Sentence examples for law offense from inspiring English sources

"If the offense qualifies as a Megan's Law offense, we believe they should be treated as adults until the Supreme Court tells us otherwise," he said.

Mayhem, in Anglo-American law, offense against the person in which the offender violently deprives his victim of a member of his body, thus making him less able to defend himself.

On the eve of a hearing, commission rules were hastily rewritten to downgrade "murder in violation of the laws of war" to a domestic law offense from a war crime in order to avoid seeming to concede that Central Intelligence Agency drone operators who reportedly fly the aircraft from agency headquarters in Virginia and also kill while not wearing uniforms commit war crimes.

Because Central Intelligence Agency drone operators also kill while not wearing uniforms, the team rewrote the rules to downgrade "murder in violation of the laws of war" to a domestic law offense from a war crime to avoid seeming to implicitly concede that the C.I.A. is committing war crimes.

Involuntary and pathological intoxication are affirmative defenses to all criminal offenses in New Jersey, but are not defenses to regulatory law and traffic law offenses that are considered strict liability violations (e.g. environmental regulations, DUI).

There is also growing support for reforming asset forfeiture laws that allow police to seize and keep the property of people suspected of committing drug law offenses without having to convict them or even charge them with a crime.

Even though African-Americans are no more likely than Whites to use or sell drugs, evidence shows they are far more likely to be prosecuted for drug law offenses and far more likely to receive longer sentences than Whites.

Under this new law, offenses relating to advance fee fraud and other fraudulent transactions can bring prison terms of up to 20 years, and provision is made for restitution to victims upon conviction of perpetrators.

Treatment is a valid vehicle for fighting the demons of addiction, and an effective alternative to the government's use of incarceration and punitive measures in response to low-level, nonviolent drug law offenses stemming from addiction.

In the remaining states prosecutions for common-law offenses not specified in statutes do sometimes occur.

Under Florida law, that offense is a "crime of violence," which in turn is part of the definition of "aggravated felony" under federal immigration law.