Criminal Law

Word CRIMINAL LAW
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The word "criminal-law" in example sentences

Deborah Denno, a law professor at Fordham University and a criminal-law expert, speaking generally said, "People lie on asylum applications—they sometimes have a lot of pressing financial incentive to do so." ❋ Dionne Searcey (2011)

Bills introduced recently in the House and Senate mirror state approaches to paring criminal-law systems. ❋ John R. Emshwiller (2011)

Illinois has chopped its bloated criminal code by about a third, updated old laws and added protections for defendants in one of the most ambitious criminal-law reorganizations by a state in recent years. ❋ John R. Emshwiller (2011)

“Our hands are tied in a case like this,” says criminal-law expert Hans-Ullrich Paeffgen of Bonn University. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Some lawyers not involved in the case say there is a potential upside to Ms. Diallo's public statements: If she comes across as credible in the public eye, it would put pressure on Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance to prosecute the case, said Alan Dershowitz , a law professor at Harvard and a criminal-law expert. ❋ Ashby Jones (2011)

Only one of the 13 blacklisted professors and lecturers, criminal-law authority Faiza al Basha, has dared to show up on campus since Tripoli fell to the rebels in late August. ❋ Yaroslav Trofimov (2011)

Lawmakers also created an advisory group to help policy makers evaluate criminal-law questions. ❋ John R. Emshwiller (2011)

The area's commerce is currently dominated by criminal-law offices and takeout restaurants. ❋ Laura Kusisto (2011)

After speaking with criminal-law experts and examining the evidence, the answer, it seems, is not much. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In criminal-law and death-penalty cases, Stevens has voted against the government and in favor of the individual more frequently than any other sitting justice. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Today, too many people have bought into the media lie that you need a criminal-law test even to hold the private opinion that it was little Johnny, that brat, and not his placid sister, who overturned all the furniture in the drawing room. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Prosecutors have enormous discretion in these sorts of things," says Dan Blinka, a criminal-law professor at Marquette University. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Go to laptop. orgCarla Del PonteFormer chief prosecutor of U.N. international criminal-law tribunalsThe world must be based on democracy, and democracy depends on strong, independent judiciaries. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Several polls have shown that most blacks favor the death penalty, support stronger criminal-law enforcement, are for prayer in school, are against abortion and are against quotas in hiring. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The "white-powder bar," as this sector of the criminal-law business is sometimes known, is angry and scared -- not least because the charges against Abbell, if proven, could send him to prison for the rest of his life. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Whatever the explanation, Abbell changed totally when he went into private practice, migrating first to Kaplan, Russin and, after the partners asked him to leave, becoming cofounder of a small criminal-law firm. ❋ Unknown (2008)

One potential problem with Sarkozy's approach, say criminal-law experts, is that sending people to jail for even a short time adds to overcrowding, which can increase recidivism. ❋ Unknown (2008)

(Patterson cycled through eight public defenders at trial; a commercial litigator with no criminal-law background handled his appeal.) ❋ Unknown (2008)

"It's a fundamental idea in the American judicial system ... that you can't punish one person for the misdeeds of another even flit would be efficient to do so," says Northwestern University criminal-law professor Dan Polsby. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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