Sentences with phrase «in civilian courts»

Eighteen senators, including two Democrats and one Independent, unveiled a bill Tuesday to withhold funding the President requested to try terror suspects in civilian courts.

Should terrorists be tried in civilian courts in Manhattan?

Being a theif is against the law in the civilian courts and military courts.

As with those of similar convictions in civilian courts, the records are supposed to block defendants from buying guns.

And if the suspect can be prosecuted, we decide whether to try him in a civilian court or a military commission.

Pataki pretty much stuck to the GOP line, criticizing the president for entitling «enemy combatants» to Miranda warnings, enabling them to «lawyer up and not talk about what they know»; and going along with US AG Eric Holder's decision to (so far) hold the KSM trial in a civilian court in NYC.

The five 9/11 terror suspects will not be tried in civilian court in lower Manhattan, as was originally planned.

He sat with bin Laden, his father - in - law, after the September 11 attacks, and was the most senior bin Laden adviser tried in civilian court in the U.S. «He was more than just Osama bin Laden's propaganda minister,» Bharara said after his conviction.

Not exact matches

The law also requires a civilian review when commanders decline to prosecute, requires dishonourable discharge or dismissal for those convicted, eliminate the statute of limitations for courts - martial in rape and sexual assault cases and criminalizes retaliation against victims who report an assault.

In a 1956 private letter ruling, the IRS explained that not only was the court's holding limited to the military, but that it didn't even apply to civilian employees of the military.

This man» a former official of the Second Republic (the previous civilian government, overthrown by the military in 1983) who was once imprisoned by the current regime» told me that in many places in the north, where he often tries cases, Nigerian civil law has become a dead letter: judges regularly turn cases over to the sharia courts even if only one party to the case is a Muslim.

So in her conclusion she highlights some of the accomplishments of Byzantine civilization: an imperial government built on a trained civilian administration and tax system; a legal structure based on Roman law; a curriculum of secular education that preserved classical learning; theological thought, artistic expression, and spiritual traditions that are still alive in the Orthodox churches; and coronation and court rituals that were adopted by other rulers.

So we can talk of limited success in developing new norms and practices of civilian protection, and we can celebrate a new international court for such atrocities.

Opponents note that the laws will give PiS overall control of the supreme court, which in addition to serving as the highest court of appeal for all civilian and criminal cases is also responsible for validating elections.

Furthermore, Article 8 (2)(b)(iv) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court criminalizes «intentionally launching an attack in the knowledge that such attack will cause incidental loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects or widespread, long - term and severe damage to the natural environment which would be clearly excessive in relation to the concrete and direct overall military advantage anticipated.»

A state Supreme Court justice has thrown out a petition by Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel E. Abelove that sought to undo the state attorney general's power to take over cases in which unarmed civilians are killed by police.

While it could indeed be «a potentially epoch - making moment it could be for Gaddafi to stand trial at the International Criminal Court,» Bali and Abu Rish argue that: «The prospect of retirement in a prison cell in the Hague may factor into al - Qaddafi's incentives to make good on his threats to fight to the last of his capacities, visiting untold atrocities on Libyan civilians in the process.

He continued «We are here in court to institute a criminal case against the leadership of Miyetti Allah Kauttal Hore and some Fulani herdsmen who instigated attacks on innocent civilians between December 31, 2017 and January 1, 2018 in Guma and Logo local government areas of Benue State.

A legislative body could expand the concept of arms in «common use» by permitting (or at least not prohibiting) civilian ownership, and if it reached a point where the courts found it to be «common,» then it would fall under Second Amendment protection.

The Republican prosecutor said that the information from the autopsy that determined Mr. Garner's death — following the application of an apparent chokehold by Officer Daniel Pantaleo last month — was a homicide, compelled his decision to impanel 23 civilians to hear evidence and vote on whether Mr. Pantaleo or any of the other cops who brought him to the ground will be tried in court.

