Sentences with phrase «from prosecution if»

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.

Mr Nicklinson wants the judges presiding over his case to rule that, if he makes the informed decision to end his life, a doctor will be immune from prosecution if they help him to do so.

Not exact matches

The USPTO has also reduced the filing fee for an application filed using the regular TEAS application form from $ 325 to $ 275 per class if the applicant authorizes email communication and agrees to file all responses and other specified documents electronically during the prosecution of the application.

And the European told me that in Europe, it's really a no - no to use customer funds for your own — to gamble with that at all, that this is so criminal that if there is no criminal prosecution of Corzine, if it turns out that he did take the money, then that is going to lead the European capital markets to withdraw their money from the American capital markets, because the whole — the whole of Wall Street would turn out to be gangsters, without any prosecution, without any rule of law at all.

The IRS also has gone on to say that if the situation is indeed dire, the taxpayers who have sought to hide their cryptocurrency earnings from the IRS can actually be subjected to proper criminal prosecution if they do not report their earnings.

Does the RCC or does it not harbor pedophiles and keep them from prosecution??? If I'm a bigot for having an issue with that, so be it!

Scott: Pedophilia exists everywhere regardless of belief or disbelief, the difference is that the catholic church protects the pedophiles from criminal prosecution, all other peds if caught will face the court system.

I guess under Judge Martin's brilliant legal analysis, if the gun - toting, bible - beatin» Christians of his county find his ruling «offensive» they can just bring their pitchforks and remove him from the bench, and then in any subsequent prosecution all evidence will be thrown out and Judge Martin can be called a «doofus» for making a ruling that offends them.

There is a difference between protecting someone from harm (blessing), and blocking or thwarting their prosecution or helping them escape if they say murder someone (not a blessing but a crime).

Richard Wells, South Yorkshire Police Chief from 1990 - 98, has stated that charges are «absolutely essential» after the details came out yesterday and David Crompton, the current chief constable, has reiterated that prosecutions should be carried out if statements were falsified.

«If any supporters are found to be engaged in any form of offensive or discriminatory behaviour by stewards or via CCTV then they will be immediately removed from the stadium, risk arrest, prosecution and be reported in accordance with the club's ground regulations.

Those are extraordinarily powerful accusations that, if true, warrant removal from office and criminal prosecution.

But if it turns out that it incorporates a deal that shields Hevesi's sons from further investigation / prosecution, then shame on Cuomo.

«If government does not exempt child victims of rape or defilement from the compulsory payment of N5000 for obtaining medical reports from hospitals as evidence for prosecution, perpetrators of these evil and criminal acts would continue to escape justice and such acts would continue to increase in our society,» she said.

«If any of my backers or party (APC) members has anything established against them, let's see whether I will shield anyone from prosecution.

«Viewed from the standpoint of the war against corruption, it is significant that all the key officials involved, even if it be indirectly, in the prosecution of the war are northerners appointed by President Buhari since his inauguration as President on 29 May, 2015.

New York lawmakers will carry on trying to close a loophole that could shield people from state prosecution if they have received a presidential pardon — without the bill's high - profile champion, former state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

-- TENNEY»S TRUMP FERVOR — New York Times» Lisa W. Foderaro: «The message last month sounded as if it came directly from a Donald J. Trump campaign speech, with references to draining the swamp and calls for the prosecution of Hillary Clinton and James B. Comey, among others.

Before the judge's ruling, Assistant U.S. Attorney Catherine Mirabile had said in court that the prosecution may want to call other witnesses Monday morning if the judge decided to strike some testimony from the record.

According to him: «If the arrests and prosecution of those culpable were made from the onset, it would have served as a deterrent to others who engage in the heinous crime.»

(The press materials understandably keep mum about Basic Instinct but are not at all reluctant to describe the murder trial as «reminiscent of the romantic intrigue contained in such courtroom movie classics from the late 1950s as Billy Wilder's Witness for the Prosecution and Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder,» politely admitting that Body of Evidence dutifully — if pointlessly — rips off both these very entertaining movies.)

This would help the DA get more federal dollars for drug prosecutions as well as keep the black people in the town from voting him out of office since much of the community would be felons, even if they were innocent.

In some cases all they can is to «inquire from them if they want to report the case, but most women feel ashamed and shy» making it difficult for them to pursue prosecutions.

Letters from the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights to school district officials, threatening prosecution if disparities in discipline rates and resources across racial and ethnic lines are not justified, will be withdrawn or simply ignored.

Must be a member of the uniformed services on active duty or absent from that duty due to sickness, wounds, leave, or other lawful cause; OR a U.S. citizen serving with a U.S. ally force in the prosecution of a war or military action, if such service is similar to «military service» as defined under the SCRA.

Police told the gallery that a prosecution was «likely» if the work was not taken down immediately and the catalogue withdrawn from sale.

