Sentence examples for attempting to commit a crime from inspiring English sources

A police officer may arrest a person who is committing or attempting to commit a crime in the officer's presence.

McCants, 42, was charged with attempting to commit a crime involving a controlled substance and with use or possession of drug paraphernalia.

The model can be used to predict a crime before it occurs by detecting a criminal behavior based on the emotional status of the person attempting to commit a crime or breach the security at given facilities.

The new charges include conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction, conspiring and attempting to commit an act of terrorism across national boundaries, conspiring to provide and providing material support to Al Qaeda and other terrorism-related crimes.

Individuals have the right to security, both of themselves and their property, and an attempt to commit a crime infringes on this right.

Impossibility through ineptitude is where the defendant attempts to commit a crime with inadequate means, in which case he can be found guilty.

"Serious problems: people joining ISIS, joining terror groups, joining al Qaeda and committing or attempting to commit acts of crime and terror against our nation," he said.

Offenders who have been convicted of committing or attempting to commit certain crimes (or found not guilty by reason of insanity) must register upon their release from prison and check in with authorities about their where they live and what they're up to.

It however is a crime to counsel, incite, or aid and abet another in attempting to commit suicide, and the law explicitly allows any person to use "such force as may reasonably be necessary" to prevent another from committing suicide.

It begins with an act of despair as Hester, 40ish estranged wife of reserved, 50ish high court judge Sir William Collyer, attempts to commit suicide (a crime in those days) by gassing herself.

In the 1800s, attempting but failing to commit a crime wasn't considered a criminal act.