The Dictionary of Politics: Selected American and Foreign Political and Legal Terms defines the term Alford plea as: " A plea under which a defendant may choose to plead guilty, not because of an admission to the crime, but because the prosecutor has sufficient evidence to place a charge and to obtain conviction in court.

Legal drama sometimes overlap with crime drama, most notably in the case of Law & Order.

Legal scholar Alan Dershowitz has argued that, while a prior history of victimization may be a contributing factor to a violent crime, victimization alone cannot fully explain an act of violence.

Legal punishments for sodomy often included heavy fines and / or life prison sentences, with some states, beginning with Illinois in 1827, denying other rights, such as suffrage, to anyone convicted of the crime of sodomy.

* Legal dramas-Not usually concerned with the actual crime so much as the trial in the aftermath.

The Bureau of Legal Dentistry encourages the use of multiple dental impressions to create a “ dental lineup ”, similar to a suspect lineup used to identify alleged perpetrators of crime.

* Wright, Daniel and Wareham, Gary ( 2005 ); " Mixing sound and vision: The interaction of auditory and visual information for earwitnesses of a crime scene ," Legal and Criminological Psychology, Vol 10 ( 1 ), pp. 103 – 108.

In 1933 Lemkin made a presentation to the Legal Council of the League of Nations conference on international criminal law in Madrid, for which he prepared an essay on the Crime of Barbarity as a crime against international law.

Legal scholar Patricia Williams wrote in 1991 that the teenager " has been the victim of some unspeakable crime.

He also appeared as a guest in an episode of ABC's legal dramedy series Boston Legal and the popular, Emmy award-winning CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

He appeared from 1954-1956 as Jason Tyler on the NBC crime drama Justice, about lawyers of the Legal Aid Society of New York.

The Great Ming Legal Code ( 大明律 ) published in 1397 specified that a cangue should be made from seasoned wood and weigh 25, 20 or 15 jīn ( roughly equivalent to 12. 5, 10 or 7. 5 kilograms ) depending on the nature of the crime involved.

The Asian Legal Resource Centre is of the opinion that the massacre at Depayin clearly amounts to a " widespread or systematic attack directed against civilian population, with a knowledge of the attack " ( article 7. 1 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court ) and is therefore a crime against humanity.

In the 1954-1955 season, Clark co-starred as the character Richard Adams, with Gary Merrill in the role of Jason Tyler, in the NBC crime drama Justice, about attorneys of the Legal Aid Society of New York.

Estimates are produced by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research ( INPE ) for the entire Brazilian Legal Amazon by visually interpreting satellite imagery from the Landsat Thematic Mapper.

Legal meaning of the terms bankruptcy, insolvency, liquidation and dissolution are contested in the Indian legal system.

Legal constraints are dependent on

Legal holds are Armpit holds, Waist holds, Hand to hip holds, and Hand to hand.

Classical approaches to International legal theory are the Natural law, the Eclectic and the Legal positivism schools of thought.

There are different definitions of legal insanity, such as the M ' Naghten Rules, the Durham Rule, the American Legal Institute definition, and various miscellaneous provisions ( e. g., relating to lack of mens rea ).

Legal trades by insiders are common, as employees of publicly traded corporations often have stock or stock options.

Clive Stafford Smith, Legal Director of the UK branch of the human rights group Reprieve, said " We are told that al-Libi committed suicide in his Libyan prison.

His most famous television roles are those of the colorful attorney Alan Shore in The Practice and its spin-off Boston Legal, for which he won three Emmy Awards, and Robert California in The Office.

* Legal positivism, by contrast to natural law, holds that there is no necessary connection between law and morality and that the force of law comes from some basic social facts although positivists differ on what those facts are.

" Legal positivism is the dominant theory, although there are a growing number of critics, who offer their own interpretations.

Legal questions are deemed to be justiciable, while political questions are nonjusticiable.

Legal injuries are not limited to physical injuries.

South Campus is also the site of the Buhr library storage facility ( the collections of which are undergoing digitization by Google ), the Institute for Continuing Legal Education, and the Student Theatre Arts Complex, which provides shop and rehearsal space for student theatre groups.

A number of other online versions are freely available, such as Cornell's Legal Information Institute.

* Legal systems Children are pressured from both parents and peers to conform and obey certain laws or norms of the group / community.

* Legal rights, in contrast, are based on a society's customs, laws, statutes or actions by legislatures.

Legal rights are sometimes called civil rights or statutory rights and are culturally and politically relative since they depend on a specific societal context to have meaning.

Legal far-right groups are also numerous, and include the Bloc identitaire, created by former members of Christian Bouchet's Unité Radicale group.

Assisting the Attorney General in the performance of his duties as Principal Legal Adviser to the Government are:

Notable examples of this type of legal drama are Ally McBeal and Boston Legal.

