Sentences with phrase «in prosecuting criminal»

To achieve success in prosecuting a criminal, the person prosecuting must be thorough and competent.

Both have extensive experience in prosecuting criminal cases and know how a district attorney's office works.

Not exact matches

The change represents yet another way that Sessions, who served as a federal prosecutor at the height of the drug war in Mobile, Alabama, has reversed Obama - era criminal justice policies aimed at easing overcrowding in federal prisons and rethinking of how drug criminals are prosecuted and sentenced.

Indeed, the impetus for our book, «JP Madoff: The Unholy Alliance Between America's Biggest Bank and America's Biggest Crook» was Holder's refusal as Attorney General to prosecute a single criminal banker for the litany of indisputable crimes committed in the last eight years and his sale of get - out - of - jail - free cards to senior officers of JPMorgan Chase so that they were not prosecuted for their complicity in Madoff's crimes and for their dishonesty with respect to the «London Whale» scandal.

The ICC is the International Criminal Court, created in 1998 to prosecute perpetrators of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.

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.

Their reaction would be same.Killing American ambasador is not justifiable anyway, since he had nothing to do with it.People who propagate hatred and voilence in the name of freedom of speech should be prosecuted and punished as any other criminals.

Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance said At a NYC Council budget hearing that his office prosecuted more than 7,000 fewer low - level criminal offenses in 2017 — and expects to «drive that number even lower» this year.

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.

Indeed, until it was reformed in 1989, Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 made it a criminal offence for any civil servant or public contractor to reveal any information he or she had learned in the course of his or her work: an offence that successive governments continued to prosecute well into the 1980s, despite recommendations published in 1972 by the Franks Committee calling for reform.

In our criminal justice system, the Government retains «broad discretion» as to whom to prosecute.

But he said the 2016 Supreme Court McDonnell decision narrowing federal corruption laws — and the «difficulty in proving criminal intent in corruption schemes where there is no evidence of personal profit» — made prosecuting inappropriate.

Rather, he vigorously pursued some alleged political criminals in the erstwhile government of the NDC, prosecuted them in courts packed with Kufuor's cronies, and sent to prison consequently.

And yes we expect the justice system to prosecute those suspected of criminal acts whether they take place in a hospital or anywhere else.

This information is then entered into a database for use by law enforcement to aid in identifying and prosecuting criminals.

Currently, they're considered adults — only New York and North Carolina prosecute minors in criminal court.

PRNigeria gathered that the Federal Government was infuriated by the action of Magu in engaging Keyamo as a private counsel to prosecute the CCT boss in purported corruption charge because, the same Keyamo is the counsel to Rasheed Taiwo Owolabi who is standing trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal and who made the allegation in the course of his trial on criminal offence.

Cuomo's criminal justice reforms have not always been embraced by local prosecutors, who have raised issues in the past to overhauling juvenile justice and an executive order giving the attorney general the power to investigate and prosecute cases in which civilians die in interactions with police.

The former member who represented Emohua in the State Assembly urged Governor Wike to channel his towards prosecuting those he described as criminals in the government of the state.

To prosecute cases in the 38 Justice Criminal Courts for misdemeanors and other offenses originating in Erie County cities, towns and villages outside the City of Buffalo.

The Bronx district attorney, Darcel D. Clark, urged the police to give criminal summonses in lieu of arrests, but stopped short of saying her office would decline to prosecute any cases.

To prosecute felony offenses in Superior Court that includes career criminal cases and major violent offenses.

Moody thanked Negron for the endorsement, adding that as the only candidate in the attorney general's race having served as a prosecutor and judge, she would «continue to uphold the law by protecting the constitution and prosecuting criminals for a stronger, safer Florida on day one.»

The Brooklyn district attorney's office in 2014 defied the Police Department and decided to stop prosecuting some low - level marijuana cases, but carved out exceptions for people accused of smoking in public or who had criminal records.

