In other words, if attorney-client privilege is being invoked to cover up an ongoing criminal act or a planned criminal act, that privilege is suspended over those communications.
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"This, undoubtedly, is a criminal act of hate," he wrote.
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It requires proof of direct participation in a criminal act.
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It's a criminal act and should be treated as such.
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Iran called it state terrorism and an unlawful criminal act.
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Blakey added that racketeering is not a single criminal act.
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It has to be a criminal act, it has to be.
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Mark Dayton called "a criminal act of terrorism" -- Trump kept mum.
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It did involve an alleged knowingly criminal act committed by Clinton.
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Then the arrest for cyberlibel, which is considered a criminal act.
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Salvini has called it "a criminal act, an act of war".
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"To me, a criminal act was committed against [my son]," Oxendine said.
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Can a grand jury indict a sitting president for a criminal act?
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And, to be sure, Mr. Cuomo was never accused of any criminal act.
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"It's a criminal action, criminal act," Mr. Trump fumed at the White House.
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It's a criminal act, and that's what we have to start calling it.
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Authorities said there is no evidence of a criminal act at this point.
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"British Airways responded quickly to a criminal act to steal customers' data," he said.
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However, a contract can be voided when there's an intervening criminal act, he said.
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"It is a criminal act against animals," said Indonesian animal rights activist Marison Guciano.
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Police are now investigating whether his death was an accident or a criminal act.
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Wade, that much-lauded, much-maligned 1973 decision, was no longer a criminal act.
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The bill, if it passes, would make declawing a criminal act of animal cruelty.
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"Authorities are investigating this criminal act," it wrote in the post late on Tuesday.
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In the Clinton trial, Dershowitz argued that a criminal act is not required to impeach.
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And no, I haven't forgotten Viall's criminal act of slut-shaming Dorfman on national television.
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Trump falsely claimed Obama committed the criminal act of wiretapping Trump's phones before the election.
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The UAE's Gulf Arab ally Bahrain described the Fujairah incident as "a dangerous criminal act".
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It's criminal action, a criminal act and its been going a long time, before me.
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A coroner has said her death resulted from a criminal act but not provided details.
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We need to affirm that asylum is a fundamentally American idea, not a criminal act.
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He argued against moving ahead without additional evidence to prove a criminal act by Trump.
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I argued that the evidence fell short of the standards of a prosecutable criminal act.
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"Savcic is accused ... of committing the criminal act of helping in genocide," the statement added.
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It&aposs only if you intentionally committed a criminal act and Mr. Weinstein vigorously denies that.
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In a tweet Tuesday morning bashing Sessions, Trump also suggested Clinton had committed a criminal act.
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And relegating a criminal act to just a feature of the brain isn't how people work.
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This was not a criminal act, but as I saw it, it compromised the party's integrity.
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He's not sure whether it was an inside job, or if it constitutes a criminal act.
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As a result, I was held responsible for every criminal act my then-husband had committed.
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"It is an isolated criminal act and the criminal will face a court of law," he said.
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"I want to make it clear: This was a criminal act," Unruh said of Spacey's alleged behavior.
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This was not a criminal act, but as I saw it, it compromised the party&aposs integrity.
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"There is no reason to believe that this is anything more than a criminal act," he said.
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All this means the movie was forgettable, a criminal act to do to such a bullish musical.
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"The occupation bears responsibility for the consequences of such a criminal act," it said, referring to Israel.
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They flow from an abuse or violation of public trust, which need not be a criminal act.
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When I am home, I see people I respect smoke marijuana, responsibly, and it's a criminal act.
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Until now, when Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of third-degree rape and a sexual criminal act.
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They dealt with when certain robberies qualify as a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act.
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The police official said police are viewing the incident as "more likely terrorism" than a standard criminal act.
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"All indications point to a criminal act by an apparently emotionally disturbed individual," Abella told a news conference.
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The incident is not a criminal act, he said, as the American flag was not vandalized or stolen.
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Sexual activity with a person who has consumed drugs or alcohol is not, standing alone, a criminal act.
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As he spoke about the impact of his criminal act on his family, his children started openly sobbing.
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"All indications point to a criminal act by an apparently emotionally disturbed individual," Abella told a media conference.
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"This is a random despicable criminal act against a member of the Sikh community," Christianson told the newspaper.
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" Boras added, "If you run on the field, that trespass gets you jail time and a criminal act.
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"Undocumented migration is not a criminal act in Mexico," Interior Minister Alfonso Navarrete Prida said earlier this week.
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Neither the charges nor the narratives in the filings tied Trump or his campaign to any criminal act.
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"British Airways responded quickly to a criminal act to steal customers' data," the company's CEO said in a statement.
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In a filing Sterling said that it was not responsible for protecting the victim from McCoy's alleged criminal act.
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Brooklyn prosecutors also believed that that Liang's recklessness with the weapon was compounded by yet another reckless criminal act.
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State Prosecutor Ljubomir Joveski said evidence suggested Janeva had committed "a criminal act" by abusing her position of power.
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The cited law effectively states that criticizing the government through any kind of digital medium is a criminal act.
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"Sexual assault is not only a reprehensible act, it is a criminal act," reads a statement from Maj. Gen.
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Maliha was accused of maintaining an illicit relationship, which in the eyes of Islamic law is a criminal act.
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"It's a criminal act," he said in February, referring to intelligence leaks about former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
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Fair is fair and he did not actually accuse Obama of a criminal act (at least yet; I think).
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The law under consideration in Tuesday's arguments, the Armed Career Criminal Act, is a kind of three-strikes statute.
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Prosecutors use the conspiracy doctrine to punish two or more people who merely agree to commit a criminal act.
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Schiff committed "a criminal act" by delivering an exaggerated interpretation of Trump's July 25 call at a committee hearing.
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The Trump impeachment is even weaker than the Johnson impeachment, which had an accepted criminal act as its foundation.
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In a letter to the United Nations, Iran described the attack as state terrorism and an unlawful criminal act.
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In many countries being a member of ISIS or Hezbollah is not a criminal act in and of itself.
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The case concerned the Armed Career Criminal Act, a federal law that is a kind of three-strikes statute.
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All the women who've spoken up have emphasized that Biden's alleged behavior was neither sexual harassment nor a criminal act.
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Gray died in an accident -- a tragic, even preventable accident -- but he did not die because of a criminal act.
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TMZ broke the story ...Chyna's attorneys say the sex tape release is a "criminal act" which they've reported to cops.
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Any woman who buys abortion drugs online in the UK are still deemed to be carrying out a criminal act.
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United States, in which the court wrestled with a similar adversary: the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act.
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The Clinton impeachment was relatively narrow but involved the president lying under oath, which is a clearly defined criminal act.
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But that would only be true if doubling down on a criminal act were, in this case, anything but foolish.
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King Mohammed VI also condemned what he called an "odious criminal act, contrary to all human values and religious precepts".
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What, exactly, they planned to do about the president's apparent involvement in a criminal act has remained unclear since then.
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He testified before the House Judiciary Committee that impeachment could result from conduct that was not technically a criminal act.
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First, the prosecutor has to show "there is reasonable cause to believe" that a specific criminal act has been committed.
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There is no crime in "colluding" with Russians without some cognizable criminal act or conspiracy to commit such an act.
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The major 2013 explosion at a West, Texas, chemical plant was a criminal act of arson, federal officials said Wednesday.
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"It's a criminal act to set car tires on fire or injure police officers," he told a group of newspapers.
