During the 19th century criminal law reform incrementally reduced the number of capital offences to five ( see Capital punishment in the United Kingdom ), and forfeiture for felony was abolished by the Forfeiture Act 1870.

Austria, in common with a number of European civil law jurisdictions, retains elements of trial by jury in serious criminal cases.

Most of these are investigations of hard drug crime ( specifically cocaine and synthetic drugs ) although the number of soft drug cases is rising and currently accounts for 69 % of criminal investigations.

A majority of the murders were politically motivated, though a number of assassinations of random police and carabinieri officers took place, as well as a number of murders occurring during criminal ventures such as bank robberies and kidnappings.

He had a number of criminal aliases known by the British police, amongst them Edward Edwards, Arnold Thompson and Edward Simpson.

In the 1969 episode, " Blind Tiger ," McGarrett, who had been temporarily blinded by an attempt on his life ( a criminal bombing his car ), asked a hospital operator to connect him to 732-5577, which was the phone number at Five-O headquarters.

A number of countries that are not in the English common law tradition have quasi-juries on which lay judges or jurors and professional judges deliberate together regarding criminal cases.

As Home Secretary, he introduced a number of important reforms of British criminal law: most memorably establishing the Metropolitan Police Force ( Metropolitan Police Act 1829 ).

He also reformed the criminal law, reducing the number of crimes punishable by death, and simplified it by repealing a large number of criminal statutes and consolidating their provisions into what are known as Peel's Acts.

By improving ‘ natural surveillance ’ of shared land and facilities of nearby residents by literally increasing the number of people who can see it, and increasing the familiarity of residents, as a collective, residents can more easily detect undesirable or criminal behavior.

According to International Advocates for Justice, Falun Gong has filed the largest number of human rights lawsuits in the 21st century and the charges are among the most severe international crimes defined by international criminal laws.

Despite being a human and a criminal, he has a number of high-ranking Dragaeran friends, and often gets caught up in important events.

Arkan returned to Yugoslavia in May 1983, continuing his criminal career by opening a number of illegal businesses.

The number of trials conducted in each system is another way to illustrate the relative size of the two criminal justice systems.

Reasons for the collapse of the phenomenon include the collapse of criminal prosecution against alleged abusers, a growing number of scholars, officials and reporters questioning the reality of the accusations, and a variety of successful lawsuits against mental health professionals.

He initiated a number of liberal reforms, especially in the field of criminal law.

Lamer's criminal law background proved an influence on the number of criminal cases heard by the court during his time as chief justice.

Later, in Samson v. California, the Supreme Court ruled that reasonable suspicion is not even necessary: " The California Legislature has concluded that, given the number of inmates the State paroles and its high recidivism rate, a requirement that searches be based on individualized suspicion would undermine the State's ability to effectively supervise parolees and protect the public from criminal acts by reoffenders.

Meanwhile, Kapp tried to form a government, with a number of desperate and in part criminal characters in the subordinate offices.

Her lawyers claimed that " the proceedings state that the article contains a number of false and defamatory statements concerning Ms. Cruz " and she is seeking " substantial damages and is confident that legal proceedings will vindicate her reputation.

A number of interdisciplinary and multicultural papers are published every year, as well as some review articles of books and conference proceedings.

Instead, the proceedings became notorious for the large number of demonstrators and the use of force by the Chicago police during what was supposed to be, in the words of the Yippie activist organizers, “ A Festival of Life .” Rioting took place between demonstrators and the Chicago Police Department, who were assisted by the Illinois National Guard.

Separate ratification proceedings took place in each state, and the essays were not reliably reprinted outside of New York ; furthermore, by the time the series was well underway, a number of important states had already ratified it, for instance Pennsylvania on December 12.

After this time, all future Chancellors were lawyers, and from around 1557 onwards, records of proceedings in the Courts of Chancery were kept, leading to the development of a number of equitable doctrines.

Finally, they assure that the proceedings have a number of witnesses.

Immediately after the passing of the 1982 Act, evidence came to light, and internal disciplinary proceedings were commenced against, a number of individual underwriters who had siphoned sums from their businesses to their own accounts.

The Committee concluded " that the interest which a great number of officers and clerks have in the proceedings of the Court of Chancery, has been a principal cause of extending bills, answers, pleadings, examinations and other forms and copies of them, to an unnecessary length, to the great delay of justice and the oppression of the subject ".

The right covers a number of issues centered around the right of the accused or the defendant to refuse to comment or provide an answer when questioned, either prior to or during legal proceedings in a court of law.

Following the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 it had adopted a format which gave a number of chapters to the history of Britain and followed closely the proceedings of Parliament.

A number of conspiracy theories have been published, based on CIA and FBI surveillance of Lennon due to his left-wing activism, and on the actions of Mark Chapman in the murder or subsequent legal proceedings.

Bobby Seale, the eighth man charged, had his trial severed during the proceedings, lowering the number from eight to seven.

Reasons for this departure include a large number of such conferences, the quick pace of research progress, and computer science professional society support for the distribution and archiving of conference proceedings.

On several occasions he has enabled the defeat of moves to reduce the number of weeks at which termination of a pregnancy can be legally performed in Britain by " talking out the measure " ( filibustering ), as on 20 January 1989, when he held up proceedings by trying to move a writ for a by-election in the constituency of Richmond.

A peculiarity of the work is its inclusion of a large number of purportedly authentic documents such as extracts from Senate proceedings and letters written by imperial personages.

One unintended result of the pick of location was that, since it was overlooked by a large hill, a significant number of people were able to watch the proceedings for free.

He authored more than 300 scientific papers, and co-authored and edited a number of books and conference proceedings.

The proceedings were ended and were to recommence on February 7 ; however, a number of chiefs pressed to sign earlier.

Search results can be filtered according to a number of criteria, including specifying a range of years such as ' 1945 to 1975 ', ' 2000 to the present day ' or ' before 1900 ', and what type of journal the article appears in – non-peer reviewed articles such as conference proceedings can be excluded or specifically searched for, or specific journals can be included in or excluded from the search.

The discursive arenas, such as Britain ’ s coffee houses, France ’ s salons and Germany ’ s Tischgesellschaften " may have differed in the size and compositions of their publics, the style of their proceedings, the climate of their debates, and their topical orientations ", but " they all organized discussion among people that tended to be ongoing ; hence they had a number of institutional criteria in common ":

Beyond passing legislation ( and being able to block any of the president's legislative initiatives ), the Assembly has a number of specific powers outlined in Article 187, including approving the budget, initiating impeachment proceedings against most government officials ( including ministers and the Vice President, but not the President, who can only be removed through a recall referendum ) and appointing the members of the electoral, judicial, and prosecutorial branches of government.

NAM was more willing the following year, in the face of written statements submitted in the WHO proceedings from a number of nuclear-weapon states indicating strong views to the effect that the WHO lacked competence in the matter.

Altogether forty-two states participated in the written phase of the pleadings, the largest number ever to join in proceedings before the Court.