Sentences with phrase «which prosecutors»

Last year Amazon was involved in a murder investigation in which prosecutors requested information from a suspect's Amazon Echo smart speaker.

In New York, 94 out of 243 exonerations in the National Registry of Exonerations since 1989 involved cases in which prosecutors withheld exculpatory material, according to Sam Gross, registry founder and a law professor at the University of Michigan.

We as a society need to address the situations in which prosecutors seek to «win» at all costs and the propensity to criminalize and imprison for minor offenses.

This latest push to regulate the art market comes after testimony three weeks ago at a closed - door session of the House Financial Services Committee in which prosecutors from the Department of Justice and NY District Attorney's Office gave testimony about recent cases, such as the recent indictment in the Eastern District of New York of six individuals and four corporations in a $ 50 million money laundering scheme in which an undercover agent purchase a Pablo Picasso painting to launder fraudulent profits from a stock manipulation scheme.

Many organizations invested in Madoff's hedge fund, which prosecutors allege was a $ 50 billion scam.

According to documents filed by federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, Silver used his relationship with JoRon Management, a Buffalo - area company run by Jordan Levy, to invest his money in Counsel Financial, which prosecutors call a «private investment vehicle that promised a high annual rate of return with little risk.»

He said he'd been paid for the work through Howe's firm Potomac Strategies, which prosecutors have described as a «shell company» used to pass bribes.

He said he has presented evidence to the judge of «one or more» instances in which prosecutors did not bring cases against people who allegedly stole money from campaign accounts.

West's friend, Matthew Marry, piloted the boat to Bolton Landing, which prosecutors said was an indication West was drunk.

But Seabrook left the cash - stuffed bag behind on the car floor — which prosecutors implied was because he knew it would look weird if he walked into the restaurant with a murse.

The Manhattan federal court jury returned the verdict after a three - week trial in which prosecutors claimed that the 71 - year - old Democrat repeatedly promised the favors to enrich himself.

He has already pleaded guilty to eight felonies for his role in the various schemes, which prosecutors said involved the Buffalo Billion case to be heard later this year and arranging the bribes to Percoco through two of his clients: the downstate energy firm and the Syracuse development company.

Deliberations began on Tuesday morning after a three - week trial in which prosecutors sought to prove that Mr. Silver, a Manhattan Democrat, had obtained nearly $ 4 million in illegal payments in exchange for taking official actions that benefited a cancer researcher and two real estate developers.

But I'd say the case against Silver (which prosecutors will retry) and the overturned insider - trading convictions are pretty big cherries.

Indeed, while Cuomo is not expected to be a witness, he may make cameo appearances in testimony, including one instance in which prosecutors say Howe and Percoco used him as a prop to show their clout by having «gov» drop by during a meeting with the Syracuse developers in the executive chamber.

According to background information from LifeNews, Gosnell could face the death penalty, which prosecutors are pursuing when a second jury is impaneled «to determine sentencing under the penalty phase of the trial.»

These are deals by which prosecutors can obtain multimillion - dollar fines from companies facing bribery allegations while sparing them a criminal conviction that would trigger other consequences such as violating covenants signed with lenders or joint - venture partners.

Search warrants are more often used in cases in which prosecutors do not trust people to preserve or turn over the records themselves.

This arrangement — which prosecutors have admitted to in court — raises serious questions about the government's use of informants and the often blurry methods it uses to combat drug trafficking syndicates.

O.J. Simpson looks at a new pair of Aris extra-large gloves which the prosecutors had him put on for the jury 21 June 1995 during his double murder trial in Los Angeles.

Among the stolen items were seven bottles from the French estate Domaine de la Romanee - Conti, or DRC, which prosecutors say is considered among the best, most expensive and rarest in the world.

In January of this year, the U.S. Supreme court declined to intervene in a case in which the prosecutor wants to force Fr.

Bharara alleges the payments were masked through the LLC in order to obscure the fact that they were coming from the Maryland firm Competitive Power Ventures, which the prosecutor says also bribed Percoco for government favors.

An order for costs should never exceed the sum which the prosecutor had actually and reasonably incurred; and

While the decision focused on one peremptory challenge, it inexplicably ignored the broader context, in which the prosecutor successfully struck every black in the venire and then made his «O.J.» argument to an all - white jury.

