A person of noble birth, his stature helped him escape punishment for a heinous crime.
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In America, it's not unusual for executives to escape punishment for how they steer their corporations (see Wall Street after the 2008 financial crisis).
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The Wife throws down with a story about a knight who, to escape punishment for rape, embarks on a quest to find out what makes women happiest.
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He was prosecuted for offenses he had not committed (he was not a Treblinka guard), and it looked as if he would escape punishment for the grievous offenses he had committed (as a Sobibor guard).
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Editorial New York State prison guards often escape punishment for acts of brutality because district attorneys in communities where prisons provide jobs, and are thus essential to the communities' economic health, are hesitant to charge them.
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North Korea has not identified Thae as a defector but in August, its state media accused an unidentified senior diplomat who defected from his post in Britain of fleeing to escape punishment for various crimes including child rape.
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From the moment R. Kelly married Aaliyah, an R&B singer who was 15 at the time, he has managed to escape punishment for his violations of young black women — perhaps in part because it happened in a time before social media scrutiny.
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Firm in his belief that systemic local corruption has allowed the son of a rich family to escape punishment for beating someone to death, John eventually convinces Reed — after a year of occasional back-and-forth emails — to travel to the area to investigate.
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A Gallup poll published last May concluded that nearly 66 percent of Colombians do not support the peace negotiations, and the country's right-wing opposition is loudly calling for people to vote against the deal, which they claim will let the left-wing rebels escape punishment for war crimes.
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At the time Fisten started investigating the case in 2009, Epstein and prosecutors had already signed a controversial "non-prosecution agreement" that allowed the financier to plead guilty to less serious sex offenses and escape punishment for alleged trafficking crimes that could have landed him in prison for the rest of his life.
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The defense team said Mr. Walters had been falsely implicated by Mr. Davis, who was desperate to escape punishment for his own misdeeds One juror interviewed outside the federal courthouse in Lower Manhattan where the trial was held said that he and the rest of the jury had not been swayed by that argument.
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The case, however, will have little impact since Congress recently passed legislation that requires sex offenders to notify the government when they leave the U.S. "Our interpretation of the SORNA provisions at issue in this case in no way means that sex offenders will be able to escape punishment for leaving the United States without notifying the jurisdictions in which they lived while in this country," Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the court's opinion.
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Nolan investigates Neil's death at the request of the Perry family. Cameron blames Neil's death on Keating to escape punishment for his own participation in the Dead Poets Society, and names the other members. Confronted by Charlie, Cameron urges the rest of them to let Keating take the fall. Charlie punches Cameron and is expelled.
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The rebellion was put down in the following months, and in September 466 imperial forces retook Jingzhou. Because the rebellion was organized by the prince's aides and administrators, and not the young prince himself, Bao was unable to escape punishment for his involvement. The nine-year-old Liu Zixu was forced to commit suicide, after which all of his staff members, including Bao, were executed.
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Later, a prominent businessman named Paddam Veerendra (Aadarsh Balakrishna) comes to Dhanush to escape punishment for raping and murdering a college girl. The victim's parents seek the help of Hansitha to get justice. At the trial, a new defense lawyer Govindaraju (Rajeev Kanakala) twists the case, making it seem like the girl provoked her beating by blackmailing Veerendra. The judge decides in favor of the lawyer's argument.
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Much of what is known about Polus comes from Plato's Gorgias. What we get from this text is a look into Polus' beliefs about rhetoric. Polus advertises rhetoric as the quick route to the life of a tyrant who can run over others and escape punishment for his crimes. Polus saw rhetoric as the highest of all human arts and thinks that rhetoric is the only knowledge one needs to live well.
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The origins of Fra Dolcino and his real name are a subject of constant debate among historians. One view is that he belonged to the wealthy Tornielli family of Novara, while another view is that he was the illegitimate son of a priest who fled from Vercelli to escape punishment for some small burglaries. Recent researches of Raniero OrioliOrioli, Raniero, Venit perfidus heresiarca. Il movimento apostolico-dolciniano dal 1260 al 1307, Rome, 1988.
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He was subsequently tried by his peers on 4 April 1678 and found not guilty of murder (by eighteen votes to six), but guilty of manslaughter. He successfully pleaded Privilege of peerage (i.e. the right to escape punishment for one's first offence), and he was discharged on payment of all fees.Journal of the House of Lords, 13, 200William Cobbett, A complete collection of state trials and proceedings for high treason, Volume 15, column 1188 online at books.google.
