Sentences with phrase «prosecuted on criminal charges»
As a result, it may be difficult to win a civil case or have your abuser successfully prosecuted on criminal charges.
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PRNigeria gathered that the Federal Government was infuriated by the action of Magu in engaging Keyamo as a private counsel to prosecute the CCT boss in purported corruption charge because, the same Keyamo is the counsel to Rasheed Taiwo Owolabi who is standing trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal and who made the allegation in the course of his trial on criminal offence.
He also made a thinly - veiled call for Blair to face war crime charges as he called on Britain to support moves to give the International Criminal Court «the power to prosecute those responsible for the crime of military aggression».
Badeh, who is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, alongside Iyalikam Nigeria Limited on a 10 - count charge bordering on money laundering, criminal breach of trust and corruption to the tune of N3.97 billion, had on March 7, 2016 pleaded not guilty to the charges.
«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»
She says Spota's possible failure to prosecute possible criminal activity and the release of six suspected gang members last week who were arrested on felony charges is alarming.
Badeh, who is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, alongside Iyalikam Nigeria Limited on a 10 - count charge bordering on money laundering, criminal breach of trust and corruption to the tune of N3.97 billion was on March 10, 2016 granted N2 billion bail.
This news excerpt was taken from an article posted January 16, 2009 by Mike on the CRIME AND FEDERALISM website, «A lawyer facing criminal charges for advising 10 nurses they could quit their jobs at a Long Island, N.Y., nursing facility gave «objectively reasonable» advice and can not be prosecuted, a Brooklyn appeals panel has ruled.»
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Criminal charges are filed and prosecuted by the government, on behalf of the public, and there is no requirement for approval or cooperation by the victim.
The charges are all based on ancient provisions of the Criminal Code that use imprecise or old - fashioned language, and they involve crimes that are not prosecuted very often.