Sentences with phrase «yet on criminal charges»
A trio of former aides to former Rep. Rand Paul, R - Texas, and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul are not out of the woods yet on criminal charges related to Ron Paul's 2012 presidential campaign.
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«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»
In the past, senators (Kevin Parker, Hiram Monserrate) have been stripped of their titles and lulus after being indicted on criminal charges — even if they had not yet been found guilty.
Another area of the criminal justice system that relies on human judgment is the arraignment — when a suspect has been arrested but not yet charged and a judge has to decide whether to release or lock up the alleged offender until his or her next court date.
Yet as shown by Gerald Stanley's acquittal by a jury on charges of murder and manslaughter after his admitted killing of Colten Boushie, lawyers and judges are not the only people relevant to the functioning of a criminal trial.
Yet the victim's (or any citizen's) right to bring criminal charges can serve as a check on the public prosecutor's inaction, and many modern legal systems provide for this possibility.