Sentences with phrase «of victimless»

Yesterday the Fully Informed Jury Association spoke with Rich Paul, a New Hampshire man accused of multiple counts of victimless drug offenses who is pursuing a jury nullification strategy in his trial.

Finally, it is important to keep distinct the class of victimless crimes and the class of offenses thought to deserve decriminalization.

True, the main interest of the concept of victimless crimes derives from its usefulness in decriminalization proposals.

The reader must be careful not to infer from the absence of a checkmark that the authority listed would necessarily exclude the offense in question from the category of victimless crimes.

Not exact matches

Crime Inc. goes inside the entertainment industry to meet some of the people losing their livelihood to piracy and also follows law enforcement trying to crack down on this seemingly victimless crime.

«A criminal convicted of aggravated grievous bodily harm will walk away with a lesser sentence than many of those convicted of what I believe to be victimless crimes.»

«Daily fantasy sports companies are engaged in illegal gambling under New York law, causing the same kinds of social and economic harms as other forms of illegal gambling, and misleading New York consumers... Daily fantasy sports is neither victimless nor harmless, and it is clear that DraftKings and FanDuel are the leaders of a massive, multi-billion-dollar scheme intended to evade the law and fleece sports fans across the country.

Part of the problem, naturally, is that those who engage in «underground» transactions may tell themselves that it's a victimless crime.

To the extent that these victimless activities are a matter of public concern, they require medical treatment, income - maintenance and education.

In the case of so called victimless crimes where sin occurs, the victim is the sinner.

That's ok... I choose not to spend eternity with a god who sends his «children» to hell, for the victimless crime of «not believing».

Loving fathers do not punish their children throughout eternity, for the victimless offense of not believing something.

Actually, when stories like those referred to above come to the fore it is clear that the sexualisation of our society is far from being a victimless phenomenon.

A libertarian would reply: «Relax, these are victimless crimes and it's none of your business.»

Busting gambling rings is labor - intensive work for law - enforcement agencies, and there's little chance that those apprehended and found guilty will receive heavy penalties since much of the public considers gambling a victimless crime.

ABI Fraud Conference, in Partnership with Ordnance Survey, will provide an opportunity for senior fraud practitioners to come together and discuss key insurance fraud issues including government anti-fraud strategy, regulatory changes, and the perception of insurance fraud as a victimless crime.

For a glaring example of how corruption is not a victimless crime, and how money in politics can hurt ordinary citizens, look no further than Physicians» Reciprocal Insurers.

«Contrary to the defendant's argument that his crime was victimless,» the U.S. attorney's office added, «the people of the State of New York are victims whenever, as here, an elected official abuses the trust the public placed in him by accepting secret payoffs from lobbyists and by covering up his conduct.»

Prisons are not full of offenders sentenced for drug possession, licence fee evasion or petty, victimless crime.

«Generally speaking, I found that greening was more prevalent where violent crime, property crime and victimless crime were going down,» said Sadler, an assistant professor of public health in the College of Human Medicine.

It might seem like a victimless issue of semantics, but B12 deficiency is critically under diagnosed, and in part because of the «snake oil» cure - all way it's been presented in the past.

Please note: for this issue, we are interested primarily (and perhaps even exclusively) in stories of consensual and / or victimless sex.

In Talk Talk, which follows Drop City and The Inner Circle, he delves deep into the modern - day nightmare of the «victimless crime» of identity theft.

For the sake of summary and easy comparison, Table I lists the range of criminal offenses which the authorities we have discussed have identified as victimless crimes.While this table omits the views of many others who have written on this subject with equal authority, it is representative and will suffice for our purposes.

Packer's discussion of bribery and espionage shows that even if these two crimes are victimless in some sense or other, it would still be unreasonable to recommend that bribery and espionage cease to be punishable offenses.

Let us begin by noticing the first warning sign of conceptual and theoretical trouble ahead: the authorities do not agree among themselves as to which crimes are victimless.

That the SEC is more worried about catching Martha Stewart trading on day early (a victimless crime that actually made the market more efficient, and helped reduce losses for unknowing buyers of ImClone that day) than it is about catching real fraud or protecting shareholders ownership rights?

That's when we got out when the knuckleheads started showing up wanting to buy dogs and do all sorts of criminal activity we never did any criminal activity except maybe for betting, but of course that is a victimless crime.

Faking a service dog is illegal and often thought of as a victimless crime.

Modern juries have protected their communities by refusing to convict individuals prosecuted for victimless licensing violations in cases related to raw milk, for conveying political messages in chalk on public sidewalks, for victimless violations of gun regulations inadvertently committed when crossing state lines, for victimless cases of medical and recreational use of drugs, and much more.

Moreover, many of the misdeeds have been traditionally looked at as «victimless» crimes, a flawed concept but one not much different from societal view on speeding or marijuana use.

Georgetown University law professor Paul Butler encourages jurors to refuse to enforce victimless drug laws that have disproportionately been used against and disproportionately harm people of color.

Paul is now charged for victimless crimes related to sales of just about a pound of marijuana over the course of a few months.

On 30 September, the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office issued a report concluding an investigation into victimless cannabis - related activities alleged to have involved a number of New Hampshire state legislators.

● Court - Ordered Community Service with FIJA Many people who are convicted of minor and victimless offenses are required by courts to do community service as part or all of their sentence.

The absence of a complaining witness leads some to refer to drug crimes as «victimless.»

Insurance fraud is certainly not a victimless crime, and since the cost of fraud has to be covered by raising premiums, innocent and honest consumers are the ones who end up paying the price.

Far from a victimless crime perpetuated against bloated corporations, insurance fraud reaches into the lives of everyday citizens.

One of the biggest lies around the topic of pornography and sexual addiction is that it is a victimless activity.