Sentence examples for charges can be filed from inspiring English sources

Under Arizona law, charges can be filed against anyone age 8 and older.

The Supreme Court is hearing arguments about whether treason charges can be filed, although it appears that little can happen without the acquiescence of the current caretaker government.

None have yet been formally charged with crimes; in the British system, charges can be filed months after an arrest, and sometimes not at all.

Charges can be filed with UCPD, but the decision to file charges does not have to be made immediately; reporting is typically non-confidential.

The priests are among 15 whose names have been handed over to prosecutors looking into whether charges can be filed for old cases of molestation.

The findings from Tuesday's report would have to be referred to the enforcement arm of the S.E.C. before any charges can be filed, a spokesman said.

In that paper, titled "The Hidden Law of Plea Bargaining," he argued that procedural rules, which determine such things as the number of charges that can be filed in a given case or the extent to which those charges can be traded away for more lenient sentences, function as an unrecognized regulatory framework for prosecutors' plea bargaining power.

Several campers have retained a Samoan lawyer, Katalina Sapolu, to determine whether charges of physical abuse and endangerment can be filed against the camp operators in Samoa.

Monday's charges came in a "criminal information," which can be filed only with the defendant's consent and signals a plea deal is near.

The filing of charges can be postponed for strategic reasons or because a potential defendant decides to cut a deal; either could delay a final decision on the WorldCom case.

Once that period has passed charges can no longer be filed and essentially the perpetrator has gotten away with committing the crime.