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a butterknife, with no cutting edge and no point is a bladed article; (Booker v DPP169J.P. 368, DG) [28] a screwdriver is not a bladed article; (R v Davis [1998] Crim L.R 564 CA) [29] a 'lock knife' does not come into the category of 'folding pocket knife' because it is not immediately foldable at all times; (R v Deegan [1998] 2 Cr. App. R. 121 ...
Knife legislation is defined as the body of statutory law or case law promulgated or enacted by a government or other governing jurisdiction that prohibits, criminalizes, or restricts the otherwise legal manufacture, importation, sale, transfer, possession, transport, or use of knives.
The Offensive Weapons Act 2019 (c. 17) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.The act addresses crimes related to acid attacks (including the sale and possession in public places of corrosive substances); knife crime prevention orders; the sale of, delivery and possession of knives and other offensive weapons; and introduced further restrictions on firearms. [2]
The Guidelines are the product of the United States Sentencing Commission, which was created by the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984. [3] The Guidelines' primary goal was to alleviate sentencing disparities that research had indicated were prevalent in the existing sentencing system, and the guidelines reform was specifically intended to provide for determinate sentencing.
Threatening other officials is a Class D or C felony, usually carrying maximum penalties of 5 or 10 years under 18 U.S.C. § 875, 18 U.S.C. § 876 and other statutes, that is investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. When national boundaries are transcended by such a threat, it is considered a terrorist threat. [2]
Prosecutors said 73-year-old Michael Shapiro left drunken voicemails threatening to kill U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell of California and his children.
Section 49 makes it an offence to have a bladed or sharply pointed article in a public place without good reason or lawful authority. There is a defence where the person had the article with him for use at work, for religious reasons or as part of any national costume (e.g. a sgian dubh or kirpan). The maximum penalty for these offences is 4 ...
A federal court jury convicted a Kansas man who insisted that a death threat he made against U.S. Rep. Jake LaTurner was a message from God, amid what authorities have said is a sharp rise in ...