Pelosi is acknowledging that the president has committed prosecutable crimes.
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I just think it's very tough as a prosecutable case.
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Depending on details, they may or may not be prosecutable now.
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"I don't think the government had a prosecutable case," Barr said.
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Barr filled that void by asserting there was no prosecutable case.
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The purpose of the investigation is not to develop a prosecutable offense.
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It's not clear that all the families Singer mentioned committed prosecutable crimes.
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Was there evidence of collusion that didn't rise to a prosecutable crime?
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But Mueller could have also found things resembling collusion that aren't prosecutable.
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"The bad judgment of the coach, however, does not constitute a prosecutable crime."
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Many people are under the mistaken impression that only prosecutable crimes are impeachable.
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The report also resoundingly demonstrates that there was no prosecutable case against Mrs.
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"It's only prosecutable if they have some built-up, manipulated evidence," he said.
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Just a few decades ago, she says, marital rape wasn't a prosecutable offense.
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"I believe what I said: There was not a prosecutable case there," he said.
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I argued that the evidence fell short of the standards of a prosecutable criminal act.
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So it would take some significant legal acrobatics to turn this into a prosecutable crime?
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It wouldn't be a stretch for Trump's detractors to consider this a form of prosecutable bribery.
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There is a difference between no evidence and evidence which does not reach a prosecutable standard.
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But the Constitution's standard for impeachable offenses—"high Crimes and Misdemeanors"—is not limited to prosecutable crimes.
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Remember that some behavior that is not prosecutable can still be wrong or damaging to national security.
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The Republicans argued that any allegation against Mr Kavanaugh that did not meet prosecutable evidentiary standards was irrelevant.
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The Cohen case, some in Trump's circle argue, does not rise to the level of a prosecutable offense.
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However, tying Mr. Najib to specific dollar amounts connected to 1MDB, he said, could be a prosecutable offense.
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Our sources say the D.A. called the case "potentially prosecutable" ... were it not for the statute of limitations.
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A criminal investigation is an effort to make a prosecutable case that a suspect has committed a crime.
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A statement from the St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office claims the case against the two women was not prosecutable.
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We worried that we were going to unintentionally lie on our application, which we feared was a prosecutable offense.
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On occasion, the authorities have gone even further, calling conduct into question even when the actions were not prosecutable.
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The question of whether prosecutable offenses were committed in the course of his career is, of course, an interesting one.
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"Based on the preliminary criminal investigation, public prosecutors concluded that there are prosecutable offenses," a spokeswoman said in a statement.
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"Based on the preliminary criminal investigation, public prosecutors concluded that there are prosecutable offences," a spokeswoman said in a statement.
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Her use of a private email server while secretary of state was not, as the F.B.I. concluded, a prosecutable offense.
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The president has been cleared of committing any other prosecutable offense, including obstruction of justice in the firing of Comey.
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Be careful not to confuse a judgment about whether certain conduct is prosecutable with a judgment about whether it happened.
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A spokeswoman for the Dutch prosecutors said: "Based on the preliminary criminal investigation, public prosecutors concluded that there are prosecutable offences".
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Under the Republicans' new mens rea standard, even that misdemeanor wouldn't be prosecutable, unless knowing and willful criminal intent were proven.
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A subpoenaed witness can only assert the Fifth and remain silent if his testimony could link him to a prosecutable crime.
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The police took the reports in case more recent and prosecutable complaints surfaced, a law enforcement official said at the time.
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If they manage to find prosecutable evidence against Trump's lawyer, they may try to squeeze him into cooperating against his client.
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But what about those who have been accused of behavior that is unethical but not criminal (or, at least, not prosecutable)?
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Complicating matters was the fact that very few of the cases identified were criminally prosecutable, due to the statute of limitations.
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The story kicked off a long and necessary conversation about sexual misconduct as a spectrum of harm, instead of one prosecutable incident.
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I think it's unfortunate, because I think there were prosecutable cases in Baltimore, but they weren't prosecuted the way it was handled.
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The D.A. called the case "potentially prosecutable" were it not for the statute of limitations, so the case will not be filed.
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The regulations around the issue are complicated, however, and legal questions about what constitutes prosecutable fraud are still the subject of debate.
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He told NowThis the case had been settled when Comey declared there was no prosecutable evidence that Clinton had broken the law.
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In the interview, he was careful to avoid most obscenities, now a prosecutable offense, but said he had not changed his views.
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In the past, taking classified information from agency premises and storing it on an insecure computer has been considered a prosecutable offense.
