Sentences with phrase «made against an accused person»

Only the prosecution can decide what charges are made against an accused person.

Not exact matches

Guerin advises meeting with the accused person — who often has not attacked anyone but made a verbal threat against another employee — outside of work hours or off the work site.

They trash us at every turn, even going so far as to use hate speech and blatant lies to scare people into bashing or even murdering us, passing laws that make our existence illegal, etc., yet when we speak up against this treatment and push back, those same Christians accuse us of intolerance and bullying.

The new sin, for which Christians can claim «credit,» was to victimize people by accusing them of being victimizers, to make the revelation directed against sacrifice a new rationale for sacrifice.

Federal prosecutors have joined a lawsuit against the agency that runs New York City's subway, accusing the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of violating federal law for not making a renovated station accessible to people with disabilities.

NY POST - Mar 31 - Melissa «Midwest» Harrington, a popular ex-porn star is being dropped as the face of a multibillion - dollar lawsuit against Match.com, making her the second hottie since January to be removed from the case.The suit accuses Match.com and affiliated sites of posting fake dating profiles featuring photos of pretty people to attract paying members.

One reason to aggressively defend yourself against allegations of child abuse is that once a charge has been made, your name may be entered into the TRAILS database, a government database that tracks people accused of child abuse.

But what happens when a trial judge, during the course of a criminal trial, uses an image from Google Street View that he himself has downloaded to make an adverse finding of credibility against an accused person?»

Famous people have to meet that burden of proof because there are accusations made against them that are not true all the time and not always for actual crimes (Ted Cruz was accused of being the Zodiac Killer during the election (mostly as humor).

In 2007, inspired by civil rights attorneys Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and Avon Williams, Jr., who used the law and courts as a vehicle to make change and protect all people against injustice, Attorney Zulu Ali opened the Law Offices of Zulu Ali with a focus on representing persons accused of crimes and seeking criminal justice, immigrants, victims of discrimination, and persons seeking civil justice.

The Convention Against Torture provides that statements extracted by torture shall not be used as evidence in any proceeding «except against a person accused of torture as evidence that the statement was made.Against Torture provides that statements extracted by torture shall not be used as evidence in any proceeding «except against a person accused of torture as evidence that the statement was made.against a person accused of torture as evidence that the statement was made.»

The ability to discern right from wrong, and the ability to see the full extent of unlawful activity, is what makes us so capable of defending people accused of crimes, many of whom, like our new colleague, are found guilty of the charges against them.

A tort of defamation is a kind of legal action brought against someone who is accused of making claims against another person or organization that may be damaging to the reputation of that person or organization.