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Just over a month later, on 9 October 1944, Schragenheim was transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp after being sentenced to death. She is believed to have died on New Year's Eve (31 December 1944), according to Yad Vashem historians, who have stated that "Wust had only been able to escape punishment [for hiding Schragenheim in her home] because she was the mother of four young children whose father was missing in action."Wust, Elisabeth. Righteous Among the Nations, Yad Vashem.
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By this point, Sheppard was a hero to a segment of the population, being a cockney, non-violent, handsome and seemingly able to escape punishment for his crimes at will. He spent a few days out of London, visiting a friend's family in Chipping Warden in Northamptonshire, but was soon back in town.Moore, p.207. He evaded capture by Wild and his men but was arrested again on 9 September by a posse from Newgate as he hid out on Finchley Common,Moore, p.208.
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Various Māori traditions recount how their ancestors set out from their homeland in waka hourua, large double-hulled ocean-going canoes (waka). Some of these traditions name a mythical homeland called Hawaiki. Among these is the story of Kupe, who had eloped with Kuramarotini, the wife of Hoturapa, the owner of the great canoe Matahourua, whom Kupe had murdered. To escape punishment for the murder, Kupe and Kura fled in Matahourua and discovered a land he called Aotearoa ('land of the long-white-cloud').
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Although Heythorp is being hounded by creditors, he manages to get a loan using some shady dealings for which he may be prosecuted. Heythorp wants to use this money for an investment which will provide an independent allowance for his beloved grandchildren, Jock and Phyllis, that can not be touched by the greedy Mrs. Larne. Although he manages to arrange everything so he can die in peace, he is uncovered and threatened with exposure. In the end, Heythorp manages to escape punishment for his underhanded scheme.
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On September 3, 2016, Euronews broadcast an interview with the president of the Association for Human Rights in Central Asia, Nadejda Atayeva, who regretted that Islam Karimov managed to escape punishment for crimes that were committed under his leadership in Uzbekistan. In response, massive harassment began against her. Her home address was published on the Internet by provocateurs and she received hundreds of threats of reprisal on her addresses. She filed a complaint in this regard to the commissariat in the place of her residence.
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Croly described the retaliation for the deaths of two strikers (the third had been mortally wounded) as "atrocious". He noted that while the union miners were likely to escape punishment for killing the African-American strikebreakers, officials who have harmed strikers—such as Major Patrick Hamrock of the Colorado National Guard at Ludlow, or Wheeler after Bisbee—likewise frequently escaped justice.Herbert David Croly, The New Republic, Volume 32, The Republic Pub. Co., 1922, pages 6-7 Croly noted that the local government was sympathetic to the union, as was public sentiment.
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More than a year after the killing, Strebendt voluntarily came forward and provided his story to detectives, out of concern that Torre would escape punishment for the murder. Torre was convicted of the murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole; he is appealing the sentence. On January 29, 2014, Strebendt shot and killed 53-year-old David Paul Crofut, also of Springfield, during an altercation following a traffic collision between the two drivers' vehicles.Moran, Jack. "Police investigate deadly shooting", The Register-Guard (Eugene, Oregon) January 31, 2014.
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Soon after this, the Ionian Revolt began, at the instigation of Aristagoras who thus tried to escape punishment for his failure at the Siege of Naxos. Subsequently, Artaphernes played an important role in suppressing the Ionian Revolt. The burning of the Achaemenid Lydian capital of Sardis by the Greeks and the Ionians during the Ionian Revolt in 498 BC. Athens and Eretria responded to the Ionian Greeks’ plea for help against Persia and sent troops. Athenian and Eretrian ships transported the Athenian troops to the Ionian city of Ephesus.
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In 1897, Rasputin developed a renewed interest in religion and left Pokrovskoye to go on a pilgrimage. His reasons for doing so are unclear; according to some sources, Rasputin left the village to escape punishment for his role in a horse theft. Other sources suggest that he had a vision—either of the Virgin Mary or of St. Simeon of Verkhoturye—while still others suggest that Rasputin's pilgrimage was inspired by his interactions with a young theological student, Melity Zaborovsky. Whatever his reasons, Rasputin's departure was a radical life change: he was twenty-eight, had been married ten years, and had an infant son with another child on the way.
