D.C. Criminal Code Revisions: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on the Judiciary of the Committee on the District of Columbia, House of Representatives, in Conjunction with the Judiciary Committee of the Council and the Law Revision Commission of the District of Columbia, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session .... |
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... Present : Representatives Mazzoli , Coleman and Steers . Members of the District of Columbia Council : Mr. Clarke ; and members of the Dis- trict of Columbia Law Revision Commission : Mr. Danzansky , Ms. Dixon , Mr. Medalie , Mr ...
... Present : Representatives Mazzoli , Coleman and Steers . Members of the District of Columbia Council : Mr. Clarke ; and members of the Dis- trict of Columbia Law Revision Commission : Mr. Danzansky , Ms. Dixon , Mr. Medalie , Mr ...
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... present recommendations read . I want to bring up these for further discussion . First of all , I think we need to treat white - collar crime a little more significantly than the proposed Code does . I think it fails to do that . We ...
... present recommendations read . I want to bring up these for further discussion . First of all , I think we need to treat white - collar crime a little more significantly than the proposed Code does . I think it fails to do that . We ...
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... present law . In current D.C. law , no one provision has any necessary relationship to any other . Related offenses are scattered among various chapters . In this bill , similar offenses are consolidated and placed in a single chapter ...
... present law . In current D.C. law , no one provision has any necessary relationship to any other . Related offenses are scattered among various chapters . In this bill , similar offenses are consolidated and placed in a single chapter ...
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... present statutes , separates the provisions describing the elements of the crimes from the provisions setting forth the sanctions in case of conviction . Each section describing an offense contains a " Grading " subsection which ...
... present statutes , separates the provisions describing the elements of the crimes from the provisions setting forth the sanctions in case of conviction . Each section describing an offense contains a " Grading " subsection which ...
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... present law , the Commission's proposal would make it arson to start or cause any large - scale fire or explosion , even to destroy one's own property , unless a lawful permit was obtained and complied with . The District of Columbia is ...
... present law , the Commission's proposal would make it arson to start or cause any large - scale fire or explosion , even to destroy one's own property , unless a lawful permit was obtained and complied with . The District of Columbia is ...
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Page 424 - For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die : but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Cesar.
Page 427 - Then fell she down straightway at his feet and yielded up the ghost ; and the young men came in, and found her dead, and carrying her forth, buried her by her husband. And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things.
Page vi - Commission. (2) While away from their homes or regular places of business in the performance of services for the Commission, members of the Commission shall be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, in the same manner as persons employed intermittently in the Government service are allowed expenses under section 5703 of title 5 of the United States Code.
Page 528 - To receive and consider suggestions from judges, justices, public officials, lawyers and the public generally as to defects and anachronisms in the law. 4. To recommend, from time to time, such changes in the law as it deems necessary to modify or eliminate antiquated and inequitable rules of law, and to bring the law of this state, civil and criminal, into harmony with modern conditions.
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Page 398 - In 1985 he conducted a study at the Sellin Center for Studies in Criminology and Criminal Law at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (Director: Prof.
Page 427 - Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Page x - Be it enacted by the Council of the District of Columbia, That this act may be cited as the "District of Columbia Law Revision Commission Expansion act".
Page 39 - It is an affirmative defense to a prosecution under this section that...
Page 391 - Right forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne ; But that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim unknown Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.