Sentences with phrase «prosecute persons charged»

In each of the 20 judicial circuits, a State Attorney is elected for a term of four years to prosecute persons charged with criminal conduct.

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When he learned of the plan, Tsinosis resisted: after all, he worked for the Ontario government prosecuting traffic offences, while Greenwood ran a firm that defended people so charged.

«What we're going to do is: fewer first time offenders, fewer crimes being committed, those people who are committing offences caught, charged, prosecuted - due process done.

Socio - political association of the Igbo, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has faulted moves by the Federal Government to revoke bail conditions of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, who is being prosecuted before an Abuja Federal High Court on treasonable felony charges.

The district attorneys of Manhattan and Brooklyn are considering no longer prosecuting the vast majority of people arrested on marijuana charges.

It would allow people who rape or seriously harm women to be prosecuted in this country if charges are not brought abroad — something currently only possible for murder and child abuse.

«The executive can only arrest, charge and prosecute people; the other functions belong to the judiciary.

«As if the palpable odium of intiating a vacuous criminal charge against a whistle - blower, no less a person than a distinguished senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was not bad enough, the prosecuting authority, obviously urged on by the Inspector General of Police, threw pretension to adherence to democratic tenets of the rule of law when it sought from the court, albeit most illegally, to obtain summons against Senator Misau, while deliberately witholding service of the copy of the charge on the Senator, an obvious stratagem conceived to frame up all manner of false allegations tailored to suit the obvious purpose of yet another gestapo strategy to use state powers to swoop on the Distinguished Senator and keep him out of circulation»

The Federal Government has finally asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to revoke the bail granted the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, Mr. Namdi Kanu, who is being prosecuted along with others on treasonable felony charges.

Any decision to prosecute them would be an explosive twist in the general election with more than 20 MPs in the last parliament potentially facing charges under the Representation of the People Act.

While animals can be impounded, little can be done to the people who mistreat them — unless they are prosecuted for animal cruelty, which often can be a difficult charge to prove.

(11) A person may be charged, prosecuted and convicted of an offence under this Act in respect of a contravention referred to in subsection (1) even if an environmental penalty has been imposed on or paid by the person or another person in respect of the contravention.

The Act provides for protection from double jeopardy: a person against whom an AMP has been imposed can not be prosecuted for the same offence, and a person who has been charged with an offence can not be ordered to pay an AMP.

An unlawful arrest does not mean that a person can not be prosecuted if there is still evidence which would justify a charge.

For example, if a robber attacks a person and the victim injures the robber, we could envision the prosecutors indicting the robber's target because the robber being the one injured, would mean that the victim could be prosecuted for a higher charge.

If you were charged with possession or distribution of child porn over the Internet or using an online chat room to solicit sex with a person you thought was a minor, your case will probably be prosecuted by the aggressive Internet Predator Division.

Also, the person who decides whether to press charges is the prosecuting attorney who has a strong long term strategic interest in maintain a positive relationship with law enforcement and who often subjectively views law enforcement as his client even though this is the correct as a matter of legal doctrine.

«There's nothing wrong with wanting to defer to Parliament, but it's problematic in criminal cases where you have the possibility of people being arrested, charged, prosecuted, and perhaps even jailed for a law that has already been declared unconstitutional.»

If the doctor at the center of the Plaxico Burress nightclub shooting is prosecuted for not reporting the gunshot wound to police, she will be just the fourth person charged with such an offense since 2000 in New York State, according to authorities.

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.

There is also a misconception that people are not charge or prosecuted for possession marijuana; they are — at an ever increasing rate.

Again, pro-pot proponents like to compare pot to alcohol or tobbacco, fair enough, but under the Excise Act, 2001 anyone who makes illegal sales of tobacco and alcohol is subject to possible imprisonment, and you'd better believe that if people were openly selling cigarettes and booze without a license, you can be sure they would be charged and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law (indeed provincial authorities are quite aggressive in prosecuting such persons).

This means that they are 15 times more likely to be prosecuted for these charges than non-Indigenous people (5).