Sentences with phrase «joint criminal enterprise»

A panel of Supreme Court justices said on Thursday that prosecutors, judges and jurors had to take a different approach when dealing with defendants accused of being involved in some kinds of joint criminal enterprises.

«Thousands of prisoners will seek legal advice after the Supreme Court ruled that trial judges had been wrongly interpreting a law relating to joint criminal enterprise for 30 years, lawyers predict.

«A panel of Supreme Court justices said yesterday that prosecutors, judges and jurors had to take a different approach when dealing with defendants accused of being involved in some kinds of joint criminal enterprises.

«Thousands of prisoners will seek legal advice after the Supreme Court ruled that trial judges had been wrongly interpreting a law relating to joint criminal enterprise for 30 -LSB-...]

The suit alleges that the law gives the Ugandans standing to sue Lively for his activities, which had a crucial nexus in the U.S. and therefore come under federal courts» jurisdiction; it also charges that Lively not only advocated bad ideas in an abstract context but helped various Ugandans conceive and manage a campaign of persecution, thus involving himself in a joint criminal enterprise.

In terms of joint enterprise, this was summed up by Elias LJ as being that, «where a character of the joint criminal enterprise is such that it is foreseeable that a party or parties may be subject to unusual or increased risks of harm as a consequence... and the risk materialises, the injury can properly be said to be caused by the criminal act of the claimant even if it results from the negligent or intentional act of another party».

It's not clear from the hypothetical whether there is any question of a joint criminal enterprise.

In the case you cite, the jury found that «the deceased's killing was pursuant to a joint criminal enterprise.»

In Dale M's answer, the fact that both were convicted and sentenced hinges on the finding that «the deceased's killing was pursuant to a joint criminal enterprise.»