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  2. Aggravation (law) - Wikipedia

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    In the UK, the Criminal Justice Act 2003 requires a court to consider (a) relevant previous convictions, (b) racial or religious aggravation, and (c) hostility towards the victim or to persons generally based on sexual orientation (or presumed sexual orientation) or disability (or presumed disability) when determining sentence for a conviction.

  3. Preterintention - Wikipedia

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    Preterintentional homicide can mature under certain factual circumstances, and therefore the penalty will be aggravated according to the type of circumstance ascertained by the judge: for example, the Italian [33] legislator regulates the aggravating circumstances of preterintentional killing in art. 585 penal code, [34] and the French [35] one ...

  4. Gladue report - Wikipedia

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    According to Statistics Canada, in 2020/2021, on an average day, 42.6 per 10,000 Indigenous people were in provincial custody, compared to 4.0 non-Indigenous people. [19] The Office of the Correctional Investigator's 2021 annual report found that almost 50% of all federally incarcerated women were Indigenous.

  5. Lawyers' Edition - Wikipedia

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    The Lawyers' Edition was established by the Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company of Rochester, New York in 1882, and features coverage of Supreme Court decisions going back to 1790. [1] The first Lawyers' Edition series corresponds to the official United States Reports from volume 1 to volume 351 , whereas the second series contains cases ...

  6. new yorker - images.huffingtonpost.com

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    MARK ULRIKSEN mysterious stranger who blows into town one day and makes the bad guys go away. He wore a grizzled beard and had thick, un-bound hair that cascaded halfway down his

  7. Criminal Code of Belarus - Wikipedia

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    In the 1999 edition, the Criminal code contains passages of crimes that can be issued capital punishment upon sentencing. As of 2022, court cases in Belarus are often scheduled ten minutes apart from one another [ 1 ] and can conclude in as little three minutes, [ 2 ] and have been criticized for being "not a court". [ 3 ]

  8. Hard cases make bad law - Wikipedia

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    Hard cases make bad law is an adage or legal maxim meaning that an extreme case is a poor basis for a general law that would cover a wider range of less extreme cases. In other words, a general law is better drafted for the average circumstance as this will be more common.

  9. Book Review: 'Loving Sylvia Plath' attends to polarizing ...

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    This book is not, for the most part, a hermeneutic study or close reading of Plath’s writings. Rather, Van Duyne’s source material for this reclaimed portrait of Plath are her circumstances.