Alphonse Gabriel " Al " Capone ( January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947 ) was an American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate.

Extreme food shortages and electrical blackouts led to a brief period of unrest, including numerous anti-government protests and widespread increases in urban crime.

The primary literary influence on film noir was the hardboiled school of American detective and crime fiction, led in its early years by such writers as Dashiell Hammett ( whose first novel, Red Harvest, was published in 1929 ) and James M. Cain ( whose The Postman Always Rings Twice appeared five years later ), and popularized in pulp magazines such as Black Mask.

This has led to a high rate of poverty in Ghana, estimated at 27 % of the population in 2011, and an increase in crime, with Ghana jumping from 42nd position in 2011 to 50th position in the 2012 Global Peace Index.

Patty Hearst, who admitted to being a getaway driver during the crime, provided the original information that led the police to implicate the SLA in the robbery and murder ; she also stated that Soliah was one of the actual robbers.

Unanimously, the Trial Chamber, led by Sir Adrian Fulford, found Lubanga guilty of the war crime of conscripting and enlisting children under the age of 15 and using them in his rebel army The Union of Congolese Patriots.

The mysterious deaths, murder conviction of Duane (“ Buck ”) Walker ( aka Wesley G. Walker ) and acquittal of his girlfriend, Stephanie Stearns, made headlines nationwide and led to a best-selling account written by Stearns's defense attorney, Vincent Bugliosi, and Bruce B. Henderson in the true crime book And the Sea Will Tell.

The interests of public police agencies in cross-border co-operation in the control of political radicalism and ordinary law crime were primarily initiated in Europe, which eventually led to the establishment of Interpol before the Second World War.

Racial ideology is not to be found entirely in maps of colonialization, it is also seen within the biopolitics of the early 19th century with the rise of the “ population ” as a unit of analysis, and a governmental concern with health and crime that led attempts to understand, and categorize, the population.

* Darcy Parker-Darcy was a ruthless and predatory crime boss who led the " Parker Girls ," women who are skilled in various acts of seduction and espionage.

In 1928, Thompson was involved in a high-stakes poker game that led to the shooting death of New York City crime boss Arnold " the Brain " Rothstein, then called the " crime of the century ".

The serious crime situation in the country has led to a severe deterioration in security conditions in the country.

The newly formed union government of Serbia and Montenegro reacted swiftly by calling a state of emergency and undertaking an unprecedented crackdown on organized crime which led to the arrest of more than 4, 000 people.

Organized crime turns to smuggling and bootlegging of liquor, led by figures such as Al Capone, boss of the Chicago Outfit.

One such Mafia syndicate was led by crime family patriarch Honore Vashon ( played by Harold Gould ), a character introduced in the fifth season.

However, they made a grave mistake in supporting this crime as it arouses the wrath of spirits who then pursue the ship " from the land of mist and snow "; the south wind that had initially led them from the land of ice now sends the ship into uncharted waters, where it is becalmed.

These are, the reduction in gun crime in Northern Ireland ( which led to guns coming from there to the criminal black market in England ); guns ( official issue or confiscated ) acquired by military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan ; and guns coming from Eastern Europe after the fall of the iron curtain.

In the 1920s, the public flouting of Prohibition laws, mob violence, and police involvement in illegal activities led to the appointment of Brigadier General Smedley Butler of the U. S. Marine Corps as director of public safety, but political pressure prevented any long-term success in fighting crime and corruption.

As a result of this, Drogheda has a serious unemployment problem, which has in turn led to a serious rise in social problems, including crime ( organised, violent and petty ), poverty, lack of affordable housing, homelessness, and various substance abuse.

Prohibition lost advocates as alcohol gained increasing social acceptance and as prohibition led to disrespect for the law and the growth of organized crime.

The Dead End Kids, led by Tommy Gordon ( Billy Halop ), are a petty gang of street urchins who are already well onto a path to a life of crime.

; Wallenquist Organization: A powerful crime syndicate led by Herr Wallenquist, a mysterious crime lord with a broad range of criminal enterprises to his name.

This accolade, and its associated publicity, led to a surge in sales that made Fleming the biggest-selling crime writer in the US.

Sir Herbert Baker's rebuilding of the Bank of England, demolishing most of Sir John Soane's earlier building was described by architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner as " the greatest architectural crime, in the City of London, of the twentieth century ".

The Bank being his most famous work, Sir Herbert Baker's rebuilding of the Bank, demolishing most of Soane's earlier building was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as " the greatest architectural crime, in the City of London, of the twentieth century ".