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The F.B.I. agents investigating Clinton's use of a personal email account realized early on that they would never have a prosecutable case.
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"Mere membership in the SS or even training in the Trawniki camp is no longer prosecutable under our current law," Rommel said.
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Several Democrats said Trump appears to have committed prosecutable crimes, while affirming they'd let the Justice Department decide what to do about it.
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The conclusions to be drawn about the president, however, will have little or nothing to do with whether prosecutable crimes have been committed.
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"Despite all the chest-beating by people no longer in government, there really wasn't a prosecutable case" against Clinton or her aides, Comey wrote.
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A law enforcement official at the time said the police still took reports from the women in case more recent and prosecutable complaints surfaced.
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GUILFOYLE: OK. Jesse, so maybe some collusion, but not illegal or prosecutable or investigating... WATTERS: The spirit of the law was obviously broken here.
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As TMZ has reported, law enforcement is presenting all cases to the D.A. involving sexual misconduct, even if the cases are clearly not prosecutable.
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Beyond prosecutable crimes, counterintelligence investigators look for whether their subject has been compromised by a foreign power to the detriment of U.S. national security.
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The person he chooses for F.B.I. director will never assemble a prosecutable case of treason that leads to the doorstep of this White House.
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However, sextortion is not presently classified as a crime so long as it is not perpetrated against children (and therefore prosecutable under child pornography laws).
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It is extraordinarily rare for the FTC to get a fake-review case as straightforward, prosecutable, and evidence-rich as Sunday Riley, FTC staffers say.
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Legal analyst Troy Slaten told BuzzFeed News that despite the fact that Feldman's claims of assault occurred 25 years ago, they might still be prosecutable.
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Hate crimes function both as a legal, prosecutable category and, no less importantly, as a symbolically potent indicator of a culture of violence and suspicion.
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Had we, I wondered, given enough thought to the taxonomy as well as contextualization of perceived offenses: What constitutes prosecutable as opposed to fireable misbehavior?
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Creating a new prosecutable federal crime may mean such investigations become a higher priority and open up additional resources from the FBI and other federal agencies.
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It would be a huge mistake for the president to rely on assurances from his legal team that what he did was ordinary and not prosecutable.
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"Fairness is driving everything that we do to make sure that we get the best prosecutable case, and that includes having a fair lineup," he said.
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" And the stakes are too high to risk being interviewed under those circumstances, he added: "That becomes not just a prosecutable offense, but an impeachable offense.
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In fact, in each case, the behaviors drew the attention of law enforcement, but there was inadequate follow up because no prosecutable crime had been committed.
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What the I.G. report says, Dana, is that witnesses, meaning prosecutors of the DOJ or FBI investigators, didn&apost think that this would be a prosecutable case.
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Trump pressuring the Department of Justice: If Jeff Sessions cannot find prosecutable evidence against James Comey, Loretta Lynch and Hillary, he should go back to the Senate.
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Most agree that impeachable offenses are not limited to conduct that is otherwise criminally prosecutable, though the existence of criminal conduct certainly strengthens the case for impeachment.
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" However, in an update to the petition Amanda wrote that she has "been contacted with concerns that the hunt may have happened too long ago to be prosecutable.
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Although FBI Director James Comey called Clinton's handling of classified information "extremely careless," he determined that it did not remotely rise to the level of a prosecutable violation.
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Sources familiar with the case tell us ... prosecutors were trying to build a prosecutable case against Donnell for the incident that went down last August after Chappelle's show.
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Poor administration of the law can be traced in part to a basic disagreement within Justice about the purpose of the law and what constitutes a prosecutable FARA case.
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WASHINGTON — If one believes James B. Comey's account of his encounters with President Trump, it could present a prosecutable case of obstruction of justice, several former prosecutors said Thursday.
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But intelligence officers are skilled at gaining someone's cooperation without them directly knowing what they are doing or why — and none of that sort of connivance would be readily prosecutable.
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Nicole Eggert says she knew it'd be a long shot for law enforcement to find a prosecutable case against Scott Baio -- but she doesn't regret for a second pursuing her allegations.
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FBI Director James Comey made the announcement in an unprecedented statement to reporters, during which he also excoriated Clinton's staff for its carelessness, all while saying no criminal acts were prosecutable.
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There seems to be no real evidence of a prosecutable crime here, but it is worth considering whether a prophylactic pardon might not be in the best interests of the nation.
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The systematic practice of torture by the two authorities might amount to a crime against humanity and could be prosecutable at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the report said.
