The International Criminal Court's constitution does support justice being seen to be done nearer to the crime scene.
The Californian constitution guarantees criminal defendants a right to speedy trial, but it does not technically require courts to administer civil law at all, Ms Feinstein says.
Justice Breyer, although generally a liberal vote, has taken a more flexible position on the Constitution's protections for criminal defendants than others on the court's left wing, and his position, like that of seven other justices, seemed evident at oral argument.
Lawyers for Mr. Gilani say he can't do so because Pakistan's constitution grants the president immunity from criminal prosecution.
Two-thirds of French people think he should, but the Elysee Palace has said the country's constitution bars him from testifying in any criminal investigation.
Roger Pilon of the Cato Institute notes that a mere three mentions of crime in the Constitution have blossomed into 3, 000 federal criminal statutes and perhaps 300, 000 regulations with criminal sanctions.
Both cases, along with hundreds, if not thousands, of other federal prosecutions currently lodged in the bloated federal criminal justice system, raise the question of whether the federal Constitution, which supposedly guarantees defendants a fair trial, prohibits the feds from bringing unnecessarily complex charges and then financially disabling defendants from engaging in a fair fight.
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From the list of exceptions, the Wisconsin constitution rather implies the prohibition against arrest prohibits arrests for criminal charges, not legislative seizure.
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First, whenever feasible, we will try those who have violated American criminal laws in federal courts -- courts provided for by the United States Constitution.
The Constitution protects people from prosecution if they cannot reasonably know that their actions are criminal.
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Because there, the courts have said under our Constitution that the executive branch's Constitutional authority - to answer the question of one of your previous callers - to protect classified information comes into direct conflict with the criminal defendant's right to a full and complete defense under a number of amendments to our Constitution.
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