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On Friday, police said they were investigating a suspected case of praising a criminal act, a crime under German law.
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The company added that "This was a criminal act and a thorough investigation is currently underway" by an independent security company.
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it was too soon to say whether the incident was a terrorist or a criminal act.
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The California Democrat's lawyers argued that the tabloid committed a criminal act under California's revenge porn law by publishing the photos.
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The law prohibits lawsuits against gun manufacturers and distributors if their firearms were used in the commission of a criminal act.
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Firefighters discovered Mr. Heras and alerted the police that his death may have been a criminal act, the Fire Department said.
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In The Sinner, Biel plays Cora Tannetti, a young mother who, seemingly for no reason, commits a criminal act of violence.
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Mr Sun is not alone in his endeavour; art has been treated as a form of criminal act in China too.
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Iran's attack on two oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, a critical passageway for international shipping, was a criminal act.
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Inquiry lawyers suggested such fraud amounted to a criminal act, and criminal charges could be among Commissioner Kenneth Hayne's final recommendations.
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Ditto if some hypothetical president told an adviser to bribe a witness or destroy evidence — or commit any other criminal act.
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"He admitted to doing the criminal act and said he regretted it," West Hardford police lieutenant Eric Rocheleau told BuzzFeed Thursday.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - The sanctions imposed on Iran by the United States are a "criminal act" against the country, Iranian's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday, according to state TV. "These sanctions are criminal act ... but we can turn it to an opportunity by distancing Iran's economy from being dependent on oil exports," said Khamenei.
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DUBAI, Feb 8 (Reuters) - The sanctions imposed on Iran by the United States are a "criminal act" against the country, Iranian's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday, according to state TV. "These sanctions are criminal act ... but we can turn it to an opportunity by distancing Iran's economy from being dependent on oil exports," said Khamenei.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - The sanctions imposed on Iran by the United States are a "criminal act" against the country, Iranian's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday, according to state TV. "These sanctions are criminal act ... but we can turn it to an opportunity by distancing Iran's economy from being dependent on oil exports," said Khamenei.
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Simpson insisted that he simply wanted to retrieve his memorabilia but the plan to do so unintentionally spiraled into a criminal act.
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And while it's not a criminal act in itself, he can now add preying on the generosity of others to that list.
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What is certain, though, is that this criminal act makes an already extremely complicated situation even more fragile — and even more dangerous.
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Mr. McCrum argued that Mr. Perry's actions crossed the line from mere politics to the criminal act of threatening an elected official.
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Taken altogether, Trumpworld's message is that welcoming foreign efforts to sway American elections are neither a criminal act nor a civic sin.
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We can't sit up here — I can't sit up here and make judgment over whether or not somebody committed a criminal act.
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Even in Massachusetts, even in blue, blue Massachusetts, there were laws on the books that made abortion a criminal act and punishable.
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Eight of 11 justices voted to treat homophobia in the same way as racism under Brazilian law, making it a criminal act.
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Under the law, terrorism is a violent, criminal act intended to intimidate civilians and governments for an ideological, political or religious purpose.
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"They haven't committed any criminal act," Republican state Senator Mike Young told the Indy Star, suggesting his colleagues seek civil penalties instead.
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Same-sex marriage is legal in roughly 30 countries, yet same-sex sexual activity is considered a criminal act in 70 nations.
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The Tel Aviv municipality told Israeli newspaper Haaretz it's unclear yet if the shooting is a terror attack or a criminal act.
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Although Mr. Ruston concluded that a criminal act had been committed, the trust decided not to refer Mr. Smyth to the authorities.
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In the past, however, courts have been cautious to link a criminal act to a perpetrator's ideology or membership in hate groups.
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In fact, there are states with laws on the books right now that would make abortion the criminal act the minute Roe falls.
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The criminal act took place amid increases in the incendiary rhetoric used by anti-choice advocates and lawmakers such as President Donald Trump.
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"It's a criminal act," President Trump said Thursday during a press conference, adding that he'd ordered the Justice department to investigate the leaks.
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The first thing to know about life when abortion was still a criminal act is that massive numbers of women resisted the law.
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Cartwright's pardon creates a situation where an admitted criminal act involving the leak of the most highly classified information has been essentially forgiven.
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By the 1800s, the price of human waste was so valuable that stealing it became a criminal act that could result in imprisonment.
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Wilmar described Greenpeace's action as "a criminal act of trespassing and vandalism" that posed a safety risk to the activists and Wilmar staff.
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"The simplicity of the disappearance of MH370 comes down to this: either it was a criminal act or it was not," writes Vance.
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Strikingly, to be labeled as such, there is no requirement of any link to a violent act, nor even an imminent criminal act.
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The newly minted justice asked nearly a dozen questions during Tuesday's cases, which challenged the scope of the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA).
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And he highlights any criminal act by an immigrant as if immigrants have a higher rate of criminal activity than native-born Americans.
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Several high-level Democrats recently have endorsed a proposal that would make it a non-criminal act to illegally cross the U.S. border.
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NEW JERSEY: A person wearing a bullet-proof vest while carrying out a grave criminal act can be charged separately for suiting up.
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Imagine what would happen if by federal law, abortion was made not just difficult, but a criminal act, applicable to the entire nation.
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The Mail also published further memos from Darroch, defying a police warning that media which did so could be committing a criminal act.
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Dumping in this way in Dutch woodland is a criminal act, and one that must be seen in proper historical and legal context.
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Senate Sergeant at Arms Frank Larkin, who rushed to the scene, said it appeared to be an accident and not a criminal act.
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But it was too soon to say whether the killing was related to the dispute over land or was a random criminal act.
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Seeking an investigation of, say, Pete Buttigieg by Malta would clearly be abusive, since there is no credible claim of a criminal act.
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South Korea's Military Criminal Act outlaws "anal sex and other indecent acts" between servicemen, whether or not they take place on military property.
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But a federal agent later said authorities were investigating the incident as a criminal act, according to News on 6 in Tulsa, Okla.
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" The statement also decried the sanctions as "a brutal criminal act that indiscriminately infringes upon the right to existence of the peaceful civilians.
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But there was no classified information discussed, so it's not immediately clear if this constitutes an internal rule violation or a criminal act.
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"I don't know if urging the FBI to end an investigation is itself a criminal act of obstruction of justice," Painter told VICE News.
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Dermer was unconcerned about Keyes' alleged activities, which took place in the United States, since there had been no allegation of a criminal act.
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In the spring of last year, the country's military began to enforce a largely dormant ban on homosexual activity, Military Criminal Act 92-6.
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The Nuremberg trials re-established the principle that waging aggressive war was a criminal act and punished at least some of Hitler's henchmen accordingly.
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The use by an elected public official of the IRS, the CIA and the Justice Department to smear political enemies is a criminal act.
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There were calls for his impeachment and charges he colluded with the Clinton campaign to get her off the hook, itself a criminal act.
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What a criminal act to let a bunch of tech companies that don't give a shit about storytelling dictate how stories should be told.
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What is occurring is something that borders on a criminal act of malfeasance by those who are leading, or wish to lead, this nation.
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Comey's comments constitute a form of legal sophistry in that prosecutors did not need to prove that Clinton intended to commit a criminal act.
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However, the justice system rarely recognizes or understands the connection between children who have committed a criminal act and their previous exposure to trauma.
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The official believed that "the president had clearly committed a criminal act" in calling on Mr. Zelensky to investigate the Bidens, the memo said.
