Sentence examples for prosecutable crime from inspiring English sources

Dietz, founder of the Threat Assessment Group, believes their work made stalking "a household word" and a prosecutable crime.

"The risk is you can create a prosecutable crime that did not exist before," said Jonathan Sack, a New York defense lawyer.

Italy would go a crucial step further, making it a prosecutable crime to enter the nation without papers — something that Mr. Berlusconi himself does not seem to like.

Unfortunately, Barr has given every indication that he intends to make needlessly sweeping redactions, especially having ruled that, in his judgment, the evidence of obstruction of justice did not rise to the level of a prosecutable crime.

Had aggression been a prosecutable crime in 2003, Prime Minister Tony Blair — who relied heavily on the legal advice of his attorney general — may have never brought his country to war in Iraq without a Security Council resolution authorizing him to do so.

Though planned for transmittal before Labor Day, the "full description" of the investigation called for in the law -- which I sense will detail tawdry corner-cutting and egregious evasiveness but not prosecutable crime -- is unlikely to have great impact on elections.

But he has escaped one major pitfall -- he has not been criminally charged for obviously prosecutable crimes in what anti-doping officials have called "the most sophisticated doping program in history".

Wear clothes that are SILENT!!!!! Defacing private property and trespassing are both prosecutable crimes.

WASHINGTON — Prosecutors for the military commission trials at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, disclosed in a document posted Friday that they had added a charge of conspiracy against an Iraqi detainee, potentially setting up a test of whether Congress has the power to make conspiracy a prosecutable offense in a war-crimes tribunal despite its not being recognized as an international war crime.

Those details matter not so much because of any criminality they might reveal -- we are rapidly learning that there is no such thing as a prosecutable corporate crime anyway -- but because of what they may add to our knowledge of the ethics, policies and personnel of a secretive administration to which we've entrusted both our domestic and economic security.

And finally, it was Jason Berry who reminded me in an interview that one of the worst "deformities" of the ecclesiastical culture is the way in which they re-define a crime as a sin, which makes it a forgivable, as opposed to a prosecutable offense.