Sentences with phrase «where guilty people»

The gripping film The Unknown Girl shows us a world where guilty people are desperate for the freedom granted by confession.

Not exact matches

the torment about realizing you were wrong about which medicine to use on a patient and they died, or wrong about a person being guilty who you sentenced to prison where they were killed.

Where's the people law that says «innocent until proven guilty»?

It all seems very vague, where people can make it mean a particular thing, try to figure out what you are saying, feel guilty that they are doing something wrong by being warm, dry, comfortable in their house, enjoying their family, food.

And in a world where many people (just look around this blog for examples) have already found them guilty just for being priests, how could they get a fair trial?

>> >» People who didn't even exist...... Where is the proof you are guilty of what Adam and Eve did?

«We live in the best country in the world, where people are assumed not guilty,» Felder said.

They will have to go through the process and be declared guilty or not guilty; in case of suspended cases, where a person is neither guilty nor innocent will no longer be allowed to exist.

As someone who was guilty of eating many of her meals standing up at the kitchen counter, I quickly learned the importance of turning my meals into a ritual and eating in the company of other people where possible.

It's one of those pieces that's so gorgeous that every time I wear it people ask where they can get it, which makes me feel a bit guilty and sad when I have to admit it's long gone.

In the county where Dee lives, the district attorney, a slimy pol named Calvin Beckett (Michael O'Keefe), has long made local African Americans the target of indiscriminate drug sweeps, assuming that poor black people in the projects will plead out even if they're innocent just to get out of jail, not realizing that the guilty plea brands them as felons and opens up a host of other troubles in getting housing, jobs, etc..

You might wonder how a system like this is allowed to operate in our DEMOCRACY, in a country where we've been brought up to believe that a person is innocent until proven guilty.

Any person who -LCB- injures or kills -RCB- or to interfere with a service animal in any place where the service animal resides or is performing, shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor.

He also told USA Today, «I'm always looking for ways where people don't feel guilty, worried, (or) stressed when they leave their dogs alone.»

The lawsuit was filed based on provisions of the Albuquerque Humane and Ethical Animal Rules and Treatment (HEART) ordinance which provides that «Any person who relinquishes possession or control of an animal in a location where any reasonable person would know the animal has little chance of finding food, potable water, and shelter is guilty of cruelty.»

This is where most people tend to over pack and I have been guilty of it many times in my life.

Cave says he is addressing gun violence and gun control issues, and race relations in America where people of color are often considered «guilty until proven innocent.»

Step 2: Price of Admission Each person must bring at least one piece of fine quality clothing or accessories pulled from that guilty corner of the closet where the unwanted detritus of a consumer lifestyle resides.

Thus in Sedley's case (1675) Strange 168, 1 Sid 168, the defendant pleaded guilty to outraging public decency where he had appeared naked on the balcony of a house and had urinated on several people present.

Any person who without the written permission of the landowner, the owner's agent, or the person in lawful possession of the land, willfully enters any lands under cultivation or enclosed by fence, belonging to, or occupied by, another, or who willfully enters upon uncultivated or unenclosed lands where signs forbidding trespass are displayed at intervals not less than three to the mile along all exterior boundaries and at all roads and trails entering the lands, is guilty of a public offense.

Where personal injury has occurred as a result of the improper actions of another person, the guilty party is responsible to pay for damages suffered.

The Intervenor submits that such principles are all the more applicable in circumstances where the person found guilty of committing the offence was a medical doctor who stood in a position of trust over a vulnerable victim.

Where there is evidence that an employee may have committed a serious breach of his or her employment contract or may be guilty of gross misconduct, it may be possible for the company to terminate that person's employment with immediate effect.

In cases where the accused was under duress, restraint or fear of the person with whom he or she had sexual intercourse, then the accused person will not be found guilty of incest.

This differs from a criminal case where the state or local prosecutor files the lawsuit, and a guilty person or party is punished with jail time, fines, probation, or a number of other penalties that can be handed down by a judge.

See R. v. Campbell, [1964] 20 O.R. 487 (C.A.) where the Ontario Court of Appeal held: «[t] o me it is inconceivable that Parliament in enacting the Combines Investigation Act [the predecessor anti-combines statute in Canada to the Competition Act] should have intended to make a person, sometimes conveniently referred to as the «principal», guilty of an offence thereby created and not bring within the scope of that offence a person who aids and abets that «principal», and, without whose aid and assistance, conceivably, the offence could not be committed.

Where did you get the information that the original 2004 person plead guilty on appeal?

Provides that where a person is charged in respect of conduct that is an offence under the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (SOA 2003) and was an offence under one of the repealed offences listed in sub-s (2), and the only thing preventing the person being found guilty is that it can not be proven beyond reasonable doubt whether the conduct took place before or after the commencement of SOA 2003, then it shall be conclusively presumed for the purposes of determining the guilt of the defendant that the conduct took place at a time when the offence in respect of that conduct carried the lower penalty in terms of a custodial sentence which could be imposed on conviction of the defendant.

R v Kennedy [2007] UKHL 38, [2007] All ER (D) 247 (Oct): in this case the question certified by the Court of Appeal Criminal Division for the opinion of the law lords neatly encapsulates the question raised by this appeal: «When is it appropriate to find someone guilty of manslaughter where that person has been involved in the supply of a class A controlled drug, which is then freely and voluntarily self - administered by the person to whom it was supplied, and the administration of the drug then causes his death?»

How can you have a legal system where on one hand we consider insane people not guilty of their crimes and on the other say that they can be guilty?

Additionally, reg 16 provides that where one of the strict liability offences committed by a trader is due to the act or default of some other person, then that other person is also guilty of the offence, whether or not he is a trader and whether or not his act or default is a commercial practice.

Section 1 (6) of RCA 2016 adopts the definition of «riot» in s 1 of the Public Order Act 1986, namely: «Where 12 or more persons who are present together use or threaten unlawful violence for a common purpose and the conduct of them (taken together) is such as would cause a person of reasonable firmness present at the scene to fear for his personal safety, each of the persons using unlawful violence for the common purpose is guilty of riot.»

if (Person p does Act x, where x is any one of (a, b or c) and x is done fraudulently -LRB--RRB--RRB- then p is guilty of Offence o;

Depending on the county where you received your ticket, you may be able to submit your «not guilty» plea in person or by mail.

The only real benefit to a no contest plea today is that, unlike a guilty plea, it can not be used against you as an admission of guilt in a civil lawsuit (this would apply mainly where you are cited for an accident causing property damage or injury to another person).