Sentence examples for present statute from inspiring English sources

But the court's majority said, "Under the present statute, the death penalty may not be imposed".

The decision left the rest of the law in place, but it said that "under the present statute, the death penalty may not be imposed".

One of Mr. Taylor's lawyers, Kevin M. Doyle, chief attorney for the New York Capital Defender Office, a state-financed legal office, noted that the decision on Thursday by the New York State Court of Appeals explicitly stated that "under the present statute, the death penalty may not be imposed".

-- a 10-year-old girl was raped and then got married at 11, with parental concent, to the 20-year-old man who raped her; -- a 13-year-old male who impregnated a girl and got married to her under the present statute.

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"Reading in" refers to adding in words that are not present in the statute so as to ensure compliance with Convention rights, and "reading out" removing words in a statute to do so.

But the case for completely lifting the present five-year statute of limitations for a long list of other felonies, where the biological evidence found at the crime scene typically is not definitive, is not persuasive.

The judge, Cecilia M. Altonaga, said the case, brought under a seldom-tested 1789 law, the Alien Tort Statute, presented "relatively novel issues of jurisdiction and international law".

The constitutional question the statute presents, it must be acknowledged, may be a significant one in some later case; but it ought not to drive us to an incorrect interpretation of the statute.

Robert Bozelli, a lawyer for Mr. Barton, said that the statute presented a "balanced approach" to dealing with meritless defamation cases, but that if lawmakers had intended for defendants to be able to appeal a motion denying dismissal before a trial concluded, they would have explicitly included that right in the statute.

Civil society initiatives were a driving force for international justice since before the Court was created and many of those who were present when the Rome Statute was adopted continue to work for its improvement.