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The first is in his account of AD 21, when Gallus is reported to have made a speech in the Senate complaining that "the vilest wretches" would slander "respectable citizens" then escape punishment for their harm by clutching a statue of the emperor; in his speech, Gallus mentions specifically one Annia Rufilla. (It is unknown if Annia Rufilla had spoken about Cestius Gallus.) His speech provoked a response from the assembled body that forced Drusus Caesar, then president of the Senate, to order Annia Rufilla summoned, convicted, and confined to the common prison.Annales, III.36 His second appearance is in the account of the year 32, in the aftermath of the fall of Sejanus.
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In 451, Pope Leo I urged Anatolius to convene an ecumenical council in order to set aside the 449 Second Council of Ephesus, better known as the "Robber Council". The Council of Chalcedon was highly influential and marked a key turning point in the Christological debates that broke apart the church of the Eastern Roman Empire in the 5th and 6th centuries.The acts of the Council of Chalcedon by Council of Chalcedon, Richard Price, Michael Gaddis 2006 , pages 1-5 Severus of Antioch is said to have stirred up a fierce religious war among the population of Alexandria, resulting in bloodshed and conflagrations (Labbe, v. 121). To escape punishment for this violence, he fled to Constantinople, supported by a band of two hundred Non-Chalcedonian monks.
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After the controversial 2009 election and weeks of protest, Shariatmadari wrote an editorial in Kayhan alleging that defeated candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi was trying to "escape punishment for murdering innocent people, holding riots, cooperating with foreigners and acting as America's fifth column inside the country" and called for Mousavi and former reformist President Mohammad Khatami to be tried in court for "horrible crimes and treason."Hardliner calls opposition leader US agent. Associated Press, July 4, 2009 accessed 7-July-2009 In 2009, during the first contested presidential elections, Shariatmadari was announced that Mohammad Khatami would risk the same fate of Benazir Bhutto if he was elected. After the elections, alongside the Green Party protests, Shariatmadari accused Mir Hossein Mousavi of being a fifth column of the US and causing the deaths of many people.
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Silurians also feature in the Big Finish Productions audio play Bloodtide (2001), in which the Sixth Doctor intervenes when Charles Darwin and the HMS Beagle expedition encounter a rogue Silurian group in the Galápagos Islands. The audio drama reveals that the leader of this group had been responsible for creating humanity's prehistoric ancestors via a forbidden breeding program, sabotaging the Silurian stasis chambers to escape punishment for his actions. In the audio drama The Poison Seas (2003), from the Bernice Summerfield series of adventures, Summerfield travels to the planet Chosan sometime in the future to assist a colony of Earth Reptiles (Sea Devils) under threat there. In UNIT: The Coup (2004), the Silurians attempt to finally make peace with the humans, though the general public believes it to be a stunt involving men in rubber suits.
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When former Jihadist Muhammad Manwar Ali, due to attend the Dark and Dangerous Thoughts Symposium at Dark Mofo for a discussion with journalist Peter Greste, was refused a visa to enter Australia, Cangelosi was critical of the decision, remarking that it ran contrary to free speech. On ABC Radio on 25 September 2019, in response to a proposal by Tasmanian Attorney-General Elise Archer to amend the Tasmanian Criminal Code to remove the defence of intoxication and to close a loophole allowing perpetrators of "one punch" incidents to escape punishment for causing death, Cangelosi remarked that the government "frighteningly does not understand the Criminal Code and does not understand the criminal law of Tasmania". In response to measures taken by the Tasmanian government to Covid-19, Cangelosi publicly argued for a moratorium on prosecutions for minor drug offending, citing risk of prosecution as a reason for non-compliance with public health directives.
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The Guardian, 11 September 2013, Obama veers to diplomatic path on Syria chemical weapons impasse In Foreign Policy, Yochi Dreazen wrote that implementating such a plan would not be easy: "Taking control of Assad's enormous stores of the munitions would be difficult to do in the midst of a brutal civil war. Dozens of new facilities for destroying the weapons would have to be built from scratch or brought into the country from the U.S., and completing the job would potentially take a decade or more". The plan's success would depend on Syrian disclosure of its full stockpile—much of which is mobile, and spread across dozens of sites—and it would be difficult (particularly in civil-war conditions) to verify that this was done.Yochi Dreazen, Foreign Policy, 10 September 2013, There's Almost No Chance Russia's Plan for Syria's Chemical Weapons Will Work Syrian rebels opposed the plan, saying that the Syrian government could escape punishment for its crimes.
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