Sentences with phrase «from testifying against»

There is also immunity from testifying against your spouse.

Caught up somewhere in the middle of all this is Amos, who enters into an affair with the distraught Diana (who cozies up to him at a community Bible study), perhaps because she's really into him, perhaps because she's trying to prevent him from testifying against her husband, or perhaps because the screenplay needs for this to happen in order to fulfill its thesis that all of us make bad decisions and that the truth will eventually set us free.

DEMOCRAT Assemblymember HIram Monserette who, I suspect, figured the best way to keep his girlfriend from testifying against him for beating her up was to, um, threaten to beat her up?

Los Angeles Times: Rabbi who refused to testify freed after seven months in prison A Brooklyn orthodox rabbi who was jailed after refusing to answer questions before a federal grand jury, saying his religion forbid him from testifying against other Jews, was ordered freed this week by a district court judge in Los Angeles, the rabbi's attorney said.

Not exact matches

Biometrics might be cool and convenient, but the technology could potentially undermine your legal rights under the Fifth Amendment, which prohibits the government from compelling a witness to testify against herself.

Stewart also has a great sense for the deliciously telling anecdote: after testifying against her boss, Martha Stewart's assistant Ann Armstrong «was dropped from Stewart's holiday card and gift list, and subsequently left the company.»

Jesus refuses to testify against himself (18:21) which is in fact illegal in any case: evidence must come from witnesses, not from the accused.

If such a suggestion seems to detract from the significance of the miracles as demonstrating his divine nature, it should be remembered that Jesus himself testified to the performance of such cures by others as well as himself: «And if I cast out demons by Beelzebub,» he said to those who brought this charge against him (Mt 12:27 - 28; Lk 11:19 - 20), «by whom do your sons cast them out?»

16If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong; 17Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days; 18And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother; 19Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.

In 2000, Congress passed the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act, which protects victims from deportation after they testify against offenders.

She is now at the receiving end of both the praise of environmental groups, and flak from mining companies and apologists, with the representatives of the latter testifying against Sec.

Baylor was later sued by five women who say Elliot raped them from 2009 to 2012, four of them testifying against him.

Two lawyers at the center of events that led to criminal charges against former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and former Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto testified this past week that they had starkly different reactions when they realized the state constitution barred the town from guaranteeing loans for a private business.

Disgraced former governor Eliot Spitzer showed up at Manhattan court Friday to testify against the reputed high - priced hooker arrested for allegedly extorting thousands of dollars from him.

The Times Union reported last year that Abelove didn't require French to sign an immunity - from - prosecution waiver when he testified before the grand jury — a decision that made it impossible to bring charges against French after his testimony.

Many of the Republicans formerly part of the Maziarz inner circle received immunity from a 2017 grand jury and were expected to testify against their former leader.

The Times Union reported last year that Abelove, who personally presented the case to the grand jury that cleared French, did not require the officer to sign an immunity - from - prosecution waiver when the officer testified before the grand jury that cleared him — a highly unusual move that makes it virtually impossible for any prosecutor to pursue potential future charges against French for conduct surrounding Thevenin's death.

Calls on the Commission, by the end of 2013, to submit a legislative proposal establishing an effective and comprehensive European whistleblower protection programme in the public and in the private sector to protect those who detect inefficient management and irregularities and report cases of national and cross-border corruption relating to EU financial interests and to protect witnesses, informers, and those who cooperate with the courts, and in particular witnesses testifying against mafia - type and other criminal organisations, with a view to resolving the difficult conditions under which they have to live (from risks of retaliation to the breakdown of family ties or from being uprooted from their home territory to social and professional exclusion); calls also on the Member States to put in place appropriate and effective protection for whistleblowers.

BY ANDY HUMM Abel Cedeno, 18, the bullied gay Bronx student who said he defended himself with a knife against an attack from classmate Matthew McCree September 27 in front of their fellow students and two teachers, testified in his own defense on Tuesday morning before a Bronx grand jury, and the second - degree murder charge -LSB-...]

Guldi states in those papers that he learned of the alleged payments from a witness who is expected to testify against him in the trial.

After serving a prison term for a crime he didn't commit, a man returns home bitter and determined to learn the truth from the witnesses that testified falsely against him.

After testifying against her abusive father, Shelly finds herself rehoused on a sink estate in this powerful directorial debut from acclaimed writer Helen Walsh.

Amos» hesitancy to testify against his employer throws into sharp relief an us - against - them mentality from the people who are victimized by the clearly delineated socioeconomic structure of the town.

Into this ménage enters Humpty's daughter Carolina (Juno Temple, pictured below), on the run from her hoodlum husband, having testified against the mob to the police.

