Sentence examples for halted a criminal from inspiring English sources
The agreement halted a criminal investigation.
Next week, the Supreme Court is scheduled to consider whether it will hear an appeal of a Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling that, last year, halted a criminal investigation and ordered the destruction of all the evidence it gathered.
B1 Behind Rowland's Plea Lawyers involved in the case of John G. Rowland, the former Connecticut governor, say that last month's plea agreement shrewdly positioned him to appeal for leniency at his sentencing on March 11 and halted a criminal investigation.
With their decision to halt a major criminal investigation of the sitting governor, who is running for President, and to do so by gutting the state law regulating campaign finance, the conservatives have confirmed the weight of those charges.
"We have taken an important step to halt the criminal organizations," Mr. Poiré said.
Among them: Would violence erupt if a criminal trial halted Mr. Zuma's presidential ambitions?
Quick said the furore led the then acting commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson to ask him to halt the criminal investigation.
Stretched to breaking point over the Iraq invasion, those rules and conventions have now been broken in halting the criminal investigation into the British Aerospace affair.
In halting the criminal investigation, the government has acted in clear breach of its obligations under the OECD convention against corruption.
The settlement of the tax dispute will not halt the criminal investigation into the conduct of three Apple Italia executives but will likely reduce the severity of any potential sanctions, La Repubblica said.
Page A7 EGYPT TO CONTINUE TRIALS The military-appointed prime minister of Egypt vowed that the country would defy Washington's pressure to halt the criminal prosecutions of 19 Americans, as prosecutors suggested that the suspects' activities were close to espionage.
