Sentences with phrase «prosecute low»

Among them, he added, were key reforms that defined Mr. Thompson's tenure: a warrant amnesty program, a policy not to prosecute some low - level marijuana offenses and a special unit devoted to wrongful convictions.

In 2014, Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson announced he would no longer prosecute low - level marijuana crimes.

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance announced Tuesday that his office would no longer prosecute any low - level marijuana offenses, including smoking in public.

In 2014, Thompson began what the DA's office called a groundbreaking policy not to prosecute low - level marijuana possession arrests.

Seattle's attempt to rebalance those scales, at least in a minor way, follows a February move by Philadelphia to stop criminally prosecuting low - level marijuana offenses.

Besides vacating a number of Mr. Hynes» controversial convictions, he announced that he would stop prosecuting low - level marijuana offenders months before Mr. de Blasio and Mr. Bratton declared that they would stop arresting them.

The first African American District Attorney in the borough's history, Thompson made headlines in 2014 when he stopped prosecuting low - level marijuana offenses.

The Brooklyn district attorney's office in 2014 defied the Police Department and decided to stop prosecuting some low - level marijuana cases, but carved out exceptions for people accused of smoking in public or who had criminal records.

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance joined Errol Louis to discuss his new position against prosecuting low - level marijuana offenses.

The district attorney of New York City's borough of Manhattan says he will stop prosecuting low - level marijuana cases.

The Brooklyn district attorney announced Tuesday that he will stop prosecuting low - level marijuana cases — but the NYPD responded that cops will continue cuffing Brooklyn pot smokers just as they...

Not exact matches

For a relatively low cost an integrated team could investigate and prosecute tax fraud, money laundering, and make recommendations on strengthening our tools for detecting and prosecuting bad apples in the B.C. real estate sector.

The NSW Government's plan to prosecute alleged water theft on the Barwon - Darling River has been met with scepticism from lower Darling landholders.

Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance said At a NYC Council budget hearing that his office prosecuted more than 7,000 fewer low - level criminal offenses in 2017 — and expects to «drive that number even lower» this year.

If Nigeria has a lower prison index than United States of America, United Kingdom and most developed jurisdictions, it simply means that Nigeria is one of the safest countries to live or that alternatively those who commit crime are not being properly investigated and prosecuted.

Answering questions from the audience at the Association for a Better New York breakfast today, Mr. Heastie pledged to continue to push to raise the age at which a person may be prosecuted as an adult, a bar currently set at 16 years - old — tied with North Carolina as the lowest in the country.

His successor, Ken Thompson, a fellow Democrat, announced in 2014 that the office would stop prosecuting most low - level marijuana cases.

Skelos» case is being prosecuted upstairs in the federal courthouse in Lower Manhattan.

The Supreme Court said Monday it won't hear the Obama administration's appeal of a lower court ruling that made it tougher to prosecute people for trading on leaked inside information.

Also at 11 a.m., elected officials and activists will launch the «Raise the Age New York» campaign — a movement to increase the age at which teens are prosecuted as adults in the criminal justice system, outside Manhattan Municipal Building, 1 Centre Street, Lower Manhattan.

Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson announced earlier this year that he would stop prosecuting certain low - level marijuana arrest cases.

Unfortunately, this just part of the pattern of Schneiderman avoiding prosecuting those with political power,» said Jimenez, a graduate of Harvard Law School who provides legal services to low - income residents of the Bronx.

While there's no apparent effort to force him out, Johnson may be sick of the gig and ready to be replaced after nearly 25 years on the job — and after a torrent of criticism of his low conviction rate and his poor relations with the NYPD for declining to prosecute cases that arise from certain types of stop and frisks, sources told the News.

Capers had a far lower profile than Bharara, but the Eastern District, like the Southern, tends to prosecute a number of high - profile cases, including those involving terrorism.

Thompson was an advocate of gun control, exonerated over a dozen people who were wrongfully convicted and stopped prosecuting most low - level marijuana offenses.

The statute of limitations in New York for prosecuting someone is five years for a serious assault, two years for a lower - level one.

The Brooklyn District Attorney's Office stopped prosecuting most people arrested for the first time for low - level pot possession in July.

ALBANY — The Court of Appeals on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling that a judge can not use the threat of contempt charges to compel a district attorney to prosecute a case, specifically addressing Albany County district attorney David Soares» decision not to prosecute Occupy Albany protesters.

At a City Council hearing on Monday, Queens Councilman Rory Lancman, chairman of the Committee on Justice Systems, asked the city's five district attorneys to decline to prosecute individuals who are arrested for low - level marijuana possession for misdemeanors.

On Tuesday, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance announced that his office will no longer prosecute the majority of low - level offenses.

Unless it's «necessary for public safety reasons,» the NYPD will no longer arrest people for certain low - level offenses in Manhattan, including public consumption of alcohol, public urination, littering and riding between subway cars or taking up more than one subway seat — and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. will no longer prosecute those infractions, his office said today.

Ms. Mark - Viverito has argued that old warrants themselves are bogging down the criminal justice system, and in her State of the City called for wiping out more than 700,000 of them in the city, for low - level crimes like the ones Mr. Vance will stop prosecuting.

Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance said Monday that his office prosecuted more than 7,000 fewer low - level criminal offenses in 2017 — and expects to «drive that number even lower» this year...

It is not appropriate that responsible breeders pay to correct the government's inability to control the feral cat population, educate the public, provide low - cost spay / neuter programs, and prosecute animal smugglers and fighting dog breeders.

While the standard in these hearings are lower than the parallel proceedings in criminal court where a VTL 1192.3 arrest is prosecuted, the lower burden of proof is not the equivalent to an insurmountable challenge.

He could be prosecuted for the offence in Canada, where he would face a much lower sentence (given his peripheral involvement in the offence, lack of criminal record, Aboriginal status and the significant rehabilitative steps taken since his arrest).

AG Sessions has urged US Attorneys to focus on violent crimes, and there may well be fewer of these cases to bring and they may take more time to prosecute than lower - level drug and gun and immigration cases.

If, however, the government merely wants to improve the «unacceptably low» conviction rate (as a proportion of cases prosecuted), it might encourage CPS prosecutors to be even more robust — dare we say it — than they already are in weeding out from the prosecution process cases which fail to cross the realistic likelihood of conviction threshold.

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.

Now if you do enter then I think the probability that you will be caught and prosecuted would be fairly low.

Negotiate with the prosecuting attorney for a lower offense that does not carry points.

When a home Seller is counselled to offer a lower than average amount of selling commission to a Cooperating Brokerage, are they being advised as to how this may possibly interact negatively with a prospective Buyer's «Buyer's Agency Contract», and if so, why would such a Seller agree to proceed as such — especially, if they've been made aware of any discounts that may apply to their List Price, later, as a result of extended market time?The aforesaid is fundamental to a fiduciary responsibility — yet, I believe that most Provincial Regulatory Authorities would be reluctant to prosecute such a negligent Registrant or Practitioner because the accused would hide behind the argument they were being wrongly persecuted for offering a «competitive business model»!