| These republican rejectionists may commit violent crimes, which unionist rejectionists will seize on to delay political progress. |
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| And I can't see any way that I will be brought to justice for these crimes. |
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| The legislature has to do something about juvenile crimes, particularly the violent ones. |
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| But minor crimes and juvenile delinquency have pushed total crime numbers to record highs amid a long economic slowdown. |
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| Even before the crimes were committed, the White House was planning how to beat the rap. |
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| There had probably been a few more crimes added to her rap sheet since then as well. |
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| The year since the invasion has been marked by further war crimes and atrocities. |
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| Law, it is well known, filters and rarefies the halo of horror and suffering surrounding crimes. |
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| Of course, you are an innocent victim, the whipping boy to be punished for other people's crimes. |
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| It was whispered that these people were paid handsomely for crimes that could not be traced. |
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| Do we really believe that people who are capable of such horrifically violent crimes are going to be so coolly logical and rational? |
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| If kidnappers get life imprisonment and their victims get their money back, it makes no sense that white-collar crimes can be treated so lightly. |
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| The incentive scheme raised strong public criticism that such white-collar crimes would go unpunished. |
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| Background checks can turn up records of assaults or other violence, as well as white-collar crimes. |
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| At least this way they pay for their crimes and contribute something towards the cost of their keep. |
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| English historians, for instance, have used the reams of paper generated by the courts that dealt with serious crimes. |
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| He also helped set up the restorative justice scheme, whereby young offenders meet the victims of their crimes. |
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| Others, presumably to put the wind up a middle-class academic, exaggerated their crimes. |
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| We saw more murders and kidnappings than ever before, and violent crimes took a quantum leap. |
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| The nation never had so many murders, kidnappings and other serious crimes before in its history. |
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| Only a handful of recidivists and unrepentant individuals convicted of major crimes against the faith were put to death. |
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| If that is a misrepresentation they have committed wire fraud, criminal fraud, and an assortment of other crimes and torts. |
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| He faces a total of 66 counts on three indictments for genocide and war crimes in Bosnia, and crimes against humanity in Croatia and Kosovo. |
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| He was indicted in February on nearly three dozen counts of fraud and other crimes. |
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| There must be literally thousands, perhaps millions, of such crimes that are never recorded, that will never see the light of day. |
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| There were 5.52 million crimes recorded by police in 2001-02, 356,239 more than the previous year. |
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| In 1955 fewer than 500,000 crimes were recorded by the police in England and Wales. |
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| At the moment, we are even working with Interpol because one of our clients witnessed war crimes in Kosovar. |
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| The girl managed to hide behind the refrigerator with her brother and witnessed the war crimes first-hand. |
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| Three men and one woman were arrested for suspected crimes ranging from handling stolen goods to drug possession and owning the illegal weapon. |
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| Thousands were believed to have been arrested and sent to jail for a variety of crimes. |
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| He could get caught red-handed in the most heinous of crimes and she would keep him out of jail. |
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| Here's this guy on the flee and charged with all these crimes, and you are out of work. |
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| This statute was merely a reenactment of prior statutes which have preserved common law crimes and made them part of our jurisprudence. |
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| Women, therefore, who were quick with child, and convicted of capital crimes, were respited until after delivery. |
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| The borough's detection rate is ranked the eighth worst in the country, with only 16.2 per cent of all reported crimes being solved. |
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| A just man maintains his life as a wretched beggar while another, stained by well known crimes, accumulates the highest honours. |
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| The harm caused by homicide is absolutely irremediable, whereas the harm caused by many other crimes is remediable to a degree. |
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| If two crimes share the same mens rea, actus reus, and locus, they are, if not identical, comparable. |
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| Labeling minor infractions serious crimes, some established, in effect, a reign of terror. |
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| The prediction is based on the crimes committed so far in the period under review. |
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| Police in Kirklees have said they are determined to stamp out prejudice-based crimes with the relaunch of a successful initiative. |
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| She insists that the whole corporate system is rotten and even murkier crimes are committed in the financial world every day. |
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| All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly out of his teaching. |
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| Federal Bureau of Investigation officials are investigating both shootings as hate crimes. |