Free speech advocates state that the Government violated Jake Baker's First Amendment right to free speech by charging him with a crime for writing stories.

"' The only exception to this is that if a defendant appeals a conviction for a crime having multiple levels of offenses, where they are convicted on a lesser offense, the appeal is of the lesser offense ; the conviction represents an acquittal of the more serious offenses.

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.

The defendant maintains a claim of innocence, but agrees to the entry of a conviction in the charged crime.

For the purpose of section 243 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations ( Consolidation ) Act 1992, a crime means an offence punishable on indictment, or an offence punishable on summary conviction, and for the commission of which the offender is liable under the statute making the offence punishable to be imprisoned either absolutely or at the discretion of the court as an alternative for some other punishment.

Contrary to the legal principle of " no double jeopardy ," after the officers were acquitted, the government renamed the crime and tried the officers a second time for the same event and got a conviction from a jury with black jurors.

As one aspect of this relationship, in much of Indian Country, the Justice Department alone has the authority to seek a conviction that carries an appropriate potential sentence when a serious crime has been committed.

On the other hand, the prosecutor may wish to maintain a high conviction rate and avoid losing high-profile trials ; thus, settling a case by plea bargain may further his interests, even if the resulting sentence would not effectively deter crime.

A victim impact panel is a form of community-based or restorative justice in which the crime victims ( or relatives and friends of deceased crime victims ) meet with the defendant after conviction to tell the convict about how the criminal activity affected them, in the hope of rehabilitation or deterrence.

Edward Coolidge is tried and convicted of the crime, but the conviction is set aside by the landmark Fourth Amendment Case " Coolidge vs. New Hampshire ( 1971 ).

Szasz has indicated that his own views came from libertarian politics held since his teens, rather than through experience in psychiatry ; that in his " rare " contacts with involuntary mental patients in the past he either sought to discharge them ( if they were not charged with a crime ) or " assisted the prosecution in securing conviction " ( if they were charged with a crime and appeared to be prima facie guilty ); that he is not opposed to consensual psychiatry and " does not interfere with the practice of the conventional psychiatrist ", and that he provided " listening-and-talking (" psychotherapy ")" for voluntary fee-paying clients from 1948 until 1996, a practice he characterizes as non-medical and not associated with his being a psychoanalytically trained psychiatrist.

By the late 1930s Dewey's successful efforts against organized crime — and especially his conviction of Lucky Luciano — had turned him into a national celebrity.

There are various common categories of quotations: malapropisms or grammatical errors, exaggerations about past achievements, lack of conviction, consorting with the enemy, moral turpitude, indifference towards victims of crime, racist or discrimanatory, etc.

Feigned insanity is the simulation of mental illness in order to avoid or lessen the consequences of a confrontation or conviction for an alleged crime.

Pipes has accused CAIR of demanding that a billboard declaring Osama bin Laden " the sworn enemy " be brought down in 1998 as " offensive to Moslems ", denying bin Laden's responsibility for the Africa embassy bombings, calling the conviction of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers " a travesty of justice ," calling the conviction of the blind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman a " hate crime ", calling the extradition order of suspected Hamas terrorist Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook " anti-Islamic ", calling President Bush's closing of the Holy Land Foundation for collecting money used to support Hamas " unjust " and " disturbing ", praising and defending convicted murderer H. Rap Brown as well as convicted attempted murderer Adnan Chaudhry, and their LA office head calling Israelis " zionazis "; he also quotes the FBI's former chief of counterterrorism Steven Pomerantz saying that CAIR " effectively " gives aid to international terrorist groups.

We had to consider all this — to look at the magnitude of the crime, and to look also at the consideration that if this were not the first case brought under the Act, our duty might have obliged us to carry out the penalty it awards to the utmost extent ; but taking into consideration that this is the first conviction under the Act — though the offence has been as clearly proved as any offence of the kind could be — the sentence of the court is that you, John Mitchel, be transported beyond the seas for the term of fourteen years.

However one defendant, Santana, remained in jail, convicted of a later, unrelated crime, although his attorney said that his sentence in that case had been extended because of his conviction in the Meili attack.

With the arrest and conviction of Gotti and various Gambino family members in 1992, Gigante was officially recognized as the most powerful crime boss in the United States.

* Jun 09, 2006 CTV News: Ahenakew's hate crime conviction overturned

In 2002 Hanratty's body was exhumed and the Court of Appeal upheld his conviction after Hanratty's DNA was linked to crime scene samples.