Sentences with phrase «whether from crime»

Not exact matches

The case was the subject of «Serial,» the first spin - off from «This American Life,» and went on to be a sensation, with listeners debating whether or not Syed was in prison for a crime he did not commit.

The key question is whether New York prosecutors could find ways of indicting Cohen for crimes different from the ones he was charged for on the federal level.

Mr Giuliani also revealed what legal analysts say might be tantalising leads for investigators, who already were exploring Mr Cohen's business practices and whether any crimes may have been committed as part of a pattern or strategy of paying hush money to keep damaging stories about Mr Trump from appearing when he was a candidate, according to people familiar with the matter.

Among them are the rights to: bullet joint parenting; bullet joint adoption; bullet joint foster care, custody, and visitation (including non-biological parents); bullet status as next - of - kin for hospital visits and medical decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent; bullet joint insurance policies for home, auto and health; bullet dissolution and divorce protections such as community property and child support; bullet immigration and residency for partners from other countries; bullet inheritance automatically in the absence of a will; bullet joint leases with automatic renewal rights in the event one partner dies or leaves the house or apartment; bullet inheritance of jointly - owned real and personal property through the right of survivorship (which avoids the time and expense and taxes in probate); bullet benefits such as annuities, pension plans, Social Security, and Medicare; bullet spousal exemptions to property tax increases upon the death of one partner who is a co-owner of the home; bullet veterans» discounts on medical care, education, and home loans; joint filing of tax returns; bullet joint filing of customs claims when traveling; bullet wrongful death benefits for a surviving partner and children; bullet bereavement or sick leave to care for a partner or child; bullet decision - making power with respect to whether a deceased partner will be cremated or not and where to bury him or her; bullet crime victims» recovery benefits; bullet loss of consortium tort benefits; bullet domestic violence protection orders; bullet judicial protections and evidentiary immunity; bullet and more...

He did not know whether any allowance was made for the age of the accused nor «whether pardon is given to those who repent» nor «whether punishment attaches to the mere name apart from secret crimes, or to the secret crimes connected with the name».3 In reply, Trajan wrote that Christians «are not to be sought out, but if they are accused and convicted, they must be punished — yet on this condition, that whoso denies himself to be a Christian, and makes the fact plain by his action, that is by worshipping our gods, shall obtain pardon on his repentance, however suspicious his past conduct may be».4 The Emperor Hadrian (76 - 138; ruled 117 - 138) made clear that slanderous accusations against Christians were unacceptable and that it had to be proved that they had acted contrary to the laws.

Whether it serves to deter others from similar crimes is a disputed question, difficult to settle.

Visions of truth must always come from elsewhere, whether they land upon trained detectives or amateurs, and the reader's faith that those visions will come is what makes crime fiction possible.

Whether he did it in the name of God; Allah or whatever deity he may believe in does not take away from the fact that he committed a horrific crime.

Although the judge's decision did not deal with whether or not the sexual abuse actually happened, this latest turn of events is something of a victory for SGM, whose legal strategy has been to first argue that the First Amendment gives pastors the right to discourage victims of abuse from reporting the crimes against them to police and second to argue that the case should be thrown out on technicalities, such as the statute of limitations.

Are we really talking about grading crimes against the person in terms of whether it is «the worst», perhaps the «second worst», «well, not as bad as that time when...»??? The suggestions of levels of «badness», therefore levels of deserved help is a stupid distraction from the issues.

I don't know whether such a violation could be severe enough to constitute a war crime, though, because it might be an issue more of form than of substance, since most Hague - 3 signatories probably don't desire their declarations of war to come only from a legislature.

He also said that that he did not know whether a county executive could be removed from office, unless he or she was convicted of a crime while in office.

But there has been little public dialogue about how and whether those proposals respond to what some describe as a political crime wave stemming from the outsized role of money in state politics.

