What astounded her was that there was as yet no evidence on which he could have based a criminal judgment.

The person officially authorised to execute either the civil or the criminal judgment of a court commits no crime in so doing.

Especially noted for his criminal judgments, Singh was the first Singapore judge to impose the death penalty on a woman.

It was said that Zhang was efficient and fair at reviewing criminal judgments, quickly ruling on a large number of complex cases.

There is a minor discrepancy between the Plea Agreement and the Criminal Judgment.

Particularly noted for his criminal judgments, he was known as "the Hanging Judge" for handing down a large number of capital sentences.

No criminal judgment was rendered on the allegations themselves, only on the diocese's failure to report the allegations.

In addition to being barred from the securities business, the criminal judgment prevents him from practicing law in most courts.

In this decision, the Supreme Court found that civil tort actions are "not appropriate vehicles for challenging the validity of outstanding criminal judgments."

"Over 20 years of sentencing reform are all but lost, and tens of thousands of criminal judgments are in jeopardy," she added.

It was argued by Virginia that the Constitution does not give the Supreme Court appellate jurisdiction over criminal judgments by the state courts.

But, he said, Federal courts must reserve that power for only "the most rare and extraordinary case" if they are using their authority to upset a state court's criminal judgment.

The sad tendency of American courts is to prevent African-Americans from sitting in criminal judgment of white police officers charged with crimes against persons of color.

The European Arrest Warrant constitutes a first, important step in the principle of the mutual recognition of criminal judgments and helps to consolidate a common legal culture.

The McCleskey decision was written by Justice Kennedy, who said the limitation was needed to "vindicate the state's interest in the finality of its criminal judgments."

It is another measure to promote the principle of the mutual recognition of civil and criminal judgments, which is considered to be the cornerstone of judicial cooperation in the Union.

Mr. Kalin unearths the homophobic and anti-Semitic pressures that shaped Leopold and Loeb and contributed to the social and criminal judgments against them.

Independent review of state criminal judgments by the Federal courts has existed since the nation's founding, first by "writ of error" and since 1867 by writ of habeas corpus.

The states are required to give "full faith and credit" to the acts of each other's legislatures and courts, which is generally held to include the recognition of legal contracts, marriages, and criminal judgments.

Several opposition legislators arrived here on Monday to ask President Mireya E. Moscoso to deny asylum on the grounds that Mr. Montesinos was fleeing criminal judgment, not political persecution.

The firing squad was replaced by lethal injection from November 2011 after the Law on Execution of criminal judgments was passed by the National Assembly (refer to article 59(1) of the law).

In a dissenting opinion, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said the decision "threatens an untold number of criminal judgments," perhaps undoing all criminal sentences imposed under federal or state guideline systems for at least the last four years.

(IT) Mr President, Commissioner, the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) is the first instrument implemented in the European Union that puts into practice the principle of mutual recognition of criminal judgments.

The Danish Social Democrats vote against the recommendation because it is incompatible with the Danish reservation, in connection with participation in joint action on legal and internal matters, about making criminal judgments effective outside one's own country.

Despite the public image of corporate chieftains at scandal-plagued companies escaping the debacles with their pockets stuffed with cash, several have been pushed far down the road toward insolvency long before a civil or criminal judgment is entered against them.

All civil judgments are reviewable by the Supreme Court and all criminal judgement are reviewable by the Court of Criminal Appeals.

Finally, I would like to stress that, taking the modern view of studying the consequences of criminal judgements, the punishment should fulfil a rehabilitative function, enabling the citizen who has done wrong to take up his place in civil society again.