Sentence examples for application of criminal from inspiring English sources
The Capitulations exempted foreigners and those Ottoman citizens on whom foreign consuls conferred protection from the application of criminal law.
The most striking passages in "The Case Against Lawyers" are those dealing with the many ways in which "the application of criminal law" to the problem of drug use "has been terribly destructive".
"The government of Argentina insists on the principle of territoriality in the application of criminal law," he said, arguing that no one should be tried abroad for crimes committed in his native land.
The statute went into effect on Dec. 27, 2006, so any conduct before that date could not be prosecuted because of the constitutional protection against ex post facto application of criminal laws.
What if the even-handed application of criminal justice to all suspects would do more to enhance peace processes everywhere than granting immunity from prosecution, especially as the number of politicians actually at risk is limited and that immunities apply to some key individuals in any event.
There is a complex factual matrix and the justiciable issues are complicated by the fact that the United States is attempting to utilize concepts from the civil copyright context as a basis for application of criminal copyright liability, which necessitates a consideration of principles such as the dual use of technology or what they be described as significant non infringing uses.
The 16-year hunt for the Mad Bomber was solved by using one of the first applications of criminal profiling.
But they do not address a central concern with application of the criminal law to terrorists, that sometimes criminals must be freed because probative evidence against them cannot be introduced because it was not legally obtained or because government does not want to compromise a sensitive source or method.
He told BBC Radio: "It may be we need to be more clever than we already are in assembling evidence that can be used in a criminal court … The way forward is refining the application of the criminal law".
Earlier this year, the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS issued a resolution saying that "current criminal laws require modernization to eliminate HIV-specific statutes or application of general criminal law that treats HIV status, or the use of condoms or other measures to prevent HIV transmission, as the basis for criminal prosecution or sentence enhancement".
