An act or omission is a crime if it is capable of being followed by what are called criminal proceedings.

Where it is not necessary to be so urgent, or where indirect contempt has taken place the Attorney General can intervene and the Crown Prosecution Service will institute criminal proceedings on his behalf before a Divisional Court of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales.

Under the Contempt of Court Act 1981 it is criminal contempt of court to publish anything which creates a real risk that the course of justice in proceedings may be seriously impaired.

The only types of records that are disclosed as being in the system are those of " federal prisoners who are in custody pending criminal proceedings.

No one shall be liable to be tried or punished again in criminal proceedings under the jurisdiction of the same State for an offence for which he or she has already been finally acquitted or convicted in accordance with the law and penal procedure of that State.

But convention in Scotland does not recognise the use of the term " defendant " in criminal proceedings ; the terms " accused " or " panel " are used instead.

A number of criminal proceedings against Patrick have resulted in felony convictions for kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment.

The majority of Convention violations that the Court finds today are excessive delays, in violation of the " reasonable time " requirement, in civil and criminal proceedings before national courts, mostly in Italy and France.

The Supreme Court of the Falkland Islands has unlimited jurisdiction to hear and determine any civil or criminal proceedings, and consists of the Chief Justice ( CJ ) who is generally a senior barrister or solicitor with a good amount of judicial experience in the United Kingdom.

The AG's primary role is to determine the legality of government proceedings and action, and has the power to institute and undertake criminal proceedings before any court of law, to take over and continue any criminal proceedings that may have been instituted by another person or authority and to discontinue at any stage before judgment any criminal proceedings instituted or undertaken another person or authority.

In e. g. criminal and family-related proceedings in local courts, the panel of judges may include both lay judges and professional judges, while all appeals courts and administrative courts consist only of professional judges.

Other common assertions about the benefits of trial by jury is that it provides a means of interjecting community norms and values into judicial proceedings and that it legitimizes the law by providing opportunities for citizens to validate criminal statutes in their application to specific trials.

* The legislature enacted the Missouri Victim's Bill of Rights, which allows crime victims to be informed of and present at criminal proceedings, the right to restitution, the right to protection from the defendant and the right to be informed of the escape or release of a defendant.

The Miranda warning ( also referred to as Miranda rights ) is a warning given by police in the United States to criminal suspects in police custody ( or in a custodial interrogation ) before they are interrogated to preserve the admissibility of their statements against them in criminal proceedings.

As in the system of the Soviet era, the procurator general and his regional and local equivalents are both the state's chief prosecuting officials and the chief investigators of criminal cases, a configuration that limits the pretrial rights of defendants.

Universal jurisdiction or universality principle is a principle in public international law ( as opposed to private international law ) whereby states claim criminal jurisdiction over persons whose alleged crimes were committed outside the boundaries of the prosecuting state, regardless of nationality, country of residence, or any other relation with the prosecuting country.

Хулига ́ нство ) was listed as a criminal offense ( similar to " disorderly conduct " in some other jurisdictions ) and used as a catch-all charge for prosecuting unapproved behavior.

But he also believed that police and prosecutors had to act fairly, and much of what would later lie at the heart of the Warren Court's revolution in criminal justice can be traced back to his days as an active prosecuting attorney.

* The county prosecuting attorney and his staff prosecute felony offenses, along with all misdemeanor, criminal and traffic offenses in violation of the Ohio Revised Code.

When the Police have concluded their investigation a decision on whether to charge somebody with a criminal offence will often be made by prosecuting counsel having considered the evidence produced by the Police.

There is also a United States Attorney in each district, who acts as the federal government's lawyer in the district, both prosecuting federal criminal cases and defending the government ( and its employees ) in civil suits against them ; the U. S. Attorney is not employed by the judicial branch but by the Department of Justice, part of the executive branch.

Universal jurisdiction is a controversial principle in international law whereby states claim criminal jurisdiction over persons whose alleged crimes were committed outside the boundaries of the prosecuting state, regardless of nationality, country of residence, or any other relation with the prosecuting country.

The Director of Public Prosecutions () of Hong Kong heads the Prosecutions Division of the Department of Justice, which is responsible for prosecuting trials and appeals on behalf of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, providing legal advice to law enforcement agencies on investigations, acting on behalf of the Secretary for Justice in the institution of criminal proceedings, and providing advice to bureaux and departments on measures to reform the criminal law.

The prosecuting attorneys ultimately dropped the criminal case.

The Office of the Prosecutor was responsible for prosecuting both criminal and civil cases.

The Attorney General also has powers to bring " unduly lenient " sentences and points of law to the Court of Appeal, issue writs of nolle prosequi to cancel criminal prosecutions, supervise other prosecuting bodies ( such as DEFRA ) and advise individual ministers facing legal action as a result of their official actions.

" The court provided a venue for prosecuting criminal charges, but afforded no relief for tribes seeking to resolve civil matters.

The U. S. Attorney for the District of Columbia has the additional responsibility of prosecuting local criminal cases in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, the equivalent of a municipal court for the national capital.

