Sentence examples for lower criminal from inspiring English sources

Increased abortion reduced unwantedness and therefore lower criminal activity".

For years, trials have been vanishing in the lower criminal courts around the country, transforming them into plea-bargaining mills.

In the few months I roamed the lower criminal courts of Johannesburg, I occasionally managed to get my client acquitted, though not necessarily by the exercise of virtuoso advocacy.

Schöffe, in Germany, a lay jurist or assessor assigned primarily to a lower criminal court to make decisions both on points of law and on fact jointly with professional jurists.

Judges in Ankara, the capital, overturned a lower criminal court's judgment from last year that only two people, now serving prison sentences, were behind the 2007 murder of the journalist, Hrant Dink, said Fethiye Cetin, a lawyer for Mr. Dink's family.

So, then, if we returned to a strict new alcohol prohibition where anyone caught with a beer can be arrested and jailed, fewer people would abuse alcohol, we'd make fewer arrests for alcohol, and we'd have lower criminal justice costs for alcohol.

In Washington, D.C., on the other hand, for "certain traffic and a number of lower level criminal offenses," you can simply pay your arresting officer "to end a case on the spot," avoiding lengthy and expensive court costs.

More lower-level criminal court judges are needed to handle the flood of misdemeanor cases generated by Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's crackdown on quality of life crimes.

In Brazil, cabinet ministers can only be tried in the "privileged forum" of the supreme court, which can take much longer to get around to hearing cases than lower-level criminal courts.

The two-tier system penalizes drivers with any amount of an illicit drug in his body with a non-criminal or lower-level criminal fine, and more severely penalizes drivers who are impaired by any substance (EMCDDA [2009]; Verstraete et al. [2011]).

This week the government committed to their election promise and cut funding to assistance services that provide legal help to asylum seekers, basically reducing their rights to lower than criminals.