Sentences with phrase «of their prosecution by»

This statement gives a clear message to farmers across the UK that they can act with impunity and little risk of prosecution by illegally gassing badgers.

The state comptroller had recently been forced out of office over similar charges under the threat of prosecution by the Albany County D.A. (The same D.A. ultimately conducted two investigations of Troopergate.

It was also learnt that the management of the commission also placed the affected persons on half salaries indefinitely, pending the outcome of their prosecution by the government.

Michael Kimelman, who served two years in prison for insider trading after getting caught in a web of prosecutions by Bharara, accuses the former U.S. attorney of only caring about «brownie points» and «easy headlines.»

If a judicial candidate, before becoming judge, actively campaigns on partisan issues in violation of the Judicial Conduct Code, and if a candidate for judicial office pledges to be biased in favor of the prosecution by promising to be «tough on crime», then the respect for the judiciary will suffer.

Holding yourself out to be something the Legislation and the Registrar states your are not (ie anything other than a sales rep) like a housing market expert will not and only exposes you too extreme risk of prosecution by Joe.

Not exact matches

Concern over the prosecution of medical cannabis businesses subsided after the recent budget passed by Congress.

In 2014, Toyota also paid a whopping $ 1.2 billion fine, the largest ever paid by an automaker, to avoid criminal prosecution; as part of the settlement, Toyota admitted that it «misled U.S. consumers by concealing and making deceptive statements.»

The price of the Angola 5 prosecution has figured prominently in an ongoing study of death penalty costs by a committee of Louisiana lawmakers, which is expected to conclude by the end of the year.

The president's credibility has also been tainted by her sometimes erratic response to the shocking death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman as he was investigating an alleged cover - up deal between her government and Iran to shield the Islamic Republic from prosecution in the 1994 bombing of Jewish center.

Hernandez's defense, led by Michael Fee, however, spun the conversation as proof of a close friendship between the men, which could lead the jury to question Hernandez's motive for murder, a significant element in the burden of proof for the prosecution.

The prosecution, led by assistant district attorney Patrick Bomberg, says Hernandez and two of his associates drove Lloyd to an industrial park close to Hernandez's house and then shot him six times.

But by adding an act of terrorism on American soil to his securities fraud, Le Chiffre dramatically increased the odds of prosecution under U.S. laws greatly strengthened after 9/11.

Prosecutors who specialize in terrorism, narcotics trafficking and organized crime, led by the acting head of the Justice Department's criminal division, will bring prosecutions designed to restrict the flow of money to terrorist groups, Sessions said.

The documents, which Fortune has not seen directly, were entered into evidence by a defense attorney in the troubled prosecution of a California doctor accused of possessing child pornography.

Specifically, the Sessions memorandum directs U.S. Attorneys to «weigh all relevant considerations, including federal law enforcement priorities set by the Attorney General, the seriousness of the crime, the deterrent effect of criminal prosecution, and the cumulative impact of particular crimes on the community.»

She has deep experience in regulatory compliance, and crisis prevention and management, including the transportation of dangerous goods by all means of transportation, the defence of environmental litigation, and the avoidance and defence of environmental related prosecutions.

The agencies managed to avoid criminal prosecution by noting that the small print of their contracts said that they were only providing an «opinion,» not a realistic analysis for which they could be expected to take any honest professional responsibility!

Although Kulikov's criminal prosecution makes no mention of the German lender by name, investigators did quiz several witnesses in detail about Deutsche Bank and the mirror trades, say lawyers and witnesses in the case.

While the points made by these gentlemen are both valid and critically important, they fail to take note of four other dangerous subsidies: (1) the market perception that the Washington and Wall Street revolving door has rendered these firms immune from prosecution — even for repeated, illegal cartel behavior; (2) the ability to spend billions buying back their own stock, effectively propping up their own share price and bad behavior; (3) self - regulation with compromised bodies creating the market perception and reality of a competitive edge; and (4) Congress and the Supreme Court tolerating Wall Street running its own private justice system (mandatory arbitration) where corrupt acts are kept hidden from public view until they blow up into catastrophic events to the economy.

At a symposium and webinar presented by Fenwick & West and Mewburn Ellis, we asked U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and European Patent Office examiners to provide perspective on the preparation and prosecution of patent applications in the areas of precision medicine and bioinformatics, disciplines that are at the epicenter of rapidly changing law on patent eligibility of software and medical diagnostic inventions.

This is the law accepted even by Switzerland, for instance, in the prosecution of former President Salinas's family.

