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The newspaper reported on Tuesday that local prosecutors decided not to pursue charges against Cuban seven years ago after a woman told Portland police that Cuban sexually assaulted her in a nightclub, claiming that he reached into her pants and penetrated her vagina with a finger without her permission while they posed for a photograph.

The prosecutors» office in Vienna is consolidating «hundreds of complaints» about a scheme known as «Optioment» that have been filed at police stations across the country, and which add to a warning by financial watchdog FMA, spokeswoman Christina Ratz said by telephone.

German police on Tuesday detained a second soldier suspected of involvement in what prosecutors believe was a plan by a military officer and a student, both in custody, to carry out an «extremist» attack and blame it on migrants.

I used the only tools in the toolbox to essentially be a private prosecutor against civil rights violations and corruption and brutality on the part of police.

(Chicago constructed this story from thousands of pages of federal court records, police reports, and court testimony from related cases, as well as from official government reports and dozens of interviews with federal and local law enforcement officials and attorneys for some of the defendants; through a spokesman, prosecutors in the Zambada case declined comment.)

«The US government acted as police force (identifying the foreign government's crime), prosecutor (making the legal arguments), jury (ruling on the evidence), and judge (sentencing the foreigner to US retaliatory punishment),» Chad Bown, a senior fellow at the pro-free trade Peterson Institute for International Economics, wrote in a memo about Section 301's history earlier in August.

More reputable people may then tell similar untruths: some confused, or misremembering, or misguided, or mobilized by the media, or browbeaten by enthusiastic police or prosecutors or therapists; others opportunists who see little risk and lots of upside in a venture that someone else has boldly opened.

According to ABC News, prosecutors say they were not aware of the charges against Botha and that the detective gave a «muddled» testimony, admitting that Pistorius» version of the events on the evening of the shooting did, in fact, align with the police's account.

«Whether such cases end in conviction or acquittal appears to rest on, firstly, the ability of police or prosecutors to link the defendant with a particular association, and secondly, whether the judge decides to uphold an individual's constitutional right to share beliefs as a private citizen,» Victoria Arnold reported for Forum 18.

Owning a registered gun and not knowing our hippie pinko laws in Cali does not make him a bad person, and further my friend - there is no proof of this prosecutors allegations and 2 red flags for me are - the motivations of said prosecutor to set «an example» and the fact his GF gnarked to police about said weapon.

Franklin explained how his organisation of «police officers, agents, judges, criminal prosecutors, corrections officials and others» including over 180,000 members and supporters in over 180 countries share one goal, to end «the world's longest war».

The measures include long - sought bills such as raising the age of criminal responsibility to 18 and enhancing grand jury transparency as well as enshrining a special prosecutor for cases in which civilians die in encounters with police.

She expects to be handcuffed, put in a police car, driven to the courthouse and brought before a judge after being secretly indicted by a grand jury run by a special prosecutor who was secretly selected to investigate campaign finance filings from 2009.

In the last few weeks Cuomo has signed the sex assault legislation, securing his support among women's group; established a special prosecutor for cases of civilians who die at the hands of police; and spoke at the NAACP National Convention in PhiladelphiIn the last few weeks Cuomo has signed the sex assault legislation, securing his support among women's group; established a special prosecutor for cases of civilians who die at the hands of police; and spoke at the NAACP National Convention in Philadelphiin Philadelphia.

Three retired police officers and a former Brooklyn prosecutor were charged yesterday in a widening federal corruption investigation into the New York Police Department and its gun - licensing divpolice officers and a former Brooklyn prosecutor were charged yesterday in a widening federal corruption investigation into the New York Police Department and its gun - licensing divPolice Department and its gun - licensing division.

While it is unusual for this type of dispute to play out in public, prosecutors say this happens all the time between their office and the police department.

Prosecutors, state legislators, and police formally announce a multi-state effort to enact state legislation in two key areas.

A New York appeals court has thrown out the manslaughter conviction of a man who prosecutors argued was driving drunk and triggered crashes that caused the death of a police officer in 2012.

He replaced 16 - year incumbent Thomas Spota, who stepped down last month after he and his top corruption prosecutor, Christopher McPartland, were indicted on federal charges that they were involved in a cover - up of former Suffolk Police Chief James Burke's assault of a suspect in 2012.

A defense attorney says Nassau prosecutors are part of an attempted police cover - up, and told acting District Attorney Madeline Singas in a letter that letting his client's drug case go to trial would be «prosecutorial misconduct.»

Most likely this is a long time bargaining process, where supporters of the reform argue in favor based on theoretical backgrounds and past record of abuses, while police and prosecutors claim removing it made law enforcement difficult.

Newsday reported in January that Spota's top corruption prosecutor, Christopher McPartland, is under federal investigation for possible obstruction of justice involving the case of James Burke, the former Suffolk police chief and district attorney's chief investigator who pleaded guilty in February to beating up a suspect and then arranging a cover - up.

Cuomo's criminal justice reforms have not always been embraced by local prosecutors, who have raised issues in the past to overhauling juvenile justice and an executive order giving the attorney general the power to investigate and prosecute cases in which civilians die in interactions with police.

ALBANY — Following a meeting with the mothers and relatives of 10 men and women who died in interactions with police officers, Governor Andrew Cuomo indicated for the first time that he would unilaterally appoint a special prosecutor to review such cases if the Legislature didn't act on his proposal for an independent police monitor.

