Sentences with phrase «own penal laws»

Under New York penal law 225, a contest is illegal gambling if a player stakes «something of value» in a contest that the player does not «control or influence the outcome.»

In more recent times, on these shores, many priests and bishops lost their lives during the penal laws, just for saying the Mass..

As the social evils multiply and the exploitation of the lower classes increases, the need for religious morality is recognized and the penal laws of religion come into force.

As might be expected, it was only gradually worn down by the steady attrition of increasingly harsh penal laws against the open profession of their religion.

In the seventeenth century British law imposed penal laws on the Irish people, laws whose intent was to destroy the Roman Catholic religion in Ireland as had been done in England and Scotland and Wales.

«Nor is it so clear, as people sometimes think, what are the possibilities for a Christian conscience in regard to the state's penal laws against termination of pregnancy.»

In his ruling, N.Y. Supreme Court justice Manuel Mendez wrote, «New York State penal law does not refer to «wagering» or «betting,» rather it states that a person, «risks something of value.

«New York State penal law does not refer to «wagering» or «betting,» rather it states that a person, «risks something of value.

The penal law currently allows suspects to be charged with the more serious first - degree murder for the killing of a police officer, correctional facility employee, judge, firefighter, emergency medical technician, ambulance driver, paramedic, physician and registered nurse.

«There's whole myriad of charges in the state penal law,» Singas said.

«The defendant who was the target in this case, George Maziarz, plead to a penal law charge where the penalty was $ 1,000,» Assistant Attorney General Christopher Baynes said in court.

And now the endorsement — the penal law notwithstanding, about as corrupt a bargain as can be imagined.

On Tuesday night, in response to the Journal News» map, the Rockland County Legislature urged the State Legislature to introduce and pass two bills, one amending state penal law to protect the confidentiality of pistol license application... -LSB-...]

The pistol permit office is a county office established to administer the state pistol permit law in Oneida County as required by section 400 of the penal law.

Lavine's legislation would add felony and misdemeanor hate crimes to the list of «serious offenses» in state penal law that disqualify individuals from possessing firearms.

BY MICHAEL RICONDA New City — On Tuesday night, in response to the Journal News» map, the Rockland County Legislature urged the State Legislature to introduce and pass two bills, one amending state penal law to protect the confidentiality of pistol license application information and another condemning the paper for exercising poor judgment in publishing -LSB-...]

New City — On Tuesday night, in response to the Journal News» map, the Rockland County Legislature urged the State Legislature to introduce and pass two bills, one amending state penal law to protect the confidentiality of pistol license application information and another condemning the paper for exercising poor judgment in publishing the map.

The proposed legislation adds «synthetic cannabinoids» to the pre-existing crimes of selling marijuana under New York State's penal law.

«Those types of statements are misleading... The biggest issue of contention is, we believe there are certain non-violent crimes that just in the penal law are considered violent.

Tedisco's bill, which is being drafted, would amend New York State's penal law to make any person regardless of their age who is convicted of knock out game individual assault or gang assault to face up to 25 years in prison (currently it's between 4 - 15 years depending on the age of the defendant).

The measures include a new statute in the penal law that is based on the existing hate crime statute.

My job here is to enforce the laws in the penal law, but the attorney general has broader powers beyond the criminal law.

Having served on the Governor's Commission on Youth, Public Safety and Justice, I have long advocated for a common - sense update to our penal law.

In picking former judge and Westchester County District Attorney Janet DiFiore, Cuomo has settled on an experienced hand in penal law with a strong background in running a big office.

Legislators Sparaco, Schoenberger, Hood, Wieder, Earl and Carey will announce support of proposed state legislation to amend the penal law in relation to the confidentiality of information contained in an application for a pistol license.

The bill would require people convicted of all felonies, and all penal law misdemeanors, to hand over their DNA to the databank.

«I don't believe current penal law statutes really address forms of criminal behavior of this magnitude,» said New York State Senator and Brooklyn Borough President - elect Eric Adams.

He was facing up to seven years in prison if convicted having been charged with 19 counts each of first - degree offering a false instrument for filing and first - degree criminal possession of a forged instrument, all felonies under state penal law.

Texas penal law made it a crime to kill animals, but only those «belonging to another.»

Any person who is a peace officer and who provides security services for any court of the unified court system may stop a person in or about the courthouse to which he is assigned when he reasonably suspects that such person is committing, has committed or is about to commit either (a) a felony or (b) a misdemeanor defined in the penal law, and may demand of him his name, address and an explanation of his conduct.

Then France can't arrest the executioner because US is a sovereign state and gets to impose its own penal laws.

In addition to the authority provided by this article for making an arrest without a warrant, a police officer may stop a person in a public place located within the geographical area of such officer's employment when he reasonably suspects that such person is committing, has committed or is about to commit either (a) a felony or (b) a misdemeanor defined in the penal law, and may demand of him his name, address and an explanation of his conduct.

Royer has exclusively practised criminal and penal law since his call to the bar in 1996.

66, 123 (U.S. Supreme Court 1825) and that this applies to states applying each other's penal laws as well.

His main areas of practice were civil and commercial litigation, insurance law, civil liability, professional liability, and securities and insolvency law, disciplinary law, municipal law, penal law and construction law.

This is not exactly a novel position, as penal law recognizes that different crimes require different times.

It described by John Turner on Jan. 23, 1969, as «the most important and all - embracing reform of the criminal and penal law ever attempted at one time in this country.»

Whereas resisting arrest involves an attempt to prevent an officer from making an arrest, obstruction of a peace officer covers a much broader spectrum of conduct that falls under the rubric of «hindering the enforcement of the penal law or the preservation of the peace.»

In other areas of administrative penal law there is only an indirect joint liability of the corporation for fines imposed for offences committed by the managing director or other «persons in charge» (section 9 Administrative Penal Code).

Under Article 177 of NY penal law, health care fraud refers to any attempt to defraud a health plan; in this instance, Medicaid.

It is established authority that the privilege does not apply against the risk of incrimination under the penal law of another country (see Brannigan v Davison [1997] AC 547, [1996] 3 WLR 859).

Ethereum developer Yoichi Hirai has resigned as one of the platform's code editors, citing concerns that a contentious proposal may be in violation of penal law.

Not exact matches

Everyone charged with a penal offense has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defense.

No one shall be held guilty of any penal offense on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offense, under national or international law, at the time it was committed.

There may be consequences to failure, but it is not the same penal - minded consequences of «law».

was convicted in a Pakistani court earlier this month of breaking the country's controversial blasphemy law, a crime punishable with death or life imprisonment, according to Pakistan's penal code.

Based upon penal codes of law the judicial obligations of public trust placed in our government by «we the people» to punish individuals who break our laws.

Just like any other third world country: NO EDUCATION; NO EMPLOYMENT; NO FUTURE aside from a robust penal system engaged in martial law.

Laws and the penal codes, I thought were formulated to get people of wickedry and evilness and vile Acts were once used to «control the masses»?

I think this could be the basis of a reworking of penal substitution based upon legal fact (Jesus broke the letter of the law), rather than legal fiction.