Sentence examples for accused liable from inspiring English sources
Further, it would increase the consequences for perpetrators by making the accused liable for the financial losses and damages inflicted on victims and their dependents as well as imposing harsher sentences on convicted offenders--with special sentencing guidelines regarding imprisonment and fines for repeat offenders.
While such applications are ordinarily, and should be, granted, wherever the accused is liable to be surprised by evidence for which he is unprepared, it is difficult to see how the defendant in this case was prejudiced by its refusal.
His principal proposition under that head is that words imputing an indictable offence are actionable per se without proof of any special damage, giving as a reason for the rule that they render the accused person liable to the pains and penalties of the criminal law.
They have also been charged under section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, which holds each accused individual equally liable for all criminal acts committed together as a group.
"I was falsely accused and wrongly found liable.
When the counter-attack failed to stop the Soviet advance, Hitler held Himmler personally liable and accused him of not following orders.
"This case was about whether Serb civilians in the Krajina were the targets of crimes and whether the accused should be held criminally liable," he said.
Academics returning from international conferences are liable to be accused of treason which makes them reluctant to accept invitations to travel or play their part on the lecture circuit.
"The United States is repeatedly refusing Russia to extradite individuals, to hold them criminally liable, including those accused of committing serious or heinous crimes," Sergei Gorlenko, the acting chief of the prosecutor general's extradition office, told the Interfax news agency.
But for an employer to be held liable when a co-worker is accused of harassment, the plaintiff has the burden of proving that the employer was negligent by not stopping the behavior.