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"For a long time in this country we actually did not treat crossing the border as a criminal act," Castro told NPR in May.
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It is not clear if they have been identified or if their inaction, however morally obtuse, qualifies as a criminal act where they live.
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Trump's statements are disgraceful, vile, harmful to America and constitute the praising of, and possibly seek to incite, the serious criminal act of espionage.
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"For a long time in this country we actually did not treat crossing the border as a criminal act," Castro told NPR in May.
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"The government condemns in the strongest terms this criminal act, perpetrated by armed bandits and terrorists with no faith or law," the statement said.
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Police were more cautious, saying that while it was a deliberate attack, they were looking at all possibilities, including that it was a criminal act.
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But what this is, what you see here, is you see someone who is a criminal, who is committing a criminal act against fellow Americans.
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President Andrew Johnson was impeached by the House (and then acquitted by the Senate) for firing a secretary of war -- certainly not a criminal act.
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Journalists are for the most part covered under the First Amendment's free speech protections from publishing classified information, which alone is not a criminal act.
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A person commits a criminal act "intentionally" when the conscious objective or purpose is to engage in the forbidden act, or achieve an unlawful result.
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Other Twitter users wondered how people would react if Madonna were a male performer, and questioned whether what the singer did was a criminal act.
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"They are arrested on suspicion that they have committed a criminal act of organised crime and abuse of office and authority since 2003," Serhatlic said.
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"Investigations have been launched into the suspected planning of a serious criminal act against the state because there was notification of that," the spokesman said.
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The act, signed by George W. Bush in 2005, largely prohibits lawsuits against gun manufacturers and distributors whose firearms are used in a criminal act.
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Some officials even suggested a criminal act was involved in the death, and others raised unsubstantiated speculation over whether the death was even a suicide.
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"There is no reason to believe that this is anything more than a criminal act," said Chief Matthew Verderosa of the United States Capitol Police.
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Volume 2 is all about the possibility that President Trump engaged in the criminal act of obstruction of justice during the investigation about his campaign.
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Elsewhere, India's prime minister Narendra Modi said it would be a "morally criminal act" for the world not to do its part on climate change.
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" Mr. Mattis, speaking at the same news conference, said: "An attack on an international airport, anywhere in the world, is a criminal act by terrorists.
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He went on to bemoan the possibility of getting impeached without committing a criminal act, a defense his allies have deployed repeatedly in recent weeks.
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" But Alex Cruz, the chairman and chief executive of British Airways, said the company had "responded quickly to a criminal act to steal customers' data.
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The problem was that the law, the Tenure of Office Act, was presumptively unconstitutional and the impeachment was narrowly built around that dubious criminal act.
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"Even if there was a KGB killer in that room," the television commentator and former attorney said it didn't mean a criminal act had happened.
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Yet the Hill case also involves an alleged incident of "revenge porn," a criminal act in more than 45 states and the District of Columbia.
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It's a prosecutor's dream: Material-support charges require no criminal act nor direct contact with terrorists, just the knowing "support" of a foreign terrorist organization.
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In other words, the court ruled that stealing such a small amount of food in order to survive could not be considered a criminal act.
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And there's article, after article, who wonder whether this was a big, you know, criminal act from a corporate-- CAROLE GHOSN: You know— SARA EISEN: --titan?
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" Currey's statement continues: "More than three years have passed since the night that this senseless, criminal act devastated the lives and destroyed the homes of many.
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"The described documents are possessed and utilized by individuals and groups attempting or planning to commit criminal act or acts of terrorism or violence," Czaplewski added.
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The White House said U.S. authorities are monitoring reports of attack on the internet services company and whether it is a "criminal act," according to Reuters.
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"The only thing we can say is that the (death) resulted from a criminal act," Papadomanolakis told the AP. Eaton was reported missing a week ago.
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Among things police were looking at was whether the shooter was "a murderer who acted alone" in a criminal act or act of terror, authorities said.
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"The only thing we can say is that the [death] resulted from a criminal act," Greek state coroner Antonis Papadomanolakis told the Associated Press last week.
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So why should Trump give prosecutors an opportunity to trap him into uttering a falsehood in an environment where doing so can be a criminal act?
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There are exceptions — web companies aren't immune from federal criminal law, for example, and Congress in recent years has made advertising sex online a criminal act.
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REGULATORS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES FOCUSED ON THREAT ACTORS Unlike fraud, money laundering stems from a precursor criminal act, like extortion, misappropriation of funds, or trafficking.
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We require that because our sense of comfort, our sense of safety, is compromised if we don't think you appreciate the wrongfulness of your criminal act.
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"We went there and found those bodies with injuries," he told a news conference, describing the murders as a criminal act rather than ethnic-driven violence.
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More recently, the paper reported that Le Pen, dubbed "the Devil of the Republic," believed—without evidence—that the Notre Dame fire was a criminal act.
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"During the period of the suspended sentence, this criminal evaded supervision and control and continued to engage in the criminal act of illegally selling vaccines," he said.
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"From intelligence, papers are being leaked, things are being leaked: it's [a] criminal act," he said during a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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TRUMP: Flynn has been treated badly by the "fake media" and leaks to media are a "criminal act" and a cover-up for Hillary's "terrible loss" pic.twitter.
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During closing arguments, Judge Williams himself questioned prosecutors aggressively on whether they were really asserting that every arrest made without probable cause could be a criminal act.
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The media should use a disclaimer to remind its readers or viewers that the information being published or released contain materials from the criminal act of hacking.
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They suggested the reasoning of a 2015 Scalia opinion, which struck a provision of the Armed Career Criminal Act as unconstitutionally vague, should extend to their case.
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The United States is actively trying to discourage hacking, which is a criminal act, and get countries like China to adhere to norms for operating in cyberspace.
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"This is, in 28 years, probably the most heinous criminal act I've ever seen, and it really is nauseating," Acting Nassau County Police Commissioner Thomas Krumpter said.
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That law, signed by President George W. Bush in 2005, has since prohibited lawsuits against gun manufacturers and distributors whose firearms are used in a criminal act.
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But, I will tell you this that after an investigation, if people, in fact, were found to have committed a criminal act — I talked to a mother.
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Now, obviously, not all unwanted bodily touching is a criminal act (or we would have been forced to shut down most public transportation a long time ago).
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Amnesty urged South Korea to repeal Article 92-6 of the Military Criminal Act, which it said effectively prohibited and punished sex between men in the military.
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Weinstein is charged with five counts including rape, sexual criminal act and predatory sexual assault, and could spend the rest of his life in prison if convicted.
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At least 32 faced criminal charges of violating the Military Criminal Act, according to the domestic news media and lawyers and rights advocates familiar with the cases.
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" Depardieu's lawyer Herve Temime told CNN's affiliate BFMTV that his client was "shocked" by the accusation and "totally denies any assault, any rape and any criminal act.
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It might also constitute a criminal violation of the civil rights of Heyer and the other people who were injured, and also a criminal act of terrorism.
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That law, signed by President George W. Bush in 2005, has since prohibited lawsuits against gun manufacturers and distributors if their firearms are used in a criminal act.
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The law makes it a criminal act to alter the genome of a cell or embryo in such a way that the change might be transmitted to descendants.
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The grand jury concluded the shooting was a "perfect storm of human error, mistakes and communications" but not a criminal act, prosecutor Tim McGinty said at the time.
