Sentences with phrase «prosecution before»

Many junior criminal lawyers in Alberta think that a stay of proceedings is a normal way for a Crown Attorney to terminate a prosecution before verdict at trial.

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Perhaps the closest Smith had come to prosecution before last week, though, was for his ties to a group bidding for the $ 300 million contract to run a casino at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Acting US Attorney Joon Kim (successor to Preet Bharara, who led the prosecution before being fired by Donald Trump) pledged to retry Sheldon Silver.

Chris Huhne made sustained challenges against the prosecution before pleading guilty at the last minute.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said in a statement that Chris Huhne «made sustained challenges against the prosecution before pleading guilty at the last minute».

Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently «seek from the International Criminal Court an arrest warrant to bring Mrs Diezani Alison - Madueke before the court on allegations of corruption against her, which the government should consider as crimes against humanity and serious enough for it to sanction her prosecution before the court.»

The file will now be considered by the CPS, who will assess whether there is a realistic chance of prosecution before proceeding.

Thus defined, justice requires criminal courts, including — as experience has shown — at least the possibility of prosecution before international courts.

He was Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions before serving, since September 2015, as the 5th Solicitor General of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

Not exact matches

The defense has sought to discredit the testimony of Ackal's former deputies — who have themselves pleaded guilty to crimes — arguing that they're benefitting from «paycheck prosecution,» and testifying to appease prosecutors before they're sentenced.

The defense has raised concerns that this prosecution may be violating the fifth amendment of the constitution since the former employee had already served time for the matter before his federal conviction was overturned, the New York Times reported.

Since the raid, the president and his advisers have been singularly focused on the risk of a potential federal prosecution of Cohen, which they view as a much bigger existential threat to the presidency than former FBI Director James Comey, whose book «A Higher Loyalty» has dominated headlines and even Trump's Twitter feed even before its Tuesday release.

Backpage successfully wielded Section 230 for the better part of a decade to avoid prosecution or liability before being shut down just this month.

Retired church leader John Price from Bedale was accused by the prosecution of offering hypnosis to help victims relax, before proceeding to abuse them sexually.

John Coughlin's excellent review («Scandal and Canon Law,» June / July 2008) of Nicholas Cafardi's equally excellent book Before Dallas: The U.S. Bishops» Response to Clergy Sexual Abuse of Children is marred by approval of setting aside «prescription,» the statute of limitations for the prosecution of a delict in canon law.

We will not — indeed, can not — defend the Christian faith before the prosecution by advocating a condescending criterion of relevance, or by accepting the subjectivity of value.

While reacting to Monday's verdict by Justic Buba, the State Government hailed the ruling, and disclosed that Government would immediately seek arraignment and prosecution of the suspects at the Lagos High Court where charges are pending before Honourable Justice Lawal Akapo.

Ruling on the bail application, Magistrate Segun - Bello noted that bail had been liberalised said under the ACJA, adding that the prosecution counsel had not placed anything before the court to show why the defendant should not be granted bail.

«There is no evidence tendered before this court to substantiate the prosecution counsel's claim that the defendant will jump bail,» the magistrate noted.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) will draw up guidelines before a public consultation and roundtable discussions with campaigners, media lawyers, academics, social media experts and law enforcement bodies.

He added that: «On the 8th of May, 2018, the Inspector General of Police sent a letter to the President of the Senate, Federal Republic of Nigeria signed by the Commissioner of Police, Legal and Prosecution Department, explaining why he would not be appearing before the Senate on the 9th of May, 2018 due to legal restraint as a result of pending cases before the courts filed: (i) by Senator Dino Melaye against the IGP and the Nigeria Police Force in the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja in suit No.

The threat of prosecution was expected to make rulers think twice before massacring innocent civilians.

Shortly before the defendants took their plea, counsel to the fourth defendant, E. C Ami asked the court for a short adjournment to enable him respond to the counter affidavit filed to the by the prosecution.

Depending on the severity of the atrocities already committed and the health of the ruler, we might consider allowing a head of state to negotiate a number of «freedom years» before facing ICC prosecution.