The reports would include what state and county the guns came from, where they were originally purchased, whether they were bought by the perpetrator of the crime or a third party, and whether those who committed the crimes had gun licenses.

Are we now perceiving less crime around us, whether through personal experience or from what we hear or read from others?

«Nor should media attention be allowed to be diverted from the extremely important issues at stake, namely whether enough has been done to protect children from sexual abuse and hold to account those who commit these appalling crimes.

As he leaves the Papacy, it is still unclear whether the Catholic Church will ever recover from the reports of terrible crimes against the children and the official indifference which met them.

In statement, DiNapoli said the audit was spurred in part by a request from Manhattan Democratic Sen. Brad Hoylman, who issued a report earlier in the year raising concerns on whether law enforcement was giving proper identification to hate crimes as is required by state law.

In the second motion, attorneys argued the case should be dismissed because there were internal emails from the New York State Board of Elections questioning whether using a pass - through entity was even a crime.

«Under the new law, anybody, whether acting in concert with a public servant or not, who engages in a course of conduct to defraud a state or local government would be guilty of a crime ranging from the fourth degree (class E felony) to the first degree (class B felony), depending on the amount defrauded,» a release from the governor's office said.

Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis said Wednesday that numerous serious crimes are missing from the list that guides Mayor de Blasio on whether to hand over undocumented immigrants to the feds.

But after sustained pressure from the Serious Organised Crime Agency, the Metropolitan Police and the Information Commissioner Sir Christopher Graham, MPs will discuss whether to proceed.»

With grant support from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Wintemute had been conducting a retrospective cohort study looking at whether handgun buyers with prior misdemeanor convictions are more likely than those without a criminal history to be charged with new crimes, particularly those involving firearms and violence.

She also felt that future mass - fatality managers, whether identifying victims of natural disasters, war crimes or acts of terrorism, could learn from the data collected and methods refined in the World Trade Center Victim Identification Project.

Family Relationships Online provides all families (whether together or separated) with access to information about family relationship issues, ranging from Thinkuknow is the education programme from the National Crime Agency's CEOP command.

Who can get enough with Sherlock Holmes, thanks to crime, adventure and investigative movie genre we are enjoying more and more movies which are related to this one whether from real people or cartoons.

The latest crime - comedy from Brett Ratner likewise fumbled aimlessly on its opening day, with viewers completely unsure of whether or not the familiar faces were actually going to present something worth watching again.

Basically, though, the film noir flourished in and reflected a contemporary milieu; films noirs tended to have to do with the world of crime, whether overtly (police and FBI stories, private - eye flicks, gangster stories) or by extension — that is, films in which «the world of crime» proved to be inseparable from the world of nightclubs and cabarets, offices and tenements, cars and homes where private citizens might become, by accident or design, guilty souls.

He is welcomed by the fellas with open arms, quickly becoming one of them, although he is becoming increasingly conflicted between his duty as a police officer and wanting to protect his friends within the crime family from getting killed, whether by the cops, rival gangs, or within their own unit.

The Player isn't your grandaddy's thriller about a security expert foiling crimes in Las Vegas — it's some crazy, high - stakes Trading Places nonsense where the ultra-rich wager on whether or not that security expert can prevent Sin City from sinning.

Girl in Disguise derives much of its tension and humor from details of the period, whether it's the difficulties of detective work in a world without forensic science, the ways in which Kate's gender makes her job both easier and more dangerous, or the wild bustle of booming, crime - ridden Chicago.

Whether it is Eddie's quest to side with Jane when what he really wants is to have a quiet life married into the Oxbloods, or with Jack Spratt in my NCD [Nursery Crime Detective] series trying not to be a boring stereotypical detective, or even with Thursday Next trying to have her husband reactualized from nonexistence, my approach to writing has always been that of telling a conventional story, but in a wholly unconventional setting.

Romance novels and crime blockbusters have proved particularly popular on e-readers, perhaps because it is difficult to tell from across the aisle of a bus whether someone is reading a bodice - ripper or Dostoevsky on their Kindle.