Afterwards he had a large practice at the central criminal court and the Middlesex sessions, and he was for several years junior prosecuting counsel to the Treasury.

In Republican Rome, criminal prosecutions took place in the Forum either before a tribal assembly with a magistrate prosecuting ( a procedure specified in the Twelve Tables and the normal mode of prosecution in the middle Republic ) or in a jury-court ( quaestio de repetundis ) established by statute and presided over by a magistrate with a jury ( after 70 BC ) of about 50-75 jurors.

At one point in the criminal case an appeal was pending before the Georgia Supreme Court on certain issues created by the District Attorney in prosecuting Marsh.

McCracken Poston and Ron Cordova crafted the plea agreement while Stuart James, Frank Jenkins and Robert Smalley concluded a settlement of the federal civil action after a series of meetings in Rome, Georgia which also included Poston and the District Attorney prosecuting the Georgia state criminal case against Marsh.

The Act contemplated the future need for War Crimes Tribunals in Iraq stating, " The Congress urges the President to call upon the United Nations to establish an international criminal tribunal for the purpose of indicting, prosecuting, and imprisoning Saddam Hussein and other Iraqi officials who are responsible for crimes against humanity, genocide, and other criminal violations of international law.

Contempt of court in a civil suit is generally not considered to be a criminal offense, with the party benefiting from the order also holding responsibility for the enforcement of the order.

A defendant or defender ( Δ in legal shorthand ) is any party required to answer a plaintiff's complaint in a civil lawsuit, or any party that has been formally charged or accused of violating a criminal statute.

The article states that a criminal offence is one under either national or international law, which would permit a party to prosecute someone for a crime which was not illegal under their domestic law at the time, so long as it was prohibited by international law.

The criminal court case brought against Aristide was quietly shelved, though various members of his Lavalas party languished for years in prison without charge or trial due to similar accusations

In opposition to the German submissions, the United States argued that the Vienna Convention did not grant rights to individuals, only to states ; that the convention was meant to be exercised subject to the laws of each state party, which in the case of the United States meant subject to the doctrine of procedural default ; and that Germany was seeking to turn the ICJ into an international court of criminal appeal.

Notwithstanding the fact that the victim is not party to the criminal case and prosecutor is not a tool in hands of victim to revenge offender, the attitude of the victim in relation to the plea agreement is still important.

To maintain the political power and security of the Nazi party ( and later the nation ), the SS established and ran the SD ( Security service ) and took over the administration of Gestapo ( Secret state police ), Kripo ( criminal investigative police ), and the Orpo ( regular uniformed police ).

No other punishments may be inflicted pursuant to the impeachment proceeding, but the convicted party remains liable to trial and punishment in the courts for civil and criminal charges.

No other punishments may be inflicted pursuant to the impeachment proceeding, but the convicted party remains liable to trial and punishment in the courts for civil and criminal charges.

A party that fails to comply with an injunction faces criminal or civil penalties and may have to pay damages or accept sanctions.

During 15 months in office, Andropov dismissed 18 ministers, 37 first secretaries of obkoms, kraikoms and Central Committees of Communist Parties of Soviet Republics ; criminal cases on highest party and state officials were started.

A confidential informant is someone who claimed to have witnessed an event or have hearsay information, but whose identity is being withheld from at least one party ( typically the criminal defendant ).

" The Board considered Bolivia, Peru and a few other countries that allow such practises to be in breach with their treaty obligations, and insisted that “ each party to the Convention should establish as a criminal offence, when committed intentionally, the possession and purchase of coca leaf for personal consumption .”

In these operations a government or organization attempts to impersonate another party while committing a criminal act.

Song judges specified the guilty person or party in a criminal act and meted out punishments accordingly, often in the form of caning.

Most of the city's large businesses, which had previously been state owned, were fought over by members of the former party elite, the emerging nouveau riche, and fast growing criminal syndicates.

Nikolay Nikolaychuk, a member of The United Russia party, has been the Mayor since 2007, replacing mayor Alexander Makarov, who was suspended from his post pending the outcome of criminal proceedings against him.

An important variation on the whodunit is the inverted detective story ( also referred to as a " howcatchem " or " howdunnit ") win which the guilty party and the crime are openly revealed to the reader / audience and the story follows the investigator's efforts to find out the truth while the criminal attempts to prevent it.

In Anglo-American law, the party bringing a criminal charge ( that is, in most cases, the state ) is called the " prosecution ", but the party bringing most forms of civil action is the " plaintiff " or " claimant ".

In the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, thoughtcrime is the criminal act of holding unspoken beliefs or doubts that oppose or question the ruling party.

However, in contemporary usage, it means someone who is seized by a criminal abductor in order to compel another party such as a relative, employer, law enforcement, or government to act, or refrain from acting, in a particular way, often under threat of serious physical harm to the hostage ( s ) after expiration of an ultimatum.

Coke challenged this, saying " the King in his own person cannot adjudge any case, either criminal – as treason, felony etc, or betwixt party and party ; but this ought to be determined and adjudged in some court of justice, according to the Law and Custom of England ".