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| Similarly, Dutch courts have placed a liberal interpretation on Dutch legislative provisions on jurisdiction over war crimes. |
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| Computer crimes are frequently online variants of established crimes, like fraud and blackmail. |
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| The crimes include shoplifting, assault, public order offences, theft and criminal damage. |
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| It is something of a myth that detectives solve crimes by assiduous collection of evidence. |
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| When he broke into Ray's house, Martin could be committing the crimes of burglary and criminal damage. |
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| Should such a central government, steeped in anti-national crimes, defiling the Constitution be allowed to continue? |
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| The young people go to the individual's neighborhood, put up posters describing the crimes and then assemble outside his house. |
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| One of the uses of capital punishment is to deter other criminals from committing more crimes. |
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| A pair of Mississippi misogynists were given a dressing down when a judge meted out a fitting punishment for their crimes. |
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| I would also say that criminals who commit the most severe crimes lose their right to live. |
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| He could have received a maximum jail sentence of 81 years for these crimes. |
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| The idea was to deter criminals with the ever-present threat of death for their crimes. |
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| No Greek police officer has served a custodial sentence for crimes committed while serving. |
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| Fairstein is credited with changing the way crimes like rape and incest were handled by the judicial system. |
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| He then analogizes the situation to the American judicial system in which persons charged with crimes are presumed innocent until proven guilty. |
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| They all folded up on themselves and became a puzzle of incongruous crimes and criminals. |
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| Activities such as theft can lead the offenders to worse crimes like homicide and sexual assaults. |
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| Why don't we say and do something about escalating gross sexual crimes such as rape, child rape and incest? |
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| Their endurance in battle soon became as legendary as their involvement in a number of war crimes and atrocities. |
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| However, rape, sexual violation, and incest are not crimes that are now quaintly foreign or out of date in Aotearoa today, alas. |
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| Two vicious crimes, a serious sexual assault and a brutal attack, happened at almost the same time in different parts of town. |
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| Her six years at Wellington's Crown Law Office, prosecuting run-of-the-mill crimes seemed tame. |
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| Diego Martin has suddenly become the scene of some of the most revolting crimes. |
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| This result, unforeseen and unanticipated, led to the day's stonings and near lynchings of Chinese laundrymen unconnected to the alleged crimes. |
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| No matter how it paints it, the crimes in The Crime of Padre Amaro ring with a feeling of being excessive in the name of redress. |
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| The statute of limitations on war crimes does not run out, and the day of reckoning will come. |
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| The more open they are, the less likely they are to wind up indicted for crimes after the fact. |
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| By far the most common crime was larceny but the figures for violent crimes by girls also climbed steadily from the late 1990s onwards. |
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| She said that the general feeling among communities was that they were tired of these crimes and wanted action to be taken. |
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| That is not to discount their crimes, for which they have been rightly or wrongly convicted, but would be a humane gesture. |
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| I would like to focus on crimes against women, which are mounting day after day. |
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| Let us picture a small, comparatively weak, nation, governed by someone who commits any number of atrocious crimes to stay in power. |
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| Those who call for an end to impunity view crimes committed in wars or civil conflicts in the same way as crimes committed by common criminals. |
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| Thereafter, the Legislative Assembly granted amnesty for political crimes committed during the war. |
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| The crimes are the latest in a series of thefts to have taken place around the area. |
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| The death penalty is assigned not only for violent crimes but also for acts such as bribery and corruption. |
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| The legislation will see increased sentences for crimes motivated by sectarianism or bigotry. |
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| Here was a repeat of the French-Algerian War, which inevitably led to torture and crimes by both the French and the Algerian guerrillas. |
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| But he was also found guilty of forging financial documents, bribery, and other crimes. |
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| Most of the heroin users were criminals who committed crimes before they ever used drugs. |
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| With the legalisation of the paramilitaries, they hope to legitimise impunity for these crimes against the Colombian people. |
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| But would these crimes cease to be crimes if, instead of being committed by unscrupulous tyrants, they were legitimated by popular consensus? |
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| Refusing to enter a plea or to appoint legal counsel, he challenged the legality and legitimacy of the war crimes tribunal. |
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| When members of the public make a complaint, they are classed as low priority and have to wait until more serious crimes are dealt with. |
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| The attacks are the latest in a long list of violent crimes to have blighted Yorkshire in the last month. |