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"I told the Air Emirates crew that flying an unconscious and drugged man like me from Kenya to Dubai without any documents was a criminal act," he wrote.
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Victims say the scientific record should somehow reflect that the doctor took advantage of research participants — a severe violation of research ethics, not to mention a criminal act.
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"The U.S. Secret Service can confirm that an employee was the victim of a criminal act in which our Agency issued laptop computer was stolen," the agency said.
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But this is America, where the public outrage generated by horrific crime is often predicated more on who committed the criminal act rather than upon what they did.
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"We profoundly condemn that criminal act against innocent people and we reject being linked to an act of barbarism, oblivious to our ideas and actions," the group said.
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This week, Ukraine's constitutional court rejected an anti-corruption law that would have made the illegal enrichment of officials a criminal act, according to a state news agency.
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Her announcement sparked anger among those who regard her leaking diplomatic cables as a criminal act, and stirred those who see her as a whistleblower and a hero.
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" Nevertheless, Croce says, "going on television and cooking a dish of pigeon, an animal protected by national and European laws, is a criminal act which we couldn't ignore.
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A police report on the confrontation was not filed because "no criminal act was committed," Lt. Karen Rudolph of the Memphis Police Department told CNN in a statement.
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For a victim to qualify, certifying agencies must confirm that the criminal act is on a prescribed list and that the victim was helpful in assisting the police.
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Although the examiner and the police did not declare his death a criminal act, the authorities clearly no longer consider it to be the result of natural causes.
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"We express deep condolences over the death of our Chinese compatriot and strong condemnation on the criminal act of the terrorists," said the Chinese embassy on its website.
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"It's an act of terrorism, a criminal act of terrorism," the governor, Mark Dayton, said on Sunday during a visit to the mosque, Dar Al Farooq, in Bloomington.
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Indeed Irish law considers abortion a criminal act — even in the case of rape, incest or a fatal fetal abnormality — punishable by up to 250 years in prison.
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Indeed Irish law considers abortion a criminal act — even in the case of rape, incest or a fatal fetal abnormality — punishable by up to 28 years in prison.
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"Comey's letter doesn't suggest a criminal act took place, but that "evidence that has not yet been examined needs to be reviewed because it is relevant to the case.
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The Texas law, passed with bipartisan support in the Republican-dominated legislature, makes it a criminal act to buy, sell, or transport with the intention to sell shark fin.
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The Military Criminal Act bans soldiers, most of whom are conscripts, from engaging in gay sex, which it labels "disgraceful conduct", punishable by imprisonment of up to two years.
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The missing American biologist whose body was believed to have been found Monday in Greece died of a "criminal act," say authorities who are now hunting for her killer.
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"According to what we know, the act was a deliberate attack on foreign tourists - a particularly devious and criminal act that leaves us sad, dismayed and furious," she added.
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"It's not making criminals out of people who have no intention of creating some type of criminal act," Frullo told CNN affilliate Spectrum News in Austin at the time.
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"In his country's name, Helmy expressed profound condolences for Regeni's death and assured us Egypt will cooperate fully in finding those responsible for this criminal act," the statement said.
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And they suggested the reasoning of a 2015 opinion from Scalia,which struck a provision of the Armed Career Criminal Act as unconstitutionally vague, should extend to their case.
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Asking for a favor is not a criminal act; we frequently demand things from foreign countries before giving them aid, like asking them to improve their human rights record.
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If either Trump, Sr. or Jr., lied about the meeting in Trump Tower, that could suggest they knew that what had occurred in the meeting was a criminal act.
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A court ruled Cube and Dre aren't responsible for Carter's death because it's unfathomable to blame them for Knight's reckless and allegedly criminal act -- running over and killing Carter.
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The second important implication of the hearings is that as far as we know, Donald Trump has not performed any criminal act that would merit removing him from office.
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But Russia has made official complaints to the companies and warned them that it is considered a criminal act to refer to Crimea as other than a Russian territory.
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"We came to one conclusion that these deaths were not a result of a criminal act," San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore said during a press conference at the time.
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Since the oaks beams wouldn't burn, both Facebook and YouTube users claimed that the cathedral's destruction could not possibly have been an accident — it had to be a criminal act.
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"I would like to take advantage of this moment to ask forgiveness from you (exploited women) and society for all the Catholics who carry out this criminal act," he said.
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Originally a reluctant signatory, this week Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said it would be a "morally criminal act" for the world not to do its part on climate change.
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The court unanimously decided that invasions of mobile homes and other vehicles count as "burglaries" for purposes of the federal Armed Career Criminal Act, a kind of three-strikes statute.
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"Without doubt, the people of Iran will take revenge for this horrific criminal act," tweeted the president, Hassan Rouhani, a leader who once advocated diplomacy and integration with the West.
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What he did in Georgia, what he did in Ukraine, what he did in Baltic, what he's done in London poisoning people with active nerve gas, that's a criminal act.
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There must be an agreement by two or more persons to commit a criminal act, along with some overt act committed by one of them in furtherance of the agreement.
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"At this point in time it appears that no criminal act occurred," said Mark Cheplak, a spokesman for the Baltimore office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
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Suits are also allowed in matters involving injuries or property damage resulting from manufacturing or design defects, as long as the firearm in question was not used in a criminal act.
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"Once again, I would like to extend my most sincere apologies to anyone who has been concerned about or impacted by this criminal act," said Patricio Remon, Equifax's president for Europe.
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Because prostitution is illegal in the show's world, every sex scene (and there are many) feels like a covert documentation of a criminal act, even if Christine isn't with a client.
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Virginia law defines a hate crime, in part, as a criminal act committed with the intention of instilling fear in someone because of his or her race, religion or ethnic origin.
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Instead, the report evaluates whether there was "conspiracy" — a criminal act — or "coordination," which it defined as an agreement between the Trump campaign and Russia on Russian interference in the elections.
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In order to get protection from the fearsome operator who runs the cell block, he's pressed into a criminal act that, among other things, would extend his time in prison indefinitely.
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It was the first criminal charge laid against a corporation under the Competition and Consumer Act, Sims said, following a law change in 2009 that made cartel conduct a criminal act.
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"We view this not as a 'clever game' of wiki leaks [sic] but rather as a 'criminal act' against the United States of America," Abedin wrote in a previously unreleased Dec.
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In her series "False Positives," Ms. Hovers visualizes the capabilities of security cameras in the future, which are programmed to automatically spot unusual movement patterns that may signal a criminal act.
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Democrats sought to bolster their arguments by furnishing the Senate with video clips of witness testimony and Trump's remarks and to preempt the defense's argument that impeachment requires a criminal act.
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President Hassan Rouhani said that the US made a "grave mistake" and "will face consequences of this criminal act not only today, but also in the coming years," according to CNN.
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According to Judge E. Grady Jolly, who wrote the majority opinion, Mckesson allegedly "directed the demonstrators to engage in the criminal act of occupying [a] public highway" near the police building.
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William Weld, who spent months researching the issue before producing a seminal 64-page report explaining that a president didn't need to commit a straight-up criminal act to warrant impeachment.
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Trump's decision to fire Comey In the interview, Barr talked about Trump's firing of Comey in May 2017, an action that was investigated by Mueller as potentially a criminal act of obstruction.
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But Republicans say that the leaking of his name was a criminal act in contravention of laws that mask the identify of US citizens caught up in surveillance operations targeting foreign nationals.
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They were responsible for the narrative that civil rights protests were a criminal act rather than a political one, their argument being that the protests were contributing to the spread of crime.