But for the privilege to be nullified under the «crime - fraud exception,» Litman said the taint team would have to get the approval of the court before the material could be presented to the prosecution.

HURIWA therefore called for the arrest and prosecution of the killer soldiers and police or else the governor would be held personally liable and dragged before the World's crimes court to face charges of crimes against humanity.

The Times Union reported last year that Abelove didn't require French to sign an immunity - from - prosecution waiver when he testified before the grand jury — a decision that made it impossible to bring charges against French after his testimony.

«That the applicant, who knows full well that she is on bail in the United Kingdom where she is being investigated for several financial crimes, and that she would not be able to leave that country in view of the ongoing investigation and imminent trial, is seeking the order of this honourable court for the charge before this honourable court to be amended to include her name on the face of the charge in order for her to escape from investigation and prosecution in the United Kingdom under the guise that she is coming to face her trial before this honourable court and also to scuttle the trial before this honourable court.»

By law, the judge pointed out, neither lawyer can be compelled to testify before a grand jury unless granted immunity from prosecution.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who has said lawmakers can choose to clean up their acts or face repeated prosecutions, said Cuomo's package was «welcome news,» but hoped lawmakers would «use today's announcement as another clear sign that Albany must pass comprehensive ethics reform before the end of session.»

The defendants said it includes a description of one public corruption case — the prosecution of former Bridgeport (Connecticut) Mayor Joseph Ganim — with an outdated summary of the law that applies to corruption cases, and want the display covered or removed before their trial starts.

«How many prosecutions will it take before Albany gives the people of New York the honest government they deserve?»

The April 26 Fort Wayne News - Sentinel has this editorial, which ran a few hours before the convictions in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary petition fraud prosecution.

The coalition noted that by that petition, it had demanded a thorough investigation and prosecution of Senator Dino Melaye, just as in the case of Senator Bukola Saraki, before the Code of Conduct Tribunal if found culpable.

In a bench ruling, yesterday, Justice Okon Abang agreed with the EFCC lawyer, Mr. Sylvanus Tahir, that all the documents were duly front - loaded by the prosecution in the proof of evidence before the court.

Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, issued a statement, «The swift convictions of Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos beg an important question — how many prosecutions will it take before Albany gives the people of New York the honest government they deserve?»

«How many prosecutions will it take,» his post said, «before Albany gives the people of New York the honest government they deserve?»

Bharara also said he might have done some things differently in his prosecution of two former legislative leaders had the cases come before a recent Supreme Court ruling that reversed the corruption charges against former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.

He was thereafter arrested and detained at the base, while the air force authorities were reported to have ordered a psychiatric test on the suspect, saying the circumstances of the case required the test before his eventual dismissal and prosecution for the crime.

The witness, who testified as the fifth prosecution witness, PW - 5, said the N77.5 million was paid to the PR firm through the bank account of Metuh's company, Destra Investment Limited, which is the second defendant before the court.

It comes as director of public prosecutions (DPP) Keir Stramer appears before MPs in parliament.

12:30 - attorney - general Dominic Grieve and director of public prosecutions Keir Starmer, before home affairs committee, on: Extradition

«Section 3b stipulated that before a prosecution can start, the person in question would have to be communicated and he must respond to the bureau.

The trial of a former Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, Air Chief Marshal Alex S. Badeh, continued on Tuesday, June 28, 2016 before Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja with the prosecution witness, Mustapha Yerima, further stating how he was pressured by the defendants to claim the property allegedly acquired with the proceeds of crime.

The acting deputy commissioner told MPs that the Met had failed to investigate sufficient cases of phone - hacking because it had operated under previous Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) guidelines, which found that a crime had only been committed if voicemails were hacked before the intended recipient heard them.

Some of them also maintained that the trial could not commence as suggested by the prosecution as they were just moments before the proceedings served with an additional proof of evidence.

«We'll be considering it, and consulting with the Crown Prosecution Service before we do,» he pledged.

In the applications filed before the two judges, Dasuki's lawyer, Mr. Joseph Daudu (SAN), argued that the prosecution lacked the right to continue to prosecute him.