Sentences with phrase «out of the criminal justice system as»

I am here to help get you through this troubling time and out of the criminal justice system as quickly and smoothly as possible.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo laid out a series of proposals for reforming the state's criminal justice system, in response to heightened tensions over the death of an unarmed Staten Island resident after an encounter with police, as well as the recent murder of two police officers

Heastie said the proposals would take 16 - and 17 - year - olds out of the adult criminal justice system and treat them as juveniles in family court.

The number of things done by government could be one measure (such as the number of tax returns or passport applications processed, or the number of prisoners in the criminal justice system) but how should we measure how well those functions are carried out, and how should we separate the effects of government reforms from those of technological and societal changes?

But Mr Blair wrote: «They need to know clearly that if they do make this move; if they hold their ard fheis by the end of January, pass the ard comhairle motion and, as they say they will, immediately go out and actively encourage everyone in the community to co-operate fully with the police and criminal justice system in tackling crime in all areas, then unionism will not be found wanting.»

He said he has backers from a cross section of the criminal justice system, «as well as citizens who want politics out of the DA's office and law enforcement.»

She describes her clients as predominantly young, African American men, whom are in and out of the criminal justice system.

«This evaluation is intended to point out where forensic practice is well founded in science and where it is not and to produce a research agenda to serve as the basis for arriving at forensic methods that will inspire greater confidence in our criminal justice system,» says the report, the second of two AAAS reports on the state of forensic science, the first focusing on the quality of fire investigations in the United States.

The authors of the study hold out hope that the positive finding on kindergarten retentions means that the TN - VPK had a positive effect on children's social / emotional development, which will lead to long term positive outcomes like those that were found in the famous Perry Preschool Project (in which, for example, participants were less likely than nonparticipants to have had encounters with the criminal justice system as adults).

The American Civil Liberties Union defines the school - to - prison pipeline as «the policies and practices that push our nation's schoolchildren, especially our most at - risk children, out of classrooms and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems.»

The school - to - prison pipeline phenomenon that has been a major topic of discussion in education circles in recent years is defined as a result of policies that encourage a police presence at schools, harsh tactics such as extreme physical restraint, zero - tolerance policies and other automatic punishments that result in suspensions and out - of - class time, and other actions that could increase a student's chances of landing in the criminal justice system, according to Teaching Tolerance magazine, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The white washing, itself resembling an act of defiance as it was carried out (see video below), symbolically reads as the erasure of the Black male, the silencing of a community and the public at - large, and the specter of the criminal justice system.

Your right to legal counsel is clearly stated in the U.S. Constitution, and failing to take full advantage of this right can have disastrous consequences as you face the full penalties that the criminal justice system can deal out.

And as Larry Ribstein has repeatedly pointed out, it doesn't say much for our criminal justice system that the government is paying witnesses to testify against Lerach for the crime of paying his class representative clients.

John has earned a reputation as being a talented and accomplished Lawyer in the Province of British Columbia, who truly knows the ins - and - outs of the Canadian criminal justice system.