Thus one can be tried twice for the same alleged crime.

Thus, if there is no alternate rationale for prosecuting some people more harshly for the same crime based on who the victim is, then different defendants are treated unequally under the law, which violates the United States Constitution.

Thus, not only the existence of the crime depends on there being a previous legal provision declaring it to be a penal offense ( nullum crimen sine praevia lege ), but also, for a specific penalty to be imposed in a certain case, it is also necessary that the penal legislation in force at the time when the crime was committed ranked the penalty to be imposed as one of the possible sanctions to that crime ( nulla poena sine praevia lege ).

Thus, if it seemed likely that a strong, poor man were guilty of robbing a rich, weak man, the strong poor man could argue, on the contrary, that this very likelihood ( that he would be a suspect ) makes it unlikely that he committed the crime, since he would most likely be apprehended for the crime.

Jeff Snyder is a spokesman for the view that gun possession is a civil right, and that therefore arguments about whether gun restrictions reduce or increase violent crime are beside the point: " I am not here engaged in ... recommending ... policy prescriptions on the basis of the promised or probable results crime ... Thus these essays are not fundamentally about guns at all.

Thus, it is not a victimless crime because the person committing it is incompetent to consent to it.

Thus, those who assist in a failed suicide would be participants in a victimless crime because the would-be suicide cannot be tried.

Thus in crime fiction, for example, ' Rycroft sees the criminal as personifying the reader's unavowed hostility to the parent '.

Thus, in jurisdictions with due process, there must be an actus reus accompanied by some level of mens rea to constitute the crime with which the defendant is charged ( see the technical requirement of concurrence ).

Thus, in a criminal case a crime cannot be proven if the person or persons judging it doubt the guilt of the suspect and have a reason ( not just a feeling or intuition ) for this doubt.

Thus, New Jersey has a law which makes it a “ disorderly persons offense ” to knowingly to engage in the unauthorized practice of law, and a “ crime in the fourth degree ” to commit UPL if one ( a ) creates a false impression that one is a lawyer ; ( b ) derives a benefit from UPL, or ( c ) causes an injury by UPL.

Thus, a combination of factors might be important for the decrease in crime not just the CCTV cameras.

Thus Tillessen and Plaas were only convicted of non-notification of a crime and sentenced to three and two years in prison, respectively.

Thus, a person suffering from somnambulism, a fugue, a metabolic disorder, epilepsy, or other convulsive or reflexive disorder, who kills another, steals another's property, or engages in other facially criminal conduct, may not have committed an actus reus, for such conduct may have been elicited unconsciously, and, " one who engages in what would otherwise be criminal conduct is not guilty of a crime if he does so in a state of unconsciousness " Depending on jurisdiction, automatism may be a defense distinct from insanity or a species of it.

Thus, the Sixth Amendment calls for trial " by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed.

Thus, the only way that one crime differs from another is in the backgrounds and characteristics of its perpetrators.

Thus, an organization called " The Dome " was formed to help superheroes who needed to fight crime across international borders ; the superhero group called the Global Guardians were their main agents.

Thus if the reprentation was false when made but is true at the time title to the property passes there is no crime.

Thus, additional research is required, using a more complex model of crime and control to include variables such as opportunities or incentives relative to a country's standard of living, potential punishment, chance of being caught, law enforcement efforts and expenditures on theft and property crime relative to other crimes, size of the country's criminal population, education levels, and other socio-economic factors.

Thus, fraud is considered by the FBI as a " predecessor " or " collateral " crime to Money Laundering.

Thus, to cite but one example, the Pax Britannica of the nineteenth century, whether with the British navy ruling the seas or with the City of London ruling world finance, was strictly national in motivation, however much other nations ( e.g., the United States ) may have incidentally benefited.

Thus the member of an industrial union comes to regard his officers as business agents who may proceed without interference or recall ; ;

Thus the student of literature may sometimes find it helpful to classify a poem or an essay as being in idea or in ideal content or subject matter typical or atypical of its period.

Thus, as a development program is being launched, commitments and obligations must be entered into in a given year which may exceed by twofold or threefold the expenditures to be made in that year.

Thus, a child's Skeletal Age `` dots '' may be classified as `` advanced '' when they appear above the middle curve, `` moderate '' when they appear immediately above or below the middle curve, and `` delayed '' when they appear below the lower curve.

Thus he may be referring to some concrete thing, or incident, in his immediate environment by some symbolic-sounding, hyperbolic reference to transcendental events on the global scene.

Thus in Mary wrote an account of the trip first strong stress on Mary marks Mary as the first in a series of people who wrote accounts of the trip, strong stress on wrote marks the writing as the first of a series of actions of Mary's concerned with an account of her trip ( about which she may later have made speeches, for example ), and strong stress on trip makes the trip the first of a series of subjects about which Mary wrote accounts.

Thus while his theory or technique may not be oversubscribed, it is commonplace for bullish and bearish positions to become temporarily over-subscribed.

Thus, if public pressure sets the effective limit to the price that the industry may charge, this pressure is itself a function of the wage rate.

Thus, when specifically permitted, the operand of a given line on the Autocoder coding sheet may be continued in the operand of from one to four additional lines which immediately follow.

Thus creativity may run all the way from making a cake, building a chicken coop, or producing a book, to founding a business, creating a League of Nations or, developing a mature character.

Thus a man who is butting a stone wall at the office may become unusually aggressive in bed -- the one place he can still be champion.

Thus he will be in a position to disabuse the Soviet leader of any notions he may have about grave Allied disunity.

Thus, while it remains possible that the Babylonians and/or the Pythagoreans may perhaps have had the magic square of three before the Chinese did, more definite evidence will have to turn up from the Middle East or the Classical World before China can lose her claim to the earliest known magic square by more than a thousand years.

Thus, giving grades and promotions based only on an individual's performance relative to a small local group, as is common, may reduce cooperative behaviors in the group.

Thus, while altruistic persons may under some circumstances be outcompeted by less altruistic persons at the individual level, according to group selection theory the opposite may occur at the group level where groups consisting of the more altruistic persons may outcompete groups consisting of the less altruistic persons.

Thus, although some things may be certain, they have little to do with Dasein's sense of care and existential anxiety, e. g., in the face of death.

Thus, a court officer taking possession of goods under a court order may use force if reasonably necessary.

Thus, a gene for antibiotic resistance that evolves via natural selection may be shared.

This latter construal is sometimes expressed by saying " there is no fact of the matter as to whether or not P ." Thus, we may speak of anti-realism with respect to other minds, the past, the future, universals, mathematical entities ( such as natural numbers ), moral categories, the material world, or even thought.

Thus it may be roughly translated as " protector of man ".

Thus, three eclipse calculations may be evidence for the suggestion that Romulus reigned from 746 BC to 709 BC, and Rome was founded during 745 BC.

Thus if the instrument depends on the pressure or suction effect alone, and this pressure or suction is measured against the air pressure in an ordinary room, in which the doors and windows are carefully closed and a newspaper is then burnt up the chimney, an effect may be produced equal to a wind of 10 mi / h ( 16 km / h ); and the opening of a window in rough weather, or the opening of a door, may entirely alter the registration.