Revision of the Federal Criminal Code: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session, on Revision of the Federal Criminal Code, February 14, 15, 22, 27, September 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, October 9, 11, and 25, 1979, Part 4 |
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... Crime and Delinquency National Interreligious Service Board for Conscientious Objectors .. National Interreligious Task Force on Criminal Justice National Legal Aid and Defender Association ... National Organization for the Reform of ...
... Crime and Delinquency National Interreligious Service Board for Conscientious Objectors .. National Interreligious Task Force on Criminal Justice National Legal Aid and Defender Association ... National Organization for the Reform of ...
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... Crime Rates , Sanction Levels , and Constraints on Prison Population " , 12 Law & Soc'y 341 ( 1978 ) . ( Attachment to letter of Prof. Alfred Blumstein to Hon . Robert F. Drinan , September 5 , 1979 .. National Governors ' Conference ...
... Crime Rates , Sanction Levels , and Constraints on Prison Population " , 12 Law & Soc'y 341 ( 1978 ) . ( Attachment to letter of Prof. Alfred Blumstein to Hon . Robert F. Drinan , September 5 , 1979 .. National Governors ' Conference ...
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... Crime Yields Handful of Cases in 2 Years " , New York Times ( July 15 , 1979 ) ( Appendix to prepared state- ment of Mark Green on behalf of Public Citizen's Congress Watch ) ............ Tillet , S. Raymond , Esq .: Letter to Hon ...
... Crime Yields Handful of Cases in 2 Years " , New York Times ( July 15 , 1979 ) ( Appendix to prepared state- ment of Mark Green on behalf of Public Citizen's Congress Watch ) ............ Tillet , S. Raymond , Esq .: Letter to Hon ...
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... crime with intent that the crime be completed . 3. Elimination of the general conspiracy statute opting to apply it to specific statutes . 4. The requirement that false statements must be written to constitute a crime . 5. The reduction ...
... crime with intent that the crime be completed . 3. Elimination of the general conspiracy statute opting to apply it to specific statutes . 4. The requirement that false statements must be written to constitute a crime . 5. The reduction ...
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... crime , and he , or the other person engaged in any conduct intending to commit the crime , they both would be guilty . Let's take an example in order to see the dangers inherent in this section . Suppose someone were interested in a ...
... crime , and he , or the other person engaged in any conduct intending to commit the crime , they both would be guilty . Let's take an example in order to see the dangers inherent in this section . Suppose someone were interested in a ...
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Page 2939 - In determining what is obscene material, the basic guidelines for the trier of fact must be: (a) whether the "average person, applying contemporary community standards" would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest; (b) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law; and (c) whether the work as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
Page 2923 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 3209 - ... investigation, including reports of informants and investigators, and associated with an identifiable individual; or (C) reports identifiable to an individual compiled at any stage of the process of enforcement of the criminal laws from arrest or indictment through release from supervision.
Page 3624 - ... be permitted by the court to withdraw his plea of guilty and enter a plea of not guilty; or if he has been convicted after a plea of not guilty, the court shall set aside the verdict of guilty; and in either case the court shall thereupon dismiss the accusations or information against such defendant, who shall thereafter be released from all penalties and disabilities resulting from the offense or crime of which he has been convicted.
Page 3572 - Is not that very question a question of fact, or a mixed question of law and fact ? Certainly it is.
Page 2951 - If any provision of this Act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the application of the provision to other persons not similarly situated or to other circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
Page 3642 - Those who shall have been convicted, in any court of competent jurisdiction, of treason against the State, of embezzlement of public funds, malfeasance in office, bribery, or larceny, or of any crime involving moral turpitude, punishable by the laws of this State with imprisonment in the penitentiary, unless such person shall have been pardoned.