Sentence examples for criminal stage from inspiring English sources

"This is a publicity stunt, and it is unfortunate that it is being played out on a criminal stage," he said.

The company had been a victim of a common insurance scheme in which criminals stage a collision with other vehicles and then make false claims for damage and injuries.

ATHENS — For the second time in nearly three years, two of Greece's most infamous criminals staged a daring prison break on Sunday from the nation's maximum-security penitentiary, fooling guards with a Hollywood-style helicopter getaway nearly identical to their first escape.

Of these, 380 cases went to court and 130 were dismissed at the criminal investigation stage.

The spectacular collapse of Dewey & LeBoeuf, the Manhattan law firm whose demise I chronicled in The New Yorker last year, has reached the criminal-indictment stage.

By James B. Stewart April 6, 2014 The spectacular collapse of Dewey & LeBoeuf, the Manhattan law firm whose demise I chronicled in The New Yorker last year, has reached the criminal-indictment stage.

Using every trick in the book and inventing new ones, he will help the government catch the world's most elusive criminals while staging the biggest illusions of his career.

Who wants to watch a criminal on a stage?

But during his opening argument earlier this month, a defense lawyer, William R. Martin, said Mr. Williams panicked after the shooting but had no criminal intent to stage a cover-up.

He argued that to rape a woman or to have sex with a girl under the age of consent would be at least as criminal on the stage as elsewhere.

They have been found in all stages of the criminal activity apart from Stage 2: the passage through local intermediaries at the beginning of the trafficking chain.