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People with alcohol convictions were four to five times as likely as people with no criminal histories to be arrested for a subsequent criminal act, including a violent or firearm-related crime.
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"The use of force against the Venezuelan people, who are eager to receive international humanitarian aid, is a criminal act committed by the Maduro regime," Brazil's Foreign Ministry wrote in a statement.
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Peasants and forest communities could still forage for materials for houses and tools, but it would now be a criminal act to log Cambodian rosewood to decorate the homes of rich foreigners.
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Just for fun, I decided to take Trump's insane prediction and actually game it out: What if an American presidential election were decided not by the votes but by a criminal act?
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"It's important for me to make sure that when we believe that we are the victim of a criminal act, that we take appropriate action and involve law enforcement," Mr. Lord said.
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But if he does so not to serve the public interest, but to serve his own, he surely could be removed from office, even if he has not committed a criminal act.
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That to me is a criminal act of denial that refuses to deal with the reality that racism is also signified far more subtly than through the wielding of slurs and sticks.
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The five-judge panel decided unanimously that Mr. Basuki "proved legally and convincingly guilty of committing the criminal act of blasphemy," the head judge, Dwiarso Budi Santiarto, said in reading the ruling.
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He was sentenced to 2½ years in prison with a 4-year suspension, which means he won't have to serve time unless he commits a criminal act in the next four years.
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"This is a criminal act because it's a violation of the rights of children," said William Contreras, the head of the country's consumer protection commission, on the president's television show this week.
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Under federal law, for example, a criminal conspiracy exists if there's an agreement to commit any criminal act in the future, and one step — even a lawful one — taken to that end.
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Dershowitz's critics say his argument rests on a mangled interpretation of "mens rea," the legal term for the mental state that generally must be proved alongside a criminal act to reach a conviction.
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To be clear, the recovery and review of such emails may well provide evidence of an unlawful destruction of federal records, but it will likely still be insufficient to show a criminal act.
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" A Drug Enforcement Agency agent, speaking on the condition of anonymity, tells PEOPLE, "It's tempting to say that a moral transgression is a criminal act, but one does not automatically equal the other.
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DAKAR (Reuters) - A Senegalese Islamic channel shocked viewers with half an hour of hardcore pornography in the middle of the day, in what the TV station on Wednesday attributed to a "criminal act".
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The oral arguments on Tuesday concern the 1984 Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), a "three-strikes-and-you're-out" criminal sentencing law that boosts prison sentences after multiple violent felonies or drug offenses.
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Purnama was "found to have legitimately and convincingly conducted a criminal act of blasphemy, and because of that we have imposed two years of imprisonment," head judge Dwiarso Budi Santiarto told the court.
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On the surface, the circumstances surrounding these letters seem starkly different: In 21923, abortion and contraception were both illegal, and even sharing information about how to prevent pregnancy was considered a criminal act.
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"If we determine that someone is manufacturing or distributing illicit, adulterated vaping products that caused illness and death for personal profit, we would consider that to be a criminal act," the agency said.
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Apple attorneys say that no case the government cites in its filings support a request for a private company with no connection to a criminal act to invent a product against its will.
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In 2015, the Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional one statute used against him, section 66a of the IT Act, which made it a criminal act to post offensive material using the internet.
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" A Drug Enforcement Agency agent, speaking on the condition of anonymity, tells PEOPLE, "It's tempting to say that a moral transgression is a criminal act, but one does not automatically equal the other.
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The incident became a national news sensation not only because authorities deemed it a deliberate, criminal act, but also because it occurred during Midwest FurFest, the second-largest furry convention in the country.
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United States, a decision written by the late Justice Scalia, finding that a similar provision in the Armed Career Criminal Act violated due process for being unconstitutionally vague, overturned Mr. Dimaya's removal order.
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On Wednesday he said that anything a president does to win reelection is not impeachable as long as it doesn't involve a criminal act and they believe their election is in the public interest.
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Politicians denounced it; the biggest party in congress introduced legislation in November to add symbols and monuments to the list of things that could be classified as an "apology for terrorism", a criminal act.
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The news service also reported earlier today that officials were investigating whether the incident was a "criminal act," although by now it seems clear the outages were almost certainly related to a targeted strike.
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"The Presidential Council (of the GNA) strongly condemns this criminal act and holds the leaders and members of these militias fully responsible," said a statement published on the Presidential Council's Facebook page on Sunday.
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"The law will be strictly enforced on the culprit who did this criminal act and will hit with an iron fist anyone who tries to harm state of law," government spokesman Mohammad Momani said.
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Rick Scott of Florida suggested the possibility that a criminal act was involved in Epstein's death when he called on federal corrections officials to explain what happened at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan.
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"We are surprised and disappointed in this initial finding from the ICO... British Airways responded quickly to a criminal act to steal customers' data," British Airways Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Alex Cruz, said.
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Investigating the way homosexuality had been listed in New York Public Library card catalogs, he traced how authorities portrayed homosexuality first as a sin, then as a "sickness," then, later, as a criminal act.
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Just as a president cannot legally fire an official in return for a bribe (a criminal act), he also cannot fire an official with an intent to retaliate against a witness (also a crime).
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"Anytime you have a situation where you have a number of people involved in an alleged criminal act, it's that many more people who can come in and provide information to Congress," Berger said.
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"If we determine that someone is manufacturing or distributing illicit, adulterated vaping products that caused illness and death for personal profit, we would consider that to be a criminal act," he said in the statement.
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A deferred prosecution agreement or DPA is a contract between a person or a corporation charged with a criminal act and the prosecuting authority, which diverts the case out of the formal criminal justice system.
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"WADA deeply regrets this situation and is very conscious of the threat that it represents to athletes whose confidential information has been divulged through this criminal act," said Olivier Niggli, the director general of WADA.
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"Under Oregon law, bias crimes are defined as any criminal act that targets a victim based on the suspect's perception of the victim's race, color, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or national origin," the statement said.
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Investigators have confirmed "not only the premeditated character" of the attack but also that Mr. Lahouaiej Bouhlel "benefited from support and complicity in the preparation and carrying out of his criminal act," Mr. Molins said.
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"The very fact that someone saw some Russian, a Russian somewhere, is not close to a criminal act, I think it's ridiculous, it's degrading for such a great country as the United States," he continued.
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As the civilian death toll mounted in Gaza in 2014, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon of the United Nations condemned the motorcycle strike as "a criminal act" and demanded that those responsible be held accountable.
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United States, accounted for a 55 percent increase in lawsuits against the United States, Chief Justice Roberts wrote, as that decision allowed some prisoners convicted under the Armed Career Criminal Act to challenge their sentences.
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Father LaRosa-Lopez "denies any improper touching that would be considered a criminal act," said his lawyer, Wendell Odom, but "there may have been a boundary violation," for which the priest apologized to the woman.
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But the Military Criminal Act outlaws sodomy and other unspecified "disgraceful conduct" between servicemen, whether or not there is mutual consent and whether or not that conduct takes place in or outside the military compounds.
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President Trump's defense team will argue that, because the articles charge abuse of power and obstruction of Congress and not a criminal act, they fail to meet the constitutional standard of high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Officials said it was too early to say whether the attack had been carried out by terrorists, but President Vladimir Putin said all possibilities were being investigated, including an accident, a criminal act and terrorism.
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"We had to put the criminal act in its right context in order to determine that it is a war crime and not just seven cases of murder," Henrik Attorp, a senior public prosecutor, said.
