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.
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.
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.
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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In banning Baby BOSS last year, the Treasury said the trust rules require that the big gain and big (artificial) loss be reported separately on the 1040 and that concealing these items or advising others to do so might be a criminal offense.
This and his having already told her she would have to turn over whatever she had, hardly can support a charge of obstruction or misprision or conspiracy as a criminal offense, let alone to justify the majority counsel's conclusion of an impeachable one.
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If a background check discloses a criminal offense, the EEOC expects a company to do an intricate "individualized assessment" that will somehow prove that it has a "business necessity" not to hire the ex-offender (or that his offense disqualifies him for a specific job).
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The Second Circuit agreed with Caronia and became the first court in the nation to hold that truthful and non-misleading off-label promotional speech is constitutionally protected under the First Amendment and, as a corollary, that off-label promotional speech would not constitute a criminal offense unless the speech was false or misleading.
Because making any promotional statement regarding the off-label use of a drug constituted, at the very least, a criminal misdemeanor offense, pharmaceutical companies spent millions of dollars annually on compliance and training programs to deter and detect off-label promotion by sales representatives.
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.
Al-Marri had been accused of being an al Qaeda "sleeper agent, " but until the indictment had never been charged with a criminal or terrorism-related offense.
If she wants to go easy on a given defendant, she can indict for the most minor possible crime, present a skimpy criminal history, and downplay the offense.
At that time, Congress made employing illegal aliens a federal offense and explicitly pre-empted state and local criminal charges and civil fines.
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