Sentences with phrase «prosecutors take»

Cruz's public defender has said he will plead guilty if prosecutors take the death penalty off the table and sentence him to life in prison instead.

Cruz's public defender has said he will plead guilty if prosecutors take the death penalty off the table, which would mean a life prison sentence.

Embezzlement Embezzlement is a crime that prosecutors take very seriously.

Prosecutors take a very aggressive approach to drug crimes.

With an increased focus on methamphetamines, prosecutors take drug production charges seriously.

Prosecutors take a serious view of drug trafficking charges involving cocaine, and you do not have to have a prior record to face significant penalties.

Prosecutors take methamphetamine trafficking charges very seriously.

Many prosecutors take the position that the victim doesn't really know what's best for him / her.

The Cochran Firm's criminal defense lawyers know that prosecutors take vehicle - related deaths quite seriously.

My prosecutors take a strong stand against animal cruelty.

PARKLAND, Fla. — The gunman accused of killing 17 people inside a Florida high school will plead guilty if prosecutors take the death penalty off the table, Broward County Public Defender Howard Finkelstein confirmed Saturday.

Nikolas Cruz, the gunman accused of killing 17 people inside the school, will plead guilty if prosecutors take the death penalty off the table, Broward County Public Defender Howard Finkelstein confirmed.

And in the next place, describing what properly is defiance, it teaches that a man does wrong although he understands what is right, or forbears to do right although he understands what is right; in short, the Christian doctrine of sin is pure impertinence against man, accusation upon accusation; it is the charge which the Deity as prosecutor takes the liberty of lodging against man.

But the former Florida child abuse prosecutor takes issue with the SGM statement.

State prosecutors took over the case against Kerrick early on, when it came to light that Mecklenburg district attorney Andrew Murray had once been a law partner of a member of Kerrick's defense team.

Prosecutors took the first full day of testimony in the corruption trial of Sheldon Silver to lay out one of two bribery and kickback schemes they allege the former Assembly speaker undertook.

Then the prosecutor took direct aim at Cuomo's signature «Buffalo Billion» economic - development project — and seems to have extended that probe to the multibillion - dollar SUNY Poly nanotech initiative, which dates to the Mario Cuomo administration.

Closing arguments for both defense and prosecutors took place Monday in the Silver corruption trial.

But that sentiment wasn't shared by six members of Congress, who wrote a letter last week to Attorney General Eric Holder requesting a federal prosecutor take over the case.

Contending prosecutors took his comments out of context and failed to understand he was legally acting as a political consultant, the former Republican city councilman has spent several days on the witness stand detailing precisely what he meant in hours of conversations -LSB-...]

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. on Thursday dropped his objections to having a special prosecutor take over his investigation of Eric Schneiderman — and said he lashed out at Gov. Cuomo in part because he was frustrated at losing control of the probe.

Another example of prosecutors taking liberty with the facts came in a concurring opinion by Judge Kozinski, where a prosecutor tried to mislead the court about facts to support sentencing enhancement.

Three shootings all from differents months last year and suddenly turned over to the outgoing prosecutor just in time for her to settle before the new prosecutor takes office.

Federal prosecutors took over the case, and a judge sentenced Moore to serve nearly 2 1/2 years in prison for traveling across state lines to have sex with a minor in July 2002....

Bad tenants that commit fraud, are intentionally defrauding the landlord for gain and do profit from this form of fraud for decades until a fact pattern is established and a prosecutor takes pity upon a landlord.

Not exact matches

Many people have commented on the difficulty of knowing, in advance, what sorts of behaviours prosecutors are going to decide to take a swing at, whether in applying the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act or deciding when CEOs have neglected their duties to shareholders.

It is unclear where Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who has expressed skepticism in the past of appointing an independent prosecutor, will take the investigation from here.

Meanwhile, marijuana remains illegal on the federal level, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions has recently taken steps that would allow federal prosecutors in states where weed is legal to decide whether to prosecute people over marijuana sales in a development that could threaten the burgeoning industry (or, at the very least, spur litigation from some of the states in question looking to keep the federal government from interfering with statewide legislation).