I think that what you are really interested in is how to prove that someone shouldn't be believed by an arbitrator rather than how to prosecute someone criminally for perjury which a prosecutor and not a private person would do and which almost never happens.

If the affidavit asserts facts for which the prosecutor has no reasonable evidentiary basis, may the prosecutor submit that affidavit?

The Court now rules that such use of peremptory challenges in a given case may, but does not necessarily, raise an inference, which the prosecutor carries the burden of refuting, [p101] that his strikes were based on the belief that no black citizen could be a satisfactory juror or fairly try a black defendant.

«It's an extremely important case, because the government was attempting to create an adversarial process in which the prosecutor and the decision - maker were the same person,» Waldman told Legal Feeds.

Not exact matches

In fact, that's why prosecutors on each end of this flight, in both Houston and New York, are apparently conducting their own investigations: criminal investigations, which go far beyond what lawmakers at the federal level and in New York state have proposed in the wake of this tragic incident.

To avoid such a danger, the Justice Department creates a «taint team» of lawyers not involved in the case to review records and decide which ones shouldn't be seen by prosecutors on the case.

Alsup disclosed last week that he had received a letter from prosecutors, which he did not reveal.

Still, despite what he feels is a weak case against him, he thinks the odds are he'll be found guilty, at least during this first trial; Japan, which has a more than 99 % conviction rate, is also one of a few countries that allows prosecutors to appeal an acquittal twice.

But to prove anything like that, federal prosecutors would need to find evidence that airlines coordinated with each other — which probably doesn't exist.

The other phones, which were seized in a variety of criminal investigations, are involved in cases where prosecutors are compelling the company to help them bypass the passcode security feature of phones that may hold evidence, the Journal added.

The prosecutors» office in Vienna is consolidating «hundreds of complaints» about a scheme known as «Optioment» that have been filed at police stations across the country, and which add to a warning by financial watchdog FMA, spokeswoman Christina Ratz said by telephone.

Torres said he was in confidential talks with prosecutors, but did not say which ones.

Democrats compared the ouster to Nixon's decision to fire the independent special prosecutor overseeing the Watergate investigation in 1973, which prompted the resignations of the Justice Department's top two officials.

Lawyers and prosecutors say that requiring such proof would make it harder for authorities to pursue insider trading cases, potentially preventing prosecutions in which corporate executives tip friends or relatives without any tangible quid pro quo.

Besides a Dec. 29 conversation about sanctions, prosecutors also cite an earlier December meeting, in which Flynn asked Kislyak to delay or defeat a U.N. Security Council resolution.

Prosecutors are hoping the Supreme Court adopts the 9th Circuit's view and rejects the 2nd Circuit's narrow interpretation, which authorities said could result in some people avoiding charges and could affect investigations.

Susan Long, a professor of quantitative methods at the school of management at Syracuse University, co-founded a Web data clearinghouse called TRAC, which has been tracking prosecutor referrals from virtually every federal agency for more than a decade.

A prosecutor in Tampa has subpoenaed the Fantasy Sports Trade Association, which represents companies like DraftKings and FanDuel.

This has resulted in a failure of the heart, which is indicated as the suspected cause of death,» prosecutors said in a statement,

On Wednesday, the U.S. federal prosecutors have filed civil lawsuits seeking to seize assets worth more than $ 1 billion, allegedly stolen from Malaysian state fund 1MDB, which has been under investigation for more than a year.

Prosecutors proposed that the jury be presented with a special verdict form that would have revealed on which theory, if either, the jury convicted on.

Yet, he has, on multiple occasions, continued to engage in the very conduct he swore off, progressing from that which is self - destructive to that which is also destructive to a teenage girl,» prosecutors said.

There is a second role which is picking up the types of criminal enforcement that have at least to some extent normally been done by federal prosecutors office.

Ackal's trial began Monday with a blistering opening statement from a federal prosecutor detailing the contraband sweep, which he said involved deputies beating handcuffed inmates with metal batons as they screamed in pain abd begged for mercy, the Acadiana Advocate reported.

Gorsuch disagreed, saying prosecutors must look to the statute's verbs for their accurate meaning, which he argued only supported one count of using a firearm during a crime of violence.