Sentences with phrase «from prosecution»

By law, the judge pointed out, neither lawyer can be compelled to testify before a grand jury unless granted immunity from prosecution.

Such officers are immune from prosecution for everything they do during their time in office.

People and corporations can not say what they want, and say that they are immune from prosecution because of free speech.

All the legal expenses that will result from the prosecution of the director and officer will be carried out with the written consent of the insurance provider.

Other police on the scene are backup and immune from prosecution because they were merely there and did not physically make the arrest.

Police internal affairs are in the business of protecting corrupt and incompetent police officers from prosecution due to the extensive range of laws that they have blatantly broken.

The court's decision was made after a request from the prosecution for more time to finish their investigations.

The administrative action is different from the prosecution aspect.

All things seemed possible and mostly immune from prosecution then.

«I got a message from the prosecution, I find this development a bit strange but I would not be commenting,» he said.

If we find that there may have been a violation of your Constitutional rights, we will fight to have any illegally - obtained evidence excluded from the prosecution's case.

Police can base their action on a reasonable belief and even if that belief is wrong, they will be safe from prosecution.

She was given immunity from prosecution, so she isn't protecting herself.

Any person who in performing an act of state commits a criminal offence is immune from prosecution.

Leonard Genova, Oyster Bay's former town attorney, became Immunity Leonard Genova — because he received full immunity from prosecution in exchange for his testimony for prosecutors, Keating said.

The birth parent surrendering the baby is protected from prosecution for failure to provide and / or abandonment.

People posting offensive comments online will be largely protected from prosecution under new guidelines being published by Keir Starmer.

«At no time have I been shielded from prosecution nor evaded arrest.

Michael Polenberg, of Safe Horizon, who works with victims, called the decision to kill the bill «a perversion of justice to shackle thousands of children with a 5 - year statute of limitations in exchange for a lifetime of protection from prosecution for their abusers.»

Falk and his father fled under a cloud of suspicion, saved from prosecution only because of Luke's steadfast claim that the boys had been together at the time of the crime.

2003 December - Government decides to grant former president Daniel arap Moi immunity from prosecution on corruption charges.

He meets Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the White House this week and is expected to press for immunity from prosecution as a condition for allowing even a relatively small contingent of U.S. troops to stay behind in Afghanistan after the 2014 drawdown.

The situation is somewhat more complicated in Montana, where a 2009 state Supreme Court decision shielded doctors from prosecution if they help terminally ill patients die.

Conversely, it is the obligation of the Crown Attorney to withdraw cases from prosecution when he or she comes to the conclusion that either there is no reasonable prospect of conviction or that is not in the public interest to proceed.

That's why one of Dark Heart's facilities does not have a sign and the other one has a sign from the previous tenant — to protect the company from prosecution and from criminals.

The worst prospect of legalization is that it might lead to a short - term increase in the use of drugs, due to availability, lower prices and the sudden freedom from prosecution.

Former Cabinet minister Chris Huhne has lost a challenge against an order that he must pay # 77,750 costs from his prosecution for passing speeding points to his ex-wife.

«I have heard from the prosecution and I am satisfied that a prima - facie case has been made out against the defendant.

The other argument is that Higuera did not include information from a prosecution interview with Steve Carr, an organic chemist employed by the Los Angeles County Sanitation District.

THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY for Cumberland County, North Carolina, Marc Sherman, pushed the old wooden captain's chair away from the prosecution table, and it made a harsh, scraping eeek in the nearly silent courtroom.

[3] The introduction of DPAs reflects a long - standing practice in the United States of granting corporates amnesty from prosecution on criminal charges, either through the use of non-prosecution agreements or DPAs, in exchange for the fulfilment of certain requirements.

Earthquake scientists who sit on similar advisory councils in the United States are protected by law from prosecution.

And the time to remind them that their own indemnity from prosecution does not extend to acts done negligently or unlawfully is now.

Accordingly, regulators should consider the legality of any bylaw provisions that purport to authorize costs awards that include panel or tribunal expenses, as distinct from prosecution expenses.

The Conviction Integrity Unit reviews claims of innocence or wrongful conviction resulting from prosecutions by the Cook County State's Attorney's...

The president's credibility has also been tainted by her sometimes erratic response to the shocking death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman as he was investigating an alleged cover - up deal between her government and Iran to shield the Islamic Republic from prosecution in the 1994 bombing of Jewish center.

When Force and Bridges were brought upon charges both of them were handed recommended sentences from the prosecution.

The flagrancy of this nonsense, which was contradicted at the time by several of the boys in the computer class, did not save Friedman from prosecution.

They knowingly shelter pedophiles from prosecution under the law and the best you can offer is a whine about how other demoninations weren't mentioned?

The RCC has been shletering pedohpiles from prosecution for years in countries all over the world.

And can you imagine how many great minds were lost because of fear from prosecution and back then that meant DEATH to them and their families.

A majority of states have enacted state statutes specifically permitting the exposure of the female breast by women breastfeeding infants, or exempting such women from prosecution under applicable statutes, [30][31] such as those regarding indecent exposure.

More significantly, it doesn't have the «reasonable» caveat in the bill protecting shop keepers from prosecution for misuse of items like glue.

This includes exemption from prosecution.

The US Constitution's Speech or Debate Clause generally protects members of Congress from prosecution for anything they say as part of congressional debate or business.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's political enemies are launching an all - out, online blitz as the corruption trial of a former top aide heats up this week with testimony from the prosecution's star witness.

Christmas came a week early for Ulster County as the New York State Attorney General's Office delivered a check for $ 12,845.27 representing the collection of additional restitution from its prosecution of the Lower Esopus Riverwatch Corporation and its board members.