Sentence examples for acted willfully from inspiring English sources
a defendant's acts deprived the victim of a protected right under the Constitution or statute, including the right to live; the defendant was acting under color of law in that he is a government official acting in that capacity; the victim is an inhabitant of the United States; defendant acted willfully.
The statute authorizing the sanctions requires proof that the bank official acted "willfully".
"The Defendants acted willfully, wantonly, egregiously, with reckless abandon and with a high degree of moral culpability".
Ms. Cassady read, "Did you find that Dr. Kearns proved by clear and convincing evidence that Chrysler acted willfully when it infringed any of Dr. Kearns' patents?
To win a conviction, the government would have to prove that Mr. Zimmerman acted willfully to violate Mr. Martin's civil rights, those familiar with such cases have said.
"The government has to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant acted willfully with a seriously culpable state of mind" to violate Mr. Martin's civil rights.
If juries sometimes act willfully, emotionally, or unwisely, it is only because the population at large does so, too.
"If Japan acts willfully despite advice to the contrary, China will take further actions, and Japan must accept full responsibility for all the severe consequences".
Block acted "maliciously, willfully and in bad faith," Judge Jackson found in a 45-page ruling, which he signed on Friday but did not issue until Monday.
The suit argues that Mr. Norsigian and a consulting firm run by his lawyer, Arnold Peter, have "acted knowingly, willfully and with malice" in marketing the negatives as Adams's work, according to a report in The Bay Citizen.
Hatch has proposed legislation to provide a default mens rea — literally, "guilty mind" — standard to govern cases in which a particular statute doesn't spell out the required state of mind: The defendant would have to have engaged in a criminal act "willfully" in order to be prosecuted.
