Sentences with phrase «relying on the criminal justice»

Instead we rely on our criminal justice system to identify, penalize and, hopefully, reform wrongdoers.

Not exact matches

He relied on Section 162 of Administration of Criminal Justice Act, which sets out conditions to be considered before a bail application is granted or refused.

The plaintiff, however, is urging the court to hold that Sections 293 and 294 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) of 201 which the EFCC relied on to secure remand orders from a magistrate court were inapplicable in his case.

Gangi's defining campaign issue is criminal justice reform, and he is highly critical of de Blasio's failure to comprehensively reform NYPD practices, especially so - called broken windows policing, which relies on intensive enforcement of low - level offenses in the effort to prevent major crimes.

In closing arguments at his obstruction of justice trial, a Brooklyn federal prosecutor called state Sen. John Sampson a crook who instinctively relied on criminal tactics to avoid law enforcement...

Gillibrand relied on data from a February article published by Politico New York, which cited data from the state Division of Criminal Justice Services.

The first Defendant (Badeh) pleaded not guilty to the charges preferred against him, while the court relied on Section 478 of the Criminal Justice Act to enter a «not guilty» plea for the second defendant which is a corporation.

Another area of the criminal justice system that relies on human judgment is the arraignment — when a suspect has been arrested but not yet charged and a judge has to decide whether to release or lock up the alleged offender until his or her next court date.

Rather than rely on race, we use our criminal justice system to label people of color «criminals» and then engage in all the practices we supposedly left behind.

Instead of relying on the Canadian criminal justice system to punish serious offenders in accordance with the law, to rehabilitate offenders, and working to reintegrate them into society, the federal government will deport potentially dangerous individuals to countries where they could pursue further violence against Canada and others.

Those who rely on a Justice Department legal opinion should not be subject to criminal investigation when «the political winds change,» Mukasey told the House Judiciary Committee.

A fair and just criminal justice system relies on all of its parts to operate perfectly.

You can rely on our firm's dedication to winning justice in your criminal case.

The Crown, relying on ss 1 and 2 of the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986, s 71 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988, ss 2 and 4 of the Drug Trafficking Act 1994, and ss 6 and 76 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, contended that the legislation laid down a mandatory regime and there was no warrant in any of the statutes for apportioning liability to pay among those who had benefited jointly.

Justice Thomas entered convictions for second degree murder relying on the constructive murder provision of the Criminal Code that was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Canada over 25 years ago.

Citing Richardson v. Vancouver (City), 2006 BCCA 36 (CanLII), a case in which police were sued for wrongful arrest by a plaintiff relying on their acquittal on the charge of obstructing justice, the Court of Appeal found it is improper to conflate issues pertaining to criminal responsibility and those pertaining to the civil liability of police.

Finally, we rely on the government to make these changes in an effort to enhance the criminal justice system while preserving the protections of those whose liberty is at risk.

In Padilla, Justice Stevens recognized and relied on Mr. Tooby's practice manual, Criminal Defense of Immigrants, as one of the «authoritative treatises» that form the basis of counsel's duty to protect noncitizen defendants against adverse immigration consequences of a plea.

Drawing upon some of the materials embedded in the social justice accounts of tort law, [16] Part IV clarifies why creating an intermediate retributive sanction under the right safeguards to the tort system is a superior way of punishing and preventing misconduct than strictly relying on compensatory damages, class actions for compensatory damages, extra-compensatory damages for victim - vindication, the criminal justice system as we know it, or even a privately enforced criminal justice system.

However, given the desirability of finality in criminal matters, it would not usually be in the interests of justice that people should have to face a second prosecution in relation to the same offence, if the evidence relied on was available at the earlier hearing, particularly when a deliberate decision had been taken not to rely on that evidence.