Sentence examples for statutory offense from inspiring English sources

To trivialize the Holocaust is actually a statutory offense in some countries.

Recusant, English Roman Catholic from the period about 1570 to 1791 who refused to attend services of the Church of England and thereby committed a statutory offense.

The Model Penal Code and the law in most U.S. states treat the actions of an accessory after the fact as a separate statutory offense.

Some countries have created a statutory offense of this name, though the elements of the crime have never been clearly defined by legislation, and the scope of proscribed behaviour remains subject to varying interpretations among jurisdictions.

Whether or not Trump can be charged, or convicted, of a statutory offense will depend on the arguments of lawyers on both sides, but it's now clear that Trump used the office of the President in ways that some Republicans, such as Susan Collins, find unacceptable.

And despite the fact that premarital sex is on the rise among Indian youths, as reported by the National Confederation of Human Rights Organizations, it was considered a statutory offense in the country until 2010 and is still very much a taboo, the Indian Express notes.

Crimes associated with perjury include subornation of perjury (persuading other persons to commit perjury or knowing of another's perjury and failing to make that information known to authorities) and a wide variety of statutory offenses involving making false statements in official documents (such as an application for a driver's license).

In both states murder and attempted murder are considered statutory exclusion offenses, meaning if they commit these offenses after reaching a certain age, juveniles are automatically processed through the adult system.

First, much disparity exists regarding age for sexual consent, or age for sexual maturity, which has an influence on the extent to which statutory sex offenses are considered CSA.

Because most of the population are detained for low-level, nonviolent offenses like statutory violations and property or drug offenses, the facility is more of a social-service overflow site for the city's poorest black communities than a place to detain youth who pose a legitimate risk to public safety.

He said that it was one thing for a judge to exercise discretion within the statutory range for the offense as set by the legislature.