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Indeed, there doesn't even need to be a charge — just an immigration agent's determination that the person committed a criminal act, even years ago — presumably including even the misdemeanor of entering the US without inspection.
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Friends said they could not rule out the possibility that his death was the result of a random criminal act, a botched kidnapping or Islamist militancy, though they acknowledged having no special insight into the investigation.
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The 2015 Scalia decision at the center of the new case declared unconstitutional a vaguely worded provision of the Armed Career Criminal Act that boosted a repeat offender's prison time by a minimum of 15 years.
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" "We continue to maintain that the guilty verdicts are not supported by the evidence in this matter as this was a purely accidental fire -- not a criminal act," Bonsib said in an email to CNN. "Mr.
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In the woman's courtroom statement, which went viral when it was released to the news media a week ago, she described drinking too much and blacking out as "an amateur mistake" — but not a criminal act.
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"What happened this morning in Pittsburgh was not just a criminal act, it was evil and there is no tolerance in the country for violence against innocent Americans or attacks on places of worship," Pence said.
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I was skeptical about the appointment of a special counsel before the firing because such an appointment should be accompanied by an articulable criminal act — something missing in the vague references to "collusion" with the Russians.
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"WADA deeply regrets this situation and is very conscious of the threat that it represents to athletes whose confidential information has been divulged through this criminal act," Olivier Niggli, WADA's executive director, said in the statement.
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With respect to the international money laundering allegation, it alleges that the defendants transferred money to the United States for the purpose of "promoting" their criminal act of failing to register as foreign agents for Ukraine.
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Mr. Luthmann said he was the victim of a criminal act in the intrusion on his exchanges, which include doctored pornographic images involving several public officials and, in one case, the adult son of an official.
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Starr, who pursued Clinton's impeachment on the charge that he lied to investigators about sexual activity, told senators that impeachment was so grave that not even a criminal act was enough to warrant removal from office.
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Its two protagonists, Horace and Virginia Pruitt, are on trial after having been accused by their 13-year-old son, Adam, of taking him to church against his will — a criminal act in Ms. Williams's dystopia.
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" In a statement to PEOPLE on Thursday, the McCain Institute, where McCain is the board of trustees, said she "was only thinking about the possible ramifications of a criminal act not the color of the possible trafficker.
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The New York Times, which first reported the new details, said in its piece that White House lawyers discussed how to handle the discussion because in the official's view the president had clearly committed a criminal act.
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"We look forward to the day when Jason Van Dyke will be held responsible for Laquan's senseless murder and everyone involved in trying to cover up this criminal act is held accountable," they said in a statement.
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All of the definitions of terrorism in U.S. code "highlight the motivations of the person responsible for the criminal act," Harold Pohlman, a professor of political science and public policy at Dickinson College, said in an email.
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"The Catalan parliament has approved something that in the opinion of the great majority of people doesn't just go against the law, but is a criminal act," Rajoy said after the vote, according to the Financial Times.
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In the fourth installment of CNBC Make It's series, HR Confidential, a San Francisco-based human resources professional with more than 15 years of experience tells Ruth Umoh about the criminal act he uncovered through surveillance cameras.
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A Philadelphia judge, Thomas Gehret, last month threw out charges including involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment against Brandon Bostian after concluding that the evidence suggested the crash was an accident, not the result of a criminal act.
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As with the 2015 decision on the Armed Career Criminal Act, his rulings for the majority in those areas came only with the votes of liberal justices and after several years in dissent laying groundwork for his arguments.
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"Even though we don't have [a] universal anti-sodomy law like in 76 countries, in 1962 the military introduced an anti-sodomy article in the Military Criminal act, following British and the United States Military Code," Ryu said.
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If Trump did disclose code-word-clearance classified information to the Russians, it could be considered a criminal act unless Trump had personally declassified this information — which any president has the technical authority to do — before disclosing it.
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" Based on the experience of American states, Nuwer argues that "a university policy prohibiting initiations is not enough" but that laws can make a difference, as they make "people see these kinds of initiations as a criminal act.
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Trump, who has called leaks "criminal action, a criminal act," no longer expresses the kind of sympathy for leakers that he did during the campaign, when he praised WikiLeaks for its publication of emails relating to Hillary Clinton.
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Aliso Viejo, California (CNN)The deadly explosion in an Orange County building that killed one woman and injured three others appears to be intentional and is being investigated as a criminal act, a law enforcement source told CNN.
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In a 5-4 opinion written by Justice Clarence Thomas, the court backed the government and held that robbery under a Florida law qualifies as a crime of "physical force" that can trigger the Armed Career Criminal Act.
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" That same day, WADA's Director General, Olivier Niggli, released a statement: "WADA deeply regrets this situation and is very conscious of the threat that it represents to athletes whose confidential information has been divulged through this criminal act.
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Mueller demonstrates the president's culpability without making the case against the president directly, or providing supporting evidence that would accompany a criminal charge, because the law prevents the president from being charged with a criminal act as president.
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But a spokesman for the prosecutor's office said on Wednesday it had since then expanded the charges against Lee to include hiding the proceeds of a criminal act, as well as bribery, embezzlement, hiding assets overseas and perjury.
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"We believe this is an act of a single person who has frequented the Capitol grounds before, and there is no reason to believe this is anything more than a criminal act," U.S. Capitol Police Chief Matthew Verderosa said.
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Salil Shetty, head of Amnesty International, said the charges were without merit and not an indication of a criminal act, while the arrests were a disregard of human rights and an attempt to silence all those who defend them.
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Joe Barton surfaced this week on an anonymous Twitter account, the congressman -- one of the most senior members of the House of Representatives -- is raising the possibility that he's the victim of "revenge porn," a criminal act in Texas.
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United States dealt with the Armed Career Criminal Act, a federal version of "three strikes and you're out" laws that added five years to the sentences for criminals convicted of at least four "violent felonies" or serious drug crimes.
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Some say that Mr. Lawrence knew when to cut out on the job (after the home was lowered) so legally it would not look like contractor fraud, a criminal act, but a breach of contract issue, a civil dispute.
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Michael McCrum, a San Antonio lawyer and former federal prosecutor who served as the special prosecutor in the Perry case, said he believed Mr. Trump's comment came close to crossing the line from a joke to a criminal act.
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"There's not, nor can there be, any show of forgiveness or refuge to a group that's now recognized authorship of this criminal act, of this act which has no justification whatsoever," High Peace Commissioner Miguel Ceballos told reporters in Bogota.
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Tuesday's cases involved the 1984 Armed Career Criminal Act, a "three-strikes-and-you're-out" criminal sentencing law that boosts prison sentences for people who are convicted of crimes involving guns if they previously have been convicted of certain other crimes.
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In a deposition two years ago, he insisted that he was not certain sexual abuse of a child by a priest constituted a criminal act in 1984, when he was auxiliary bishop for St. Paul and Minneapolis handling sex scandal cases.
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" Abrams cited the a legal precedent known as "incitement," which, he explained, "requires proof that you are calling on people to commit a criminal act with the intention that they commit the criminal and a high likelihood that they will.
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A second Philadelphia judge, Thomas Gehret, threw out criminal charges against Bostian last September, finding that the evidence suggested the crash that killed eight people and injured more than 200 was an accident, not the result of a criminal act.
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"This is another dangerous, reckless, criminal act by the North Korean regime, threatening the stability of the region and the world and we condemn it, utterly," Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said in an interview with Sky News on Friday.
