of Illinois in enforcing the criminal law.

Criminal offences arising from possession, trafficking and production of drugs such as marihuana, cocaine, heroin, ketamine, methamphetamine, oxycodone and oxycontin are handed by the federal prosecution service, and are prosecuted very aggressively.

To clarify, plea bargaining does not constitute extortion and prosecutors have absolute immunity from criminal or civil liability for their official acts in prosecuting cases.

Although the Commissioner, Justice Jules Deschenes of the Quebec Court of Appeal and formally the Chief Justice of the Quebec Superior Court, recommended some individuals be deported from Canada, he also recommended ways in which the alleged war criminals could be prosecuted in Canada for their crimes.

(2) Prosecute or otherwise conduct a criminal, civil, or administrative proceeding arising from an alleged violation of law.

They argued, that by precluding providers from voluntarily reporting to law enforcement evidence of potential abuse, the proposed rule could make it more difficult to apprehend and prosecute criminals.

Specifically, in the final rule, we define law enforcement official as an official of any agency or authority of the United States, a state, a territory, a political subdivision of a state or territory, or an Indian tribe, who is empowered by law to: (1) Investigate or conduct an inquiry into a potential violation of law; or (2) prosecute or otherwise conduct a criminal, civil, or administrative proceeding arising from an alleged violation of law.

A separate motion seeks the removal of the State Attorney's Office from the case because Satz signed the same agreement, which Arreaza wrote «allowed criminal behavior to not be prosecuted and outlined as such.