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"Until those laws can be changed to make situations like this a prosecutable offense, people will continue to assassinate others' characters online without fear of charges," says Channing's mother, Crystal Smith.
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It appears, from the snippet above, that in the year-long search for a "prosecutable federal case" involving the FBI, Homeland Security, and local law enforcement, clear communication was an ongoing issue.
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In California, there is an eight-year limitation on filing criminal sexual assault charges, and a 10-year limitation on cases of rape, which means many of the allegations won't be prosecutable.
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Trump claimed victory after Barr said last month that Mueller had not established a conspiracy between Trump's campaign and Russia, and went further by declaring there was no prosecutable crime on obstruction.
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And the result, prosecuting male returnees while now refusing even to repatriate female ones, effectively gives women less of a path to atonement and redemption than their more clearly prosecutable male counterparts.
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A rep for the Queens District Attorney's Office tells us they're now looking into the matter and currently reviewing the facts to determine if there is a prosecutable case in their jurisdiction.
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Sexting received the biggest change in rating this year, from #13 in 85033 to #6 in 2015; kids have had free and easy access to prosecutable Internet pornography for over two decades.
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AMSTERDAM, March 1 (Reuters) - Dutch prosecutors said on Friday they had uncovered "prosecutable offenses" during their ongoing investigation into Royal Dutch Shell's $1.3 billion acquisition of Nigerian offshore oilfield OPL 245 in 2011.
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AMSTERDAM, March 1 (Reuters) - Dutch prosecutors said on Friday they had uncovered "prosecutable offences" during their ongoing investigation into Royal Dutch Shell's $1.3 billion acquisition of Nigerian offshore oilfield OPL 245 in 2011.
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And ultimately, Mueller did not reach a decision about whether Trump had obstructed justice, but Rosenstein helped clear the President, agreeing with Barr's assessment that the evidence wasn't sufficient to establish a prosecutable crime.
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While noting that the special counsel "does not exonerate" Trump of obstruction of justice, Barr declared himself that no prosecutable case exists even if the Justice Department believed it could indict a sitting president.
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"SCA further held that this was an inappropriate case in which to develop the common law of murder and culpable homicide," the ministry said, adding the outcome meant assisted suicide remained "illegal and prosecutable".
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That damage has not been repaired by Comey's statement on Sunday, stating that the new emails had not changed his earlier conclusion that Clinton's deeds did not rise to the level of prosecutable offenses.
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After a federal investigation of Clinton's private email server found no prosecutable wrongdoing in July, the FBI abruptly tweeted on November 5 that it had discovered more emails to investigate and was reopening its investigation.
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" Of course, if President Trump emerges relatively unscathed from the testimony, such would be a bullish sign for the stock market as there would be "no prosecutable offense, at least from what he testifies to.
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The court in Strasbourg said Russia's police had interviewed the partner and carried out pre-investigation inquiries but not opened formal proceedings against him as it deemed that "no publicly prosecutable offence had been committed".
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A narrow exception does not officially make criminals out of people who were acting badly; it rather targets people who have consistently demonstrated themselves to be engaged in a host of other crimes that are prosecutable.
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The claim that Trump may be guilty of a prosecutable obstruction crime is premised on a legal error – namely, that the FBI and the Justice Department are a separate branch of government, independent of the executive.
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"At the end of the day, the case itself was not a cliff-hanger; despite all the chest-beating by people no longer in government, there really wasn't a prosecutable case," he said in the memo.
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The United States would have to comply with the request and likely would do so only in the event there is compelling evidence Kanter committed a crime that could be prosecutable in the U.S. —Field Level Media
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"We know that there is some level of voter impersonation fraud going on, but it's not prosecutable unless you catch the person in the act, which is impossible to do because there's no ID required," Delancy told CNN.
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But the gossip site reported that the Los Angeles County Deputy D.A. found Eggert&aposs accusations "credible" and believed the case was "potentially prosecutable" but opted not to move forward with charges due to the statute of limitations.
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And then, I'd want to make sure there was a clear understanding on the part of the subject of the interview that, whether or not it was within the grand jury, still a false statement would be prosecutable.
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Rather, it's the rollout of an indictment they say is short on facts, was aggressive in its application of computer law and ultimately left researchers confused over whether standard research practices are now being treated as prosecutable offenses.
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Bush, a lawyer from Kentucky who is being considered for a seat at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, once opposed the state Supreme Court's decision to remove consensual sodomy from its list of prosecutable offenses.
