Sentences with phrase «state prosecution»

The reason double jeopardy does not apply when a person faces both a federal and state prosecution for the same conduct is that separate and distinct crimes are being charged.

New York lawmakers will carry on trying to close a loophole that could shield people from state prosecution if they have received a presidential pardon — without the bill's high - profile champion, former state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

«Dr. Kaloyeros resigned because he believes that the federal and state prosecutions recently filed against him are an unnecessary distraction for the good people working hard at SUNY Poly.

«But, because the business is so highly regulated on a state level and the threat of federal as well as state prosecution for violation remains, potential investors will want to take a long, hard look at the operations and the people involved in any investment opportunity.»

«The typical state prosecution is for a standard common - law crime,» explains Philip A. Feigin, an attorney with Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons in Denver and a former commissioner of the Colorado Securities Division.

When people see banks browbeating the bond rating agencies and accounting firms to whitewash the quality of what they're pawning off on their customers, when they see bank lobbyists getting Washington to block state prosecutions of financial fraud so as to clear the way for more predatory lending and false packaging of the junk securities they're selling and to win the right not to reveal their true financial position, there's a good reason not to buy what's in these black boxes.

The Crown Prosecution Service in London has written to barristers warning that any leaving work could be deprived of state prosecution work in the future.

Reed said ethics will be an area of focus for Cuomo, given the federal and state prosecutions related to the Buffalo Billion and other upstate economic development initiatives.

Presidential pardons are for federal prosecutions and / or convictions, not state prosecutions and / or convictions.

There are several cases pre-dating the formation of the CPS in which the Courts upheld the DPP's decision to discontinue a private prosecution that was deemed to amount to an attempt to interfere with a pending State prosecution (e.g. to intimidate a witness).

The attorney general in California has also been very local about the housing crises and mortgage fraud; she believes that we should be stricter with mortgage fraud and she has increased state prosecutions of these individuals who are doing it.

I have always been somewhat troubled by the double jeopardy implications of following an unsuccessful state prosecution with a successful federal one.

In the event you're found guilty and would like to appeal the conviction, you'll need to write a notice of appeal to the judge AND the WI state prosecution no more than 20 days after receiving your verdict.

Two other players, Clyde Eads and Jon Johnson, have admitted involvement in the scheme and have been granted immunity from state prosecution.

«Dr. Kaloyeros resigned because he believes that the federal and state prosecutions recently filed against him are an unnecessary distraction for the good people working hard at SUNY Poly,» his attorney Michael Miller said in a statement.

Represented hospital in federal and state prosecutions for allegedly removing and disposing of asbestos - containing materials unlawfully

• Maintained records of state prosecutions.

Some commentators argued that the early charges against Manafort, which didn't reference as many potential crimes as many had expected, were a sign that Mueller was leaving the door open for state prosecution and avoiding the double jeopardy issue.

Five Health Ministry employees will also face charges in the affair, the state prosecution announced yesterday.

Nine government officials and business executives face bribery and fraud charges; Kaloyeros is the only one facing both federal and state prosecution.

But as you have come to streamline the cause effect of their shambolic governance, the nation has every right to hold the NDC party to face full accountabilities of the mismanagement which you will not exempted for realms of the state prosecution.

Defending such a private prosecution would be no different from defending a State prosecution.

In a State prosecution, the defendant who challenges the sufficiency of the evidence has one option: to apply to the Court to dismiss the case.

The essential question is as follows: what are the features specific to a private prosecution — as opposed to a State prosecution — which a defendant may be able to challenge?

However, the case serves as a counterpoint to the more questionable advantages sometimes claimed for private prosecutions: when it is appropriate to bring them; the benefits compared to a State prosecution or civil proceedings; and the synergies in running a private prosecution and civil proceedings in tandem.

We counsel clients as defendants and plaintiffs involved in federal and state prosecutions and investigations of allegations that focus on:

The U.S. Constitution has always played a role in criminal law because it defines important individual rights that must be preserved even in a state prosecution involving a state crime.

In its decision, the Court decided that the federal right to counsel must be extended to state prosecutions: any person haled into court, who is too poor to hire a lawyer, can not be assured a -LSB-...]

In its decision, the Court decided that the federal right to counsel must be extended to state prosecutions:

The lawsuit stemmed from a 1986 state prosecution of a salesperson and her broker after the salesperson cold called some homeowners in suburban Chicago and asked whether they were considering selling their residences within the next two years, and if not, whether they knew of any homeowners who were.