Texas
penal law made it a crime to kill animals, but only those «belonging to another.»
Not exact matches
Cain's tenure as warden came on the heels of The Violent Crime Control and
Law Enforcement Act passed in 1994, which
made prisoners ineligible for Pell Grants and devastated education within the
penal system.
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 bill sponsored by Stewart - Cousins and Glick, both of whom are Democrats, would move state abortion
law from the
penal code to the health code and revise state
law to
make it similar to federal
law, meaning that women could get an abortion past the 24 - week period if the mother's health — including emotional or mental health — is at risk.
In 1659, the General Court of Massachusetts enacted a
law making any observance of December 25 (other than a church service) a
penal offense; people were fined for hanging decorations.
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.
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.»
Under the modern
law, the judicial discretion is not whether or not to attach a
penal notice, it is whether or not to
make the contact order itself.