Sentences with phrase «while federal criminal charges»

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EFCC, alleged that Metuh who is also facing another seven - count criminal charge before Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court in Abuja, tore and attempted to chew a confessional statement he made under caution while undergoing interrogation.

«As if the palpable odium of intiating a vacuous criminal charge against a whistle - blower, no less a person than a distinguished senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was not bad enough, the prosecuting authority, obviously urged on by the Inspector General of Police, threw pretension to adherence to democratic tenets of the rule of law when it sought from the court, albeit most illegally, to obtain summons against Senator Misau, while deliberately witholding service of the copy of the charge on the Senator, an obvious stratagem conceived to frame up all manner of false allegations tailored to suit the obvious purpose of yet another gestapo strategy to use state powers to swoop on the Distinguished Senator and keep him out of circulation»

While the majority of criminal charges are brought in state courts (DUI's, battery, traffic, etc.), there are some criminal charges that are prosecuted by the federal government.

Raleigh criminal lawyer Damon Chetson represents people charged with serious felonies, misdemeanors, and Driving While Impaired offenses in the state courts of North Carolina and the federal courts of the Eastern District of North Carolina.

While a grand jury cleared Quintana of any criminal charges in connection with the shooting, Sanders» family sued Quintana and the city in federal court for violating Sanders» civil rights.

Bill publicly attacked former Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police Julian Fantino for filing a sworn affidavit that includes evidence that Bill's brother Jim Van Allen — also a retired OPP officer — committed provincial, federal and criminal offences while he was a Detective Sergeant in charge of the OPP's elite Criminal Profilicriminal offences while he was a Detective Sergeant in charge of the OPP's elite Criminal ProfiliCriminal Profiling Unit.

And while normal criminal offences are prosecuted by provincial crown attorneys, drug charges are prosecuted by the Federal Crown, except when specifically delegated to the province, usually in situations where individuals are charged with several other criminal code offences, and the drug charge (s) is considered as being less significant in the particular case.