Sentence examples for under the 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.

"It would now be unconstitutional to conduct a capital sentencing under the present version" of the death penalty statute, she wrote in June, urging judges not to proceed "until the statute is amended to conform to the law".

(With the jury out of the room, Judge Goodman had agreed with the prosecutor that the evidence presented so far "would be prima facie sufficient to sustain a verdict of guilty under the treason statute," according to the court record).

Jurisdiction under the habeas statute?

That's possible under the contest statute.

"They could even have been sentenced under the old statute".

Similarly, there is no statute of limitations for prosecutions of the offenses of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes under the Rome Statute creating the ICC.

In 1965, my husband was arrested in New York under the same statute that Margaret Sanger was arrested under in 1916.