If one searches for news on LIBOR (= London Interbank Offered Rate, i.e., the rate at which banks lend dollars to each other in the euro - dollar market), they are currently dominated by Deutsche Bank getting slapped with a total fine of $ 775 million for the part it played in manipulating the benchmark rate in collusion with other banks (fine for one count of wire fraud: US$ 150 m.; additional shakedown by US Justice Department: US$ 625 m., the price tag for a deferred prosecution agreement).

This could also be an effort by Trump and Cohen to avoid prosecution for knowing and willful violation of federal campaign finance law.

The first of the bullion bank traders being brought to trial on charges of manipulating the U.S. gold and futures markets, Andy Flotron, has been treated unfairly by the prosecution, a federal judge has ruled.

Inquisition: The Persecution and Prosecution of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon by Carlton Sherwood Regnery Gateway, 705 pages, $ 29.95 Carlton Sherwood is a Pulitzer Prize - winning investigative reporter who has done a number of exposes of corrupt religious leaders in recent years.

Retired church leader John Price from Bedale was accused by the prosecution of offering hypnosis to help victims relax, before proceeding to abuse them sexually.

The Crown Prosecution Service is appealing a decision by a Kosovan court not to extradite a British monk accused of child abuse.

You have no evidence to prove any of this otherwise, or else it would have been provided by the prosecution.

The prosecution was trying, we suspect, to find an objective basis by which to convict the Roma, that is, a way of disproving the defense's claim on grounds the defense couldn't contest.

Whenever such wickedness occurs, it must be fully exposed and condemned, and full justice must be applied by prosecution of all those individuals who share responsibility for this evil, either in their committing abuse or collaborated in it and its cover - up.

John Coughlin's excellent review («Scandal and Canon Law,» June / July 2008) of Nicholas Cafardi's equally excellent book Before Dallas: The U.S. Bishops» Response to Clergy Sexual Abuse of Children is marred by approval of setting aside «prescription,» the statute of limitations for the prosecution of a delict in canon law.

At Nuremberg the prosecution argued that the killing programs unfolded from one another, that the genocide of the six millionth Jew was somehow unleashed by the morphine overdose given the first harelipped child.

«In addition, as the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change works with the state government to deliver democratic dividends, we urge it to also assist in addressing the challenges to rule of law posed by these arrests and prosecutions, encouraging respect for press freedom and advocating for protection and justice for targeted communities in southern Kaduna.»

Mervyn Thomas added: «Such selective prosecutions not only undermine the rule of law, but also erode confidence in a state government that has yet to address the violence in southern Kaduna effectively, or to assist those displaced by the attacks.»

First the prosecution and then the defense asked additional questions of each person on the panel by name.

Sixtus V recommended moderation soon after the tribunal was set up, Leo X encouraged the prosecution of false witnesses and Paul III urged the Neapolitans to resist the introduction of the Inquisition by their Spanish masters (1546).

The facts of the safety breaches were not opened by prosecutor Michael Gregory, who told District Judge Lesley Mottram: «The prosecution submission is that this matter is so serious that you should use your powers to commit it to the Crown Court for sentencing.»

«Both the statute and case law surrounding private prosecutions are adamant that courts must protect the right of access to these private prosecutions, by not assessing punitive costs against the person seeking justice - unless the case is frivolous, and never should have been brought.

the Catholic Church is like the Mafia, it's organized crime, protected by governments, immune to prosecution for it's transgressions against mankind, a purveyor of lies and fatasies.

This reductionist point of view, which seeks knowledge by analysis, almost inevitably leads its proponents to assume, quite unwarrantably, that all that is then required is to work out the consequences of these laws by the prosecution of what is called «extensive science,» whereupon all truth will be revealed!

Maduro vows the assembly will strip opposition politicians of their constitutional immunity from prosecution, while members of congress say they will only be removed by force.

We will not — indeed, can not — defend the Christian faith before the prosecution by advocating a condescending criterion of relevance, or by accepting the subjectivity of value.

The inquiry was confirmed by Home Secretary Theresa May who told MP's: «Our priority must be the prosecution of the people behind these disgusting crimes.

In a statement the force said: «These decisions by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) follow Operation Dunhill, an investigation by Sussex Police detectives into information received from the Church of England in May 2012.»

They have attempted on hundreds of occasion that lack of subservience to US sovereignty by repeatedly harbor known criminals in an attempt to avid the scandal of their prosecution, They also engage in ongoing financial fraud denying Americans their rightful revenues, and exploiting their own members.

Mr Conway said his current options are to «effectively suffocate» by choosing to remove his ventilator or to spend thousands of pounds travelling to Switzerland to end his life and have his family risk prosecution.

A live map which links to a database of successful food standards, food hygiene and food safety related prosecutions in England, Wales and Northern Ireland has been published by the FSA.

An indictment was filed by the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions on Thursday, but further details are not yet known.

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