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| Most major crimes, and the crimes most important in popular culture, are those of burglary, theft, larceny, and corruption. |
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| Suicide and attempted suicide are no longer crimes in Australia, but voluntary euthanasia or assisted suicide is illegal. |
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| The crimes that the men committed are contemptible and grave, and the men deserve to lose their liberty for them. |
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| If poverty leads to lead exposure, and lead abets crime and poor health, then lead can be said to nudge indigent people toward crimes. |
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| It was a decade when copious talk of universal human rights mingled abhorrently with the most brazen crimes against humanity. |
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| The most prevalent property crimes are larceny, theft, burglary, and robbery. |
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| Because so much time has passed, the case can only be conducted under war crimes legislation. |
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| But if there is a pattern of crimes against humanity, it becomes a war crime. |
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| It was then that I started developing my ideas on the reintroduction of hanging, drawing and quartering for political crimes against the people. |
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| Police across the country are solving less than one in five crimes, according to a report out today. |
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| I keep a vigilant watch but did not see any crimes being committed or miscreants around the premises. |
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| History will tell whether those responsible will be held accountable for their crimes. |
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| Phoenix ran from the room like a man guilty of the crimes he had been accused of. |
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| And maybe those who gathered outside the court to view the prominent six felt that the crimes they are accused of are worse than rape or murder. |
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| The police were then notified and, with minimal interrogation, the alleged firebug confessed to the gamut of crimes he was accused of. |
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| Due to his age, he could not be prosecuted for any of the crimes he was accused of committing. |
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| But his weak-willed characters never go through with their emotional crimes, so the book is filled with almost-disasters. |
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| Police believe their presence also acts as a deterrent against other crimes. |
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| He's still waiting for the raddled old hag to be taken to The Hague for her war crimes. |
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| And Europe, too, is plainly better off with Milosevic answering for his crimes, instead of committing more. |
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| In many states, that has been changed by statute, particularly for crimes like joyriding. |
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| Many of the younger criminals have graduated from joyriding and burglary in their teens to crimes such as drug-dealing. |
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| Keep quiet about the 4,000 recidivists who run city streets, committing crimes with increasing bravado and little fear of punishment. |
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| These assizes introduced regular measures for the trial by royal judges of those suspected of serious crimes. |
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| He was convicted of kidnap and murder in July after he admitted the crimes. |
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| And nor should it exclude the jurisdiction of any other state that gives its courts universal jurisdiction over international crimes. |
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| But in these cases we would presumably want them to be tried within the jurisdiction in which they committed their crimes. |
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| Yet crimes against humanity should never be amnestied or ignored. |
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| There is an obvious incentive to report such crimes, because most insurance policies require such offences to be reported before compensation is paid. |
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| The government is to discuss a general amnesty for prisoners convicted of crimes that might be politically motivated, a senior official said yesterday. |
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| Judicially speaking, injury and larceny are both crimes against the State, but in these criminal categories it is possible to identify particular victims. |
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| Under that law a felon convicted of violent federal crimes for the third time would be sentenced to life in prison. |
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| Crenshaw has spent long enough in the jug to know what he is talking about, but his crimes have always been those of stupidity rather than those of a hardened career criminal. |
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| He's a crook, a bit nutty, and rightly did time for his crimes. |
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| Third, money laundering is conducted as a way of handling illegal gains, and so stopping the laundering should restrict the committing of those other crimes. |
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| It is home where the criminal attitude of the children towards women could be prevented and thus the crimes against women in the future could be brought to nought. |
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| Nine U.S. Army soldiers were court-martialed and convicted of crimes in connection with that scandal. |
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| Just because people do not see the police doing anything it does not mean we are not working behind the scenes gathering intelligence and information about these crimes. |
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| Nevertheless, most legal commentators assume that the accused can expect acquittal, because breach of trust crimes are juridically not clearly defined. |
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| Farm watch schemes had been established to combat crimes including sheep rustling and poaching and were proving particularly successful, she said. |
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| Burglars rarely took stolen gear back to their homes, were wise to police interviewing techniques and rarely left evidence at the scene of their crimes, Mr Blowers said. |
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| Rehabilitation is, if society is not to nurture a permanent and growing criminal class, and turn those who have committed minor crimes into more serious offenders. |
