Sentences with phrase «victimless offenses»

● Court - Ordered Community Service with FIJA Many people who are convicted of minor and victimless offenses are required by courts to do community service as part or all of their sentence.

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-...]

Not exact matches

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.

Packer's discussion of bribery and espionage shows that even if these two crimes are victimless in some sense or other, it would still be unreasonable to recommend that bribery and espionage cease to be punishable offenses.

Finally, it is important to keep distinct the class of victimless crimes and the class of offenses thought to deserve decriminalization.

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.

Yesterday the Fully Informed Jury Association spoke with Rich Paul, a New Hampshire man accused of multiple counts of victimless drug offenses who is pursuing a jury nullification strategy in his trial.

Today's Freedom Friday features Keene, NH marijuana activist Rich Paul, who was arrested for victimless drug - related offenses.