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As DC and America as a whole grappled with Robert Mueller's conclusion that there was no prosecutable evidence of any conspiracy between Donald Trump and Russian agents messing with the 2016 election, Democrats tossed out a variety of responses.
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When this was investigated thoroughly last time, the conclusion of the FBI, the conclusion of the Justice Department, the conclusion of repeated congressional investigations, was she had made some mistakes but that there wasn't anything there that was prosecutable.
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"Although there is no 'good soldier' defense in the case of an act that violates the law or Agency regulations, the Special Prosecutor evidently found no prosecutable offense, nor did I find a violation of Agency regulations," Morell wrote.
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"Any distraction of the President from his duties is much more significant than similar distractions of these other, prosecutable officials, and has a much bigger impact on the well-being of the nation and all its People," they conclude.
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Chuck, her friend and sometime roommate, has been murdered by neighborhood rivals, and Goffman describes driving her other roommate, Mike, on his manhunt for the killer — a de facto and prosecutable confession, her critics said, of conspiracy to commit homicide.
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Read Comey's full memo "At the end of the day, the case itself was not a cliff-hanger; despite all the chest-beating by people no longer in government, there really wasn't a prosecutable case," he said in the memo.
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When this was investigated thoroughly the last time, the conclusion of the FBI, the conclusion of the Justice Department, the conclusion of repeated congressional investigations was that she had made some mistakes but that there wasn't anything there that was prosecutable.
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"When this was investigated thoroughly last time the conclusion of the FBI, the conclusion of the Justice Department, the conclusion of repeated congressional investigations was she had made some mistakes but that there wasn't anything there that was prosecutable," Obama said.
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The state Department of Human Services investigators found there were "some indications of child abuse or neglect," but they were "unable to determine" whether the accusations were legitimate, despite picking up on disturbing, if not prosecutable, signs, the report said.
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It has allowed – indeed, compelled – Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, her allies and supporters everywhere to frame Trump as a lewd, sexist brute, who in bragging about grabbing women "by the pussy" had confessed, if not in prosecutable detail, to a criminal assault.
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Five years later, Schneiderman, then a New York state senator representing the Upper West Side of Manhattan, introduced a bill in the state Senate that would eventually become New York Penal Law 121.11, which made "Criminal Obstruction of Breathing and Strangulation" prosecutable crimes.
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Clinton's emails, a list of all F.B.I. resources detailed to the investigation, a cost estimate for the F.B.I. and any other federal department or agency roped in and an explanation of the difference between "extreme carelessness" and gross negligence, a prosecutable offense.
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" Schuman, 34, tweeted a blog post Tuesday night in which she wrote, "My family and I were well aware of the likelihood that my case was not prosecutable due to the statute of limitations in California regarding rape which was modified in 2016.
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But finally Trump, an expert on creating his own reality, may have been undone by facts on a page that he released himself, handing Democrats a clear, apparently prosecutable case, that suggests abuse of power with the transcript of the call with Zelensky.
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"There is insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that someone or some group of people willfully violated Kendrick Johnson's civil rights or committed any other prosecutable federal crime," a statement from the Justice Department said, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper.
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In California, where Weinstein allegedly lured actors and others under the pretense of business, there is an eight-year limitation on filing criminal sexual assault charges and a 10-year limitation on cases of rape, which means many of the allegations won't be prosecutable.
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But among the news junkies in the federal Bureau of Prisons, Robert Mueller's finding last month that there was no prosecutable evidence of a conspiracy between Donald Trump and those close to him and the Russians who interfered in the 2016 election landed hard.
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Leftists are unlikely to find the report convincing, both because of Mitchell's link to the Senate Republicans, and also because the question here is not actually whether the assault allegations are prosecutable, so much as whether Kavanaugh should be given a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
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Barr explained in his summary to Congress that after reviewing Mueller's report and consulting with Rosenstein, he concluded that based on the evidence developed during the special counsel's investigation and federal charging guidelines, the Justice Department couldn't make a prosecutable case against the President for obstruction.
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As the decades wore on and the Supreme Court passed down a number of rulings that more closely pinpointed the definition of prosecutable obscenity, full-scale adult theaters began to pop up, and big-budget, full-length feature films showing explicit sex were played on the silver screen.
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The official noted that just because someone is believed to have a tertiary affiliation doesn't mean there is a prosecutable crime for the Department of Justice to pursue, but it's enough to make sure the individual doesn't make it into the US and for the US to pursue repatriation.
