criminal law

in a sentence

"Neither we nor our clients are unaware of the provisions of the criminal code," replied Bram.†  (source) Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, 1994

I was not in the habit of reading the New Hampshire Criminal Code; going through the sections and subsections was like navigating through molasses.†  (source) Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart, 2008

You don't know Article Nine of the Criminal Code.†  (source) Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, 1962

Figuring out Alabama civil and criminal law while managing death penalty cases in several other states kept me very busy.†  (source) Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy, 2014

Every country's criminal code is very severe.†  (source) James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, & John Jay, The Federalist Papers -- Modern English Edition 2, 2008

The expert had stated in his column that Advokat Giannini was a respected women's rights lawyer, but that she had absolutely no experience in criminal law outside this case.†  (source) Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, 2009

If you make the criminal code sanguinary, juries will not convict.†  (source) Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected Essays, 1850

If the terminology of our criminal law could be applied to the realm of art, we would have to say that what Mr. Roark delivered constitutes the equivalent of spiritual embezzlement.†  (source) Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, 1943

For the launch of the First Five-Year Plan, Bukharin's fall from grace, and the expansion of the Criminal Code to allow the arrest of anyone even countenancing dissension, these were only tidings, omens, underpinnings.†  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

For, of course, as Mr. Griffiths and his son so well knew, in Utica, New York City, Albany (and now that he came to think of it, more particularly in Albany, where were two brothers, Canavan & Canavan, most able if dubious individuals), there were criminal lawyers deeply versed in the abstrusities and tricks of the criminal law.†  (source) Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy, 1925

Therefore, under the New Hampshire criminal code 630:5, subsection XIV, it would be impractical for the commissioner of corrections to carry out the punishment of death by lethal injection.†  (source) Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart, 2008

would not their occurrence (and you admit that they occur) make criminal law necessary?†  (source) William Morris, News from Nowhere, 1890

Volkovoi had put up with the reference to the criminal code but this made him wince and, like black lightning, he flashed: "Ten days in the guardhouse."†  (source) Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, 1962