Sentences with phrase «with ordinary criminals»

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Two - thirds of the 194 ordinaries, or heads of dioceses, are charged in the press with having engaged in some kind of cover - up or complicity in criminal activity.

It was the system of detention, of stuffing ordinary people into prison buildings, often among foreign criminals, with no sense of how long they'll be there and no sense that anyone is really listening to them.

Synopsis: Nick (Jesse Eisenberg) is a pizza deliverer who lives a fairly ordinary, boring life — until he crosses paths with two aspiring criminal mastermin... [MORE]

The first, An Ordinary Man, is due April 13th and stars Kingsley as a war criminal who forms a relationship with his maid (Hera Hilmar).

by Walter Chaw Completed about a year after John Boorman's infinitely superior The General, Thaddeus O'Sullivan's Ordinary Decent Criminal is a sporadic «fictionalizing» of the life of Irish crime boss Martin Cahill that dresses up Cahill's exploits with slick visuals while attempting the unsavory task of doing exactly what The General was accused of doing: making urban terrorism and torture whimsical caper fare.

Recasting Cahill as a Keyser Soze with a sense of oily humor and renaming him Michael Lynch (Kevin Spacey), Ordinary Decent Criminal is extraordinarily lightweight blather free entirely of the sense of scale and place of Boorman's film.

Billing itself as «In The Suspenseful Style Of Fatal Attraction And Unfaithful,» Asunder is every bit the rushed, formula production moldering on a shelf somewhere until either one of its stars hits it big (see: Ordinary Decent Criminal and Colin Farrell) or, as in this case, a higher - profile film with a similar theme makes an impact, thus giving the folks in marketing a hook.

Sparse while featuring a series of spoilers as back - of - keep - case summary, the only special feature on the disc is a «Sneak Peeks» section featuring trailers for Undisputed, Tangled, Halloween Resurrection, Ordinary Decent Criminal, and a Dimension Films reel with clips from The Crow, From Dusk Till Dawn, Mimic, Scary Movie 2, Hellraiser, Halloween H2O, Supercop 2, Senseless, etc. but oddly enough, the disc includes no trailer for Asunder itself.

Ryan's path to success was anything but ordinary — he grew up in an LA gang, lived with a meth addicted father, landed in jail numerous times, and dropped out of high school his freshman year, yet still managed to transform his life from that of a criminal to a professional.

The hidden information showed that less than 5 percent of requests were from criminals and high - level public figures (lower than expected), with 95 percent of them made by ordinary citizens, according to Julia Powles, a researcher at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law who specializes in the law and policy of data sharing and privacy.

When you combine that internal concept with the adversarial nature of the criminal trial, and the ordinary human desire to «win» any particular contest, which competitively inclined lawyers probably have to an above average extent, you have ideal circumstances for poor intuitions about the best answer to an ethical dilemma.

While there must obviously be sanctions (including potential imprisonment) for refusing to testify, they should only be imposed on compellable witnesses who willfully defy judicial authority, and only in accordance with the ordinary rules of criminal procedure and evidence.

In the end, that judge, along with the prosecutor and defense lawyer, failed Sullivan so deeply that we have to wonder whether his sentence reflects a deep and basic failure of ordinary criminal justice.

For example, while ordinary medical mistakes by a medical doctor such as confusing two drugs with similar names or putting the decimal point in a prescription dosage, causing harm to a patient, would not ordinarily result in criminal liability, coming into an operating room while too drunk to drive and without reviewing which limb of a patient needs to be amputated despite a clear indication in marker on the leg of a patient showing that fact, might constitute criminal negligence on the part of a medical doctor.

There could be no doubt about the governing principle or its importance, since the control order regime was not intended to be an alternative to the ordinary processes of criminal justice, with all the safeguards they provided for those accused, in cases where it was feasible to prosecute with a reasonable prospect of success.

With positive signs against corruption and inefficiency emerging in the early days of Ramaphosa's presidency, his SONA speech might sum it up best: «We are determined to build a society defined by decency and integrity, that does not tolerate the plunder of public resources, nor the theft by corporate criminals of the hard - earned savings of ordinary people.»