«Unless we apply the break and uphold the rule of law and democratic conventions and practices in all ramifications, our greatest losses, moving forward, will not be economic recession, lack of critical infrastructure, among others, but an irredeemably deteriorated civilian rule where the decisions of the courts, letters and spirit of the law, resolutions of the legislature, electoral choices of Nigerians as expressed through the ballot no longer count.»

A lawyer who charges she was denied a judgeship in New York City as retaliation by Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration for her lawsuit against the Civilian Complaint Review Board is seeking to add a former judge of the state Court of Appeals, Carmen Ciparick, to the lawsuit.

Rensselaer County DA Joel E. Abelove filed a civil complaint in state Supreme Court that seeks to overturn an executive order Cuomo signed two years ago giving the state attorney general the authority to usurp local district attorneys in cases in which unarmed civilians are killed during confrontations with police.

Waterboarding, stress positions, extended sleep deprivation, nudity and prolonged solitary confinement have all been deplored by the U.S. State Department when practiced by other countries, by U.S. civilian courts in cases other than those dealing with terrorism, and by respected global humanitarian organizations such as the International Committee for the Red Cross.

Carr was referring to the July 2015 decision by Manhattan State Supreme Court Justice Alice Schlesinger, who ruled in favor of the Legal Aid Society, which had sought a summary of the accusations that were lodged against Officer Daniel Pantaleo prior to Garner's death in 2014 and substantiated by the Civilian Complaint Review Board.

The other nominees are: Michael Diedreich, an attorney from Rockland County; Jose Fernandez, a former assistant secretary of State in the Obama administration who current practices at Gibson Dunn; Nicole Gueron, whose experience includes a stint as deputy trial counsel in the attorney general's office during Cuomo's tenure in the post; Doris Ling - Cohan, a state Supreme Court judge in New York County; former New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board executive director Mina Quinto Malik; Buffalo attorney Jennifer Stergion; and Alex Zapesochny, who appears to be the founder of a Rochester biotech company.

The city recently started withholding records that showed the outcomes of disciplinary cases against cops, and has fought in court an effort to release summaries of Pantaleo's civilian complaints.

Holder told the Senate Judiciary Committee that his original decision to hold the trial in a New York City civilian court remains «on the table,» despite pressure against that venue from Republicans and New York officials.

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.

The SAMSHA grant, totaling $ 971,736 over a three - year period, will also support personnel, training and other needs related to the development of a peer mentor initiative to help military veterans enrolled in the County's drug treatment court programs re-adjust to civilian life and get back on track, as well as efforts to increase participation rates in court - mandated treatment programs among justice - involved veterans.

Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel E. Abelove filed a civil complaint in state Supreme Court Wednesday that seeks to overturn an executive order Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed two years ago giving the state attorney general the authority to usurp local district attorneys in cases in which unarmed civilians are killed during confrontations with police.

Having limited the «numerous arrests» to the surviving victims of the violent attack who have since been charged with conspiracy and culpable homicide we hereby request you to use your good offices to ensure that the criminal elements who killed 347 unarmed civilians including women and children and buried their dead bodies are arrested and arraigned in court without any further delay.

The court's second ruling ended a suit by the Legal Aid Society, which had sought the release of the disciplinary records from the Civilian Complaint Review Board of one officer in particular: Daniel Pantaleo, who had placed Eric Garner, an unarmed black man, in a chokehold moments before he died on a Staten Island sidewalk in July 2014.

The mayor will appoint an independent civilian to monitor the New York Police Department's counterterrorism activities, lawyers said in court documents on Thursday as they moved to settle a pair of lawsuits over surveillance targeting Muslims in the decade after the Sept. 11 attacks.

The G4S advert says the civilian investigators to be based in Nuneaton, Rugby and Leamington will investigate crime, gather evidence, seize and view evidential material, take statements from victims and witnesses, undertake house - to - house inquiries, prepare files for the Crown Prosecution Services, attend court hearings and give evidence, and identify and trace offenders.

The moral quandary at the center of the film may not be an original one — Danish commander Claus Pedersen (Pilou Asbæk) must go to court over a split - second decision made during a firefight in which his actions saved a comrade while unknowingly leading to a number of civilian casualties — but Lindholm takes seemingly ages to get to that point, allowing the audience to soak in the monotony and incessant - if - buried burden of Pedersen's position: serving as ersatz father for his unit while knowing, intuitively, that his family desperately needs him back home.