To prosecute cases in the 12 City Court criminal courts for misdemeanors and other offenses originating in the City of Buffalo.

Browning cited disclosures in Newsday that Spota's office failed to prosecute possible criminal activity uncovered in wiretaps, along with other cases.

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.

«It's critical that the office offers competitive salaries in order to maintain a roster of experienced attorneys and staff to help prosecute the most dangerous criminals represented by the most experienced defense teams,» said Tarek, who received a $ 4,950 pay increase, to $ 136,950.

I, like others, have worked at the criminal Bar, prosecuting and defending in many murder trials, and I have seen enough of the inadequacies of prison life to know that wholesale reform is required.

Also at 11 a.m., elected officials and activists will launch the «Raise the Age New York» campaign — a movement to increase the age at which teens are prosecuted as adults in the criminal justice system, outside Manhattan Municipal Building, 1 Centre Street, Lower Manhattan.

This was actually, originally, in Canada's criminal code and was used to prosecute a Holocaust denier, Ernst Zündel, in the early 1980s, but the Canadian Supreme Court ruled that it was too much of an infringement on free expression rights.

He warned that his government should not be tagged as engaging in a political trial when the government begins prosecuting people for the criminal acts committed

Defining a «violent» crime that would be prosecuted in criminal court versus family court are «absolutely» part of the talks surrounding raising the age of criminal responsibility in New York, Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan said on Monday following a closed - door leaders meeting.

Wells said he served as an assistant criminal district attorney in Fort Worth, Texas, where he successfully prosecuted more than 50 cases — including cases involving murder, kidnapping and rape.

Bayelsa State Governor, Henry Seriake Dickson, on Monday in Yenagoa asked security agencies to apprehend and prosecute political leaders who sponsor criminals.

We also raised the age of criminal responsibility in our state so that 16 and 17 year olds will no longer be prosecuted as adults.

«In this criminal act, DPR will stand as witness to the Nigerian police to prosecute the offender so that the law will take its course,» he said.

He stressed: «People have threatened to kill judges, which is a criminal offence, which is there in the criminal code and the Attorney General has not prosecuted them and he [President Mahama] wants to go and pardon?

«Under the proposed legislation, the most serious offenders will continue to be prosecuted in the adult criminal courts.

North Carolina is now the only state in the country that prosecutes 16 - and 17 - year - olds as adults in criminal court.

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.

What would our communities be like if the criminal element knew they had only a one in ten chance of being prosecuted, even if we knew who they were and could prove they committed the assault?

In a statement, GIBA called on the Ghana Police Service and other security agencies to treat the incident as a criminal case and move to prosecute the offenders.

Schriebman, who announced his plans to the county committee last week and resigned the position he has held since September 2008, cited his background and record in prosecuting corporate criminals with the U.S. attorney's office in New York City among his qualifications.

At 10 a.m., the Committees on Public Safety and Fire and Criminal Justice Services will hold a joint oversight hearing on prosecuting violence in city jails, and discussion of a proposed law on requiring certain types of bail recommendations.

Imohimi further advised parents to be vigilant about their children, saying negligent parents henceforth will be arrested and prosecuted in accordance with sections 247 and 249 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

Regarding his decision not to prosecute, he said it's difficult to prove «criminal intent in corruption schemes where there is no evidence of personal profit.»

They also tasked the Inspector - General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, to investigate and prosecute child sexual criminals in the country.

The New Patriotic Party in the election manifesto said, the office will «be independent of the Executive, to investigate and prosecute certain categories of cases and allegations of corruption and other criminal wrongdoing, including those involving alleged violations of the Public Procurement Act and cases implicating political officeholders and politicians.»

SERAP, therefore, urged the Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, «to urgently and proactively pursue the establishment of a UN-backed International Commission Against Corruption and Impunity to assist our criminal justice system to effectively and efficiently investigate and prosecute high - level corruption cases in the country, like it happened in Guatemala, for example.