A breakthrough performance from Andrea Riseborough as the waitress who Pinkie decides to marry so that she won't be able to testify against him in a murder rap, implicates Rose as a more willing participant in the ruse.

As a mobster's wife, she's used to the cushy life and here she is stuck on a train from Chicago to LA with a tiresome police escort (Charles McGraw) who's making sure she'll testify against the mob.

Duhamel will star as a fireman in the witness protection program who «takes matters into his own hands» when the man he starts getting threats from the mean he's set to testify against.

Then his Interpol agent ex-girlfriend Amelia (Elodie Yung) offers him a job escorting the ruthless assassin Darius (Jackson) from his British prison cell to The Hague, where he's needed to testify against murderous Belarusian warlord Dukhovich (Gary Oldman) in a war crimes trial.

Desperate to reclaim his reputation, Bryce accepts a job to transport notorious hitman Darius Kincaid (Samuel L. Jackson) from England to Holland, where he will testify against vicious Eastern European dictator Vladislav Dukhovich (Gary Oldman).

Stanwyck's on the run from the cops who want her to testify against her boyfriend (Dana Andrews, a gangster).

I have been invited to testify against the Common Core standards and the Smarter Balanced tests in a politically motivated hearing sponsored by a state politician with views as far from my own as one could possibly imagine.

He opens a window on his private life, from his boyhood dislike of school to his daughter's precocious melancholy, from his successful struggle to quit smoking to his anxiety at the prospect of testifying against some clumsy muggers who fell upon him during a visit to New York City.

Those for and against the ordinance, which would only allow pet stores to only get animals from shelters, rescues and humane societies, testified.

Members of the Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities on Climate Change against REDD and for Life traveled from Mexico, Brazil and Ecuador to Sacramento last week to testify before the California Air Resources Board and meet with officials from Governor Jerry Brown's office and the state Environmental Protection Agency.

When a person marries, s / he gains a variety of rights, including a number of tax benefits, survivor benefits from Social Security, rights under the Family Medical Leave Act, the right not to testify against your spouse and other rights.

Clearly (as the answers there agreed) attorney - client privilege does not apply to a non-existent conversation; the attorney can be called and must testify «there was no conversation when I advised that», even if privilege prevents him from adding «actually I advised against it».

What is at stake requires that the court must balance what justice demands: that the accused receive a fair trial, that witnesses are not deterred from testifying, and that the judge, jury and lawyers are not distracted during the proceedings, against what the public interest in justice and our democracy requires....

See Baxter v. Palmigiano, 425 U.S. 308, 318 (1976)(holding that respondent's Fifth Amendment rights were not violated where he was advised that he was not required to testify but that his silence could be held against him); Lefkowitz v. Cunningham, 431 U.S. 801, 808 n. 5 (1977)(clarifying that Baxter permitted an adverse inference to be drawn in a civil case from a party's refusal to testify, but that the Baxter respondent's silence «was only one of a number of factors to be considered»).

If the privilege is available, advantages of asserting the privilege include that the client may be prevented from making statements in a civil proceeding that could be used against him or her in future criminal or civil proceedings or private civil litigation.82 In addition, testifying in a civil or criminal proceeding may, under certain circumstances, amount to a waiver of the Fifth Amendment privilege for purposes of the same proceeding and any future proceedings.83 Conversely, risks of asserting the privilege include that adverse inferences may, under certain circumstances, be drawn in civil or administrative proceedings from an individual's assertion of Fifth Amendment rights in a prior civil or administrative proceeding.84 Moreover, an individual's assertion of the privilege in a civil proceeding could factor into law enforcement's charging decisions.

The Federal Railroad Safety Act (FRSA) 49 U.S.C. § 20109 prevents any railroad company from discharging, demoting, suspending, reprimanding or in some way discriminating against an employee who provides information regarding a violation of safety rules reporting an injury or testifying in a FELA case.

In addition, Grassley's bill ignores the reality that strong federal sentencing guidelines have another valuable byproduct — squeezing cooperation from reticent criminals so they will testify against other criminals, while incentivizing them to plead guilty to lesser offenses to get shorter prison terms...

This question requires you to list your illicit income and pay a tax on it, but requires no discussion of specifics of any crime you committed that netted this income, only offers you an escape from the fate of Al Capone, and thus is not requiring you to testify against yourself.

And if your spouse happens to have been the driver, it also flies in the face of the spousal immunity priviledge that is supposed to keep spouses from being forced to testify against each other.

Top intelligence officials testifying before Congress in February warned against using Huawei products, and a bill has been introduced in Congress that would block the government from buying or leasing equipment from either Huawei or fellow Chinese phone maker ZTE.

The uniform Evidence Acts provide that the court has the discretion to excuse the witness from testifying after balancing the risk of harm to the witness or to the witness» relationship with the accused against the importance of the evidence.2