Sentences with phrase «police cases in question»

Lentol noted that during his speech, Cuomo urged the Legislature to back Assemblyman Keith Wright's bill to make the attorney general the permanent special prosecutor in the police cases in question.

Not exact matches

What sets this series apart is that it approaches the crime in question from the perspective of a police officer who actually worked the case the first time around.

Last May, Inspector Michael Ameri, the well - respected head of the NYPD's Highways Division, killed himself after he was questioned by federal investigators as a possible witness in the case, after being suspected of obtaining police escorts for friends.

Schneiderman's office will handle cases in which police kill an unarmed suspect, or when there is a question of whether the suspect was armed.

The order appoints the state attorney general as a special prosecutor in cases where unarmed suspects are killed by police, or when there is a question about whether a suspect was armed or not.

The executive order enables the attorney general to step in and supercede county district attorneys in cases where police kill an unarmed civilian or in cases where there are questions about whether the civilian who was killed was armed or dangerous.

The acquittal of a Baltimore police officer charged in the arrest of Freddie Gray, the black man who suffered a fatal spinal cord injury while in police custody last year, immediately renewed questions of whether any of the six police officers charged in the case would be convicted in connection with his death.

That order appoints Attorney General Eric Schneiderman as special prosecutor in cases where a police officer kills an unarmed civilian, or there's question of whether the person was armed.

The limitation in the executive order has raised questions among some district attorneys and others about whether the governor's order should have been written to give Schneiderman broader authority to intervene in any case where police use deadly force, whether or not someone dies.

Instead, the police will complete its inquiry and turn its findings over to «the appropriate authorities» while answering questions about the case «at the appropriate time,» Mayor Stephanie Miner said in a news release shortly after noon today.

Late last night, officers from the Police Department's Warrant Squad took into custody and were questioning a person of interest in the case.

District attorneys around New York are still trying to clarify a recent executive order from Cuomo that appoints the state attorney general as a special prosecutor in cases where unarmed suspects are killed by police, or when there is a question about whether a suspect was armed or not.

As the process is mostly illegal by its nature (another case: unknown persons, with hidden faces, police does not act, «it's not currently good time to restore the destroyed»), the question of necessity is not raised, discussed, argued, defended, explained in society.

«The sentiment continues to boomerang throughout Mount Vernon, and in many other Black communities across the country, that we must continue to question and insist on independent investigations when people die while in police custody, especially in the case of Mrs. Raynette Turner, the fifth African - American woman in the U.S. to die in police custody within the past month.

Through her reporting for Investigative Post, Daniela Porat has brought into question the training provided to members of the Buffalo Police Department, which in some cases is well below professional standards.

The question came up this week in the case of former Solvay police officer Curt Francemone who faces a second - degree harassment charge after a bar fight in which he pointed a gun at a person.

If, as appears to be the case, the New Rochelle Police Department hushed up Latimer's car crash to shield her from unwanted attention on her relationship with Latimer you start to raise questions about ethical behavior by a sitting judge in New York State and conflicts of interest because one of three ways a Judge can be removed from the bench is to be impeached by a majority vote of the assembly then removed by a two - thirds vote a special court made up of judges of the court of appeals.

He got speeding tickets, was pulled out of airport security lines, and was questioned by police in a rape case, even though the prime suspect was much taller.

The case raises questions about routine cooperation between police and school officials, especially in an era when many police departments assign school resource officers to campuses.

And, as often seems to be the case with these things, the police officer in question, Geoff Hamilton, was white.

In order to be effective on behalf of clients, whether in a criminal or civil case, attorneys must be ready and willing to delve into questions that may be on the jurors» minds about evidence that was not presented — e.g., Why didn't the police get fingerprints off of the victim's t - shirIn order to be effective on behalf of clients, whether in a criminal or civil case, attorneys must be ready and willing to delve into questions that may be on the jurors» minds about evidence that was not presented — e.g., Why didn't the police get fingerprints off of the victim's t - shirin a criminal or civil case, attorneys must be ready and willing to delve into questions that may be on the jurors» minds about evidence that was not presented — e.g., Why didn't the police get fingerprints off of the victim's t - shirt?

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) has released a report, False promises, hidden costs: the case for reframing employment and volunteer police record check practices in Canada, questioning the value of widespread police record checks and shining a light on the damaging individual and societal consequences of current practices.

