Sentence examples for criminal precedent from inspiring English sources

"There is no civil or criminal precedent for such a prosecution," the statement said, adding that the government itself had already found that "not one penny from the Edwards campaign was involved".

There is no civil or criminal precedent for such a prosecution," Gregory Craig, an attorney for Edwards, said.

They have to be mindful of criminal justice precedents for handling accusations and establishing standards of proof, while trying to protect priests from unfounded allegations.

For example, she said that "one can certainly justify" detaining enemy combatant suspects "in secret" and giving them different legal rights than criminals "under precedents and current law".

It said the failure of Malaysia's federal court to uphold the prosecution's obligation to provide access to evidence that may help exonerate him set a dangerous precedent for criminal cases and was a "recipe for unfair trials".

Under Supreme Court precedent, state criminal defendants whose convictions are final may generally not avail themselves of "new rules" by petitioning for habeas corpus in federal court on the basis of a favorable new Supreme Court decision.

All of this sets a bad precedent for criminal prosecutions.

My October 3, 2011 blog on The Huffington Post described a recent precedent-setting criminal case in which a Winnipeg, Manitoba judge confirmed my written opinion and courtroom testimony that Prozac adverse drug effects drove a 16-year-old boy to stab a friend to death.

Judge Peter Murphy's compromise ruling, which involves screening her from public view in the court when she is not veiled, will set a precedent for how criminal courts deal with defendants who wear a traditional niqab.

Will we see foreign companies resort to the Stern Hu precedent and bring criminal charges of stealing "industrial secrets" against Chinese SOEs?

As my old friend and esteemed colleague Dr. Joseph Sonnabend has pointed out, there is no precedent outside the criminal justice system where individuals are given drugs for purposes other than their direct benefit.