And Shkreli seemed to be at pains to suggest he wasn't taking the trial seriously: dropping in on reporters during the trial (he called the prosecutors «junior varsity»), taking to social media during the evenings, declining to wear a tie in court, and ostentatiously reading a book during closing arguments.

One reason, says Eisinger, is that court rulings have taken away tactics that prosecutors had used to pressure defendants, such as restricting attorney - client privilege and preventing their companies from bankrolling sky - high legal bills.

The prosecutor has eight burglaries or drug cases he could bring in the time it takes to prosecute a single white - collar crime.

The prosecutors in Campos are sending a message to Brasilia that it should tread carefully if it tries to take its oil money away.

«Group after group and committee after committee within GM that reviewed the issue failed to take action or acted too slowly,» Anton Valukas, the former federal prosecutor hired by the automaker to investigate the reason for the delay, said in a 315 - page report.

The Supreme Court refused to take the case and potentially give the defendant a retrial, but Sotomayor took the unusual step of writing a statement that condemned the prosecutor's words, Reuters reported.

Gorsuch took exception to the 10th Circuit's ruling denying Games - Perez's petition for an appeal, arguing that prosecutors had been able to prove that Games - Perez knew only that he was possessing a firearm, not that he knew he was a convicted felon while he possessed the firearm.

Panama's public prosecutor against organised crime said there was no evidence so far to take action against the law firm at the center of the Panama Papers scandal, following a raid lasting 27 hours on its offices.

Prosecutors in Gulfport, Mississippi, recently took down one Nigerian crime ring that brought in $ 52 million.

To no one's surprise, Sarah Paulson took home the Emmy for best actress in a miniseries for her performance as Marcia Clark, head prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson case, in «American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson.»

While she anticipates that forthcoming laws regulating cryptocurrency will make it easier to control these cash flows, she also urged prosecutors to take up cases involving these OTC exchanges, arguing that many crimes «are connected with migration policy and money laundering, and it [is] time to sort this out.»

NBC News has since issued a correction to say that prosecutors had actually taken the far more modest step of pulling Cohen's phone logs.

Federal prosecutors are weighing whether to bring criminal charges against members of the WikiLeaks organization, taking a second look at a 2010 leak of diplomatic cables and military documents and investigating whether the group bears criminal responsibility for the more recent revelation of sensitive CIA cyber-tools, according to people familiar with the case.

A former U.S. Army sergeant and two other U.S. citizens were found guilty by a jury in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday of taking part in a plot to murder a woman in the Philippines for money, prosecutors said.

The major element in this innovation was the unusual legislation that Augustus initiated that, although aimed primarily at the elite, for the first time made «the private life of virtually every Roman... a matter of the state's concern and regulation», with the state taking upon itself the unusual role of not only arbiter but also prosecutor for crimes of immorality, crimes in which it had previously had no interest.

Throughout Pell's interrogation, which took place over nineteen - and - a-half hours in the middle of four consecutive nights in Rome, the prosecutor evoked several blunders.

Its prosecutor can not begin an investigation of an American without first notifying the U.S. and allowing it to take over the investigation and any prosecution.

We can take some comfort at the fact that finally, toward the end of the twentieth century, prosecutors have begun applying criminal statutes to corporate officers who make decisions that (for instance) cause death or injury to a worker or to the public, and charges brought against these individuals include manslaughter and homicide charges.

thefinisher1 Are prosecutors, police and juries stubborn spoiled brats for accepting what DNA, fingerprint, video, and all kinds of other evidence indicate about who committed a crime rather than having the faith to just take the accused word that they didn't do it?

There are reports that a prosecutor has taken up the case and is currently carrying out investigations.

He was the only Democrat to release a statement in response to Staten Island DA Dan Donovan's campaign announcement yesterday, in which he accused the Republican prosecutor of lacking sufficient experience to take up where Cuomo will leave off in January.

The decision in this case was taken by Mr Rene Barclay, a senior and very experienced prosecutor, in consultation with Sue Hemming, the Head of Special Crime Division and in consultation with me as DPP.