It is a criminal offense, a felony, and it has historically been an impeachable offense.
In much of Latin America, abortion is still illegal and in many cases a criminal offense.
They committed a criminal offense by bribing government officials overseas in order to win business.
The proposition would make it a criminal offense to carry out the oldest Jewish religious ritual.
Still, it remains a criminal offense with all that imports for the dignity of the persons charged.
Police said the incident is being treated as a criminal offense, and did not mention a terrorism angle.
Most of all, their lawyers will have to convince 12 Houston jurors that pride isn't a criminal offense.
It also makes use of existing law to make smuggling guns out of the country a criminal offense.
This has been a worldwide issue New Zealand recently concluded that Google did not commit a criminal offense.
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It is not merely a criminal offense to publish hundreds of thousands of classified US government documents with malice aforethought.
Under Mongolian law, dinosaur fossils are property of the Mongolian government and exporting them from the country is a criminal offense.
He pled guilty to a criminal offense, and, the next year, while awaiting sentencing, he fled to France, where he remains to this day.
Galiano had been involved in a drunken brawl outside a Paris bar where he was accused of making anti-Semitic remarks (a criminal offense in France).
Conviction of a criminal offense requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
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In addition, Britten was homosexual at a time when "gross indecency" between consenting adults was a criminal offense in England (it remained so until 1967).
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Failing to register as a lobbyist is not a criminal offense.
That does not justify turning drug use into a criminal offense.
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Does Washington really want to make unsuccessful risk-taking a criminal offense?
One of the parties would first have to be charged with a criminal offense before the government can demand that they surrender their private encryption keys.
When charged with a criminal offense, that refers to the ability of the government to demand that you surrender your private encryption keys that decrypt your data.
Since 1998 it has been a criminal offense for a Swiss banker not to properly document the source of wealth and the "end beneficiaries" behind a bank account.
Young people are a bit more open and tolerant, although many regrettably still see it as a gay-related disease -- and homosexuality is a criminal offense in Singapore.
Criticism of Islam, Allah or Mohammed is a criminal offense.
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While we applaud the ingenuity, the motives are certainly below traditional moral standards, but this certainly isn't the first (nor the last) criminal offense involving DAPs.
Some lawmakers have sought to pass a new law that would narrowly define the criminal offense to apply to those who receive a benefit by lying about military honors.
In 2009, however, he was convicted of the criminal offense of working for a foreign news organization without the proper license, after a controversial interview he gave to al-Jazeera.
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At the time of his arrest and the raids on his premises in 2006, doping was not a criminal offense in Spain, but he was found guilty of endangering public health.
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On its face it was fatuous given that Galant's behavior constituted an administrative offense for which one pays a fine, rather than a criminal offense for which one goes to jail.
Homosexuality has gone from being a criminal offense that could, and did, send writer Oscar Wilde to jail in England, to a comic staple in movies and TV shows, to a subject of serious constitutional study.
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However, because investigators were unable to fully develop the facts of the case partly bcause of the White House failure to provide internal documents the report recommends further inquiry to determine whether any criminal offense was committed.
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