Sentences with phrase «narrowed legal definition»
A federal appeals court on Thursday overturned the 2015 corruption conviction of Sheldon Silver, once the powerful speaker of the New York State Assembly, saying the judge's jury instructions were in error in light of a United States Supreme Court decision that has since narrowed the legal definition of corruption.
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The bill essentially narrows legal definitions of a «switchblade knife» and a «gravity knife» to keep a ban on dangerous weapons while still allowing folding knives for the people who use them as tools.
The blunt tactic appears to be a bet that a narrower legal definition of bribery set forth by the US Supreme Court could set his client free.
Criminal Law: Provocation R. v. Bouchard, 2013 ONCA 791 (35690) Judgment rendered Oct. 16, 2014 Cromwell J. — «We agree with [the] majority of [the C.A.], that the trial judge's instructions may well have led the jury to understand that the deceased's allegedly provocative acts and the respondent's reaction to them had relevance to the mens rea issue only if they met the narrow legal definition of provocation in s. 232 of the Criminal Code and that this constituted misdirection».
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A bill was introduced in the North Carolina legislature that would narrow the definition of the «practice of law» to exclude sell - help legal materials, including books, software, and legal information.
Money transmission is a broad term, but its legal definition is much more narrow.