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But Comey also refused to describe President Trump's behavior as obstruction of justice and admitted that he did not even write a resignation letter or report the matter as a possible criminal act through the proper channels at the time.
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In delivering the opinion of the court, Justice Elena Kagan relied on a 2015 ruling in which the court said a similar clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) that defined a "violent felony" was unconstitutionally void for vagueness.
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As a friend-of-the-court brief filed in the Knox case by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers argues, this uncertainty is a problem precisely because the public needs to know what constitutes a violent or criminal act.
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"This knowledge, as well as anecdotal evidence indicating the soldier had a xenophobic background, led to the suspicion that the defendant had planned to carry out a violent criminal act, an attack, with the weapon hidden in Vienna airport," prosecutors said.
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"If we determine that someone is manufacturing or distributing illicit, adulterated vaping products that caused illnesses and death for personal profit, we would consider that to be a criminal act," Norman E. Sharpless, the acting FDA commissioner, said in the statement.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's special prosecutor's office said on Wednesday it had expanded charges against Samsung Group chief Jay Y. Lee to include hiding the proceeds of a criminal act before it decided to seek a warrant for his arrest.
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"Under Oregon law, bias crimes are defined as any criminal act that targets a victim based on the suspect's perception of the victim's race, color, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity or national origin," the release from the agency read.
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This was a bill that purported and did actually provide additional powers to law enforcement, which we said did not have the right threshold in terms of reasonable grounds to believe that a certain criminal act was committed before certain powers were used.
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Proponents of the law—in the past and during the current uproar—have said it is necessary to leave the sodomy provision in place to protect against sexual violence, but the Military Criminal Act already contains separate prohibitions on rape and sexual molestation.
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ABIDJAN, May 15 (Reuters) - A fire last month that gutted a facility of French telecoms group Orange in Ivory Coast, disrupting service for weeks, appears to have been the result of a criminal act, the West African nation's communications minister said on Tuesday.
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"Those that enter the country illegally, they do violate the law, that is a criminal act," Homan said on the call, while emphasizing that immigrants who pose a threat to national security or have criminal records are still a priority for the agency.
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"We are pursuing this as a criminal act," said Robert W. Elder, the special agent in charge of the Houston field division of the A.T.F. Mr. Elder acknowledged the length of time since the explosion but described the investigation as highly complex.
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"Here is what we know: It was intentional, it was a violent act, it was certainly a criminal act, it was a bombing — that's what we know," he said on Sunday, flanked by law enforcement officials at Police Headquarters in Lower Manhattan.
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I think it went on for a long time because prosecutors were hoping they would find some obvious criminal act that could support a charge, but it was evident pretty early that, absent that, there was no clear way to bring this case.
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As Vox's Dara Lind wrote last year, about 7,000 federal prisoners are serving time under the Armed Career Criminal Act, but it's not clear how many were sentenced using the definition of "violent felony" the Court has found to be too vague.
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The sanctions are "a brutal criminal act that indiscriminately infringes upon the right to existence of the peaceful civilians," said a spokesman of the Sanctions Damage Investigation Committee in a statement carried by the North's official Korean Central News Agency on Friday.
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The sanctions are "a brutal criminal act that indiscriminately infringes upon the right to existence of the peaceful civilians," said a spokesman of the Sanctions Damages Investigation Committee in a statement carried by the North's official Korean Central News Agency on Friday.
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New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said Friday that the city —"because of the possibility of a criminal act" — notified Manhattan prosecutors after news reports that the Trump Organization gave conflicting information about income and expenses to city tax officials and investors.
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"Due to the serious nature of this incident, a reward of up to $5,000 is offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the individual(s) responsible for this criminal act," said Dan Wenk, Yellowstone National Park superintendent, in a statement.
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"The absence of evidence is a key factor in this case -- not due to lack of effort or determination, but because evidence which would indicate the presence of other persons or the commission of a criminal act is not present," the memo said.
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Despite a military directive passed in 213 calling for greater protections for gay soldiers, LGBT conscripts still face suspicion, harassment and prosecution under Article 92-6 of the Military Criminal Act, which makes sexual activity between men punishable by up to two years in prison.
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I know a lot of women feel vindicated in regard to this arrest being held to a new standard as an illegal criminal act and the court process should reveal the verdict for the crimes of which he is accused in a court of law.
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"The jury were sure that you knowingly crossed the line between the legitimate expression of your own views and the criminal act of inviting support for an organization which was at the time engaged in appalling acts of terrorism," said the judge, Timothy Holroyde.
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Rather than engaging in a concerted effort to understand better the systematic reasons for the incident, certain managers and staff at the Commission mischaracterized the event to the Office of the Chairman as resulting from a criminal act, rather than apparent shortcomings in the system.
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As reported by CP24, the TTC condemned "NYEAH EH," with the commission's executive director Brad Ross releasing a statement on Twitter calling it a "criminal act...completely unacceptable" and noted that the song's video, shot in subway stations and train cars, was not authorized.
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This is a very unusual case, where a blatant criminal act appears to have been committed in the hearing of more than a dozen witnesses to that call, including the secretary of state, the lieutenant general assistant, the military assistant, [and] the vice president.
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It's also the reason that, in any individual case of an officer killing a black American, suspicion tends to fall on the victim — and any evidence of a criminal act (like mere drug possession or use) is treated as a justification for the death.
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Dershowitz has spent much of the past week defending an argument he made Wednesday from the Senate floor that actions a president takes to win reelection are not impeachable as long as they haven't committed a criminal act and believe their election is in the public interest.
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But I think it's worth noting that criminal prosecution of police officers in the federal realm is exceedingly difficult because there's only one statute, and it requires proving that an officer had the specific willful intent to kill the person or to engage in a criminal act.
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PACARAIMA, Brazil, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Brazil on Sunday condemned violence used by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government this weekend to block aid shipments from crossing the border, branding it a "criminal act" and calling on the international community to join efforts to "liberate" the South American nation.
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"I remember conversations where I detected that he was eager to try to bring a prosecution, but ultimately, in the course of our discussion, we both recognized the evidence was just not sufficient to make the wrong that we perceived into a criminal act," Mr. Kowalski said.
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"The murder carried out in public at an international airport of a third country is an unforgivable and inhumane criminal act and clearly demonstrates the recklessness and brutality of the North Korean regime that will spare no avenues when it comes to perpetuating itself," Hwang said.
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But it showed that the North, whose access to hard currency has been hampered by sanctions over its nuclear arms program, was "using computer hacking technology to try to steal our people's property in a criminal act of earning foreign currency," the police said in a statement.
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"To be clear, if we determine that someone is manufacturing or distributing illicit, adulterated products that caused illness or death for personal profit, we would consider that a criminal act," acting FDA Commissioner Dr. Ned Sharpless testified before the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Wednesday.
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When I saw what they did, which is a criminal act, by the way, where they're telling people to go out and start fistfights and start violence, I tell you what, in particular in Chicago, people were hurt and people could have been killed in that riot.
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The appeal revisits their prior argument that Carter's statements to Roy in thousands of texts and emails over two years — a handful of which propose suicide options along with Carter's encouragement for Roy kill himself, as he vowed to do — amount to free speech and not a criminal act.
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"The U.S. Secret Service can confirm that an employee was the victim of a criminal act in which our Agency issued laptop computer was stolen," the agency said, before noting the multiple levels of security and encryption in its laptops, as well as their lack of classified information.
