Sentence examples for intended to commit a crime from inspiring English sources

To prove any case against Enron, prosecutors would have to establish that potential defendants intended to commit a crime.

Because fraud cases require proof the defendant intended to commit a crime, such approval creates what is known as a reliance defense.

Mr Murakami said he had not intended to commit a crime when buying shares in a radio-station operator in the knowledge that a takeover offer could be made on it by livedoor, an internet firm that was subsequently investigated in a separate inquiry.

That evidence would have shown that Testwell did not intend to commit a crime, Mr. Shechtman said.

Prosecutors had to prove that Quattrone intended to commit an illegal act; negligence is not a crime here.

In Germany, doctors risk prison if they disclose information about their patients to anyone unless there is evidence they intend to commit a serious crime or harm themselves.

Mr. Bennett's lawyers said he was merely an inept businessman who had been overwhelmed by his fast-growing company, and had never intended to commit any crimes.

"The heart of this case, to my view, was about finding could they establish that the defendant intended to commit this crime?" Ms. Jordan said in an interview on Tuesday with The New York Times and the CBS News program "60 Minutes II".

For statutory conspiracies, there must be three elements: an agreement, to pursue a course of conduct which involves the commission of a crime, where the parties to the agreement intended to commit the crime.

"You have two very nice young people here who certainly intended to commit no crime, and I am hopeful that not only will the police recognize that but the community at large".

They are facing preliminary charges of participation in a terrorist group that intended to commit one or many crimes.