Article 109 also stated, " Legal privileges or disadvantages based on birth or social standing are to be abolished.

In The Legal Basis of the Total State, Nazi political theorist Carl Schmitt described the Nazi intention to form a " strong state which guarantees a totality of political unity transcending all diversity " in order to avoid a " disastrous pluralism tearing the German people apart "

The Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer ( German Legal Antiquities, 1828 ) was a comprehensive compilation of sources of law from all Germanic languages, whose structure allowed an initial understanding of older German legal traditions not influenced by Roman law.

The Committee for the Study of the Legal Status of Women sought to inquire into the status of women all over the world.

Legal action by rival RCA kept commercial use of the system off the air until June 1951, and regular broadcasts only lasted a few months before manufacture of all color television sets was banned by the Office of Defense Mobilization ( ODM ) in October, ostensibly due to the Korean War.

Legal systems in all socialist states preserved formal criteria of the Romano-Germanic civil law ; for this reason, law theorists in post-socialist states usually consider the Socialist law as a particular case of the Romano-Germanic civil law.

Rabbi David Bar-Hayim of Machon Shilo offers a unique Orthodox approach: he has published a responsum outlining his opinion that there is no binding custom on Ashkenazim in the Land of Israel as historically this was not the local practice ( which, he explains, is the essence of custom ); in March 2007 he released a ruling that all Jews in the Land of Israel are permitted to eat kitniyot ( see English Article and Hebrew Legal Ruling ).

In the 2005 / 2006 ranking " Best Legal Conditions for Investment "– conducted by the Expert RA rating agency – Novosibirsk Oblast received the third place among all 89 federal subjects of Russia.

Legal and engineering services, as well as all construction and maintenance, are contracted out.

holders ) are also offered. This curriculum is professionally oriented, but does not provide the education sufficient for a license to practice as an attorney in Japan, as all candidates for a license must have 12 month practical training by the Legal Training and Research Institute after passing bar examination.

etc .— also Sanitary, Medical, & Legal Memoranda: with a History of the Origin, Properties, and Uses of all Things Connected with Home Life and Comfort.

Membership in the Christian Legal Society is open to all who believe in and sign CLS ’ Statement of Faith.

Thaddeus Stevens, the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee of Ways and Means, which had authored an earlier version of the Legal Tender Act that would have made United States Notes a legal tender for all debts, denounced the exceptions, calling the new bill " mischievous " because it made United States Notes an intentionally depreciated currency for the masses, while the banks who loaned to the government got " sound money " in gold.

* Legal Entity Identification for Financial Contracts, LEI-an identification system to track all parties involved in a financial security transaction including: buyer, seller and issuing ( or underlying ) companies.

Lambda Legal pursues litigation in all parts of the country, in every area of the law that affects communities they represent, such as discrimination in employment, housing, public accommodations, and the military ; HIV / AIDS-related discrimination and public policy issues ; parenting and relationship issues ; equal marriage rights ; equal employment and domestic partnership benefits ; " sodomy " law challenges ; immigration issues ; anti-gay initiatives ; and free speech and equal protection rights.

Legal tender was enacted the first time in 1870 for all notes and coins of the Banque de France.

The United States Supreme Court, with Salmon P. Chase ( former Secretary of the Treasury ) ruled the practice of legal tender unconstitutional in Hepburn v. Griswold in 1869, but later reversed its ruling within a month when confusion in the markets caused everybody not to accept " Legal Tender " notes at all.

The list of witnesses they requested included Saeed Mortazavi, the general prosecutor of Tehran Mohsen Armin, reformist member of the previous parliament Hossein Ansari-Rad, Jamileh Kadivar, and Mohsen Mirdamadi, Minister of Intelligence Ali Younesi, the Vice President of Legal Affairs Mohammad Ali Abtahi, Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ahmad Masjedjamei, the five judges who were present during Kazemi's interrogation, a few employees of the Evin prison, the president of the Baghiyyatollah hospital, and all of the medical staff who had signed her file.

Complaints from the public are handled by the Legal Complaints Service but this function will shortly pass to the Office for Legal Complaints which will be a single portal for complaints by the public made against all providers of legal services including the Bar, licensed conveyancers etc., but excluding unqualified will-writers.

The Law Society remains the approved regulator, although following the Legal Services Act 2007 a new body, the Legal Services Board ( chaired by David Edmonds, a government appointee ) will oversee all the approved regulators including the Bar Council, which has also divested its regulatory functions into the Bar Standards Board.

Legal availability of melatonin varies in different countries, ranging from being available without prescription ( eg in most of North America ) to being available only on prescription or not at all ( although its possession and use may not be illegal ).

However, other journals such as Law, Culture and the Humanities, Unbound: The Harvard Journal of the Legal Left, The National Lawyers Guild Review, Social and Legal Studies and the Australian Feminist Law Journal all published avowedly critical legal research.