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While not directly addressing the issue of a presidential interview, Attorney General William Barr's letter to Congress on Sunday offers a further glimpse into how officials at the department didn't believe they had a prosecutable case against Trump on collusion or on the question of obstruction of justice.
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But entering illegally would no longer be criminally prosecutable — which means, among other things, that it would be impossible to reanimate the "zero tolerance" prosecution policy that allowed the Trump administration to separate thousands of children from their parents at the border over a handful of weeks in 2018.
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Sexual harassment and assault are crimes, as many have noted, and although we know that they are prosecutable by law in the abstract, the realities of actually bringing a case against someone is mostly a mystery — until the day we find ourselves in a situation in need of legal advice.
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For example, when the Republican-controlled North Carolina legislature, in a lame duck session after the election of a Democratic governor in 2016, significantly stripped the powers of the governorship, and Wisconsin did the same in 2018, that should be a crime against democracy -- not prosecutable but an offense nevertheless.
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Barr explained in a summary to Congress about the investigation that after reviewing Mueller's report and consulting with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, he concluded that based on the evidence developed during the special counsel's investigation and federal charging guidelines, the Justice Department couldn't make a prosecutable case against the President for obstruction.
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Barr and the White House fill the vacuum Aggressive interventions by Barr and the White House created an unstoppable narrative of exoneration that dulled the political impact of an investigation that -- if it did not find prosecutable crimes -- sketched a devastating picture of lies, apparent abuses of power and duplicity in the West Wing.
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Told that several dozen detainees could not be tried for any crime but would be particularly risky to release, and that a handful might be prosecutable only under the looser rules governing evidence in a military commission, Mr. Obama decided that the responsible policy was to keep both the tribunals and the indefinite detentions available.
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To know whether there is really a prosecutable offense here (as there was with the Atlantic City money laundering) or just some ties to shady friends (as seems to be the case with Trump SoHo), you would need to take a close look at the financial details of the Trump Organization and other such matters.
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Some, or even all, of the 650,000 emails may be duplicates of the emails the FBI has already looked through during its investigation into Clinton's server (which was all but closed over the summer, with an announcement from Comey saying that while Clinton exercised poor judgment, there wasn't a prosecutable case that she'd broken the law).
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While Mueller concluded that Dowd's voicemail didn't rise to the level of prosecutable obstruction of justice — he cited the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) guidance that a sitting president cannot be indicted — the new revelations suggest the White House was worried about Flynn might tell investigators, and was taking steps to dissuade him from spilling.
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James Comey thought it was OK to offer his negative opinion of the evidence regarding Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonThe exhaustion of Democrats' anti-Trump delusions Poll: Trump trails three Democrats by 22019 points in Colorado Soft levels of support mark this year's Democratic primary MORE's email practices — yet then said she had committed no prosecutable crime.
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The reason -- the LAPD and the D.A. want to look at even non-prosecutable cases to see if there's a pattern of misconduct that would allow prosecutors to prove an M.O. TMZ also broke the story the Beverly Hills PD has sent over 2 cases involving Weinstein to the D.A. It's unclear if BHPD has more cases in the pipeline.
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But with newly empowered House Democrats now poised to hear Cohen's in-person testimony next month, and the Buzzfeed story implicating the president not just in a crime but in one specifically hinging on the separation of powers and deceiving lawmakers, this feels like a breakthrough—if the story is accurate, the president pretty blatantly personally committed a crime that is both prosecutable and impeachable.
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We're told all complaints that involve alleged acts within the jurisdiction of LAPD are being forwarded to the L.A. County DA. As for allegations that cannot be prosecuted because of the statute of limitations, we're told the LAPD is still forwarding them to the DA, because if Weinstein or others are prosecuted the DA may attempt to admit non-prosecutable cases as "prior bad acts" to establish a pattern of sexual misconduct.
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One of the main arguments that GOP lawmakers have lobbed against House Democrats' case for impeachment is that the two articles of impeachment against President TrumpDonald John TrumpDemocrats outraged over White House lawyer's claim that some foreign involvement in elections is acceptable Senators take reins of impeachment trial in marathon question session White House announces task force to monitor coronavirus MORE that were passed by the House — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress — don't actually outline a prosecutable crime.
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The mere fact that she sent classified emails over private servers to people who were authorized to read such emails was not enough to show that she intended to share classified information So even if the worst-case scenario for Clinton were to come to pass and, found amongst Huma Abedin's emails there are other examples of classified emails that were sent by Secretary Clinton, it is extremely hard to see how that would change the original analysis that this case simply is not prosecutable.
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