Sentence examples for offences in order from inspiring English sources

His solicitor said: "This man has been struggling with his drug habit and committed the offences in order to feed it.

Newhouse said the action group was examining the legal grounds to push for a review of all sentenced prisoners in Bandyup and a mass amnesty of low-level offences in order to deal with chronic overcrowding.

It is spurious, however, to suggest that the chancellor is proposing the offences in order to stay ahead of the curve; or, as he put it: "Let us not wait for the next wave of scandals in financial markets to hit us before we respond".

In a statement, the RSPCA said it was created in 1824 to investigate and prosecute animal cruelty offences in order to improve animal welfare in England and Wales.

One undercover officer, Bob Lambert, who posed as a leftwing campaigner for five years, has admitted that he appeared as his alter ego in court in 1986 after being charged with a public order offence in order to "maintain cover".

Certainly the US has never charged Aamer with a criminal offence in order to justify his continued detention and the allegations have never been tested in any fair judicial process.

You no longer have to commit a criminal offence in order to go and buy your recreational drugs or feed your habit.

For his part, Clinton's successor, the younger Bush, was buffeted by Plamegate, with its sensational allegations that top White House aides had deliberately leaked the identity of the CIA agent Valerie Plame (an offence that is a federal crime) in order to punish her diplomat husband, a fierce public critic of the Iraq war.

Before leaving for Syria, Yusuf Sarwar and Mohammed Ahmed, two young men from Birmingham who pleaded guilty to terrorism offences in July, ordered copies of "Islam for Dummies" and "The Koran for Dummies" from Amazon.

For example, a legal system could create a criminal offence of harassment in order to protect a moral right to privacy, without thereby necessarily recognising a legal right to privacy, i.e., something which would act as a positive reason in favour of privacy in interpreting unclear rules, or in developing the law.

While all-cause re-incarceration is a valid and useful outcome measure, studying parole violations and new offences separately is necessary in order to understand pathways to re-incarceration more fully.