And instead of conducting a vigorous inquiry into the snitch program and the role of prosecutors in concealing it, she launched a narrower criminal investigation that purported to examine the role of wrongdoing by members of the sheriff's department.
In one, an etching, he's a tender, baby-faced, bowler-wearing aesthete; in the other, a woodcut, he's a hardened, narrow-eyed criminal.
Part of the problem, admitted one officer, is that a narrow focus on criminal behaviour sometimes misses the big picture.
All the posts condemned the prison gang members for their drug dealing and for their narrow self-interested criminal acts.
The special counsel's mandate was narrow: investigate allegedly criminal conduct stemming from links between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.
Specifically, previous research has generally analyzed sub-samples drawn from non-nationally representative samples, has relied on a narrow range of criminal justice measures, has not fully examined whether the IQ crime link is observed across demographic subgroups, and has not always ruled out the effects of potential confounds.
Rather than focusing on narrow changes in criminal law, the commission's sweeping report goes beyond the issue of rape to assess widespread discrimination against women, societal biases against daughters, workplace sexual harassment, child sexual abuse, the trafficking of women and children and the deep-rooted problems with Indian policing.
In fact, the decision is based on a careful consideration of prior legal precedent, the precise language of each law, relevant legislative history, and the well-reasoned principle that courts should favor narrow interpretations of criminal laws that are ambiguous.
The policy of fencing fans in was stupid, and erecting a steel barrier in front of 2,000 people with a solitary narrow exit gate was criminal.
The federal prosecutors used increasingly wide and expansive definitions of traditionally narrow but highly stigmatized criminal acts, like theft and burglary, to reframe clearly political acts into self interested acts intended to deprive others of their rightful property.
