Sentences with phrase «ordinary criminal law»

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Along the way, we also instruct ordinary citizens about the general majesty of the law and the particular evil of the criminal's offense.

Prohibition was reversed because of the federal and state governments» prudential judgment that it had been a practical and social failure, spawning organized crime and making criminals of ordinary, otherwise law «abiding citizens.

First, there are the ordinary folk, who are bound to obey the criminal laws.

The hidden information showed that less than 5 percent of requests were from criminals and high - level public figures (lower than expected), with 95 percent of them made by ordinary citizens, according to Julia Powles, a researcher at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law who specializes in the law and policy of data sharing and privaLaw who specializes in the law and policy of data sharing and privalaw and policy of data sharing and privacy.

If they would not give evidence, dangerous criminals would walk free and both society and the administration of justice would suffer; (ii) it was settled law that the paramount object had always been to do justice and that if, in order to do justice, some adaptation of ordinary procedure was called for, it should be made, so long as the overall fairness of the trial was not compromised; (iii) recent case law supported the adoption of protective measures; (iv) the Strasbourg jurisprudence, properly understood, did not condemn the use of protective measures; and (v) the defendant was protected from the risk of unfairness by the prosecutor's duty of disclosure.

On the other hand, starting from the general provision of Article 175 of Italian Code of Criminal Procedure (which sets out the requirements to reinstate the legal due date for procedural acts), the ICC could have added a new procedural norm in the Italian legal order, allowing the defendant to be given back the time limit provided for by national law to choose between the ordinary and a simplified proceeding.

California law requires criminal negligence, which is a much higher standard than ordinary negligence.

The Commonwealth doesn't run the criminal law of Australia except in so far as international things intrude, but the ordinary day to day criminal law... [are] all state things.