Sentences with phrase «overzealous police»

Pushed from the cozy confines of their governmental mothership into a world in which you claw and scrape to win a client's trust only to learn that their last retainer cheque bounced, Crown's might come to appreciate the unique, and often thankless, challenge of championing the rights of a genuinely sympathetic soul ensnared by a vindictively untruthful witness or a blindingly overzealous police officer.

Regardless of the nature of your charge, the sooner you hire an experienced Baton Rouge criminal defense attorney, the sooner your rights can be protected against overzealous police and prosecutors.

In 1989, five teenagers from Harlem were accused of raping and beating a woman in New York's Central Park, and though they confessed, they withdrew their confessions almost immediately and said they had been coerced by overzealous police officers.

There's the murmuring movie director, the cocky ace miner, the overzealous police inspector, and so on.

So too, however, is overzealous policing.

Not exact matches

He will have a police escort at all times in case any overzealous USLTA official tries to rip off the mask.»

He also said the Inspector General of Police, the Chief of Army Staff and the Navy had been notified of Tompolo's application, «so that overzealous persons do not take advantage of the court process to attempt to trample on his legal rights.»

«The focus of today is the fact that the response from the police was overzealous, exaggerated and not in response to anything violent that the protest did, because the protest was non-violent.

On Election Day, police were called to at least two polling sites in St. Lawrence County following «overzealous electioneering» by supporters of Hoffman.

Belabored and suffering from a hopelessly sluggish pace, Ned Kelly is less of a biopic than it is the portrait of a haughty outlaw, painting Kelly as a renegade, self - serving Robin Hood driven further into brutality by the overzealous persecution of the police.

Critics think recent cases show the police and prosecutors are being overzealous, and, thus, undermining the ability of law - abiding citizens to defend themselves and their property.

Serious and legitimate questions have been raised about police officers with declared conflicts of interests searching and seizing evidence, confessions painstakingly extracted from an intellectually limited child, and overzealous prosecution tactics.

Like other portions of the valley, however, Visalia and Tulare County as a whole also are the home to sometimes overzealous prosecutors who do not always get all of the facts from understaffed and overstretched police.