Whether you're looking at highway safety statistics, crime rates, or the frequency of natural disasters in Florida, living in the Sunshine State from an insurance provider's perspective is risky business.

In fact, I feel that adding that kind of law (whether it was state, federal, or local), would distract from the crime of the act itself while simultaneously stifling efforts of animal advocates who are trying to educate the public using the same footage.

St Claire's Self - catering Cottages are situated a stone's through from one of the most tranquil and crime free beaches on the West Coast and makes an ideal choice for families and groups visiting our area whether th...

Whether it's a master Assassin risking life and limb to scale a sheer wall, or a crime kingpin leaping from the top of an apartment block in Downtown Los Santos, the story is always the same: not two feet from the soon - to - be corpse inevitably sits a ladder, clinging to the building in a sort of smug silence like Peter Pan's unruly shadow.

To make a decision about whether or not to disclose a crime or violation and participate in the judicial or conduct process and / or criminal justice process free from pressure by the School;

Instead, he or she generally evaluates the hypothesis of common source (whether or not the biological sample from the crime scene came from the same individual (usually the accused) who supplied an authentic reference sample).

An elemental question begs to be corroborated in more than one way for sheer fairness: When the main pushers of the idea that the «reposition global warming» phrase insinuate it is proof of an industry - led disinformation effort employing crooked skeptic climate scientists — Naomi Oreskes saying it indicates a plot to supply «alternative facts,» Gelbspan saying it is a crime against humanity, and Al Gore implying it is a cynical oil company effort — are they truly oblivious to the necessity of corroborating whether or not that phrase and the memo subset it came from actually had widespread corrupting influence, or did they push this «evidence» with malice knowing it was worthless?

Whether it's a police sting on kids picking daffodils or a dumpster diver handcuffed for «stealing» frozen pizza from the trash, there seems to be a spate of law enforcement over-reaction going on for minor eco - «crimes».

Reporting in the Phoenix - based Arizona Republic newspaper described how 11 DUI cases have been consolidated into one action, questioning «whether a crime - lab technician's decision to bootstrap old software onto a new blood - testing machine in 2009 — and the faulty results that allegedly arose from that decision — has affected evidence handled by Scottsdale's crime lab.»

At the beginning of the year, research showed that economic crime has risen from between three to four billion euros per year in Portugal; with the year ending, we ask whether legislation is doing enough to curb this figure.

Cases such as Gray pose the question of whether the claimant, having been convicted of a crime, can seek compensation from the tortfeasor for imprisonment flowing from that conviction, it being alleged that the crime would not have been committed but for the defendant's tort.

Whether a wrongful death occurs from a violent crime or negligence, it is imperative that the surviving husband, wife, siblings, children or relatives appoint a skilled wrongful death attorney who understands all the complexities of filing a wrongful death lawsuit in their state and who provide the best chance at receiving financial compensation for this tragic loss.

There is a substantial body of case law on whether prosecution for a crime with elements A, B, and C bars prosecution for a crime with different elements arising from the same facts and circumstances (e.g. if acquittal of a lesser included offense whose elements must all be proved to convict on the more severe offense provides double jeopardy protection), that wouldn't be directly applicable in my alternative scenario because the offense tried the first time and the second would have exactly the same elements.

To ensure the punishment fits the crime, law firms can develop a formal process to diagnose the under - performance of lawyers and pinpoint whether the low numbers result from behavioral or structural causes.

Whether that includes removing s. 13 from the Human Rights Code and relying solely on the Criminal Code to prosecute hate crimes remains to be seen.

On appeal from [2015] NIQB 33 This case considered whether, in exercising the discretion in the Serious Organised Crime...

When an individual has been accused of a violent crime against his or her partner, whether male or female, representation by counsel from a criminal defense firm can help assure a fair and complete assessment of the facts.