Sentences with phrase «over prosecution of his case»

The Albany County District Attorney's Office took over prosecution of his case in February 2018, at the request of Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel Abelove, who may call the detective as a witness in an upcoming quadruple murder trial.

After the sad incidence which resulted in the eventual death of the victim, Chika, and in line with the zero tolerance posture of the Governor Akinwunmi Ambode - led administration on issues of domestic violence, the Lagos State Government through the State's Ministry of Justice had taken over the prosecution of the case and filed necessary processes in court.

Not exact matches

The WA Department of Agriculture last month began preparing a prosecution case against WA - based Emanuel Exports over conditions on a ship that left Fremantle on 1 August, 2017, on which 2,400 sheep died, primarily of heat stress.

Mrs. Olabisi added, «In order to ensure a diligent and professional investigation, the Inspector General of Police has directed the Deputy Inspector - General of Police in - charge of the Force Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (FCIID) to deploy the Homicide Section of the Department to immediately take over the investigation of the case and ensure a meticulous investigation and speedy prosecution of the arrested suspects.

She was appointed by Putin in 2008 and according to Openspace.ru, a publication which has analysed her rulings over three years, she agrees with the arguments of the prosecution in 90 % of cases.

Mr. Nel has said he is concerned over the possibility of political interference in the prosecution of the case.

Caproni, who has already presided over one major case of corruption of the former top Democrat in the Legislature, pushed some 20 defense and prosecution lawyers to keep to her plans to get a jury quickly assembled.

The ruling requires prosecutors to actively seek and turn over to defense attorneys any information — known as Giglio material, after a Supreme Court case by that name — that might be used to attack the credibility of prosecution witnesses.

Justice Gabriel Kolawole who presided over the case said the it was dismissed as a result of the inability of the prosecution to prove that President Goodluck Jonathan, who was at the Eagle Square during the bombing, was the target of the blast or was intimidated by the attack.

The outgoing Justice of Nigeria (NJC), Justice Dahiru Musdapher yesterday lamented over the slow pace of investigation and prosecution of cases in the country in comparison...

They were all discharged and acquitted by an Ekiti State High Court presided over by Justice Lekan Ogunmoye who held that the prosecution failed to prove the case of murder against tem beyond reasonable doubt.

«Further, to end a culture of corruption and impunity of perpetrators, we urge the Attorney General of the Federation and the Minister of Justice Mr Abubakar Malami, SAN to urgently take over the prosecution of the corruption case against Mr Saraki by ensuring that the CCT decision is urgently appealed and that the case is diligently prosecuted within the limits of the rule of law.

The NADCL report also found a sharp increase in the number of prosecutions of misdemeanor cases over the past three decades.

In late 2011, two Ontario cases failed to find acceptable interpreters throwing the prosecution of an «over 80» and drug trafficking case into doubt.

This is more problematic in criminal trials, where jury questions could provide evidence pushing a case over the threshold of proof needed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the prosecution failed to provide, than in civil cases with a preponderance of the evidence standard.

It was Hayes, who demanded that the messages be passed over to the defence and that, in his words, «blew the prosecution case out of the water».

We have over 30 years of experience that we put to work for our clients to thoroughly prepare their case, investigate the facts, and anticipate the prosecution's case; this allows us to build the strongest possible defense for our clients.

All criminal prosecutions in the United States are brought by «the People» or «the State» or in the name of «the People» or «the State» even in the small minority of states (not including California) in which private individuals can bring and prosecute criminal complaints (Massachusetts is one of the outliers in the U.S.; England also allows private individuals to prosecute some crimes in a similar fashion, although the government can take over a case if it wishes to do so.)

In a case involving a racketeering and money laundering conviction stemming from «spas» that were allegedly fronts for prostitution, appellate Judge Frank Easterbrook of the 7th Circuit chided the prosecution over an inflated calculation of proceeds from the operation.

As is typical of most business prosecutions over the past several years that criminalize questionable business judgment rather than clear white collar criminal acts such as embezzlement, the case against Collins was a jumble of conclusory allegations of fraud without any specific allegations of what Collins did that was criminal.

He took over two dozen cases to jury verdict in addition to countless more bench trials for a variety of criminal prosecutions ranging from DUIs to all degrees of felonies.

The severe drop in the prosecution rate over the last 30 years must assuredly negate the validity of any notion that in more recent years the original CPS continuation criterion has been studiously dumped in sex cases (along with that in domestic violence) out of considerations of political correctness.

Vancouver Criminal Defense Lawyer Emmet J. Duncan negotiated over several months with Crown Counsel and after those negotiations, the Prosecution agreed that in the face of a variety of problems with the Crown case, and even more so, given substantial steps the Client had taken towards rehabilitation, the most appropriate way to deal with the case was to DROP ALL CRIMINAL CHARGES and accept a guilty plea under the Motor Vehicle Act.

• Testified as an expert witness in narcotics prosecutions, and achieved convictions or guilty pleas in over 90 % of cases investigated.