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The McCain Institute, which counts combatting human trafficking as one of its initiatives, said in a statement that McCain was only "thinking about the possible ramifications of a criminal act not the ethnicity of the possible trafficker" when she reported what she believed was a case of trafficking.
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Repealing the eighth amendment would not give women unfettered access to abortion as the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act, which was introduced in 2013 in the wake of the death of Savita Halappanavar, still makes abortion illegal and a criminal act with a 14 year jail sentence.
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He went on a lengthy rant in response to the first very question in which he accused House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA) of "a criminal act" and "treason"— all because Schiff paraphrased his call with the Ukrainian president in an unflattering manner during a hearing last week.
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"The fact that the judge issued a search warrant of the office and home of Trump's personal attorney suggests that a judge likely concluded either that the privilege was being used in furtherance of a criminal act or that the privilege was being used to perpetuate a fraud," Moye explained.
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These were the major decisions: The court ruled that the Constitution does not require Kansas to use a common form of the insanity defense, one that allows criminal defendants to avoid conviction if they can show that their mental illness prevented them from recognizing that their criminal act was morally wrong.
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"The scandal surrounding Najib has tarnished the image of the party as well as the government and embarrassed the people — particularly as I had been briefed on the issue of funds from SRC International by the former attorney general, who also provided proof that it was indeed a criminal act," he said.
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"I once again wish to repeat my previous call that this menace must be treated for what it is - a criminal act and all participants in the whole chain face the severest sanctions possible - whoever they may be - as provided in Law," added Tergat, who was twice Olympic 10,000 meters silver medalist.
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The cases Kavanaugh and the court will hear this week, per USA Today: Tuesday: Justices will look at the Armed Career Criminal Act, a 1984 law that mandates a minimum of 15 years in prison for crimes involving firearms if there are three previous violent or serious convictions on the offender's record.
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At a time when being Latinx in the U.S. feels like a criminal act, with our loved ones and neighbors impacted or otherwise intimidated by the Trump administration's inhumane immigration vendetta and the Republican party's unceasing xenophobia, listening to music performed in Spanish by Latin American artists is inherently and undeniably political.
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"A bomber often believes that the device itself is consumed in the thermal effect of the blast, and that he is giving himself distance from the criminal act," said a federal agent and explosives expert who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
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"It was looked at [by the city] and one of the specific issues within your story — or ProPublica story originally — was referred to the district attorney because there is the possibility of a criminal act having been committed," said de Blasio, who until September had sought the Democratic nomination for president in 2020.
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The indictment against Mr. Assange did not include any charge related to the receipt or publication of secret information, but he was accused of hacking into a government computer system "in furtherance of a criminal act" that violated laws against obtaining material to harm the United States or to aid a foreign power.
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The Times added:"A bomber often believes that the device itself is consumed in the thermal effect of the blast, and that he is giving himself distance from the criminal act," said a federal agent and explosives expert who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
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The official stated that there was already a conversation underway with White House lawyers about how to handle the discussion because, in the official's view, the President had clearly committed a criminal act by urging a foreign power to investigate a U.S. person for the purposes of advancing his own reelection bid in 2020.
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All the women who've spoken up have emphasized that Biden's behavior — smelling their hair and kissing the back of their head, a hand on the thigh, grabbing the face and pulling it close as if he would kiss them on the mouth, and other incidents in mostly professional settings — did not constitute sexual harassment or a criminal act.
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However, there are exceptions to the New Jersey Rules of Professional Conduct, which say a lawyer may not commit a criminal act that reflects adversely on the lawyer's honesty, trustworthiness or fitness as a lawyer in other respects; engage in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation; or engage in conduct that is prejudicial to the administration of justice.
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"The official stated that there was already a conversation underway with White House lawyers about how to handle the discussion because, in the official's view, the president had clearly committed a criminal act by urging a foreign power to investigate a U.S. person for the purposes of advancing his own re-election bid in 2020," the C.I.A. officer wrote.
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And in fact there is a federal criminal statute prohibiting extortion and blackmail by federal officers or employees and those impersonating federal officers or employees: 18 US Code Chapter 42 But to prove a criminal act, the statute requires a demonstration that the accused used or threatened the use of the power of their office or position to commit the illegal act.
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Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew NapolitanoAndrew Peter NapolitanoFox's Napolitano sees evidence to 'justify about three or four articles of impeachment against the president' Fox's Napolitano says after Sondland testimony that Democrats have a case for impeachment Fox News legal analyst says quid pro quo is 'clearly impeachable': Trump requested 'criminal' act MORE said in an interview with Reason.
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Cohen told The Associated Press last month that Trump committed something "tantamount to a criminal act" by threatening to withhold money for Ukraine unless it pledged to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe BidenJoe BidenThe Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by AdvaMed - House panel expected to approve impeachment articles Thursday Democrats seek leverage for trial Democrats spend big to put Senate in play MORE.
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" And then there was the FBI lawyer who got caught in an embarrassing criminal act at the Marine Corps barracks (MCB) commissary in Quantico, Va. "The FBI attorney admitted to placing numerous cosmetic items, valued at $257.99 and belonging to the MCB Quantico Exchange, into her purse without the intention to pay for them and did not pay for them before leaving the store.
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Barbara ComstockBarbara Jean ComstockProgressives face steep odds in ousting incumbent Democrats K Street giants scoop up coveted ex-lawmakers GOP lawmaker introduces bill to stop revolving door MORE (R-Va.), the bill creates a new sweeping definition of "criminal gang," and targets those who never committed a single criminal act, unlike current law, which requires non-citizens be convicted of a crime to be eligible for deportation.
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This has various elements, from Trump's repeated attempts to cast doubt on Russian interference, to the belief that the investigation had its genesis in Christopher Steele's salacious dossier, to the equally spurious idea that there can be no obstruction of justice without an underlying crime — a point that ought to be obvious to anyone who supported impeaching Bill Clinton for lying under oath about a non-criminal act.
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In a letter to Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE, Gillibrand asked the Justice Department to determine whether the committee had "a legal duty," in addition to a moral duty, to take action when alerted to a potential criminal act.
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" He added that "we would like the Irish government to help, not just by passing a bill which says we can no longer be prosecuted for a criminal act by sourcing and administering cannabis-based medicines to our children to alleviate their suffering, but by placing medicinal cannabis on the prescribed medicines list and helping to also alleviate the financial pressures borne so far by us, our family, our friends, and our community.
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Hwang told a meeting of South Korea's National Security Council that it was nearly certain that North Korea was behind the killing of Kim Jong Nam, the eldest son of the late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. "The murder carried out in public at an international airport of a third country is an unforgivable and inhumane criminal act and clearly demonstrates the recklessness and brutality of the North Korean regime that will spare no avenues when it comes to perpetuating itself," Hwang said.
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Fox News legal analyst Andrew NapolitanoAndrew Peter NapolitanoFox News legal analyst says quid pro quo is 'clearly impeachable': Trump requested 'criminal' act Napolitano: Trump's 'dog whistles of lawless behavior' call into question his fitness for office After Obama-era abuses, Republican hysteria over impeachment process is absurd MORE on Tuesday pushed back against the argument that President TrumpDonald John TrumpGOP senators balk at lengthy impeachment trial Warren goes local in race to build 2020 movement 2020 Democrats make play for veterans' votes MORE using a quid pro quo in his dealings with Ukraine did not qualify as an impeachable offense.
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