Sentence examples for criminal agreements from inspiring English sources

Because criminal agreements have no legal force, it's tempting to think of pirate articles as quaint — if not misguided, considering how often they showed up in court as evidence against their signatories.

Further documents appear to show that Abdellatif successfully overturned the charges of "criminal agreement" years later.

Abdellatif was convicted of being party to a criminal agreement and being a member of an illegal extremist group.

The charges are vague, like joining an organisation that was formed illegally, or criminal agreement to topple the regime.

Conduct outside the statute of limitations can be included in an indictment so long as it is part of a broad criminal agreement.

He faces charges of (pdf) "complicity to execute a criminal agreement", "undermining the constitutional system" and "opposing public authority by violence or criminal force".

Courts are willing to allow for broad use of the charge because, as the Supreme Court once noted, "collective criminal agreement — partnership in crime — presents a greater potential threat to the public than individual delicts".

One way the government can try to avoid the statute of limitations is to charge a conspiracy, which only requires that one act in furtherance of the criminal agreement take place within the last five years.

To convict someone of conspiracy to commit terrorism requires proof of only a criminal agreement between two or more people and a single step, no matter how innocuous, to advance that plan.

The court documents, translated independently for Guardian Australia, show that Abdellatif was charged in May 1999 for "joining a group that was established against the rules of law [and] held leadership in it", and "participating in a criminal agreement".

The accusations were only joining a secret organisation and being party to a criminal agreement to topple the regime [of Mubarak, who was later overthrown in the 2011 Egyptian uprising].