Kenneth Thompson, the Brooklyn district attorney, blasted a request to appoint a special prosecutor in Eric Garner - like cases as «unworkable,» continuing his unusually outspoken defense of district attorneys and how they handle police brutality cases.

The group of relatives, which included the mother of Eric Garner, the Staten Island man whose death in police custody set off a series of protests in New York and around the country, arrived at the Capitol demanding that the governor create a special prosecutor.

Yet Mr. Schneiderman, with his measured criticism of Mr. Cuomo and his success in convincing the governor to make him a special prosecutor in cases of police killing unarmed civilians, is only seeing his stock rise.

«If there's a shooting up in Buffalo, New York, a young unarmed guy is killed by the police up there, a special prosecutor is supposed to swoop down and deal with it but what happens if something breaks out in Brooklyn a week later and it breaks in Syracuse — how is this person supposed to tell the folks up in Buffalo, «Hold on, I'll be back, I've got ta go to Brooklyn?»»

Syracuse, NY - District Attorney William Fitzpatrick today accused Syracuse Police Chief Frank Fowler and Deputy Chief Shawn Broton of criminally «leaking» a witness affidavit in the Bernie Fine case in an effort to embarrass the prosecutor's office.

Buffalo, NY (WBEN) Erie County's top prosecutor is joining forces with Lackawanna Police and Crime Stoppers Buffalo in seeking information to help solve a Lackawanna arson that injured a family including two young children.

Keith's leadership has ensured that New York leads the nation.We were the first state to dedicate a month to gun violence awareness, we've raised the minimum wage, and are leading the way with the creation of a special prosecutor to investigate when police officers are involved in the deaths of unarmed civilians.

Civil rights advocates say the ruling will push the police and prosecutors to meet a higher standard in tracking cell phones.

In his role as a leader of the Syracuse Gang Violence Task Force, John brought prosecutors, police, clergy, community leaders, and neighbors from differing backgrounds together to successfully reduce violence crime and improve the quality of life in targeted neighborhoods within our communitIn his role as a leader of the Syracuse Gang Violence Task Force, John brought prosecutors, police, clergy, community leaders, and neighbors from differing backgrounds together to successfully reduce violence crime and improve the quality of life in targeted neighborhoods within our communitin targeted neighborhoods within our community.

After a grand jury chose not to indict a police officer involved in the death of Eric Garner last year, Democratic leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins called for the placement of body cameras on police officers and introduced legislation that would require the use of a special prosecutor in cases involving police officers who kill unarmed legislation.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman will be appointed a special prosecutor in cases involving police - related deaths of unarmed civilians after Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers failed to reach a broader agreement on criminal justice reform measures.

«It does not seem to me to be a good thing for the police and the whole panoply of the criminal law and prosecutors to invade politics for often, not in my case actually, but it's often for party political reasons,» he added.

In the ranking of bribe - takers, the report lists the Police (46.4 percent), prosecutors (33.0 percent), judges / magistrates (31.5 percent), tax / revenue officers (27.3 percent), custom officers (26.5 percent), and public utilities (22.4 percent) as the highest.

But prosecutors in the French city rubbished the claims this week, saying the police classified the event as an accident and made no reference to sabotage of the car.

The National Bureau of Statistics yesterday released a damning report stating that police officers, judges and prosecutors are the most corrupt officials in Nigeria.

«Carl has proposed a special prosecutor, an independent prosecutor to go after this stuff in the future, and has also said very clearly he'll provide State Police resources and power of subpoeans.»

His latest statements allude to dangerous loopholes that would authorize a special prosecutor for only one year and would fail to cover all cases where civilians are killed by the police or die in police custody.

The Democratic attorney general spent last week going back and forth with the state's district attorneys over an executive order that Schneiderman investigate instances in which an unarmed civilian dies at the hands of police, essentially supplanting the local prosecutor.

«We remain committed to demanding an executive order for a special prosecutor for all police killings, because establishing prosecution that is independent and external of local DAs is the only way to resolve the conflict of interest that has systemically failed to provide justice in these cases within our state and across the nation,» the group said in a joint statement.

If President Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing — that included police commissioners and law enforcement experts — did not include loopholes in their recommendation for independent prosecutors in police killings, neither should Governor Cuomo's executive order.

The Asantehene pointed out that the delays by the Department to provide timely legal advice to state and police prosecutors to discharge their duties in the law courts were source of concern to many Ghanaians, especially those involve in civil and criminal cases.

A German nurse currently serving a life sentence in prison for murdering six patients may have killed 84 more, making him one of the country's worst ever serial killers, police and prosecutors said Monday.

According to Southern District prosecutors, Dean Skelos, Mangano and Walker went to Brooklyn in January to attend the funeral of New York City Police Officer Wenjian Liu, who had been killed in the line of duty.

The FBI also wiretapped Singh's phone and prosecutors played a phone call between Singh and a retired Nassau police detective, in which Singh says if he tells the government anything about politicians, it will be «all lies.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo today announced he would accede to Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's request to be named special prosecutor for cases in which a police officer kills a civilian — even as the governor noted that he took the step with reluctance, and that the appointment would last just one year.

His claims were another black eye for the NYPD in the ongoing corruption probe focusing on high - ranking police officials and Brooklyn businessmen Jona Rechnitz and Jeremy Reichberg, who prosecutors say provided gifts in exchange for favors.