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| There is no general obligation on health professionals to disclose confidential information in order to assist the police with the investigation of crimes. |
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| Why should old men and women sleep easy in their beds if there is enough evidence to convict them of terrible, genocidal crimes? |
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| But many other villains are stealing cars to use in other crimes, such as robberies and ram raids, then setting fire to them to cover their tracks. |
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| We can debate whether these constituted high crimes and misdemeanors, but at least they happened in real life. |
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| The aim of the law, as originally proposed, was that violent reoffenders should have to serve a minimum of 25 years if they committed three crimes. |
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| The acknowledgment of these crimes, which came as part of an amnesty for them, was a cathartic moment for El Salvador. |
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| No crimes were committed by Sony with the possible exception of all those Adam Sandler movies they insist on making. |
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| That all-embracing fear and its corollary, the urgency to succeed, creates the fragile ego and the insecurity that underlies all crimes of passion. |
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| Fortunately, Mr. Cohen was able to reconstruct what had happened via official U.S. war crimes investigation reports, only recently made available. |
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| A concurrent effect to this drop in violent crime occurs in the form of an increase in some levels of property crimes, including larceny and auto theft. |
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| These crimes of fashion proved the men were feminine and thus gay and therefore worthy of incarceration. |
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| Without such help, sexual predators are doomed to repeat their crimes. |
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| It is a classic anti-semitic canard to punish any Jew for the perceived crimes of all of them. |
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| Because of their past crimes, everything they do now will be subject to scrutiny. |
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| According to Haselberger, the archdiocese ignored not only blatant secular crimes, but obvious canonical crimes as well. |
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| Drug use is a factor in the lives of people before incarceration and may be an instrumental reason why crimes such as theft, larceny, and forgery are committed. |
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| The photos show crimes the likes of which we have not seen since Auschwitz. |
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| In some places, teenagers accused of particularly heinous crimes are automatically tried as adults. |
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| Barrios sentenced the general to 50 years imprisonment for genocide and another 30 years for crimes against humanity. |
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| Bemba was arrested near Brussels in 2008, and is currently detained at the International Criminal Court on war crimes charges. |
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| He goes to his death as a final act of faithfulness to the party for which he committed his own crimes. |
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| Olson, not only a cruel but also a boastful man, narrated to Peter the story of his horrific crimes. |
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| Omar al Bashir, charged with war crimes by the ICC, plans to visit the General Assembly next week. |
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| These groups are known for brawling, attacking public figures, and various hate crimes. |
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| Big banks have copped to heinous crimes that have cost citizens billions of dollars. |
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| Other Calvary pastors have been removed when they were convicted of similar crimes. |
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| The implication is that business schools are aiding and abetting accounting fraud and other misdeeds by failing to teach their students not to commit crimes. |
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| With a spurt in railway crimes the railway police have hit upon the idea to bring out posters and laminated sheets depicting the modus operandi employed by the offenders. |
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| There are officers out there who deserve our support, some of whom have witnessed these crimes by their peers and have turned them in to face prosecution. |
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| Computer crimes, such as embezzlement or planting of logic bombs, are normally committed by trusted personnel who have permission to use the computer system. |
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| And there are certain crimes still that are so heinous, so wretched, and so abominable that, yes, they do cry out for vengeance, and they do cry out for the death penalty. |
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| For years now I have been against capital punishment, arguing that killing someone either illegally or legally was the most abominable and most repugnant of crimes. |
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| The common factor in the two stories from different sides of the border is the indifference and the fear that paralyses people who witness such crimes. |
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| If a Queen did cheat, her crimes fade into insignificance compared to the extensive philandering engaged in by medieval monarchs. |
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| Rape, incest, and maltreatment are the crimes dealt with in this study. |
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| It would be perfectly possible for a criminal code to provide separate crimes of negligence, with lower maximum sentences, at appropriate points in the hierarchy of offences. |
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| According to SEC filings, it is this rump company which will be left with liability for any crimes. |
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| The bill will make it harder for criminals to dispose of stolen goods, and it will make it easier for the police to recover stolen goods and solve property crimes. |
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| First, can force be used, without Security Council approval, to deter Syria from perpetrating further crimes against humanity? |
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| Yet public opinion had been captured, and it was taken for granted that lynching was a just response to the barbarous sexual crimes against white womanhood. |
