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 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, when essential sacred mysteries and teachings are described as myth, in modern English, the word often still implies that it is " idle fancy, fiction, or falsehood ".

" Thus, " The Shadow " premiered over CBS airwaves on July 31, 1930, as the host of the Detective Story Hour, narrating " tales of mystery and suspense from the pages of the premier detective fiction magazine.

Thus the beings of the Simon Necronomicon bear little resemblance to either Sumerian myth or Lovecraftian fiction.

Thus his books are often classified as political fiction and social science fiction, although they are not seen as dystopian fiction.

Thus from the start, Polish autonomy remained little more than fiction.

Thus, many fiction writers turned toward ' documenting ' the common people, those who suffered most brutally the effects of the Depression.

Thus the original author and the player share in the creation of a work of fiction.

Thus, the hero of Back to the Future time travel through a scientific process, namely a machine designed for this purpose ; this work is therefore the science fiction film as opposed to the Visitors, who also directed a journey through time, but does not give a rational explanation ( the heroes travel in time through the magic, thanks to the work of an enchanter ) and therefore falls within the fantastic ( more precisely, it is a fantastic comedy ).

Thus began what Bishop calls " the first ever transatlantic science fiction collaboration ", with all correspondence sent by post.

Thus, fabulation challenges some traditional notions of literature — the traditional structure of a novel or role of the narrator, for example — and integrates other traditional notions of storytelling, including fantastical elements, such as magic and myth, or elements from popular genres such as science fiction.

Thus, hypertext fiction of the simple node and link variety is ergodic literature but not cybertext.

Thus Jim Collins in Uncommon Cultures sees crime fiction opposing a smart private detective and an inefficient police force as a critique of state justice.

Thus she inserts her own narratives, with its fusion of fact and fiction, into the annals of history and uses her reenactments as poignant reflections on societal standards, biases and ideals.

Thus, it does not follow that because one person, place, or thing is present in two or more works of fiction that those works are necessarily related.

Thus it was described by one character in the book's original draft as " 30 % autobiography, 40 % case history of Pinoy ( Filipino immigrant ) life in America, and 30 % fiction ".

Thus, in Robert Bloch's tale " The Shambler from the Stars ", a weird fiction writer seals his doom by casting a spell from the arcane book De Vermis Mysteriis.

Thus far, the only other " Ravage " character to appear in Transformers fiction, who is not the original Ravage, is the 2004 Transformers: Energon incarnation of the character, named Battle Ravage ( Command Jaguar in Japan's Transformers: Superlink ) for the same reason as the Alternator ( which the Energon figure predated ).

Thus Nagpur High Court was not abolished but by a legal fiction it became High Court for the new state of Madhya Pradesh with its seat at Jabalpur.

Thus, the avant-garde choreographers have extended the scope of materials available for dance composition.

Thus, many a creativity-oriented aspirant for a career in architecture, drama, or journalism, resigns himself to a real estate business ; ;

Thus a new pattern of days began to develop, for Granny Albright did not die.

Thus, the need for the B-70 as a strategic weapon system is doubtful.

Thus, you avoid headaches when an employee wants off for his fourth cousin's funeral.

Thus it was that Barco, apprehended for mere larceny, now began to suspect that one or another of his murders had been uncovered.

Thus, the dotted line shown in figure 4 was taken as typical for the temperature distribution for all blowing rates.

Thus, for aqueous media, we can think of the idealized organic active as an oleophilic or hydrophobic surface-active agent, and of an idealized builder as a oleophobic or hydrophilic surface-active agent.

Thus, an enemy would probably use this weapon for attack on static population centers such as large cities.

Thus, the alignment of the `` dots '' and `` tips '', respectively, indicate individual variability of the 21 growth centers of each child with respect to the mean values for these boys and girls.

Thus if E is sufficiently small, there can be only one intersection of C and Af near Q, for if there were more than one intersection for every E then the difference between C and Af near Q would not be a monotone function.

Thus the multiplicity of Af for a given T must be an even number.

Thus, although the agenda of external assistance in the economic sphere are cumulative, and many of the policies suggested for nations in the earlier stages remain relevant, the basic purpose of American economic policy during the later stages of development should be to assure that movement into a stage of self-sustaining growth is not prevented by lack of foreign exchange.

Thus the lack of effective recognition of the responsibilities involved in caring for two babies showed signs of becoming a disabling problem.

Thus, the writer decided to hold one experimental section of the functional preparation for marriage course in the spring semester of 1960 exclusively for persons already married -- that is, prerequisite: `` marriage ''.

Thus the films seen as they came in ( coordinated for the regular sections ), were often out of context.

Thus, when more than one distinct form leads to a particular cell in the X-region, a chain of information cells must be created to accommodate the forms, one cell in the chain for each form.

Thus in his friends are stranger than his sisters' strong stresses are normal for his and sisters', but in his friends are stranger than his sisters strong stresses are normal for friends and sisters.

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 his persistence values for some stem frequencies per meaning are: stem identical in 8 languages, 100% ; ;

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