There were bad guys stationed in the court yard, there were civilians ducking for cover, there was bad guys repelling into the fight, along with bad guys on the overhead walkway.

Only, 62 involve civilian death penalties imposed in federal courts (mostly in states that have the death penalty) and another 6 involve death penalties imposed in military courts (mostly in states that allow the death penalty or abroad).

At this point she was offered the opportunity to change from her court attire to civilian clothing and she left the court in those civilian clothes.

As the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court made clear in relation to allegations of war crimes violations on the part of the United States in Iraq, the threshold of whether civilian casulaties are «clearly excessive» to the military advantage to be gained is a high one, the mere «death of civilians during an armed conflict, no matter how grave and regrettable, does not in itself constitute a war crime».

Support for live - blogging courtroom proceedings and discrediting class distinctions drawn in this regard also stems from a promotion of the model of discursive democracy outlined above in Part I. Drawing on the work of theorists including Lon Fuller, recall that the Supreme Court of Canada and legal scholars such as Jeremy Waldron held that the fair functioning of the liberal democratic order required civilian access to information and the attendant opportunity to deliberate upon that information critically.

For instance, it might just be possible that the ready availability — indeed, the omnipresence — of judgments from every court in the land will lead to their ultimate (relative) irrelevance and that we will find ourselves developing a civilian system in which code — there's a verbal irony!

A draft of an Executive Order circulating in Washington on Wednesday revealed a plan for, first, a full - scale review of the case of each of the remaining 245 or so prisoners; second, relocation of the prisoners either to the U.S. or to foreign countries with full release for some, and, third, prosecution of some — though not necessarily in regular civilian courts — for terrorist - related crimes.

R. v. R.R. (2017), After a trial lasting over 3 years, with numerous civilian and police witnesses being called, client acquitted of several charges in the Ontario Court of Justice, including assaulting peace officer and assault with a weapon.

The court adopted the reasoning in U.S. v. Chon, 210 F. 3d 990 (U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit 2000), which rejected the notion that the PCA would not apply on the basis that the officer was a member of the Naval Criminal Investigation Service (NCIS), which is a largely civilian operation headed by civilian comcourt adopted the reasoning in U.S. v. Chon, 210 F. 3d 990 (U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit 2000), which rejected the notion that the PCA would not apply on the basis that the officer was a member of the Naval Criminal Investigation Service (NCIS), which is a largely civilian operation headed by civilian comCourt of Appeals for the 9th Circuit 2000), which rejected the notion that the PCA would not apply on the basis that the officer was a member of the Naval Criminal Investigation Service (NCIS), which is a largely civilian operation headed by civilian command.

We are able to offer legal advice on all matters, from civilian issues to courts martial, calling on our members wealth of experience, in every matter relating to forces life.

He has recently been involved in the first «war crimes» Court Martial arising out of the alleged ill treatment of Iraqi civilians by British soldiers in Basra.

His experience in the Government Contract sector includes virtually all types of disputes, including Requests for Equitable Adjustments (REA), false claims, qui tam filings, terminations, and formal claim appeals before the U.S. Civilian Board of Contract Appeals and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.

This testimony has been provided in both court and board forums, including the Maryland State Board of Contract Appeals, the ASBCA, Federal Civilian BCA, NASA BCA, various Circuit Courts and United States District Courts, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and the International Court of Arbitration in Geneva, Switzercourt and board forums, including the Maryland State Board of Contract Appeals, the ASBCA, Federal Civilian BCA, NASA BCA, various Circuit Courts and United States District Courts, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and the International Court of Arbitration in Geneva, SwitzerCourt of Federal Claims, and the International Court of Arbitration in Geneva, SwitzerCourt of Arbitration in Geneva, Switzerland.

That's why programs such as veterans courts — which seek to understand how military service impacts the veterans» lives as civilians — are important tools in addressing the underlying legal problems that lead to homelessness.