A thought experiment: the prosecution call Prof Lindzen or Roy Spencer as a rebuttal witness — should they be removed from their accademic posts if they agree to testify?

If you choose the married filing separately tax status, you can get protection from audits and prosecution, but you need to remember that you are still 100 % liable for any unpaid taxes, regardless of who earned the income, falsified his or her tax return, or didn't file.

The DPP's policy on private prosecutions states that she will discontinue a private prosecution if the evidential test from the CPS Code for Crown Prosecutors («the CPS Code») is not satisfied, i.e. there is no realistic prospect that the defendant would be convicted.

The recovery from the State of a private prosecutor's costs at exorbitant private rates; the availability of compensation orders which would reimburse the private prosecutor; the ability of a private prosecutor to recover some of its costs even if the prosecution is stayed or the defendant is acquitted.

If you live in the Miami, Florida area, or in West Palm Beach, Ft. Myers or anywhere in South Florida, and are in need of an attorney who will fight for your civil rights, get you the compensation to which you may be entitled, and work to secure your freedom from prosecution, you have come to the right place.

The DPP's policy on private prosecutions states that she will intervene, take over and discontinue a private prosecution if the public interest test from the CPS Code is not satisfied.

For example, they must protect themselves from liability under the U.S. 1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act that renders them vulnerable to prosecution if the company they acquire has been engaged in illegal conduct.

Article II of the Constitution prohibits a President from using the pardon power to overturn an impeachment.5 The Framers of the Constitution placed only this limitation on the ability of the President to exercise his pardon power, 6 and the only sanction for the abuse of the pardon power is the removal of the President through impeachment.7 The Constitution is silent, however, as to whether the President may grant himself a pardon from prosecution and, if so, when such a pardon may be issued.8 In the over 20,000 instances that Presidents have used this exclusive power, 9 no President has used this power to pardon himself.10

If the injury is death, a criminal prosecution and an Art 2 claim is possible, but for those with injury from organisational failures, can we be sure that the hurdle of Bolam does not inhibit the law justly reflecting the science?

If you are granted immunity from prosecution, then they can compel you to testify (answer the question).

A court could conceivably argue that if the death of B was not contested at trial, that the first murder acquittal would be inconsistent with a murder conviction upon the death of B later on from the events that formed the basis of the first prosecution.

There is a substantial body of case law on whether prosecution for a crime with elements A, B, and C bars prosecution for a crime with different elements arising from the same facts and circumstances (e.g. if acquittal of a lesser included offense whose elements must all be proved to convict on the more severe offense provides double jeopardy protection), that wouldn't be directly applicable in my alternative scenario because the offense tried the first time and the second would have exactly the same elements.

«These are cases that can give rise to complex issues, but to avoid the potential chilling effect that might arise from high numbers of prosecutions in cases in which a communication might be considered grossly offensive, we must recognise the fundamental right to freedom of expression and only proceed with prosecution when a communication is more than offensive, shocking or disturbing, even if distasteful or painful to those subjected to it.»

Secondly, «I am not guilty» could mean anything from «the prosecution wrongly think that what I did is illegal» to «this law is unconstitutional» even if the facts are not in dispute; either may be mistaken without being a lie.

If the accused is acquitted, he is immune from any future prosecution for the same conduct.

What is more, new guidance from the Crown Prosecution Service has stated that «virtual mobbing» could be prosecuted as if it occurred offline.

If you cause injury or death, you could not only be open to civil action, but also a prosecution from the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service under one of the many pieces of road safety legislation.

Even if it was extended to account for the transition from the Provincial Court of Alberta to the Court of Queen's Bench, after Vassell waived the preliminary inquiry, the progress of the prosecution was lethargic.

In its view, on the contrary, informer's privilege prohibits the accused or anyone on his behalf from making efforts even wholly independent of the prosecution to discover which of his associates, if any, had «ratted» on him.

If, however, the government merely wants to improve the «unacceptably low» conviction rate (as a proportion of cases prosecuted), it might encourage CPS prosecutors to be even more robust — dare we say it — than they already are in weeding out from the prosecution process cases which fail to cross the realistic likelihood of conviction threshold.

The Hess decision from (I believe) 1987 was quite clear that regardless of how remote the possibility of a custodial period being imposed, section 7 is offended if there would be no obligation on the prosecution to prove the mental element.

If the testimony would incriminate the person, they can remain silent, unless they have been granted immunity from prosecution.

(3) The court shall award reasonable attorney's fees, court costs, compensation for loss of income, and all expenses incurred by the defendant in defense of any civil action brought by a plaintiff if the court finds that the defendant is immune from prosecution as provided in subsection (1).

Purdy, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, had asked for the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to issue an offense - specific policy on whether or not her husband would be prosecuted if he accompanied her to the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland where she hopes to end her life.