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| Socrates is certainly not guilty of the crimes he is accused of. |
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| There could be a number of potential crimes, not the least of which could be extortion. |
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| This forced the federal government to give up interference with the legal proceedings and the tribunals ended up acquitting us from the crimes we were accused of. |
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| Since the publication of photographs of abuse in the spring the administration's whitewashers have contended that the crimes were carried out by a few low-ranking reservists. |
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| Priebke was defiantly unapologetic for his crimes, always insisting he was only following orders even though he was a top chief. |
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| In the criminal context, women convicted of capital crimes were permitted to plead that they were quick with child, and to have this claim tested by a group of six women. |
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| Williams never wavered from that claim of innocence and said he refused to confess to crimes he did not commit, even if doing so would save his life. |
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| A fall in some crimes in South Yorkshire has brought praise from the police authority, which has acknowledged that more work needs to be done to reduce violent offences. |
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| She takes the rap for her wayward brother, going to jail for his crimes. |
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| They were defeated by kerchiefed mothers and grandmothers silently walking in a circle day after day displaying their grief and the General's crimes for all to see. |
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| And if there is evidence, which merits prosecution and arrests, I believe that the long arm of the law should catch whoever has perpetuated such crimes. |
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| Do prior convictions for white-collar crimes like embezzlement constitute significant criminal history? |
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| But was my grandfather really more appalled by this than he was by the crimes of the collaborationist art dealers? |
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| These crimes include terrorism, money laundering, illegal drug and human trafficking, illicit weapons trading, blackmailing and embezzlement of EU funds. |
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| It is also important to note that the majority of juveniles get arrested for property crimes, such as burglary and larceny, rather than for violent acts. |
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| In this she looked at letters of remission in which people in sixteenth-century France begged to be pardoned after having been found guilty of capital crimes. |
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| Perhaps what would be worse than a barrister liking his or her client would be disliking the client, especially when the accused is charged with morally repugnant crimes. |
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| He was hoping to sort out his life and put his crimes behind him. |
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| They should put their eyes out, so they can't commit any more crimes. |
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| As well as springing suspects in early morning raids, police have been employing DNA technology, linking vandals to their crimes by blood left at the scene. |
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| The president is removed on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. |
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| There has been an increase in prosecutions for gun-related crimes. |
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| Introducing aporophobia in the catalog of hate crimes is a debate that is still open. |
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| Men have before hired bravos to transact their crimes, while their own person and reputation sat under shelter. |
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| To sympathisers, though, all of his crimes came under the general heading of misdemeanors. |
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| Considering the extent of his crimes, he was given a surprisingly short sentence. |
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| Rome used crucifixions as a deterrent, and standard for the 'vilest' crimes, such as slave rebellion. |
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| Not, even indirectly, the discrowned Turk, for if he were not banned by his crimes he would still be doomed by his incapacity. |
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| There are certain states where it is lawful to execute prisoners convicted of certain crimes. |
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| He had only to live and expiate in solitude the crimes which he had committed. |
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| Indeed, some acts considered crimes in England and Wales, such as forgery, are not so in Scotland. |
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| The culprits of lesser crimes were brought to court by the city constables and would face a fine. |
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| The prosecutor offered the lieutenant immunity for all the crimes he would testify having known to be planned by the elusive drug baron. |
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| Sovereignty should inhere in the people and not the government, so governments forfeit sovereignty when they commit crimes against humanity. |
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| Many of these deaths were caused by war crimes committed by German and Japanese forces in occupied territories. |
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| Cameron reiterated calls for an independent investigation into the alleged war crimes during the final stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War. |
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| Mobile phones are smuggled into prisons and prisoners use them to plot crimes. |
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| They say all the lowlifes used to hang out at the docks and plot their despicable crimes, before being elected to public office. |
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| That belongs solely to earthly rulers, who may also accuse the pope of crimes, if need be. |
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| Meanwhile, Lady Macbeth becomes wracked with guilt from the crimes she and her husband have committed. |
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| Murders, the murderer has killed four innocent people and attempted to frame an unstable man for the crimes. |
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| The court has heard cases related to war crimes, illegal state interference, ethnic cleansing, and other issues. |
