Sentence examples for criminal hook from inspiring English sources

Not rush to judgment -- and let the powerful and complicit off the criminal hook.

At the same time, and not for the purpose of helping bad actors get off a criminal hook, shouldn't the League look beyond its obvious goal of settling a pending class action lawsuit as cheaply as possible?

All 50 Attorneys General across the nation have until today to decide if they're going to sign on to a settlement with the nation's biggest banks to let banksters off the criminal hook for widespread fraud committed on Wall Street during the financial crisis.

It sends an insidious message, reinforcing attitudes that blame victims and allow perpetrators (cast as a blurry, inevitable evil rather than determined, deliberate criminals) off the hook.

Letting suspects sleep will protect the innocent but may also let more criminals off the hook by helping them resist interrogation, says John Wixted, a psychologist at UC San Diego who recently published a study on the vulnerability of eyewitnesses to false accusation.

Republican lawmakers voted against it, saying that it allows criminals off the hook because they don't serve their full sentences.

The banks are not off the hook for criminal prosecutions related to the mortgage mess or for private lawsuits.

Judge Alex Calabrese, who presides over criminal courts in Red Hook, Brooklyn, also met Gove in London last December and explained more about the pioneering US community courts he oversees.

"Ken Buck's misconduct let an illegal gun dealer facing 37 criminal charges off the hook," the announcer says in the ad.

Overall, this package is complete: ridiculous beats, harmonizing honeys, ill sound effects, criminal scenarios, and familiar hooks".

Campaigners such as Women Against Rape criticised this, saying it let the criminal justice system off the hook while women were still receiving "shocking" treatment.