Sentence examples for local offense from inspiring English sources

Though local law makes provision for punishment of the same at § that are federal offenses in this regard, N.Y.Laws, 1942, c. 544, New York City Local Law No. 25 (1945), the arrest was made for a federal and not a state or local offense.

This includes aliens convicted of an offense classified as a felony in the convicting jurisdiction, other than a state or local offense for which an essential element was the alien's immigration status".

His answers to and conduct before the Committee disclosed the possibility that he had committed local offenses within the jurisdiction of King County, Washington, against the laws of that State.

To add to our local offenses, we have a congressman who voted against war (and who has publicly apologized for the U.S.A. Patriot Act).

The Act, however, did not alter the jurisdiction of the federal courts in the District to hear postconviction motions and appeals brought under § 2255, either by prisoners like Frady who were convicted of local offenses prior to the Act, or by prisoners convicted in federal court after the Act.

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, in his year-end report on the judiciary, faulted Congress on Thursday for turning local offenses into federal crimes, a trend that he said has overburdened the nation's courts.

"Other effects include heightened local crime," he added, citing a list of offenses that he attributes to illegal immigrants.

"The changes in the neighborhood are really disheartening," Bernardin said late one recent Friday morning, when I met him in front of his building for a tour of local cycling offenses.

-- that Homeland Security would allow the local sex-offense police to raid the terrorist mastermind's house.

The Travis County DA's office is unique in Texas: It prosecutes local criminal offenses like most other district attorneys or state prosecuting attorneys.

They seem to have been regarded as local inconveniences, their offenses good-humoredly endured but regularly remarked upon, like those of a barking dog.