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| Capital punishment is sanctioned in the United States for certain federal and military crimes, and used in 31 states. |
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| These illegal tests are classified as war crimes and were carried out on the Luftwaffe's behalf. |
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| By 1990, at least 197 UDR soldiers had been convicted of loyalist terrorist offences and other serious crimes, including 19 convicted of murder. |
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| The Cassel Report also said some senior officers knew of the crimes but did nothing to prevent, investigate or punish. |
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| Additional common crimes include theft, arson, and the destruction of property not warranted by military necessity. |
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| More serious crimes, and appeals from solemn proceedings in the Sheriff Courts, are heard by the High Court of Justiciary. |
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| Diplock courts are common in Northern Ireland for crimes connected to terrorism. |
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| The High Court has jurisdiction over all crimes in Scotland unless restricted by statute. |
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| The Kenyan Government contends that British Troops may have been involved in unsolved serious violent crimes in Nanyuki. |
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| The death toll was originally estimated in 1994 at around 200,000 by Cherif Bassiouni, head of the UN expert commission investigating war crimes. |
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| All were indicted for crimes against humanity and violations of the laws or customs of war. |
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| The ICTY also leveled indictments against KLA members Fatmir Limaj, Haradin Bala, Isak Musliu, and Agim Murtezi for crimes against humanity. |
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| In many countries worldwide, the illegal drug trade is thought to be directly linked to violent crimes such as murder. |
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| His Pujol family, parents and children, are charged with several counts of tax fraud and corruption, among other crimes. |
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| All had previously been either accused or convicted of financial crimes such as fraud or tax evasion. |
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| A judge from a Tunisian court specializing in financial crimes was assigned to the case. |
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| People charged with serious crimes may be required to provide a sample of DNA for matching purposes. |
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| Most of these crimes, if they occurred, seem to have been targeted at the property and followers of the Duke of Buckingham. |
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| Malory later ended up in custody in Colchester, accused of still more crimes, involving robbery and the stealing of horses. |
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| In early 1881, he is a chemistry student with a number of eccentric interests, almost all of which make him adept at solving crimes. |
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| It is also possible for a jurisdiction to prosecute for crimes committed somewhere outside its jurisdiction, once the perpetrator returns. |
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| No political reforms were announced as part of the package, though some prisoners indicted for financial crimes were pardoned. |
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| Numerous other top leaders of his regime were also found guilty of war crimes. |
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| In addition, the prosecution of all illegal border crossings takes the focus away from prosecuting more serious crimes. |
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| Physical suffering and humiliation were considered appropriate retributive justice for the crimes they had committed. |
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| In October 1496 the Royal Council ordered that the clan chiefs in the region would be held responsible by the king for crimes of the islanders. |
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| The idea of the law was apparently to supplement the punishments of Brehon law for crimes against women, children, and clerics. |
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| Serious crimes, at the direction of the Procurator Fiscal, are still dealt with in the usual criminal courts. |
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| This new law is limited to crimes where someone died and new evidence must have been gathered. |
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| The student-athlete code of conduct says punishment for all nonfelony crimes is left to the discretion of the coach. |
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| Freedmen slaves, those of the Cives Romani convicted of crimes, or citizens settling Latin colonies could be given this status under the law. |
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| The cantref court dealt with crimes, the determination of boundaries and matters concerning inheritance. |
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| Perhaps the number of children who committed crimes might have been reduced if the standards of living had been higher. |
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| It is authorized to handle the prosecution of all crimes committed within the County. |
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| The concept of incarcerating individuals as a punishment for crimes did not exist in Wales before or during the medieval period. |
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| The Allies also convened the International Military Tribunal for the Far East on May 3, 1946, to prosecute some Japanese leaders for war crimes. |
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| In between the Argo and the Trojan War, there was a generation known chiefly for its horrific crimes. |
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| During the reign of Henry VIII, it has been estimated that approximately 72,000 people were put to death for a variety of crimes. |
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| William de Warenne, the Earl of Surrey, was accused of fresh crimes, which were not covered by the Alton amnesty, and was banished from England. |
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| The Dublin Quarter Sessions Court had cognizance of all crimes committed within the city's boundaries except treason. |
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| However, in neighbouring Dorset crimes reports withdrawn or shown to be false are not recorded, reducing apparent crime figures. |
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| According to Human Rights Watch these partisans are responsible for abuses including war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing. |
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| Psychological reports describing his mental state were taken into consideration, as was the severity of his crimes. |
