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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... REASONABLE DOUBT . - An accused is presumed to be innocent until found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt , and no person may be convicted of an offense unless each element of the offense is proved beyond a reasonable doubt . ( b ) EFFECT ...
... REASONABLE DOUBT . - An accused is presumed to be innocent until found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt , and no person may be convicted of an offense unless each element of the offense is proved beyond a reasonable doubt . ( b ) EFFECT ...
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... reasonably ascertainable place of abode or work within the District of Columbia , but in no case shall this provision extend the period of limitation otherwise applicable by more than three years ; or ( 2 ) during any time when a ...
... reasonably ascertainable place of abode or work within the District of Columbia , but in no case shall this provision extend the period of limitation otherwise applicable by more than three years ; or ( 2 ) during any time when a ...
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... reasonable cause to believe , that any party with whom that person has agreed has also agreed or will agree with any additional person to effect the same objective , that person is guilty of a criminal conspiracy with any such ...
... reasonable cause to believe , that any party with whom that person has agreed has also agreed or will agree with any additional person to effect the same objective , that person is guilty of a criminal conspiracy with any such ...
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... reasonable fear , that any person will be subjected imminently to death , bodily injury , or abduction ; or ( 3 ) substantially impairing the ability of the victim to appraise or control the victim's conduct by administering or ...
... reasonable fear , that any person will be subjected imminently to death , bodily injury , or abduction ; or ( 3 ) substantially impairing the ability of the victim to appraise or control the victim's conduct by administering or ...
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... reasonably believed the victim would have consented to the sexual contact if the victim had been capable of giving consent at the time of the sexual contact . ( c ) GRADING . - Unlawful sexual contact in the second degree is a Class ...
... reasonably believed the victim would have consented to the sexual contact if the victim had been capable of giving consent at the time of the sexual contact . ( c ) GRADING . - Unlawful sexual contact in the second degree is a Class ...
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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.