Sentences with word «victimless»

True, the main interest of the concept of victimless crimes derives from its usefulness in decriminalization proposals.

Paul is now charged for victimless crimes related to sales of just about a pound of marijuana over the course of a few months.

The jurist Herbert Packer identified fornication, gambling, and narcotic offenses as victimless crimes, but he also mentioned bribery and espionage in this category.

He noted that cultivating 15 marijuana plants in New Jersey is classified as a Class A felony, 1st degree, putting this completely victimless offense legally in the same category as murder, manslaughter, and rape.

Former South Jersey firefighter Sam McGraw faced a 5 - year prison sentence for victimless offenses related to defensively carrying a shotgun as he went outside to investigate suspicious activity that led him to fear for his family's safety.

Prosecutors and affected interest groups, however, maintain that these kinds of arrangements are far from victimless, and have skewed incentives and unfairly tilted public policies in often unexpected ways.

Jon Peditto is a photographer and marijuana grower and activist who was arrested in 2012 and charged with several counts regarding completely victimless marijuana - related offenses.

The increase in police body - worn cameras has led to an increase in so - called «victimless prosecutions», particularly in cases involving domestic violence.

Crime Inc. goes inside the entertainment industry to meet some of the people losing their livelihood to piracy and also follows law enforcement trying to crack down on this seemingly victimless crime.

It is in it's true form victimless.

They are looking for a new definition of Christian marriage that will allow for premarital sex, divorce, serial monogamy, and victimless extramarital affairs.

Victimless sins don't exist.

Victimless Buster, aren't you quite the little salesman for Spitzer?

«But we shouldn't pretend that it is somehow victimless and hence fundamentally different from personal taxation.

The low - level and relatively victimless nature of the crime also helps the operators fly under the radar and avoid getting caught.

Please note: for this issue, we are interested primarily (and perhaps even exclusively) in stories of consensual and / or victimless sex.

For the sake of summary and easy comparison, Table I lists the range of criminal offenses which the authorities we have discussed have identified as victimless crimes.While this table omits the views of many others who have written on this subject with equal authority, it is representative and will suffice for our purposes.

Georgetown University law professor Paul Butler encourages jurors to refuse to enforce victimless drug laws that have disproportionately been used against and disproportionately harm people of color.

They talked extensively about how jurors can use jury nullification to push back against human rights abuses, including refusing to be complicit in punishing victimless offenses — offenses which are disproportionately used by government to punish -LSB-...]

On 30 September, the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office issued a report concluding an investigation into victimless cannabis - related activities alleged to have involved a number of New Hampshire state legislators.

State Supreme courts may have «inherent» control over the legal profession, but that should not mean that they get to create and enforce a new victimless crime on their own.

«It can result in escalating consequences arising from what may begin as relatively minor and victimless offending.»

The real story is fascinating enough that the writers haven't had to embellish it much and as far as cinematic crimes go, this one is as victimless and nonviolent as any.

Nonetheless, while it has become common wisdom that even so - called victimless crimes are violent, because they tear at the fabric of society and harm at least the individuals committing them, we are much slower to admit that every penal system, no matter how carefully regulated, meets violence with violence.

The reader must be careful not to infer from the absence of a checkmark that the authority listed would necessarily exclude the offense in question from the category of victimless crimes.

Usually when people think of jury nullification, they tend to envision the most obvious sorts of cases for conscientious acquittal — victimless offenses in which the state is trying to punish people who may have offended others» sensibilities through their actions but who have not actually harmed anyone else or their property.

«A criminal convicted of aggravated grievous bodily harm will walk away with a lesser sentence than many of those convicted of what I believe to be victimless crimes.»

(Morgan enjoys a similar level of respect to Clarkson in the UK, thus many Brits regard this incident as a victimless crime.)

As the Enron case makes abundantly clear, white - collar fraud is not a victimless crime.

«Daily fantasy sports companies are engaged in illegal gambling under New York law, causing the same kinds of social and economic harms as other forms of illegal gambling, and misleading New York consumers... Daily fantasy sports is neither victimless nor harmless, and it is clear that DraftKings and FanDuel are the leaders of a massive, multi-billion-dollar scheme intended to evade the law and fleece sports fans across the country.

Part of the problem, naturally, is that those who engage in «underground» transactions may tell themselves that it's a victimless crime.

Proponents demonstrated how corruption, far from being victimless, was particularly harmful to the developing world's most vulnerable citizens.

Whether it's inflating expenses or buying personal items on the company's dime, theft of company money is not a victimless crime.

And just as ascetics and Romantic poets were in the past reluctant to let their suffering go (it paid off in spiritual or aesthetic currency), so many contemporary victims have learned not to let their victimization go (having gained self - definition from it, a victimless condition becomes unthinkable).

Blasphemy is a victimless offense.

Blasphemy is a victimless crime, since gods do not exist.

Brad and LKyleR, no one should be locked up for a thought crime or a «victimless crime».

The half - million marijuana arrests annually, constituting 70 per cent of all drug - related arrests, fall into the same category of «victimless crimes» which many reformers believe should be decriminalized.

Another large bloc in the inmate population consists of those involved in so - called «victimless crimes.»

To the extent that these victimless activities are a matter of public concern, they require medical treatment, income - maintenance and education.

That's ok... I choose not to spend eternity with a god who sends his «children» to hell, for the victimless crime of «not believing».