As criminal defence lawyers, we have no desire to call into question the important role played by the police in our society, nor the role of those that prosecute criminal cases.

There many be questions about Avery's guilt or innocence in relation to the Halbach case, but one thing is crystal clear: Avery was the victim of a miscarriage of justice in relation to his first conviction when the Wisconsin police supressed evidence, ignored legitimate leads, and engaged in tunnel vision of the most odious kind.

The officer's statements were correct: a lawyer can not insist on being present when the police question an accused who has obtained counsel; and the cases discussed above do not support the proposition that if counsel were in attendance, he or she would be entitled to interject or interrupt during the interview or to override or «assist» with answers offered by the client.

There is publication ban in this case and on the name of the party, with oral reasons by Justice Brown, in which Chief Justice Wagner dissented, in the context of the «hold off» period for police questioning.

In his analysis of the ruling at SCOTUSblog, Lyle Denniston says the case «raises significant new questions about how sturdy the «exclusionary rule» is as a remedy for constitutional violations by police» and suggests «new doubt about the continuing validity of the «knock - and - announce» rule.»

In a case in Texas, a lawyer for a man accused by police of murdering a neighbor says the police dog handler in question is a «charlatan» who «devised an unreliable dog trick to justify local police agencies» suspicions» for producing search warrants and arrestIn a case in Texas, a lawyer for a man accused by police of murdering a neighbor says the police dog handler in question is a «charlatan» who «devised an unreliable dog trick to justify local police agencies» suspicions» for producing search warrants and arrestin Texas, a lawyer for a man accused by police of murdering a neighbor says the police dog handler in question is a «charlatan» who «devised an unreliable dog trick to justify local police agencies» suspicions» for producing search warrants and arrestin question is a «charlatan» who «devised an unreliable dog trick to justify local police agencies» suspicions» for producing search warrants and arrests.

The suit also alleges the former priest continued his abuse of James C. Doe even after police questioned him about a sexual abuse case in 2005 and church officials ordered him not to have contact with minors.

Regardless of where you stand on the question of whether there should be criminal prosecution in these cases (you can read my thoughts on this here), any Maryland accident lawyer will tell you that this question is of little consequence to the family's wrongful death lawsuit because there is little difference to the accident case whether the conviction is for vehicular manslaughter or for the ticket that this P.G. County police officer did receive in this case (assuming the ticket is involves something beyond speeding).

To answer your question, he can ask the police, but in many cases, they won't get involved unless it's a criminal case.

Often the police or security guards in question insist that the photographer is breaking the law — which is usually not the case at all.

For example, if a police officer is given information that previous illegal operations involved people of a certain ethnic background, and that the occupiers of the home in question are part of that same ethnic group, it would be erroneous and offensive for the officer to conclude, since all previous cases involved people of that ethnicity, and people of that ethnicity are involved in this crime, that the home in question must therefore contain an illegal operation.

So now its left to the civil side of justice championed by personal injury lawyers, in this case Alphonse Gerhardstein, to answer the question was the death of Everette Howard negligently / recklessly caused by the police and / or was the taser manufacturer at fault.

R (Centre for Individual Rights in Europe) v Secretary of State for the Home Department and anr [2017] EWHC 1878 (Admin), [2017] 4 WLR 129; [2017] ACD 108, QBD (Admin Ct), July 21 2017 The police were entitled under Operation Nexus to question suspects detained in police stations as to their immigration status, since they (i) had the same powers as any natural person to engage in non-coercive questioning; and (ii) in any case, assisting the Home Office on matters of immigration was within police functions.

However, in the present case, evidence that the juror in question was a civilian police employee and of the extent of her knowledge of the officers in the case was admissible.

The first is the exclusionary rule in Fourth Amendment cases (which embodies the idea that evidence obtained improperly by the police should not be used at trial, even if it is very relevant to the question of guilt).

During Trial, cross-examination of the police officer witnesses by Vancouver Criminal Lawyer Emmet J. Duncan demonstrated serious problems with the Crown case that Client was the person that was driving on the night in question.

The court summarised the approach to be taken in a case where a magistrates» court is considering whether or not to draw adverse inferences from failure to answer police questions in interview.

An just an aside question that I am sure will be answered in time, do police share their findings with a victim so the victim can present that evidence in a tort case?