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| Born in Gisborne, New Zealand, Clark started his career through petty crimes and was well known to police as a local thug. |
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| In 2000, Indigenous Australians were more likely per capita to be both victims of and perpetrators of reported crimes in New South Wales. |
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| Often, the sexual mechanisms inherent in piquerism are ignored during the assessment of sexually sadistic crimes. |
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| The Roman Law lists various crimes as well as the fines associated with them. |
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| The Salic law was used to bring order to Frank society, the main punishment for crimes being a fine with a worth designated to the type of crime. |
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| It is also interesting that all crimes committed against Romans had lesser fines than other social classes. |
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| The triggers for conflicts range from petty offenses, such as theft and jesting, to more serious crimes, like homicide. |
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| International conventions define what constitutes a war crime, and provides for war crimes prosecution. |
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| The Special Clerical Court handles crimes allegedly committed by clerics, although it has also taken on cases involving laypeople. |
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| His corpse was taken to the public Plaza Mayor of Cuzco, where a herald proclaimed his crimes. |
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| The Belize Police Department has implemented many protective measures in hopes of decreasing the high number of crimes. |
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| Under torture, he confessed to several crimes including writing the letter left in the pulpit which threatened the church leaders. |
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| Not all crimes have a mens rea requirement, or the threshold of culpability required may be reduced. |
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| Duress and necessity operate as a defence to all crimes except murder, attempted murder and some forms of treason. |
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| Insanity is a deranged state of mind, and consequently no defence to strict liability crimes, where mens rea not is a requirement. |
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| Decapitation was the method of execution prescribed for more serious crimes such as treason and sedition. |
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| In 1820, there were 160, including crimes such as shoplifting, petty theft or stealing cattle. |
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| Latvia abolished de jure the death penalty for war crimes in 2012, becoming the last EU member to do so. |
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| The Church of Scotland considers that capital punishment is unacceptable and does not provide an answer for even the most serious crimes. |
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| Certain hudud crimes, for example, are considered crimes against God and require capital punishment in public. |
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| In the United States of America, some crimes also require proof of an attendant circumstance. |
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| But there are crimes without an act, and therefore without an actus reus in the obvious meaning of that term. |
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| Ordinary prosecutions are the province of the states, and only crimes of special federal import are pursued by the federal government. |
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| For crimes where imprisonment is a sanction, there is a requirement of at least a defence of due diligence. |
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| Legislatures had not used the common law doctrine of mens rea in defining these crimes. |
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| Crimes like tax evasion are specific intent crimes and require intent to violate the law as an element of the offense. |
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| But a significant proportion of those accused of crimes make no such admissions. |
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| Secondly, as a matter of policy, defendants should not have a right to be indemnified against the consequences of their crimes. |
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| The Theft Act of 1927 consolidated a variety of common law crimes into theft. |
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| The older crimes of embezzlement, larceny, and stealing, and any preexisting references to them now fall under the theft statute. |
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| The one making the threats had not nominated the crimes to be committed by the defendant. |
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| As with the Penal Code of 1791, it did not contain provisions against religious crimes. |
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| Whether or not the Cour d'assisess, whose task was to judge severe crimes, were to operate with a jury was a topic of considerable controversy. |
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| The majority of the crimes committed in the United States are prosecuted and punished at the state level. |
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| To simplify the prosecution of traffic violations and other relatively minor crimes, some states have added a third level, infractions. |
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| This explains why incarceration is usually available as a penalty for serious crimes, but not usually for torts. |
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| However, Congress does provide for other less subversive crimes and punishments such as conspiracy. |
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| This will include almost all torts, but the law relating to crimes committed by companies is complex, and varies significantly between countries. |
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| The Church also judges ecclesiastical crimes in the external forum by infliction of penalties, except when the wrongdoing has remained secret. |
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| The first signs of the modern distinction between crimes and civil matters emerged during the Norman Invasion of England. |
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| Capital punishment may be imposed in some jurisdictions for the most serious crimes. |
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| Not all crimes require specific intent, and the threshold of culpability required may be reduced or demoted. |
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| Mala in se offenses are felonies, property crimes, immoral acts and corrupt acts by public officials. |
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