Sentences with phrase «rape cases»

Legal experts pointed out that it is usually very difficult for defendants to win bail in rape cases.

Adding insult to injury, a 2004 sex crimes study found that just half of rape cases resulting in an arrest were ever prosecuted (PDF).

Should there not be a full review of all live prosecution cases, from rape cases to fraud cases?

The group called on the prime minister to ensure the criminal justice system takes rape cases more seriously.

In the majority of reported rape cases, the victims are women, however, a considerable number of men experience rape or attempted rape in their lifetime.

He's pushing legislation that would require private colleges to adopt uniform sexual assault policies and the governor is encouraging students to call outside police to investigate rape cases.

So much had been done to bury past rape cases, whereas a murder case is investigated so thoroughly.

This is particularly a motivating factor when there are multiple sex partners in a single episode, something present in a number of high profile rape cases in recent memory.

If the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case influences the dominant narrative that pops into our minds when we address the kinds of questions Prof. Thompson poses, then it may pervert our perspective as a society of potential jurors.

Erie County District Attorney Frank Sedita III will not present the alleged rape case against hockey superstar and Buffalo native Patrick Kane to a grand jury, saying the case is «rife with reasonable doubt.»

However, I do think this is a step below hookers, pedophiles, and rape cases where universities were shown to be complacent.

The second was the Steubenville rape case video, in which, for a stomach - turning twelve minutes, a high school student mocks the unconscious victim of a gang rape.

In fact, prosecutors have with some regularity had judges incarcerate young women who refuse to testify in statutory rape cases after being subpoenaed to do so, until they agree to...

On appeal, the prosecution argued that the similarity of the actions and words of Proffitt in both instances was relevant and may have led the prosecution's psychiatric expert to give weight to the 2007 rape case after all.

Instead, he resisted the opening, because of his belief that the views of Congress or the states on the acceptability of the death penalty in child rape cases do not bear analysis of its constitutionality.

The Kathua and Unnao rape cases show that the poison of religious bigotry is being injected into our social...

If people are threatening innocent people due to the Steubenville gang rape case, it's a shame and detracts from the purpose of the protests and the calls for justice.

A coalition of women rallied outside NYPD headquarters demanding the department take rape cases more seriously and fix its Special Victims Division — following a scathing report from the Department of Investigation.

Although prosecution rates for rape cases have been increasing in London, cases receiving a designation of No Further Action (NFA) occur on approximately a 1:1 basis.

Moses Yamu, ASP, Benue State Police Command PRO in a statement on Sunday, revealed that Zoho was killed by some irate youths, who were only trying to prevent them from investigating an alleged attempted rape case.

«Supreme Court Revises, but Doesn't Reconsider Child Rape Case Main The World's Most Client Friendly Firms»

That the film is now marred by controversy — after a 1999 rape case involving Parker and his co-writer, Jean Celestin, was unearthed — will reveal how the Academy feels about separating real life from art.

New research has shown that nearly half of jurors in rape cases come to a guilty verdict before deliberation,...

You use a devastating rape case in Ohio to talk about how you, unlike the girl raped, made it out of Steubenville?

Though the Education Department emphasized that a presence on the list of schools being investigated insinuates «absolutely zero presumption» of guilt, several of the schools were involved in high profile incidents of alleged mishandlings of campus rape cases that triggered the federal investigation.

The terrible rape case in Steubenville has captured the country's attention, mostly because of the tireless efforts of Anonymous, who believe that the local police are not doing a good enough job seeking justice for the victim.

This undermines the battle to combat the scepticism that still surrounds a great many rape cases.

Since returning to parliament Galloway has faced criticism for the scarcity of his appearances in the Commons, been banned by the National Union of Students for comments about the Julian Assange rape case and stormed out of a debate after discovering his opponent was an Israeli.

From behind bars at the Saratoga County Jail, prosecutors say the Hudson Falls man plotted to kill the victim in his ongoing rape case.

... Before Fulanis came into this country, weren't there rape cases?

Police Commissioner James O'Neill said Thursday he would apologize to the woman whose infamous Prospect Park rape case was finally solved after more than 23 years.

Erie County Legislature Minority Leader Joseph Lorigo speaks Thursday prior to a session during which his peers voted unanimously to hire a special independent counsel to investigate claims related to a pending rape case against former Social Services Commissioner Al Dirschberger.

At the time, the governor ordered the attorney general's office to investigate why the St. Lawrence County district attorney's office accepted misdemeanor pleas in a first - degree rape case.

The tears and abrasions can be tiny, sometimes no more than 2 millimeters.But thanks to new technology available at four local hospitals, these minuscule wounds on victims of sexual assault are the telltale signs that Erie County prosecutors can now show a jury to take rape cases beyond matters of «he said, she said.

A 2003 study found that it takes, on average, about six months to process DNA evidence from no - suspect rape cases in the United States.

The LA Times published her op - ed about the Halliburton rape cases, «About that Day In Court,» in 2008.

«One of Three Charges Dropped in Serial Rape Case Main Lawmaker Wants to Make Online Dating Safer»

Rape case emerge january.

That the military is, in fact, a perfect environment for sexual predators — who target men, too, as is acknowledged here — to thrive in, where women investigators are kept away from rape cases because they are «too sympathetic,» where evidence is disappeared, where women who bring rape accusations are subject to professional retaliation.

As previously reported, Winfrey was announced in advance as the winner of the 2018 Cecil B. de Mille Award, and her speech promising change to the state of gender politics and referencing Sidney Poitier's historic Oscar win and the late Recy Taylor's horrific 1940s rape case was so rousing it launched interest in an Oprah presidential campaign.

... verdict due on January 10th in vicious rape case.