Sentence examples for prior abuse from inspiring English sources

The post-mortems, said Mr Spencer, revealed evidence of prior abuse.

The Showoff survived the figure-four levenck, even with all the prior abuse on his leg.

Edwin Tirado had been one of two employees on duty right before the bruises were discovered; Mr. Tirado invoked his Fifth Amendment rights and declined to speak during a recent deposition when asked about prior abuse cases involving Jonathan.

The part of the instruction relied upon by the Court— it may be logically concluded that if the defendant committed other offenses, he also committed the crime charged in this case"—does not make clear that it is the jury's role to ascertain whether McGuire was the perpetrator of the prior abuse.

As a former domestic-violence prosecutor, I could recognize the textbook case: prior abuse, a controlling relationship, an uncooperative complainant.

Rather than provide information about things such as prior abuse complaints, the FCI system merely tells a user some kind of record exists.

Mindful of prior abuses — when the press was a propaganda arm of Saddam Hussein's tyranny, and the death penalty could be imposed for criticizing his government — some want no government interference in the news media, even with the aim of protection.

That does not necessarily mean a unilateral U.S. intervention, of course, but it does mean treating the use of chemical weapons as a transgression qualitatively different from the Assad regime's many prior abuses".

He also had old bruises and investigators believed he suffered prior physical abuse, prosecutors said.

Prison officials had earlier said inmates must offer documentation of prior substance abuse to enter the treatment program.

Sometimes patients participate in a recovered memory group where other members pressure the newcomer to recall prior sexual abuse and even suggest how it may have occurred.